Mary Mapes Still Misrepresenting Rathergate

Woman, you are out of your mind:

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.

To them, the fact that the president wimped out on his National Guard duty during the Vietnam War -- and then covered it up -- was no big deal.

And we showed for the first time a cache of documents allegedly written by Bush's former commander. The documents supported a mountain of other evidence that young Bush had dodged his duty and not been punished. They did not in any way diverge from the information in the sketchy pieces of the president's official record made available by the White House or the National Guard. In fact, to the few people who had gone to the trouble of examining the Bush record, these papers filled in some of the blanks.

We reported that since these documents were copies, not originals, they could not be fully authenticated, at least not in the legal sense. They could not be subjected to tests to determine the age of the paper or the ink. We did get corroboration on the content and support from a couple of longtime document analysts saying they saw nothing indicating that the memos were not real.

To put it politely as possibly, Ms. Mapes, every word of this is pure, unadulterated Bravo Sierra--especially the emphasized sections--and the rest of it is as well.

But should we really be surprised when the delusional--like Rather and Mapes--want to open up their own old wounds? Mapes and Rather are engaged in legal and rhetorical forms of self-mutilation.

(Thanks to Hot Air)