In this story which appears in USA Today, we find out a bit about the producer of the now infamous forgery story by CBS. Her name is Mary Mapes and by all accounts she is a strident liberal-leftist feminazi who hates George Bush and wants him out of office. And this should come as no surprise, when we consider that The Elite Media Monoculture long ago gave up any pretense at being impartial information providers. Now they are a bought and paid for propaganda arms of the Democratic party and the conduct of Mary Mapes proves it in a way too obvious to miss. She wanted to undermine and smear a sitting President in a time of war and she was willing to use forged documents to do it, while acting as the media arm of the Kerry campaign. The ethics are entirely absent in this situation. And no one on the conservative side of the debate is really all that surprised. What we are really surprised at is the fact that they didn't do a much better job on the forgery. I guess they haven't got a lot of old typewriters sitting around the DNC headquarters.
John Carlson, a former commentator at KIRO-TV who is host of a conservative radio talk show in Seattle, remembers Mapes as a talented producer with whom he often argued politics in the newsroom.
Mapes was "quite liberal" and disliked the current President Bush's father, he said.
"She definitely was someone who was motivated by what she cared about and definitely went into journalism to make a difference," Carlson said. "She's not the sort of person who went into journalism to report the news and offer an array of commentary."
Carlson spoke with Mapes about the National Guard story a week ago, and said that he believes she "put so much time into it that she wanted something to come of it."
"This was a woman with a good reputation," he said. "The mistakes she made were so obvious. This was a story that was rushed because they clearly believed it was true. They wanted it to be true."
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