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November 01, 2005

Mapes Mopes in Vanity Fair

An excerpt from ex-CBS News producer Mary Mapes' book on Dan Rather's forged memos will be in December's Vanity Fair. In it she writes,

If I was an idiot, it was for believing in a free press that is able to do its job without fear or favor. ...I didn't know that the attack on our story was going to be as effective as a brilliantly run national political campaign, because that is what it was: a political campaign.

A political campaign? Yeah, right. Tell that to the Power Line gang and Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs. I'm sure they'd love to know who was pulling their strings without them knowing. I'm sure they'd both like to know if Karl Rove was using his mind-control machine on them again. [Karl, turn that thing off! You know how it makes my scalp itch. --ed]

LGF gets into Mapes claiming McCarthyism.

"CBS' Mary Mapes, in Vanity Fair, Defends Role in 'RatherGate'"

Posted by Sean Hackbarth in Media at 03:07 AM | Comments (3)

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