Mary Mapes Still Misrepresenting Rathergate

Woman, you are out of your mind:

What was different in our case was the brand new and bruising power of the conservative blogosphere, particularly the extremists among them. They formed a tightly knit community of keyboard assault artists who saw themselves as avenging angels of the right, determined to root out and decimate anything they believed to be disruptive to their worldview.

To them, the fact that the president wimped out on his National Guard duty during the Vietnam War -- and then covered it up -- was no big deal.

And we showed for the first time a cache of documents allegedly written by Bush's former commander. The documents supported a mountain of other evidence that young Bush had dodged his duty and not been punished. They did not in any way diverge from the information in the sketchy pieces of the president's official record made available by the White House or the National Guard. In fact, to the few people who had gone to the trouble of examining the Bush record, these papers filled in some of the blanks.

We reported that since these documents were copies, not originals, they could not be fully authenticated, at least not in the legal sense. They could not be subjected to tests to determine the age of the paper or the ink. We did get corroboration on the content and support from a couple of longtime document analysts saying they saw nothing indicating that the memos were not real.

To put it politely as possibly, Ms. Mapes, every word of this is pure, unadulterated Bravo Sierra--especially the emphasized sections--and the rest of it is as well.

But should we really be surprised when the delusional--like Rather and Mapes--want to open up their own old wounds? Mapes and Rather are engaged in legal and rhetorical forms of self-mutilation.

(Thanks to Hot Air)

Comments

[JoeP]

That's right, it's all a farce, can't be true of this great president. And preznident bush didn't really say on Thursday that Nelson and Winnie Mandela were dead because of Saddam Hussein, hence a DAMNED good reason for Americans to die in Iraq.

But this episode still isn't the bottom of his pickled barrel. He can and has reached lower on the moron scale.

What a g.d. embarrassment to the US.

[baldilocks]

JoeP. Hon. Don't forget that I am retired from the USAFR and that I spent thirteen years active duty. Read about my USAFR stint as an Aerospace Medicine Technician--those folks who perform the paraprofessional portion of an aircrew member's flight physical, the subject which the "Bush" documents pretended to address.

If you read the links (in this post, to this blog) you'll see the other reasons why the "Bush" documents were so easily spotted as fakes by military personnel--aside from the fact that they were manifestly created using Microsoft Word.

I recall that you claimed to have been in the military. Surely you remember how seriously the military takes attention to detail--from uniforms to written communication and everything in between.

As for the Mandela ginned up controversy, you're reaching. Again.

And it's funny (as in comical) how you never have links to back up your assertions.

The only person who should be embarrassed is you.

[baldilocks]

Here. I'll help you out. "Iraq's 'Mandelas' are dead"

There is local reconciliation taking place. I had a fascinating conversation in the Roosevelt Room earlier this week with members of provincial reconstruction teams from around Iraq who talked about how people are sick and tired of murder and violence, and that they expect their local governments and their central government to be more responsive to their needs, and local governments are beginning to respond.

Part of the reason why there is not this instant democracy in Iraq is because people are still recovering from Saddam Hussein's brutal rule. I thought an interesting comment was made when somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, where's Mandela? Well, Mandela is dead, because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas. He was a brutal tyrant that divided people up and split families, and people are recovering from this.

Now, unless you're will to do your homework--or admit that you're wrong--stop wasting my time with your ill-informed bellowing.