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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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To: dead
And to think, I was a member when "political jihad" was just a gleam in JimRob's eye!

In before the birth!

21 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:04 AM PDT by Ol' Sox
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Well, Mary, if you weren't wrong "all the time" to begin with...if you had any facts or measure of context, you wouldnt have anything to worry about would you?

Typical lib...always a victim, but mostly a victim of their own stupidity and absurdity.


22 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:12 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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We are the Pajamahadeen. And yes, Mary, you should be frightened.


23 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:12 AM PDT by Spiff (I think that looters AND people who continue to misspell "Martial Law" should be shot.)
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Amazing how anyone around here has the gall to ever question a story by the MSM.

Shame on us for not being sheep!


24 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:13 AM PDT by Sometimes A River (If you don't agree with Bush and the GOP Congress 100%, go back to DU)
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Liberaleze for "caught redhanded".


25 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:13 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes...

right. I wonder if she's heard of drudge?

26 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:14 AM PDT by Dutchgirl ("We recognize your right to be an ignorant moron," -Just A. Nobody.)
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Somehow she fails to mention the fact that she got caught committing a fraud....


27 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:17 AM PDT by r9etb
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"I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!"


28 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:21 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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I dunno. I thought her pushing phony documents might have had something to do with her problems.
29 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:27 AM PDT by Fido969 ("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
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No, the "jihad" wasn't born that day.

Mary seems to have forgotten the leftwing lathering up over alleged "forgeries" about Niger yellowcake being sold to Saddam Hussein.

Then there's the day the Democrats in Congress voted to de-fund the Cambodian army. That was a good one. Ended up as one of history's greatest mass slaughters ~ 1/3 of the Cambodian people ended up dead.

These people like Mapes and Rather have a lot to account for and today, with the internet, we are ready to make them pay the price every single time.

Eventually, of course, Mapes has to be sent to prison for something, and no doubt we'll find what it is.

30 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:30 AM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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"This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes. "I had never seen this kind of response to any story.

It is amazing how these elitists are shocked that everyone does not agree with their liberal viewpoints.

31 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:38 AM PDT by Always Right
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Throw this drama queen a tissue.


32 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:41 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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"This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes. "I had never seen this kind of response to any story.
____________

"...something new and fundamentally frightening."

Egg-sell-ent...egg-sell-ent....


33 posted on 10/05/2005 7:05:47 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Free Speech is a Right. Being Wrong is Just...Wrong.)
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"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes..."

THIS was her downfall. If she had been in the business for this long and not heard of these sites it is obvious she was a VERY POOR researcher. If you weren't aware of us or little green footballs, by then your were doomed before you put the paper in the typerwriter.


34 posted on 10/05/2005 7:06:06 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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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.


35 posted on 10/05/2005 7:06:06 AM PDT by RexBeach ("The rest of the world is three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart)
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Memo to Mary Mapes:
Typical Idiot!
Click the Pic

36 posted on 10/05/2005 7:06:13 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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37 posted on 10/05/2005 7:06:16 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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the Pajama Patrol thanx mrs Mapes for the kind compliment.


38 posted on 10/05/2005 7:06:38 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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And a silver bug up her a$$...


39 posted on 10/05/2005 7:06:41 AM PDT by RockinRight (Why are there so many RINOs?)
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40 posted on 10/05/2005 7:06:46 AM PDT by manwiththehands
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