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Mary Mapes Blames 'Vicious' Bloggers
NewsMax ^ | 2/12/06 | NewsMax

Posted on 02/12/2006 1:09:08 PM PST by wagglebee

Fired CBS "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes is still blaming the internet for ending her media career prematurely - or more precisely; the "vicious" bloggers who discovered that documents she unearthed in a bid to trash President Bush's National Guard service were forgeries.

"The criticism that was launched at us initially really came from the very conservative blogosphere, folks who are on these very conservative web sites," Mapes complained Friday on WVMT Vermont's "Charlie & Ernie" radio show.

"This was really a terribly vicious attack they launched on CBS," she insisted, before lamenting: "Politics is not necessarily the way it was when we all grew up, where you might disagree on something but you wouldn't eviscerate someone."

Mapes says that she was a victim of a new standard in journalism where "the truth doesn't matter" but instead it's "the perception of truth that matters."

"What happened to me, I think, and to all of us at CBS, was that the perception of truth became that these documents were not real; that there were flaws in the typeface and all kinds of sort of dry and extremely dull details about proportional spacing and superscript and all that."

Mapes said that she still believes the documents cited in the "60 Minutes II" broadcast by her boss, Dan Rather, were authentic, saying; "I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw."

She also noted that CBS's own internal investigation "could not prove that the documents were false."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buckhead; danrather; delusional; douchebag; forgeries; freerepublic; liberalwhiners; mapes; pajamahadeen; pos; rathergate
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To: BluH2o

But they love her in Vermont.


41 posted on 02/12/2006 1:18:21 PM PST by oldtimer
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To: wagglebee

Mapes Mopes.

Looks good on her.

Another lying liberal goes down in flames.

FR led the way in exposing this charlatan for what she is.


42 posted on 02/12/2006 1:18:26 PM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: gunnedah; IncPen; All

43 posted on 02/12/2006 1:18:28 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: blackie; Cyrano; shaggy eel; TommyDale

I needed a laugh!


44 posted on 02/12/2006 1:18:29 PM PST by Terriergal ("My conscience is captive to the word of God...here I stand. I can do no other. So help me God." ML)
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To: wagglebee

At least she didn't once again accuse us of blogging in our pajamas. I don't own pajamas but sometimes blog in my Homer Simpson boxers.


45 posted on 02/12/2006 1:18:50 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: wagglebee
...that there were flaws in the typeface and all kinds of sort of dry and extremely dull details about proportional spacing and superscript and all that.

The mind boggles.

46 posted on 02/12/2006 1:19:11 PM PST by Grut
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To: wagglebee

I see Mapes has not yet figured out that when liberals need a scapegoat, they always find a woman. She still hasn't noticed that the only person fired by CBS for the "Fake, But Accurate" story was her.


47 posted on 02/12/2006 1:19:19 PM PST by Hoodat ( Silly Dems, AYBABTU.)
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To: Palpatine
She also noted that CBS's own internal investigation "could not prove that the documents were false."

At your service.

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48 posted on 02/12/2006 1:19:47 PM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: wagglebee

Ugly as a mud fence and mad as hell about it.


49 posted on 02/12/2006 1:20:26 PM PST by relictele
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To: Enterprise
Mapes says that she was a victim of a new standard in journalism where "the truth doesn't matter" but instead it's "the perception of truth that matters."

Never would hit a woman but.....this stupid b*tch needs a cane taken to her.

50 posted on 02/12/2006 1:21:25 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: Razz Barry

"I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw."
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The delusional mind of the liberal society. Truth is what they decide to declare is the truth. Nice try [female dog]. You were caught -- and you probably don't think that is the truth either....rewrite that history!


51 posted on 02/12/2006 1:21:26 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: wagglebee
Mapes said that she still believes the documents cited in the "60 Minutes II" broadcast by her boss, Dan Rather, were authentic, saying; "I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw."

On a related note, OJ Simpson is still looking for the real killer...

52 posted on 02/12/2006 1:21:28 PM PST by Zeppo
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To: wagglebee

The bimbo shouldn't have tried to bring down the U.S. President with lies and BS. Americans aren't as stupid as Mapes and her comrades think they are.


53 posted on 02/12/2006 1:22:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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To: wagglebee
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!.....What part of facts and reality does she not understand??..Could an adult actually be that pig-headed in view of the facts?....Ive seen better defenses from a 2 year old throwing a tantrum!
54 posted on 02/12/2006 1:24:07 PM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: wagglebee
"I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw."

Mapes couldn't find water in the ocean.

55 posted on 02/12/2006 1:24:21 PM PST by Always Right
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To: Hoodat

No, they fired several people of both sexes. She got the biggest, hardest boot, but she was certainly the most culplable. She "produced" this lame story, the others failed in editorial duties. Rather gets the gaff for defending this ridiculous forgery long after is was obviously undefendable.


56 posted on 02/12/2006 1:24:41 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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To: wagglebee

She should zipper it and start looking for a job. I hear France is hiring.


57 posted on 02/12/2006 1:25:13 PM PST by jazusamo (A Progressive is only a Socialist in a transparent disguise.)
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To: wagglebee

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......


58 posted on 02/12/2006 1:25:29 PM PST by KStorm (Currently residing in the NO TIN ZONE)
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To: wagglebee
She needs to just let it go.

She'll turn into a dry, shriveled up, bitter old lady. Oh, wait, she is already.
59 posted on 02/12/2006 1:25:39 PM PST by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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To: DCPatriot

I would either sell or buy tickets to watch such a joyous event.


60 posted on 02/12/2006 1:25:52 PM PST by Enterprise (The MSM - Propaganda wing and news censorship division of the Democrat Party.)
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