Mary Mapes is Still Trying to Sell the Lies As Truth

I see Mary Mapes posted a note for Dan Rather, over at HuffPo last night. And of course, it’s all OUR fault…

Here we go again.

It has been three years since we aired our much-maligned story on President Bush’s National Guard service and reaped a whirlwind of right-wing outrage and talk radio retaliation. That part of the assault on our story was not unexpected. In September 2004, anyone who had the audacity to even ask impertinent questions about the president was certain to be figuratively kicked in the head by the usual suspects.

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.

(Sigh) That you’re still trying to pass off this obvious lie as truth, and blaming everyone who found holes in the story… most of them large enough you could drive a TV remote truck through them, suggests you will never learn.
Mary, face it, woman, you lied.

You used the obviously falsified documents in an attempt to steal the election for the Democrats. And you got caught. End of story.

What annoys you so much, is it was largely bloggers who caught you in the lie. I’m suddenly reminded of the Scooby Doo adventures, where the criminal always says “If it hadn’t been for you meddling kids, I’d have gotten away with it, too. ”

Don’t tell me about how “good people ” lost their jobs. “Good People” claiming to be NEWS people don’t pass off lies in an attempt to throw an election, as you and Rather and some other folks at CBS did. CBS as a company should have been folded over this. The lot of you should have ended up in the slam, for your crimes, yourself included. Rigging elections is a crime, after all. Or so we were led to think when you were wasting all that spittle in Florida trying to convince us the Republicans had stolen the election.

Again, you LIED, in your attempt to STEAL THE ELECTION FOR THE DEMOCRATS.

You should be in jail for your crime, not writing “If I Did It” columns for the HuffPo.

And as for your future, dear lady, everyone has to have a purpose in life, and yours apparently is to be a bad example for J school. These days, when the press lies like that, they tend to get caught, after all… and I cannot imagine those fresh young leftists entering J school not being given a stern warning about such things because of your getting caught. Not because it was wrong to lie, mind you, but because you got caught at it.

Some things, you see, never change.