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 ...
I should look in the mirror after reading that from dear old Mapes. Bethca I look tougher. Feel that way anyhow.
I wonder if Mapes will ever figure out that it was only the "woman" who got fired? In typical liberal-elitist fashion, they once again got a woman to take the fall for their egregious act. Just as Clinton left Lani Guinere (sp) and Zoe Baird out to hang for themselves, the crew at See-BS has done so to Mapes.
I love the description Stone Age Press. I too will replace MSM with SAP at all opportunities.
the birth of political jihad")
No Mary You and CBS News won that title LONG ago. Member of Free Republic merely did the job YOU DINASOURS are SUPPOSE to do. Free Republic merely told the truth about your little Political Jihad
Has you got 76 trombones???
Is you frum Mason City, IA???
Lordy! How is it that -according to Mary Mapes- a group of loosely associated Internet bloggers "with a harsh political bent” got her fired? I guess their “political harshness” is something most people can relate to. In other words, the Internet bloggers' political views are more in tune with the majority of Americans as opposed to CBS's politics.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
It must hurt when the truth gets out.
> We are strawmen, hear us roar....
We are alphas, like AlGore...
>>"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."
>Mary, sweetheart, you missed the birth by at least 10 years. In fact it began back in the '80's with Rush Limbaugh but the pajamahadeen have been around a lot longer then memogate.
I guess Rathergate is the leftist equivalent of 9/11, in that they (the left) finally perceived the opposition was organized and willing to engage.
I hope Mapes keeps on whining.
Between her and Rather the radical liberal MSM is exposing itself to a public they have scammed for seven decades.
Blaming Free Republic in her book and rants will greatly add to FR membership and influence and credibility.
Oh, I believe so.
This one sentence of Mary's speaks volume about the state of American journalism. It "had taken five years", but as she elsewhere emphatically states, it was "news" and it had to be rushed on the air. Would it be news if it took them another 5 years? 10 years? Why not? (Stupid questions, don't answer.)
Oh, Mary, Mary, quite contrary, you're breaking my heart, *itch!
Izzy, you nailed it. Nice job!
Signed,
A proud member of the 'hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS.'
Hey! I'm not angry!
Yes, it's amazing how irked people get with you when you're telling bald-faced lies, isn't it?
LOL, I like that one. Rather felt like he was President of something, didn't he?
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."
It should be repeated loud and often, The killing fields are the legacy of the left.
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