[Mad Dawg]

They knew they would lose that argument, so they didn't raise it. They focused on the most obscure, most difficult to decipher element of the story and dove in, attacking CBS, Dan Rather, me, the story and the horse we rode in on -- without respite, relentlessly, for days. [emphasis added]

Ms. Mapes: Two things and some advice:

Thing #1: We agree. The Republican bully boys resorted to something sneaky and toally unknown to the news media. It's called evidence. You didn't have any, except for what you forged.. They did. You lost.

Thing #2: When I was in school "dove" was a kind of bird and NOT the past form of "dive". But, of course,, that was when schools were about truth and not ideology and when journalists made an effort to discover rather than invent facts.

The advice: Get over it. You lost.

[jaydubya2]

"Actually, we had done a straightforward, well-substantiated story. We presented former Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barnes in his first ever interview saying that he had pulled strings to get the future president into the National Guard after a Bush family friend requested help in keeping the kid out of Vietnam.

And we showed for the first time a cache of documents allegedly written by Bush's former commander. The documents supported a mountain of other evidence that young Bush had dodged his duty and not been punished. They did not in any way diverge from the information in the sketchy pieces of the president's official record made available by the White House or the National Guard. In fact, to the few people who had gone to the trouble of examining the Bush record, these papers filled in some of the blanks."

Mary, of course the documents filled in the blanks! They were forged to do precisely that! This women is delusional.