Mary Mapes: Rathergate Revisionist

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Wed Nov 9, 2005 at 1:24 pm PST • Views: 726

Ousted CBS Producer Comes Out Swinging, and connects with absolutely nothing. Mary Mapes’s pathetic attempt to continue the charade that the CBS National Guard memos were genuine documents is simply destroyed by this animated GIF graphic, showing my version created in minutes with the default settings in Microsoft Word for Mac OS X, overlaid on the CBS News Killian memo supposedly from August 19, 1973:

But if you need more, TigerHawk tears apart Mapes’s ridiculous, transparently self-serving excuses.

UPDATE at 11/9/05 3:28:00 pm:

LGF reader David L. suggests a revision for the cover of Mapes’s book:

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