Posted on 11/10/2005 5:19:06 PM PST by sinkspur
Mary Mapes will be a guest on The Factor shortly.
CBS and Rather built an empire on lies just like the one which Mapes propagates.
Jim, you must be proud of your creation. Always imitated, never duplicated, and what a difference you have made in this country.
I used to take the Dallas Times Herald...then it went out of business...just like the city is, in certain ways.
That is how I learned about Free Republic...was the Rathergate scandal...
Anyplace that busted that hack...was where I wanted to be!
Mary Mapes would have been promoted, Dan Rather would have gotten a Pulitzer....
and John Kerry would be President?? ugh!
You quitting won't help either.
Cutting him off for hockey sucks too.
Mapes was just trying to make a name for herself, the same way that her mentor, Rather, did.
In 1988, just before the election, Rather aired a one hour "documentary", The Wall Within. This was a story of six Vietnam vets who were haunted by the unspeakable atrocities that they had committed in Vietnam.
In 1998, B.G.Burkett (no,not that Burkett) published his book, Stolen Valor. Burkett tracked down these six "vets" and proved that only one had even been to Vietnan, and that one had not seen any combat. Burkett confronted Rather and Rather said, "we stand by the story".
Mapes was simply following her mentor's example.
Forged documents....forged documentaries....whats the difference?
I am glad you mentioned her "private life"...why was she using her kid like she did??? It was almost like she was holding him in front of herself....to keep from getting hit!
And, you are correct about Freepers...they don't put up with ANYONE trying to "get by with anything"...they sniff out a troll at the first post!
I guess you have a point....John Kerry didn't have the cojones to go on O'Reilly.
Let me get this straight...I can say anything I woant without proof, as long as many others have done similar things in the past, and I am to be believed and not questioned in spite of it all.
And it is for others to prove me wrong.
Edward R. Murrow, where are you?
Let's here from Walter Cronkite on this one. Is this how nhe vetted the stories he told while covering Viet Nam? The first manned moon landing?
Masybe there really wasn't a Viet Nam, and we didn't land on the moon...I guess its up to me as a viewer to verify all of this...
I am really embarrassed...I guess it has been so long ago that I initially registered...I forgot I didn't register by party...
Thirty...3 0 WEEKS...????>
WHOA....that IS a long engagement...but, I am truly happy for you both.
Total engagement: 48 weeks.
"Not the standard?" Good! We can have a ball writting letters to the local fishwarps, informing them that due to their "standard" we do not see the need to buy their paper. Also inform them "it's a done deal ala Mapes and you do NOT have any right to an opinion otherwise." "And make damn sure sure you get it straight!"
Get out! That's hilarious.
Thanks! It's long but please Lord no longer than that ;o)
It' easy to see why they want a law to let them shield their "sources". It's so they can INVENT SOURCES!!!!!
48 weeks...
I met my husband on Memorial Day....we were married the Thanksgiving weekend of that same year...
That was 33 years ago...he had just come back from Vietnam..and we are still best friends.
BUT, you and cyborg sound like your relationship is very strong...and different beginnings don't mean the endings won't be just as happy!
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