Mary Mapes Names Names [tries to trash FreeRepublic]

INDC Journal ^ | 11/9/05 | Bill Ardolino

[shhrubbery!]

November 09, 2005

Mary Mapes Names Names ("Anonymous" Ones)

Posted by Bill

An excerpt from page 201 of her new book:

Within minutes of Buckhead's original posting, Freepers began to repeat and embellish Buckhead's thoughts. Not surprisingly, they all agreed with him, they all agreed with one another, and they all agreed this should be pursued aggressively. Freethinkers they are not. The Freepers and their lockstep like-minded fellow travelers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim. CBS was like some sunburned, overweight Florida tourist with a cut foot, floundering and flapping in the water alone in the surf. The Freepers swarmed CBS not because it was right or fair but because they could.

On Web sites such as Powerline, INDC Journal, Allahpundit, and Spacetownusa, the bravehearts of the blogging world worked anonymously in what appeared to be huge numbers, in unison, to destroy the Bush-Guard story, to uphold one another's wild and hateful claims, to outshout, outargue, and outblog anyone who dared to disagree. And on their Web sites there is no disagreement. They hate in unison, they speak with one angry voice, they each make themselves bigger by staying as close together as possible.

[vetvetdoug]

This is how it should have been written so liberals would be more interested:

The night was black and the excitement in the air could be felt as the hair on one's arms stood up. Buckhead was at the apex of his excitement. The Freeping Members were throbbing, pulsating, hot and dripping with anticipation. Rather was alone and vulnerable as the Freeping Member moved toward him.

Mapes should be limited to writing fiction and pornography.

[TaxRelief]

Two simple facts make Mapes' claims rubbish. In the year since the CBS fiasco, not one document from ANY 1970 source has matched the typesetting features of the CBS documents. Even one piece of unrelated paper from any National Guard unit the matched those documents would do.

Second, even though IBM Composers were "rather" common, and some working units still exist, no one has been able to duplicate the appearance of the CBS documents.

Furthermore, even had they been able to duplicate them exactly, the probability of an exact spacing match would have been as low as the probability of a DNA match between two unrelated men.

[Enterprise]

(LOL) An "XXX" rated posting - fake but accurate!

[GregB]

I wonder if her and Dan,did it? Oh Dan says mary Oh Hillery,finally says Dan!!!!!!!!!!!

[js1138]

You can't get an exact match with faxed documents. A forensic analysis would require the original documents, which we will never see.

My point is much simpler. Any 1970 document that closely resembles the CBS documents would give plausibility to Mapes, but no such document has been found. Even a document from outside the military would demonstrate feasibility.

I edited a little magazine in 1974 that was typeset on a Composer. I could specify the typesetting features like centering and superscript, but my printer ran his Composer from a minicomputer that did all the calculations for centering. This system cost $30,000 in 1974. I don't know if it was even available in 1970 at any price.

[Bernard Marx]

They feel they have the right to conduct fraudulent political assassinations and to shove it down the throats of the people of this country without consequence.

And why shouldn't they? They've gotten away with it on TV and radio for over 60 years: from Edward R. Murrow's "assassination" of Joe McCarthy to the Vietnam War (Rather's shining moment), Watergate, etc. The Media Elite have always lived in an alternate universe.

It's not just a TV-radio thing. How many of us today remember the media role in the Spanish-American War? After the still mysterious sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor, William Randolph Hearst sent artist Frederick Remington to Cuba to investigate it rumors of "death camps" and an uprising of the Cubans against the Spanish colonial government.

Remington, found little to report on when he and the reporters arrived. "There is no war," Remington wrote to Hearst. "Request to be recalled." Hearst sent a cable in reply: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." He did, with a daily barrage of anti-Spain articles that whipped up intense American animosity with the rallying cry: "Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain."

Historians can correct me if I'm wrong but I think the latest thought on why the Maine exploded is self-detonation from faulty explosives or an accident in its magazine. Anyhow, it's still not certain the cause was a Spanish mine or sabotage.

[shhrubbery!]

Then...the awful truth hit me. I fainted, I burped, I swooned, then drooled face down on the prickly CBS boardroom carpet. I had been set up. Rove and Free Republic had masterminded the whole thing!!!" ...

LOL. I nominate you for second runner-up in this year's Bulwer-Lytton literary contest. (FReeper 'Enterprise' took first.)

(And while I'm on a Bulwer-Lytton tear, that phrase in pollyannaish's reply --"the pen is mightier than the sword"-- I believe that's a Bulwer-Lytton quote.)

[pollyannaish]

I think you are right. ; ).

I love Bulwer-Lytton schtick. Think I have a couple of contest books around here somewhere.

[shhrubbery!]

the latest thought on why the Maine exploded is self-detonation from faulty explosives or an accident in its magazine

Boiler explosion, I think. According to a documentary I saw, the boiler just happened to be right next to a powder magazine, or something. Doh. But I should add that I don't know if that documentary was accurate.

[shhrubbery!]

(LOL) An "XXX" rated posting - fake but accurate!

Well, we could give it the Bad Sex Writing award.

[Republican Wildcat]

Within minutes of Buckhead's original posting, Freepers began to repeat and embellish Buckhead's thoughts. Not surprisingly, they all agreed with him, they all agreed with one another, and they all agreed this should be pursued aggressively. Freethinkers they are not. The Freepers and their lockstep like-minded fellow travelers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim. CBS was like some sunburned, overweight Florida tourist with a cut foot, floundering and flapping in the water alone in the surf. The Freepers swarmed CBS not because it was right or fair but because they could.

LOL. Mary, Mary quite contrary...we looked at the evidence and it was beyond convincing these documents from the "60s" were typed on Microsoft Word. We made our decision based on very solid evidence, dear.

Poor Mary - so upset her lies were found out...and now she's trying to lie her way out of it.

[MotleyGirl70]

#113

Call me uninformed, I can admit it on this, but what was this dialogue from???? Mary Worth?

Over the top funny!

___________________________________________________

LEW: Ah, I knew it was you! You tried to trick Hop Sing! You are on our list; Elaine Benes! And now you are on our list; Ned Isakoff.

Ned: You got me blacklisted from Hop Sing's?

LEW: She named name!

[goosie]

I think part of what the "producers" don't realize is that many people who discovered the flaws in their story and the papers is that many of us are experts in the subject.

Some are military experts by their military service and some of us are experts simply by our age and experience of typing on the old typewriters of that era. I am not the expert that Buckhead is in finding the flaws but I recognized his explanation immediately by my experience of using those blasted typewriters.

The internet and Free Republic are wonderful things.

[Wil H]

And she is butt ugly to boot.

There we go - in lockstep again!

I was just thinking the same thing.

"Ugly little bat-faced girl" was the phrase that came to mind..

[steve-b]

Within minutes of Buckhead's original posting, Freepers began to repeat and embellish Buckhead's thoughts. Not surprisingly, they all agreed with him, they all agreed with one another, and they all agreed this should be pursued aggressively.

Well, duh. Everybody here also agrees that the sun rises in the east, that two plus two equals four, and that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. Veritable Borg drones controlled by the Queen, we are....

[steve-b]

CBS was like some sunburned, overweight Florida tourist with a cut foot

Well, then, maybe CBS should learn to use sunscreen, eat less and exercise more, and not step on sharp objects.

[Not A Snowbird]

like a school of sharks

I like that.

So can we start calling Mary "Shark Bait"?

[T Minus Four]

But how do you really feel? :-)

[Not A Snowbird]

Sour grapes anyone?

Keyboard... meet coffee.

[b4its2late]

Freethinkers they are not.

Mary, I believe you have the capacity to learn from your mistakes. You will learn a lot today.