You know I thought it was just Dan RaThEr who was delusional. But lets not forget his co-conspirator, Mary Mapes. Mapes takes a jab at rewriting history in a diatribe at the Huffington Puffington Post.

“Gee, just when I was all excited about Wednesday’s big premiere of the new CBS cultural triumph Kid Nation, my old friend Dan Rather went and blew my whole evening out of the water by filing a massive lawsuit against the company.

It has been three years since we aired our much-maligned story on President Bush’s National Guard service and reaped a whirlwind of right-wing outrage and talk radio retaliation. That part of the assault on our story was not unexpected. In September 2004, anyone who had the audacity to even ask impertinent questions about the president was certain to be figuratively kicked in the head by the usual suspects.

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. Our having the temerity to say it on national TV was unforgivable and we had to be destroyed. They organized, with the help of longtime well-connected Republican activists, and began their assault.”

“Wimped out on his national guard duty”. Well so much for the “unbiased” media. Mapes in this completely psychotic essay attempts to pin her attempt at what amounts to journalistic lying on we bad nasty and deranged “blogger” who had the audacity to catch her in her bullshit.

Mapes you’ll remember pushed the story even though it had already been proved a complete fabrication. Thus the reason she was canned was for LYING and not for anything else. But she is unconvinced.

“Actually, we had done a straightforward, well-substantiated story. We presented former Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barnes in his first ever interview saying that he had pulled strings to get the future president into the National Guard after a Bush family friend requested help in keeping the kid out of Vietnam.

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.

Instantly, the far right blogosphere bully boys pronounced themselves experts on document analysis, and began attacking the form and font in the memos. They screamed objections that ultimately proved to have no basis in fact. But they captured the argument. They dominated the discussion by churning out gigabytes of mind-numbing internet dissertations about the typeface in the memos, focusing on the curl at the end of the “a,” the dip on the top of the “t,” the spacing, the superscript, which typewriters were used in the military in 1972.

It was a deceptive approach, and it worked.”

“Deceptive” You know in criminalistics they call this “shifting”. It’s where patholigical liars will create an alternate reality in order to justify their deception.

It worked because the memos were faked and unsubstantiated. No amount of delusional thinking on the part of Mapes or Rather will ever change that.

Like I said before that Rather has been tripping around the country with his delusional “fake but accurate” crap for three years now, looks like the pathology affected the entire staff.