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** While much issue was made at the time of release about how the film supposedly takes Mary and Dan's account that the memos were actually real in order to turn them into martyrs persecuted for telling the truth, one could easily also interpret the film depicting Mary, Dan, and their team as being deeply in denial that they were swindled and [[NeverMyFault being either too prideful or too ashamed to admit they might've screwed up and made a mistake]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Lucy is played by the very talented and well-known Creator/ElisabethMoss, could've brought a unique perspective to the case as a journalism professor, and she even shows hints of a developing friendship with Roger and Mike in the interactions she shares with either character. However, she basically stops appearing in the film after the initial investigation is over and isn't even present in most of the scenes where the rest of team all get together. Overall, she comes across as a waste of an accomplished actress and a potentially interesting character.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Lucy is played by the very talented and well-known Creator/ElisabethMoss, could've brought a unique perspective to the case as a journalism professor, and she even shows hints of a developing friendship with Roger and Mike in the interactions she shares with either character. However, she basically stops appearing in the film after the initial investigation is over and isn't even present in most of the scenes where the rest of team all get together. Overall, she comes across as a waste of an accomplished actress and a potentially interesting character.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''Film/SpiderMan3'', Creator/TopherGrace played a corrupt photographer who faked a photograph and was fired when he was found it. He appears in this movie, [[spoiler: where the use of fake documents led to the firing of an anchor and news producer]].
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** Were the CBS executives conducting a diligent search to find out how a well-respected news anchor and news producer fell victim to a con artist? Were they simply throwing Mapes and Rather under the bus to deflect attention from their own incompetence? Or were they trying to scuttle the story to get political favors from the President and his party?
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** Were the CBS Creator/{{CBS}} executives conducting a diligent search to find out how a well-respected news anchor and news producer fell victim to a con artist? Were they simply throwing Mapes and Rather under the bus to deflect attention from their own incompetence? Or were they trying to scuttle the story to get political favors from the President and his party?
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''Film/SpiderMan3'', Topher Grace played a corrupt photographer who faked a photograph and was fired when he was found it. He appears in this movie, [[spoiler: where the use of fake documents led to the firing of an anchor and news producer]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''Film/SpiderMan3'', Topher Grace Creator/TopherGrace played a corrupt photographer who faked a photograph and was fired when he was found it. He appears in this movie, [[spoiler: where the use of fake documents led to the firing of an anchor and news producer]].producer]].
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*** The memos were questionable at best right from the get-go, see WhatAnIdiot below. Between the partisan slant that CBS had already adopted in favor of Gore and the evidence they already had indicating that they weren't authentic, it's hard not to see them as being driven by ideology and/or stupidity.
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*** The memos were questionable at best right from the get-go, see WhatAnIdiot below.get-go. Between the partisan slant that CBS had already adopted in favor of Gore and the evidence they already had indicating that they weren't authentic, it's hard not to see them as being driven by ideology and/or stupidity.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''Film/SpiderMan3'', Topher Grace played a corrupt photographer who faked a photograph and was fired when he was found it. He appears in this movie, [[spoiler: where the use of fake documents led to the firing of an anchor and news producer]].
* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. The last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an envelope, and that after making copies of the documents inside, he was to burn the envelope and whatever was in it. This would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again. And yet, Mary Mapes decided to go along with his story.
* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. The last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an envelope, and that after making copies of the documents inside, he was to burn the envelope and whatever was in it. This would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again. And yet, Mary Mapes decided to go along with his story.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''Film/SpiderMan3'', Topher Grace played a corrupt photographer who faked a photograph and was fired when he was found it. He appears in this movie, [[spoiler: where the use of fake documents led to the firing of an anchor and news producer]]. \n* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. The last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an envelope, and that after making copies of the documents inside, he was to burn the envelope and whatever was in it. This would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again. And yet, Mary Mapes decided to go along with his story.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. the The last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an envelope, and that after making copies of the documents inside, he was to burn the envelope and whatever was in it. This would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again. and And yet, Mary Mapes decided to go along with his story.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. the last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an envelope, and that after making copies of the documents inside, he was to burn the envelope and whatever was in it. this This would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again. and yet, Mary Mapes decided to go along with his story.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. the last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an evelope, and that after making coopies of the documents inside, he was to burn the enevlope and whatever was in it. this would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again. and yet, Mary Mapes decided to go along with his story.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. the last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an evelope, envelope, and that after making coopies copies of the documents inside, he was to burn the enevlope envelope and whatever was in it. this would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again. and yet, Mary Mapes decided to go along with his story.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Were Mary Mapes and Dan Rather simply following a lead and got hoodwinked by a con man? Were they rabid partisans willing to use forged documents to influence a presidential election? Or were they martyrs who were hounded out of their jobs for exposing a truth certain powerful people tried to hide?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Were Mary Mapes Creator/MaryMapes and Dan Rather Creator/DanRather simply following a lead and got hoodwinked by a con man? Were they rabid partisans willing to use forged documents to influence a presidential election? Or were they martyrs who were hounded out of their jobs for exposing a truth certain powerful people tried to hide?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Were Mary Mapes and Dan Rather simply following a lead and got hoodwinked by a con man? Were they rabid partisans willing to use forged documents to influence a presidential election? Or were they martyrs who were hounded out of their jobs for exposing a truth certain powerful people tried to hide.hide?
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*** The memos were questionable at best right from the get-go, see WhatAnIdiot below. Between the partisan slant that CBS had already adopted in favor of Gore and the evidence they already had indicating that they weren't authentic, it's hard not to see them as being driven by ideology and/or stupidity.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''SpiderMan3'', Topher Grace played a corrupt photographer who faked a photograph and was fired when he was found it. He appears in this movie, [[spoiler: where the use of fake documents led to the firing of an anchor and news producer]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''SpiderMan3'', ''Film/SpiderMan3'', Topher Grace played a corrupt photographer who faked a photograph and was fired when he was found it. He appears in this movie, [[spoiler: where the use of fake documents led to the firing of an anchor and news producer]].
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* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. the last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an evelope, and that after making coopies of the documents inside, he was to burn the enevlope and whatever was in it. this would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. the last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an evelope, and that after making coopies of the documents inside, he was to burn the enevlope and whatever was in it. this would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again. and yet, Mary Mapes decided to go along with his story.
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** Were the CBS executives conducting a diligent search to find out how a well-respected news anchor and news producer fell victim to a con artist? Were they simply throwing Mapes and Rather under the bus to deflect attention from their own incompetence? Or were they trying to scuttle the story to get political favors from the President and his party?
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** Were the CBS executives conducting a diligent search to find out how a well-respected news anchor and news producer fell victim to a con artist? Were they simply throwing Mapes and Rather under the bus to deflect attention from their own incompetence? Or were they trying to scuttle the story to get political favors from the President and his party?party?
* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. the last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an evelope, and that after making coopies of the documents inside, he was to burn the enevlope and whatever was in it. this would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again.
* WhatAnIdiot: Bill Burkett told no less than three individual stories of how he got the memos. the last one was incredulous- Burkett said that a woman named Lucy Ramirez told him he would be given an evelope, and that after making coopies of the documents inside, he was to burn the enevlope and whatever was in it. this would sound incredulous if it was the ''first'' story told. But Burkett had changed his story once before already, and was changing it again.
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** Were the CBS executives conducting a diligent search to find out how a well-respected news anchor and news producer fell victim to a con artist? Were they simply throwing Mapes and Rather under the bus to deflect attention from their own incompetence? Or were they trying to scuttle the story to get political favors from the President and his party?
** Were the CBS executives conducting a diligent search to find out how a well-respected news anchor and news producer fell victim to a con artist? Were they simply throwing Mapes and Rather under the bus to deflect attention from their own incompetence? Or were they trying to scuttle the story to get political favors from the President and his party?
