[Tarpon]

The KKK were Democrats, so I don't see how you could make the connection to Free Republic.

[Khepera]

Mary (Nobody proved the documents were false) Mapes is an idiot.

[Tribune7]

In the book Mapes presents expert opinion and evidence that the accusation--all the stuff about typewriters, superscripts, proportional spacing and typefaces--was just wrong.

And if I close my eyes, click my heels and wish really hard my cat will sprout wings and turn into a flying unicorn and I can have mystical adventures like Harry Potter. Really.

[Yo-Yo]

In the book Mapes presents expert opinion and evidence that the accusation--all the stuff about typewriters, superscripts, proportional spacing and typefaces--was just wrong. She says the people who presented those arguments didn't know what they were talking about.

WHAT?!?

[theDentist]

... Once she got back out there with the dogs, she said the neighborhood was a source of solace and strength.

I guess it does take a village. /sarc

[Paleo Conservative]

dallasobserver ^ | 11/10/05 | Jim Schutze

I bet he voted no on Proposition 2 on Tuesday.

[Cicero]

This is so delusional I don't even know where to start. Maybe with this:

"Another telling point to recall is that not even the high tribunal and commission set up by CBS to explore the issue was able to corroborate the accusations of fakery."

Does this jerk really think that the commission, which was set up and paid for by CBS itself, made any effort at all to prove that they were fakes? Their chief concern was to deflect the criticism and protect the corporation.

Besides, the apposite term isn't fakes. It's forgeries.

[gridlock]

If they wanna say those documents were real, then they really cannot be dealth with. You have to be rock-hard stupid to think those documents could have been produced in the pre-pc age.

The fact that Mapes still cannot bring herself to admit this tells you all you need to know about her attitude toward anybody who disagrees with her. Just a little peek into the mind of the people who make the MSM news...

[backhoe]

Go to the "last" of this, and work back- all the proof you ever need of "fake but accurate"--

60 Minutes to Infamy- those forged memos and The Shot Heard Round the World
various FR links | 09-10-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211904/posts

[ClaireSolt]

Someday, someone will write a book and document how much destruction 60 Minutes wrought with all of its hidden camera exposes and phony consumer advocy. Will that be compared to the KKK too?

[blackie]

"extremists on the Internet are the Ku Klux Klan of today"

That fits Soros and his sycophants, perfectly!

[Sans-Culotte]

The really sad thing about Memogate is that even if the documents had turned out to be real, it wasn't much of a story anyway. The zeal with which Mapes and Rather seized upon such a "nothing" story, while ignoring the Swifties' account of Kerry's service shows how myopic they had become in their efforts to "get Bush".

[Tzimisce]

Well I guess under her own philosophy, she would have to come out and prove that we're wrong.

[siunevada]

My point is that the anonymous haters and extremists on the Internet are the Ku Klux Klan of today.

And where do we find the most vile examples of hatred on the net?

[trisham]

You know, sometimes I have doubts about my sensitivities. Looking back, I think I was mainly worried about the dogs. How the heck were they going to get walked?

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This rubbish cries out for a Barf Alert.

[ThinkDifferent]

One of many intriguing points in Mapes' book--a thing I shouldn't have had to be reminded of--is that the documents she and Dan Rather based their story on were never exposed as fakes.

Wow. This guy is an idiot or a partisan hack. And the "or" is not exclusive.

[siunevada]

Mapes presents contextual evidence to show that the documents make an uncannily smooth factual mesh with other documents of known provenance. Not the sort of thing one would expect from fakes.

Geez, I guess this guy has never read a spy novel. A 'smooth factual mesh' is exactly what you want in a disinformation operation.

[robowombat]

How can liberals write so much and say so little. What a piece of s--t.

[altura]

He's right about one thing, the Dallas Morning News IS the realm of darkness.

That's about it.

[hsalaw]

What tripe. This is more about how great his neighborhood is than anything else. Oh, and by the way, his good neighbor Mary's book has proved the documents aren't fake, or has at least put the burden of proof on the KKK, er, I mean, the blogosphere. If this is what passes for journalism today, I'm very glad I cancelled my subscription to the Bee.