But try to understand, try to understand...

She's a magic man.

With any luck, this will turn into another Wellstone moment for the libtards... with a little finesse, this can stretch out til November '08.

Is it that surprising that Libs like Rather and Mapes would eventually lose their grip on reality?

 Liberalism is a denial of reality. THey go through their lives believing that protests will end human conflicts, that taxation will produce prosperity, that letting criminals out of prison is a better deterrent than locking them up...etc. etc. ad infinitum...

Look at Al Gore.  This guy actually believes his own lies.

You can't keep this up very long without going nuts. 

Saying "Liberals are crazy" is not a pejorative, it's a description.

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.

Dear Ms. Mapes:

I didn't even know the blogosphere existed when your TANG story broke, but I knew the very first time I saw your documents on my TV screen that there was something bogus about them. You see, I was a military spouse for almost 30 years, which included the timeframe covered by your story, and had seen hundreds of military/government documents. My suspicion drove me to look online to see what I could find out about what I saw as a HUGE descrepancy in your story and that's how this seasoned citizen found the blogging world.

It had nothing to do with avenging, I was not part of the "far right bully boys," (I didn't even know they existed) nor did I churn out "gigabytes of mind-numbing internet dissertations" about anything. However, the more I researched, the more I knew that I was right in my initial assessment of bogus. It is a shame you didn't talk to a few people who were actually in service in those years. You could have asked to see copies of any of their documents and compared the typeface, size, and style for yourself and you would have known immediately that you had a problem. You would also have been informed that the military, whether Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force, Coast Guard or National Guard, would not put an unqualified person in the pilot's seat of a multi-million dollar jet. Common sense, if nothing else, should have told you that.

Ms. Mapes, as far as I'm concerned you are a silly woman who sacrificed integrity for your own left wing hatred and bias. You were aided in this by your boss's lack of integrity and bias and virulent hatred of the Bush family. You broke the rules and, like children, you lied to get out of your troubles. The fact that the public caught you and called you on those lies is just too bad. Smearing your audience of viewers shows how arrogant you were and was a very stupid thing to do then, as it is now. You could have easily covered yourself and your boss by admitting you were hoodwinked. I pity you for being so pathetic in your ongoing attempts to insist on perpetuating your lies. You remind me of my kids when they were little and trying to convince me they didn't do something that the evidence clearly indicated they did. But, unlike you, my kids fessed up once they knew the jig was up.

A concerned citizen,

Sara

PS: Your little episode inspired me to start a blog. Feel free to come and debate me any time.

"[A]t 75 years old, Rather still has more reportorial testosterone than the entire employee roster at FOX News".

The evil-doers are around every corner, and out to get her. Bloggers; right-wingers; pajama-clad coffee-drinking nitwits at their Giga-byte producing keyboards; and of course, FOX news, that hot-bed of lying SOBs.

You were exposed, Mary, you and Dan the Man. And you couldn't control this uncontrollable media. BTW, as you bitch about the curl at the end of the "a," the dip on the top of the "t," the spacing, the superscript, which typewriters were used in the military in 1972, I notice you don't contradict anything that was discovered. Kinda telling, isn't it?

Mary is out of her league, here. When confronted with ordinary citizens that have a higher intelligence than she has, she doesn't know how to take it. This must be really, really infuriating for people like her. I love it.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Beyond the forged documents is another aspect of the Rather-gate scandal that MSM interviewers seem releuctant to ask about:

Three days prior to the braodcast of the bougs story, Mapes' staff contacted the Democratic National Committee to alert them that the story was going to break.

Now, in objective journalism, the investigators gather facts,  and interview BOTH sides of the story for more details and their reactions and responses to the questions raised.  Certainly, a sitting US President deserves this standard courtesy that Mapes and Rather would extend to a convicted murderer or tin-pot dictator.

But no, they withheld the story from the Bush White House, and went to his political opponent with the information.  This wasn't an error of omission; it was a deliberate decision to prevent Bush from answering to the charges while giving Kerry and the DNC several days to prepare and time an coincident attack.  Since the Dems had nothing to do with the story, what other reason could there possibly be for calling them?

QUESTION TO RATHER OR MAPES:  How do you explain this sequence of events as anything but a political ambush several weeks before a Presidential election?

Would Larry "The Cadaver" King or Oprah "The O" Winfrey ever have the guts to ask this question?  Better yet, would they ever ask it and force Rather and Mapes to give an answer?

Not a chance.