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Mapes furious because she got fact-checked

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Posted by Korora 2005-09-28 0:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Buckhead! tx.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-28 03:25|| 2005-09-28 03:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Buckhead! tx.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-28 03:25|| 2005-09-28 03:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Simberg does a pretty nice fisking.

Posted by eLarson 2005-09-28 07:30|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-09-28 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 F-E-A!

Sincerely,

Mapes

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-28 09:25|| 2005-09-28 09:25|| Front Page Top

#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 wasnât until years of badgering a broken former and fallen Lt Governor shared his story about âyoung Georgeâ and the Texas ANG. And her chain of events leaves many facts out with respect to âfact checking.â 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 Bushâs 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 wasnât available in the 1970s. I donât feel sorry for this hack or Dan Rather.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-09-28 11:54|| 2005-09-28 11:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-09-28 12:21|| Front Page Top

#7 "Peripheral spacing" pretty much says it all.

Posted by Matt 2005-09-28 12:25|| 2005-09-28 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Mapes is certainly guilty of peripheral thinking.

Posted by Still Crazy after all these beers 2005-09-28 16:19|| 2005-09-28 16:19|| Front Page Top

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