"You Can't Handle the Truth!!!" ---A Few Good Men.
Apparently former CBS producer Mary Mapes can't handle the truth, at least according to her portrayal by actress Cate Blanchett in the newly released movie trailer for the upcoming fictional movie Truth. I say fictional because Mapes in the film somehow maintains the truth of her story about George W. Bush getting favorable treatment in the Texas Air National Guard based on documents that were proven to be forgeries.
Let us now watch Blanchett perform a comedy turn as Mary Mapes in the trailer:
MARY MAPES: Our story was about whether the President fulfilled his service. Nobody wants to talk about that. They want to talk about fonts and forgeries and they hope to God the truth gets lost in the scrum!
Yeah, and who initially played up those documents that Mapes subsequently downplayed by pretending people had a weird obsession about "fonts and forgeries?" Why Dan Rather himself on 60 Minutes II, who featured those documents to validate the story produced by Mary Mapes. Over ten years have passed, and yet Mapes is still unable to reveal valid documents to prove her case. Instead, she continues to pretend in both her book and now in the film that the "truth" of her fiction is valid despite the fact that her documents proved to be fake.
It's also laughable when a questioner tells Mapes they're talking about "bringing your politics into your reporting," and she insists "I did nothing of the kind!"
So who would be crazy enough to buy into this absurd premise of "fake but accurate?" Well, it looks like a number of MSM outlets are willing to be fact-free enablers starting with Newsweek as you can see in their review:
The film follows the public downfall of the well-known news anchor Rather as he, alongside Mapes, reveal the details of President George W. Bush's Vietnam military record on a 2004 CBS 60 Minutes show.
They found internal military memos that allegedly belonged to Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, Bush's squadron commander. According to the CBS team, the documents showed strings were pulled for Bush, the son of President George H. W. Bush, to join the National Guard so he could avoid fighting in Vietnam. The film portrays the fallout from the broadcast, in which the legitimacy of the "Killian Documents" were disputed.
Disputed? There is no dispute. Those documents upon which 60 Minutes II and Mary Mapes based their story were proven to be forgeries. Newsweek, however, has shown us the path many in the MSM will probably take in reviewing the film by downplaying whether the documents were legit or not when in reality the entire truth of the story is based on their legitimacy.
One fortunate aspect of the fictional film Truth is that the main character seems to be Mary Mapes, since Dan Rather, as played by Robert Redford, is very painful to watch. He appears to be held together with duct tape and wires and could collapse at any moment.
