There’s something about Mary…

Mapes in Dan Rather’s clueless effusions with Marvin Kalb. The minds of Mapes and Rather move remarkably in tandem, or the two of them have taken the opportunity to buck each other up with the same paranoid fantasies and cloistered ignorance. Radioblogger has posted the transcript of Marvin Kalb’s Dan Rather interview together with audio links, interspersed with Duane Patterson’s comments on Rather’s observations. The interview is largely focused on the fraudulent 60 Minutes II story which, you will be relieved to know, “is accurate.” The Media Research Center has a good summary here.