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CBS Producer on Thin Ice After Guard StoryNEW YORK (AP) - The fallout from CBS's doomed story about President Bush's National Guard service most endangers a woman few viewers know but who played a key role in two of the biggest television stories of the year.
Mary Mapes, a veteran producer at CBS News, reported most of the National Guard story, including obtaining the documents CBS now says it can't authenticate. She also passed on the phone number of her source, former Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, to the Kerry campaign.
Mapes, 48, was described by colleagues on Tuesday as a dogged and talented journalist who made no secret of her liberal political beliefs.
And on a personal note, I get a chuckle that it was her injecting those beliefs into a story that brought her down.
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So, perhaps now there shoul... (Below threshold)1. Posted by -S- | September 21, 2004 9:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So, perhaps now there should be greater examination of the Abu Ghraib (spelled?) "break" that Mapes was also responsible for. Not saying that the photos weren't real, just that the issue should be more closely examined, as to Mapes' involvement in it.
1. Posted by -S- | September 21, 2004 9:55 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 21:55
2. Posted by -S- | September 21, 2004 9:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
HA! Mapes is "DALLAS BASED..."!!!
Lucy Ramirez?
2. Posted by -S- | September 21, 2004 9:57 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 21:57
3. Posted by Paul | September 21, 2004 10:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Life is not that good to me. ;-)
3. Posted by Paul | September 21, 2004 10:20 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 22:20
4. Posted by Thomas J. Jackson | September 21, 2004 10:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
When are we going to hear "the dog ate my homework?" The author of these frauds was probably a Democrat operative. The CBS handling of this story requires Viacom fire everybody involved with this sorry episode.
CBS is a joke.
4. Posted by Thomas J. Jackson | September 21, 2004 10:21 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 22:21
5. Posted by -S- | September 21, 2004 10:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ah, Paul, sometimes you just get lucky.
~;-D
5. Posted by -S- | September 21, 2004 10:21 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 22:21
6. Posted by Thomas J. Jackson | September 21, 2004 10:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
When are we going to hear "the dog ate my homework?" The author of these frauds was probably a Democrat operative. The CBS handling of this story requires Viacom fire everybody involved with this sorry episode.
CBS is a joke.
6. Posted by Thomas J. Jackson | September 21, 2004 10:21 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 22:21
7. Posted by Thomas J. Jackson | September 21, 2004 10:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
When are we going to hear "the dog ate my homework?" The author of these frauds was probably a Democrat operative. The CBS handling of this story requires Viacom fire everybody involved with this sorry episode.
CBS is a joke.
7. Posted by Thomas J. Jackson | September 21, 2004 10:22 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 22:22
8. Posted by Editor | September 21, 2004 10:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Paul, don't see an email for you on the site... I have the new SBVT ad up...
http://pajamaeditors.blogspot.com
8. Posted by Editor | September 21, 2004 10:27 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 22:27
9. Posted by Editor | September 21, 2004 10:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
sorry... should have done this:
http://pajamaeditors.blogspot.com
9. Posted by Editor | September 21, 2004 10:29 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 22:29
10. Posted by Les Nessman | September 21, 2004 11:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Who's gonna be the sacrificial lamb so that The Dan doesn't have to take the fall? They better be sure or there could be a lawsuit.
10. Posted by Les Nessman | September 21, 2004 11:06 PM |
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Posted on September 21, 2004 23:06
11. Posted by -S- | September 22, 2004 2:22 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
FODDER for the FIRE:
Mickey Kaus
Blame Mary! So far, Ellis' prediction of second-day anti-Mapes revelations has proved eerily prescient. And Joe Lockhart is in on the Save-Dan-By-Throwing-Mary-Overboard conspiracy! ... P.S.: I don't understand why it would have been wrong for Mapes to ask Lockhart to call Bill Burkett as part of a deal to get the documents. If the documents hadn't been phony that would have been smart journalism, no? A harmless favor to produce a big scoop. It only looks like partisanship on the part of Mapes if it was not part of an implicit deal to get the story--i.e., if Mapes was just freelancing with her Dem buddies to help bring down Bush. Perversely, by denying a deal the CBS flacks actually make Mapes look gratuitously bad. ... Oh wait, I forgot. According to Ellis they're trying to make Mapes look bad.. ... 1:34 A.M.
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I enjoy how the mainstreammedia mimes the Pajamahadeen.
11. Posted by -S- | September 22, 2004 2:22 AM |
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Posted on September 22, 2004 02:22