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."

[ManHunter]

...shades of Captain Queeg. (By the way, thanks Mary, we're doing all that we can.)

[doug from upland]

Great, great capture from the RATS undergound, dead.

[Burlem]

Oh gee, and all this time I thought it was because of a lie they continued to perpetuate even after everyone knew they lied. Wow, its our fault!

[moonpie57]

Translation: Rut roh...we can't do whatever we want anymore...someone might catch us in our lies.

[LowOiL]

"They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS."

Seems she is good with descriptions, now if she could learn another one....... "FAKE" ..... she would be batting a .999

[LdSentinal]

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I bet you have already been here... have I told you lately that I can't stand that Mary Mapes.... ;]

[Lazamataz]

Not once does she recognize or mention that her memos were forged.

She just doesn't care about that.

[Dog Gone]

In before the Jihad!!

[new yorker 77]

Is Mapes currently dating Ronnie Earle?

[LowOiL]

I remember how hard it was to find a picture of Mary Mapes when this hit the fan. I dug one up and now doing a google search one can find hundreds of that same picture on the web.

She can not hide anymore.

[Enchante]

"She is convinced she was the victim...."

Yes, now Mary Mapes is the victim.... Waaaaaahhhhh.... Just like a moronic leftist SAP in the FRAUDcast media: perpetrate an enormous fraud on the American public, trying to utilize fabricated 'documents' to change history in the middle of a presidential campaign, get called on it, and now SHE IS THE VICTIM wailing about angry bloggers..... what a stinking pile of horse excrement!

[Right Wing Assault]

Mary, it used to be that you didn't pick a fight with someone who had a lot of ink. Now you don't pick a fight with someone who has more electons than you do.

[new yorker 77]

-----------REN----------&-------STIMPY---------

[alrea]

Stone Age Press ( AKA TOM, or Tired Old Media ) don't like being fact-checked

It will never be the same for these tired chicken necks. Even CNN let's journalists be questioned now.

[Kryptonite]

So full of vitriol and hate for lies being spread to attack our President during a campaign....that's what you meant to say, eh Mary?

This article couldn't come out at a better time. FReepers now have something to rally around again, instead of being at each other's throats over the Miers nomination.

Just awesome that she really felt the wrath because of her own conduct. She would have gotten away with it otherwise.

[Grampa Dave]

"Is Mapes currently dating Ronnie Earle?"

Is Ronnie a lesbian?

[Grampa Dave]

Free Republic, the Monster under the bed for the lying mediot maggots of the MSM.

[Eastbound]

Well, that's what happens when you tune your carb a little too rich. Can you say, "BACKFIRE?"

[Humidston]

Good news! I didn't follow all the links. THX!