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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."
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To: Fred Nerks
Dude! That cartoon rocks! Minimalism is in. Is it yours?
601
posted on
10/07/2005 6:51:04 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
MAPES: "We Aired these fake documents, and withing MINUTES someone CALLED US ON IT~!!! can you believe the HATRED?!?!
602
posted on
10/07/2005 11:38:27 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
To: dead
That cartoon isn't mine, I can't remember the name of the FReeper who drew it but I'm ever so glad I saved it 'cos it makes me laugh every time I see it again.
Less is definitely more...
603
posted on
10/07/2005 3:11:35 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Understand islam understand evil - read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf see link My Page)
To: dead
Mary Mapes proved how out of touch
the MSM really is!
604
posted on
10/07/2005 7:23:38 PM PDT
by
Smartass
(Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
To: dead
What an honor! Thank you Lying Maid Mary.
605
posted on
10/07/2005 7:25:21 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
(It is all my fault okay?)
To: dead
Makes the monthly contribution seem like an investment that just keeps giving.
Think I'll fill up my FR cup with Irish Coffee after reading this.
606
posted on
10/08/2005 2:26:22 AM PDT
by
leadhead
(It’s a duty and a responsibility to defeat them. But it's also a pleasure)
To: bilhosty
The three things we hate are communism, terrorism and CBS news. Uhh, that's only TWO things...;->
607
posted on
10/08/2005 4:22:03 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: dead
...she says, leaning on her shopping cart as she prepares to take another swig of rum and coke.
To: VRWCTexan
after all she only perused the fake Guard story for what - 5 or 6 years? Longer, even, than she pursued a career in journalism...
609
posted on
10/09/2005 3:14:06 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NY Times headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS, Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: dead
610
posted on
10/30/2005 8:37:38 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Is every democrat a bent kneed Monica?)
To: dead
Proud to associate with Freepers. Does she say who is responsible for the birth of the TV anchormen lying to the people? My guess would be Walter Crankcase.
611
posted on
10/30/2005 8:40:31 AM PST
by
Tarpon
To: dead
Half an ounce of truth is all it takes to cure the world of CBS.
612
posted on
11/08/2005 9:47:19 PM PST
by
Tax Government
(Oppose the judicial insurrection. Contribute to FR.)
To: dead
No gloating. Don't get complacent in our victory. We have the power to block the extreme left components of the MSM. We have used it wisely. We have several victories.
Rather than gloat, let's think about getting ready for their biggest offensive ever - the next elections. The left never gives up. They are planning to regain their power by means of the media that they control. We won't let them. We will scrutinize their blatherings and expose them every day with our blogs. We will write actual letters, make phone calls, send emails and keep them in line. We know we will stop them as we did with blathergate and the Ronald Reagan slime TV-movie.
613
posted on
11/10/2005 10:45:29 AM PST
by
BooksForTheRight.com
(what have you done today to fight terrorism/leftism (same thing!))
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