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Mapes furious because she got fact-checked
2005-09-28
STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Posted by:Korora

#8  Mapes is certainly guilty of peripheral thinking.
Posted by: Still Crazy after all these beers   2005-09-28 16:19  

#7  "Peripheral spacing" pretty much says it all.
Posted by: Matt   2005-09-28 12:25  

#6  She (and Dan) both believed the story to be true..

Aka "fake, but accurate".
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-09-28 12:21  

#5  I read the chapter and she seems madder that she got caught with a mistake than the actual story. She (and Dan) both believed the story to be true and attempted to build a case toward that story. She admits that it wasn’t until years of badgering a broken former and fallen Lt Governor shared his story about “young George” and the Texas ANG. And her chain of events leaves many facts out with respect to ‘fact checking.’ Mainly that the memos did not originate from the family of Col Killian but a full fledged LOON with a questionable grasp on reality. Also she did not find it a bit suspicious that up to this point they had found nothing that fit their concept of Lt Bush’s ANG duty until these memos surfaced. All of a sudden VIOLA, the profile was right there in black and white, but it was also typed on a word processor that wasn’t available in the 1970s. I don’t feel sorry for this hack or Dan Rather.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-09-28 11:54  

#4  F-E-A!

Sincerely,

Mapes
Posted by: Captain America   2005-09-28 09:25  

#3  Simberg does a pretty nice fisking.
Posted by: eLarson   2005-09-28 07:30  

#2  Buckhead! tx.
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-09-28 03:25  

#1  Buckhead! tx.
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-09-28 03:25  

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