[Hot Tabasco]

I watched it and actually had chills run down my spine. Given another scenario, she could very well have been sitting before a parole board arguing for her early release from prison.

What is most disturbing is the fact that the 80+ percent of journalists in this country who are registered democrats would have done the very same thing if given the opportunity..........

Without the internet Ms. Maple would have been promoted and Dan Rather given a pulitzer.......

[altura]

That's the upside to the whole sordid mess. They can't get by with it any more.

[Petronski]

Without the internet Ms. Mapes would have been promoted and Dan Rather given a pulitzer......

Ten years ago, she would have succeeded masterfully.

[photodawg]

Without the internet Ms. Maple would have been promoted and Dan Rather given a pulitzer.......
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Dan has received many honors since "retiring", and has just been reassigned to staff of sixty minutes. MSM just rolls right along.

[jjmcgo]

You're absolutely right. We've come a long way in this thread without anyone mentioning the coordinated ad the Dems had prepared to run in coordination with this 60 Minutes broadcast.
It must be/should be a crime for a media company to conspire with a political party to perpetrate a fraud that could cause the defeat of a President in war time.
This is exactly the same thing the WaPo's Matthew Mosk did with the Maryland Democratic operative, likely Ryan O'Doherty, in the MD4Bush case.
The media and the Democrats are coordinating their attacks on the GOP. Their physical attacks, like shooting into multiple GOP HQs during the last presidential election, get covered up by the media.

[Txsleuth]

Mary Mapes would have been promoted, Dan Rather would have gotten a Pulitzer....

and John Kerry would be President?? ugh!