Mapes is an idiot
She's still at it. Fired CBS Producer Unrepentant.
This right here tells you that Mary Mapes is an idiot:
In her first interview since being fired, former CBS News producer Mary Mapes maintains that her controversial "60 Minutes II" story on President Bush's National Guard service was "true" and that "no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."
When someone could produce an exact copy of the "memo" on Microsoft Word, when detailed analysis shows that there is no "th" on any old typewriter out of that era used by the military, when the spacings between the letters were not fixed, as it would with a typewriter rather than a word processor and modern printer, that is pretty clear evidence to me that the document was forged.
With that kind of obstacle, it makes proving things harder, not easier. I am inclined to believe what President Bush's military record says, rather than a forged document dated after the authors death.
But I bring this up because if Mapes gets another job in journalism, this is the first story she will pick up and run with it. She will do everything she can to get the President out of office. That includes continuing to push manufactured evidence.
Just so you know.