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Fired CBSer Cries Foul (Mary Mapes: names FreeRepublic.com as "the birth of political jihad")
NY Post ^
| 10/5/5
| Adam Buckman
Posted on 10/05/2005 7:01:20 AM PDT by dead
October 5, 2005 -- THE producer at the center of last year's "Memogate" scandal at CBS News says she was derailed by a vast right-wing conspiracy.
The producer, Mary Mapes, is one of four CBS staffers fired last January in the wake of the scandal.
She is convinced she was the victim of a group of loosely associated Internet bloggers "with a harsh political bent" who pounced on CBS News minutes after the airing of the now-infamous Texas Air National Guard story on "60 Minutes 2" in September 2004...
"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes...
"They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS."
"This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes. "I had never seen this kind of response to any story.
"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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posted on
10/05/2005 7:01:28 AM PDT
by
dead
To: dead
To: dead
OOOOh cool...I credit Mapes for my tagline.
Just playing the part.
3
posted on
10/05/2005 7:02:43 AM PDT
by
BureaucratusMaximus
(Hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative loaded with vitriol about everything liberal.)
To: dead
I am SO HAPPY she "feels" that way!!!!
4
posted on
10/05/2005 7:02:57 AM PDT
by
rightinthemiddle
(Free Speech is a Right. Being Wrong is Just...Wrong.)
To: dead
"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad." No, dummy. The jihad started long ago.
You were there when the other side fired back.
5
posted on
10/05/2005 7:03:18 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: rightinthemiddle
Hey Mary, Put some ice on it!
6
posted on
10/05/2005 7:03:32 AM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
(Polls = Proof that when the MSM want yo"ur opinion they will give it to you.)
To: JustAnotherOkie
Proud....and still LAUGHING MY A@@ OFF!
7
posted on
10/05/2005 7:03:44 AM PDT
by
jp3
("Who cares what entertainers think about international affairs." Johnny Carson, Dec. 1967)
To: dead
We are strawmen, hear us roar....
8
posted on
10/05/2005 7:03:45 AM PDT
by
misterrob
To: JustAnotherOkie
We are not jihadists, Mary. We're constitutionalists. And get used to it: we're not going away.
To: dead
10
posted on
10/05/2005 7:03:59 AM PDT
by
M203M4
To: dead
That's what happens when you LIE Mary! Get over it you twit!
To: dead
Cool, I've always wanted to declare a Fatwa.
12
posted on
10/05/2005 7:04:14 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Flower Mound, TX)
To: dead
From DemocraticUnderground.com, that fateful morning:
13
posted on
10/05/2005 7:04:23 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead; Buckhead; PJ-Comix
Fired CBSer There, fixed it.
To: dead
Proud to be a FREEPER........
15
posted on
10/05/2005 7:04:29 AM PDT
by
just me
To: dead
A whining, moaning, groaning liberal who really and truly believes that all of history ended in 1974 - when Nixon resigned.
These people have no idea of what America is like.
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posted on
10/05/2005 7:04:31 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("The rest of the world is three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart)
To: dead
Poor Mary, she can't help it, she was born with a silver lie in her mouth.
To: dead
"They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS." And we were fighting the hard-core, politically angry, hyperliberal MSM loaded with vitriol about George W. Bush.
To: dead
Mapes forgot to mention that these "hateful" sites were also loaded with what proved to be accurate data unraveling her concocted story.....
Of course Ms Mapes herself harbors no burning hate for GWB - after all she only perused the fake Guard story for what - 5 or 6 years?
19
posted on
10/05/2005 7:04:56 AM PDT
by
VRWCTexan
(History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
To: dead
"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic..." writes Mapes... Got the ZOT, 'ey...
20
posted on
10/05/2005 7:05:04 AM PDT
by
LRS
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