Fired CBSer Cries Foul (Mary Mapes: names FreeRepublic.com as "the birth of political jihad")

NY Post ^ | 10/5/5 | Adam Buckman

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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."

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

The few....The proud....The Pajamahadeen!

[advance_copy]

I needed a good laugh this morning... Thanks for posting this.

[Rocky]

LOL! Saddam was getting his news from Dan while he was in the spider hole.

[goodnesswins]

Ah, Mary.....you just admitted your idiocy. If you had "never seen this kind of response to a story" you were obviously not a COMPETENT "journalist." Plus, what I think you're really saying is that YOU HATED SEEING THE TRUTH because now you'd been found out along with a lot of your fellow journalists!

[KarlInOhio]

by then your were doomed before you put the paper in the typerwriter.

If she had actually put the paper in a typewriter instead of in a laser printer the forgery would have been harder to prove.

[Mamzelle]

Hey, makes MY day. Tell me more, Mary.

[NeoCaveman]

Has CAIR demanded an apology for her defaming of jihad?

Durka durka, jihad, Jim Rob, jihad. (/for all you Team America fans out there)

[absolootezer0]

how does that work now? all the angels got their wings back in Nov 2000.

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

And, so as not to be construed as (gasp) sexist....

The few....the proud....the Pajamahadeen!

[Wilum]

Hyperconservatism is cool.

Yeah, and I've been taking medication for that.....oh....wait...sorry!

[Zman]

Notice how the truth always scares hyperventilating liberals?

[Wuli]

I sent your pick to the NY Post and asked them to forward it to their writer, Adam Buckman, and asked him to forward it to Mary Mappes, with thanks from all the Freepers.

[MeanWestTexan]

The fact she had never heard of any of the conservative websites tells you what a liberal bubble she lived in.

[Mister Baredog]

THE producer at the center of last year's "Memogate" scandal at CBS News says she was derailed by a vast right-wing conspiracy.

Dan Blather Rather says the same thing, poor babies, the TRUTH hurts, too bad they still don't see it, with libs it's always "all about them".

[Osage Orange]

"...........fundamentally frightening"

Dang dem Fundamentalists!!

LOL!!!

[jennyjenny]

"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes...

Too bad Mary. If you had, maybe you wouldn't have wasted the last 5 or 6 years of your life on this non story. You're not getting any younger, ya know.

[GVnana]

ROTFLMPO!

[Chode]

OWNED!!!

[AmericanDave]

- I am damn proud to be a member.-

Ditto,

And "somebody call a Whaaambulence"......