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"EVAPORATED:" THE DAN AND DAVE SHOW  By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 04, 2005 01:02 AM  Just happen to be on sick baby overnight shift and caught The David Letterman Show, which I never usually watch. MSM relic Dan Rather is on his farewell tour and bloviated for a few segments about his 1968 Democratic National Convention scuffles in Chicago, his Deep Thoughts on Iraq, and, yes, the little "error" (too bad he doesn't read the Wall Street Journal editorial page..."kerfuffle" would have really come in handy) that we have all come to know and love as Rathergate/Memogate/The Bogus Documents...

Fired CBS Rathergate producer Mary Mapes is planning a tell-all book that could blow the lid off the scandal that ended Dan Rather's tenure as "CBS Evening News" anchorman and destroyed the credibility of the once-golden "Tiffany" network. Mapes, who obtained documents on President Bush's National Guard record that turned out to be forged, "is preparing to shop a book proposal offering an inside account of what happened at CBS News during the memo scandal," reports the New York Observer. "The book will constitute Ms. Mapes’ defense against charges of journalistic misconduct," the paper says. Mapes' literary agent explained that...

Report just issues, mapes finally fired

SEATTLE--At a joint appearance over the weekend, the network news anchors began to circle the wagons in defense of the beleaguered Dan Rather. "There's a political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS," complained NBC's Tom Brokaw at a New York Public Library event Saturday. "It's a demagoguery unleashed on the Internet."

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"...It is also not the first time that Mapes has agreed to be a go-between in a controversial setting. FOX News has obtained a letter written to Mapes by the warden of a high security federal prison in Colorado. He accused the CBS producer of concocting a scheme to help secretly pass information between convicted white supremacist Peter Langan (search) and another federal prisoner, a violation of federal regulations..."