![]() One is that its collapse exemplified the Bush magic that somehow imbued him with the aura of competence, intelligence, and leadership and made him oddly invulnerable to obvious criticism - think “The Emperor’s New Clothes” - until it all came crashing down after Hurricane Katrina. Two things are undeniably true about the Bush-AWOL story. An independent review commissioned by CBS found that the segment “failed to meet” CBS’s “two core principles: accuracy and fairness,” and Rather, Mapes and three other staffers were fired or forced to retire. The “new” documents they got copies of - from a source who was cagey about their provenance - were debunked by a bunch of Internet sleuths. Rather and Mapes had an obligation to make sure their segment for CBS’s “60 Minutes II” on Bush using pull to get into the National Guard instead of going to Vietnam - and then going AWOL for a chunk of what was supposed to be his service - was bulletproof. But it wasn’t even bloggerproof. Never, at least, until a very bad movie called Truth came out this month, trying to get us to see Rather (Robert Redford) and his producer, Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett), as heroic and wronged, rather than grappling honestly with their journalistic failures. So a story that should have taken down a president - a story that was already thoroughly documented, but that the mainstream media had hitherto shied away from as overly partisan - was instead discredited, never to be heard of again. Bush’s already well-chronicled, cowardly, rule-breaking behavior as a young man during the Vietnam War was that Bush, once again, was able to avoid accountability for his conduct, and skated to an election victory over John Kerry, a genuine war hero his lickspittles had successfully smeared as unpatriotic. The end result of Dan Rather’s half-assed September 2004 report on George W. Our gallery illustrates five different ways of doing a French plait.The only journalistic sin worse than disastrously misreporting an important story that turns out to be untrue is disastrously misreporting an important story that is true, so no one believes it anymore. ![]() Once you have understood the basics and principle behind the classic French plait, you are ready to try out different variations. Finally, set it all in place with hairspray for an optimal hold. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until there is no more hair length remaining, and braid the rest normally to the tip.ħ. Take some hair from the left side, weave it with the left strand, and braid it again over the middle strand, so that this hair from the left strand is now in the middle.Ħ. Now take some hair from the right side, weave it with the right strand, and braid it again over the middle strand, so that this hair from the right strand is now in the middle.ĥ. Weave the left strand over the middle strand, so the left-hand strand is now in the middle. Weave the right-hand strand over the middle strand, so the right-hand strand now is in the middle.ģ. Next, pull back the hair, and take a section from the top and divide it into three equal parts.Ģ. Work some mousse into the hair in order to have some body. ![]() The French plait put together as a plaited strand is by far the best known method, but it can also be divided, for example, for a very eye-catching effect (see earlier photo). Since it is so unique as it may look, it can be woven and styled. ![]() We love the French plait in all its lengths and variations. ![]()
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