Do you know what it would take to fake these memos? Mary... No, this is important. It...
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Mary Mapes:
Do you know what it would take to fake these memos?
Dick Hibey:
Mary...
Mary Mapes:
No, this is important. It would require the forger to have an in-depth knowledge of the 1971 Air Force manual, including rules and regulations and abbreviations. He would have to know Bush's official record front to back to make sure none of these memos conflicted with it. He would have to know all of the players in the Texas Air National Guard at the time, not just their names, but their attitudes, their opinions including how they related to one another. He would have to know that Colonel Killian kept personal memos like this for himself in the first place. He would have to know how Killian felt at the time particularly about his superiors and then First Lieutenant Bush. He would have to know or learn all of this in order to fool us as you assume he did. Now... Do you really think that a man who takes this kind of time and precision, then goes and types these up on Microsoft Word?
[Small pause]
Mary Mapes:
Our story was about whether Bush fulfilled his service. Nobody wants to talk about that. They wanna talk about fonts and forgeries and conspiracy theories, because that's what people do these days if they don't like a story. They point and scream. They question your politics, your objectivity, hell, your basic humanity. And they hope to God the truth gets lost in the scrum. And when it is finally over and they have kicked and shouted so loud, we can't even remember what the point was.
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do you really think that a man
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who takes this kind of time and precision
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then goes and types these up on Microsoft Word
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Our story was about whether Bush fulfilled his service
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Nobody wants to talk about that They wanna talk about fonts
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and forgeries and conspiracy theories
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Because that's what people do these days if they don't like a story
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They point and scream
Clip duration: 35 seconds
Views: 173
Timestamp in movie: 01h 44m 57s
Uploaded: 19 March, 2022
Genres: biography, drama, history
Summary: Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.