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Unbowed and still convinced of the document's authenticity, Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against [[CBS]] and its former corporate parent, [[Viacom]] on September 19, 2007, claiming he was made a "scapegoat" [http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_documents/0919_don_rather_wm_01.pdf]. A day later, Mapes wrote a column in the Huffington Post, claiming that far-right blogs have "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...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" [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-mapes/courage-for-dan-rather_b_65257.html].
Unbowed and still convinced of the document's authenticity, Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against [[CBS]] and its former corporate parent, [[Viacom]] on September 19, 2007, claiming he was made a "scapegoat" [http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_documents/0919_don_rather_wm_01.pdf]. A day later, Mapes wrote a column in the Huffington Post, claiming that far-right blogs have "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...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" [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-mapes/courage-for-dan-rather_b_65257.html].
====Prior knowledge====
In a clear contradiction of her rant, Mapes did in fact have prior knowledge of Bush's guard dervice in her hands but chose to ignore it. In a press release on January 10, 2005, Accuracy in Media reported that the internal investigation conducted by CBS into the "Rathergate" matter revealed that Mapes had documented information on hand which detailed Bush's attempt to volunteer for duty as a fighter pilot in Vietnam but was denied by his superiors at the time due to his inexperience. Accuracy in Media Editor Cliff Kincaid explained:
:''"Mapes, who was very close to Rather and enjoyed his confidence, had the evidence exonerating Bush of this malicious charge. The report shows that there were multiple credible sources to prove that Bush did not try to avoid Vietnam by going into the National Guard and that he was in fact willing to go to Vietnam as a pilot. However, CBS News deliberately kept this information from its viewers and conveyed an opposite impression because Rather, Mapes & Company were trying to depict Bush as a coward who, as Commander-in-Chief, was sending American soldiers to their deaths in Iraq."'' [http://www.aim.org/press-release/report-says-dan-rather-personally-involved-in-cbs-news-campaign-to-destroy-/]
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