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 Reporter Brian Ross:
"Mary Mapes was
the woman behind the scenes, the producer who researched, wrote and put
together Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes report on President Bush’s National
Guard service, a report which Rather and CBS would later apologize for
airing...."Ross to Mapes: "Do you still think that story was true?" Ex-CBS producer Mary Mapes: "The story? Absolutely." Ross: "This seems remarkable to me that you would sit here now and say you still find that story to be up to your standards." Mapes: "I’m perfectly willing to believe those documents are forgeries if there’s proof that I haven’t seen." Ross: "But isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you have to prove they’re authentic?" Mapes: "Well, I think that’s what critics of the story would say. I know more now than I did then and I think, I think they have not been proved to be false, yet." Ross: "Have they proved to be authentic though? Isn’t that really what journalists do?" Mapes: "No, I don’t think that’s the standard." — ABC’s Good Morning America, November 9. |
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Ted Turner: "I am absolutely convinced that the North Koreans are
absolutely sincere. There’s really no reason for them to cheat [on
nukes]....I looked them right in the eyes. And they looked like they meant
the truth. You know, just because somebody’s done something wrong in the
past doesn’t mean they can’t do right in the future or the present. That
happens all the, all the time." Wolf Blitzer: "But this is one of the most despotic regimes and Kim Jong-Il is one of the worst men on Earth. Isn’t that a fair assessment?" Turner: "Well, I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look — in the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much different than most other people." Blitzer: "But, look at the way, look at the way he’s, look at the way he’s treating his own people." Turner: "Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but–" Blitzer: "A lot of those people are starving." Turner: "I didn’t see any, I didn’t see any brutality...." — Exchange on CNN’s The Situation Room, Sept. 19. |
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