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."

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

>Even Ann Coulter doesn't get a free ride here, she has to earn it.

I'll give Ann a free ride.

Mary Mapes: OWNED!!!!!

[sageb1]

""This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes. "I had never seen this kind of response to any story."

Obviously, she was never spanked as a child. lol!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."

Mmmm, excuse me Mary--FR was founded 1996 (I think). That is one long damned labor. She must have meant the birth of buckhead.com headed by Jim who is active Air Force.

I wonder how much they get paid. I hope it isn't for factually correct information. Otherwise FR would have the big bucks while Mapes, Rather, Kalb et al would be on the street with tin cups selling pencils.

BTW, the word jihad isn't one I would use. It gives substance to the infinite number of Islamic jihads declared against the US.

I prefer it to be called what it is...The War for the Truth. A war I am proud to be part of. Jim, you da man!

[AFPhys]

"... thousands of brilliant Freepers who won't allow inaccuracies to prevail uncontested ... [and have an] internal system of checks and balances that are present and functioning on FreeRepublic, but pathetically absent in the main stream media."
--->

This was not always true. After the liberal FRAUDcasters took over the Old Media in the wake of watergate, it became more and more the norm.

[areafiftyone]

[princess leah]

Yes, and we're here for FREE - FREE REPUBLIC - that means nobody got paid to dig up the truth while libs are paid OFF to lie, coverup, distort, etc. Amazing how FREEDOM works!

[conservativebabe]

What an ignoramus! Never heard of FR???

No kidding. I had heard of FR long before I joined. Anyone who follows politics at all, would be familiar. I saw a FReeper rally on CSPAN once, Alan Keyes was speaking. After that, I checked out the website, lurked for a while, joined, and have been hooked ever since.

Just had my one year anniversary last month.

[blackie]

What is it with Mary Mapes and other democrat operatives when they are caught fabricating stories about conservatives.

These liberal moonbats think they should be immune from being held responsible for their actions and lies ~ those days are over, we are on the job!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[Paradox]

I think that it was TankerKC who made the first observation of that, but I could be incorrect.

You are correct, it was TankerKC who first noticed. Tanker has experience with REAL documents from that era I believe.

[JPJones]

"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."

Welcome to your nightmare.

[blackie]

I have one word for the liberal moonbat; Mary Mapes:

[AFPhys]

Many Excellent contenders for the best post of this thread:

Sgt_Schultze: "Hyperconservatism is cool."

reagan_fanatic: "Everytime a liberal cries, an angel gets its wings."

in hoc signo vinces: "Typical lib...always a victim, but mostly a victim of their own stupidity and absurdity."

newbeliever: "So, when is an insult a compliment? When it comes from the mouth of a stupid person."

Zman: "Notice how the truth always scares hyperventilating liberals?"

Mr. K: "Did she somehow forget she had aired FORGED DOCUMENTS????"

EternalHope: "I can even tell my grand kids, when they ask what I did in the Great War, that I was the first to spot one of the tinier details in the forged Rathergate memos that helped prove they were forged. They might not believe me, of course. After all, that would be claiming a very high honor indeed."

Common Tator: "No one with a brain could believe that both Mapes and Rather did not know the documents were fake. What they did not know is that the means to prove they were fake and the means to publish that information [rapidly enough] existed. "

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BUT THE WINNER IS:

bray: "The Stone Age Press has become nothing more than a giant Echo Chamber where all the reporters write for each other.... What was once an industry supposedly filled with truth seekers is now a megaphone of the DNC. ... the Stone Age Press [is] up to its nostrils in the tarpits of history [and] are in their death shakes as they invent scandal after scandal in a transparent attempt to return to their glory."

[Paradox]

Happy one year anniversary! I am a relative old timer, but this place shows me something new each day! I learn more here about the world, and not just politics, than any place else. Some of the science threads are extraordinarily good, what with the group expertise on just about everything..

[sarasota]

That sums it up. Thanks.

[conservativebabe]

Simply stated, she's a flat out liar.

Mapes, a liar, but, but, that can't be. They hate being slapped around.

[RightWingAtheist]

Perfect!

[AFPhys]

I believe Tank even pulled out some of his own documents during that evening and compared them ... someone did.

[NickatNite2003]

What a horrible insult to Jack Webb.He was about the
*facts*! On and off screen.

No Mapes, it's not a "Jihad" it's a 'Vast Right
Wing Conspiracy'! How *could* you forget?

You find it "frightening that you and that scumweasel
Rather, and all the rest of the NeoRatzis at SeeBS
can't use forged documents to throw a US Presidential
Election to your DemoSocialist pervert subversive
comrades, without getting exposed???

You should be GD Glad that the Govt you are trying to pervert into being a Copy of the souless 'Soviet',
isn't more like what you want it to ne..or you,
RATher, and all the other deviate lying drug freaks
at SeeBS, would have all been dragged out of your
offices by your phoney hair, thown up against the
nearest wall, and be given a massive and acute, terminal dose of lead poisoning...the way your heroes did/do it.

>B-{

[conservativebabe]

Thank you, it's been a great year.

[RushCrush]

A liberal is confronted with the truth, and proclaims it a 'jihad'. Yawn.