Oh, You Terrible Bloggers, Shame on You!!!

Mary Mapes Blames 'Vicious' Bloggers
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006 3:55 p.m. EST

Isn't it amazing how some things just won't go away!

Fired CBS "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes is still blaming the internet for ending her media career prematurely - or more precisely; the "vicious" bloggers who discovered that documents she unearthed in a bid to trash President Bush's National Guard service were forgeries.
"The criticism that was launched at us initially really came from the very conservative blogosphere, folks who are on these very conservative web sites," Mapes complained Friday on WVMT Vermont's "Charlie & Ernie" radio show.

"This was really a terribly vicious attack they launched on CBS," she insisted, before lamenting: "Politics is not necessarily the way it was when we all grew up, where you might disagree on something but you wouldn't eviscerate someone." (now isn't this the pot calling the kettle black? After all what was her intent in launching this BS story of FORGED documents. Was it not to totally discredit President Bush, to keep him from getting re-elected?)

Mapes says that she was a victim of a new standard in journalism where "the truth doesn't matter" but instead it's "the perception of truth that matters."
(I am sorry but the truth did MATTER. In fact, her contribution as well as that of Mr. Rather, helped to get Bush re-elected. I guess the truth (under their guise) is what they want it to be, damn the public for wanting the real thing)

"What happened to me, I think, and to all of us at CBS, was that the perception of truth became that these documents were not real; that there were flaws in the typeface and all kinds of sort of dry and extremely dull details about proportional spacing and superscript and all that." (So Mary these flaws "shouldn't" be taken into account, considering the era in which they were suppose to be written in. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. I guess one could say that it was your perception that made them the truth, right?)

Mapes said that she still believes the documents cited in the "60 Minutes II" broadcast by her boss, Dan Rather, were authentic, saying; "I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw." (amazing!!! She just described, in the above statement, what flaws were there and still insists there weren't any.)

She also noted that CBS's own internal investigation "could not prove that the documents were false." (now isn't this like saying to a corrupt police department to investigate itself? Of course they couldn't find anything, they already had enough egg on their face and just wanted the story to go away.)