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 ...
We prefer to view it as the birth of serious accountability.
Propaganda, distortions and lies masquerading as news will never again be possible.
And the death of media-as-the-mouthpiece of the Dems/Progressive party.
Not a bad thing at all!
Mary, Mary, quite contrary!
"the birth of political jihad" DIE FOR KALLLLLIIIIIIIIII !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just because the memos were faked, that doesn't mean the story was fake??? and the meaning of is.........????
The major networks have operated FDR-like, assuming that their one-way 'fireside chat' news shows could go on forever unchallenged, until folks discovered how easy it was to stick your foot through a speaker.
Stuck on ugly!
This idiot is admitting that she did not realize that the days of MSM propaganda were over. Her ivory tower was mired in quicksand.
I'm reluctant to change MY tagline, cause it seems to forever be true ("The modern Democratic Party: Attacking our defenders and defending our attackers."), but Miss Mapes' comment demands that I do so...with a ditto to the Maha Rushie...see below.
THE producer at the center of last year's "Memogate" scandal at CBS News says she was derailed by a vast right-wing conspiracy."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."
It is because we were not going to let the Left steal an election with a snow job of character assassination with a bunch of phony documents. Who created those, by the way?
VRWC? No the conspiracy was among Democraps who wanted to win by any means necessary. Goebbels himself would have been proud of their Big Lie. Stalin too.
All are vile despots.
She presented a false news report and now she's the "victim" because she got caught in the act?
All your blogs are belong to us!
You could use that as a tagline...I like it. I just changed mine...
The Stone Age Press has become nothing more than a giant Echo Chamber where all the reporters write for each other. The group think has become so predictable that if you read or hear one reporter you’ve herd them all. Where has all the original thought or creativity gone in an industry that is based on painting history with words? There are two main forces blowing through PravdABDNC that are stifling all diversity of thought. The first is the absolute bias towards the DNC and the other is the fear of going against their Establishment.
Is there any wonder that the Conservative writers continually have best sellers while liberals only have cellars. America is starved for writers they agree with, yet they are continually insulted by reporters who show nothing but contempt for them and their way of life. This is no way to expand your business or even keep the customers you already have. This Country is divided 52-48% Republican, yet the scribes of history are 90% Democrat. How can they report about a Conservative Country when they have no desire to understand it?
How has this Industry become so disenfranchised from it’s customer base? Simple really, the reporters write for each other and know that if they all agree then virtually nobody can be wrong. Take for example the election, even though GW had always polled the lead, the press hoped that Kerry would close at the end and take Florida. To predict otherwise would put you in the minority and if you were wrong you would have to explain why you went against the common group thought. If you were right then the group will just say that it was an upset and cover their error. Since everyone is in agreement there is no threat to lose face and maintain your expert status since you were all wrong together. If you are wrong by yourself you have more explaining to do.
This is how the Stoned Agers have maintained such catch phrases as Bush Lied, WMD, pre-emptive 18 month rushed into, go it alone coalition. This allows lies to be maintained with none of the established reporters willing to buck the tide even had they wanted. All of the awards and front page stories are given to the scribes who are the most established and those are the ones who do not take risks. Now all of the front page reporters are complete DNC spokesmen which leaves a vacuum of divergent thought. Everybody wants their little awards and will do what it takes to receive those awards. You sure won’t soon see Ann Coulter’s name on those little dust catchers.
The major drum & bugle we are going hear over the next couple years will be that Harpy clinton is an automatic for President. None of these ancients will go against the group-think since it will put them out on a limb along with the caster nation of their peers. Nobody will give an honest evaluation of her lack of warmth/humility or shrieking skills. Imagine her telling self deprivating humor? So we will hear nothing except what a great candidate/screecher she is. The fact is that she is a lousy candidate, a poor debater and sagging in the polls. She very may well lose her Senate seat in a “huge” upset. You read it here first and the Old York Times, have they endorsed yet; will make excuses.
The lack of diversity and creativity will be the death of these Dinosnores. With a sophisticated audience and a shortened attention span these old formulas no longer work. When most information was stored and researched in books, attention spans could tolerate boring one sided stories. With the advent of 24 hour news and the internet we no longer have the time or patience to tolerate their droll.
What was once an industry supposedly filled with truth seekers is now a megaphone of the DNC. That and the lack of an original thought over the past 20 or so years and you have the Stone Age Press up to it’s nostrils in the tarpits of histoir. The literal bankruptcy of that industry would bring about a truly Free Press that not only has the political freedom but an intellectual freedom that has long been abandoned. It is not pretty to see these status quo reporters in their death shakes as they invent scandal after scandal in a transparent attempt to return to their glory. You can bet that the Buggy manufacturers had the same condescending smirks on their faces as the Model T splashed mud on their freshly shined shoes.
Enough braying.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Congratualtions are in order for everyone hre at FreeRepublic!
Of course. The old (colorful) baseball player Dizzy Dean said it's fine to brag - if you've done it.
Yes, before left wing dominance of the airwaves and Hollywood it was called, EQUAL TIME, BALANCE, AND TIME TO RESPOND.
Her surprise that someone would dissent from the socialist party line and that there are "a lot" of dissenters almost sounds like the wicked witch of the west getting hit with a cold bucket of reality "I'm melting, I'm melting!"
Oxygen! I need oxygen! I'm laughing so hard at that, I need oxygen!
Or in the words of Scrappy Doo, "Ta ta ta ta ta ta! FREEPER POWER!!!!!!!!!!!"
Add to that, Senator Palpatine, "UNNNLIMMMITEDD POWERRRRR!"
And here I was thinking it was the birth of journalistic accountablitly! What a vitriolic hyperconservative I am.
LOL!!
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