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 ...
Excellent! I was waiting for that line.
Post #37 LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Never heard of Free Republic??? Blood-thirsty?? hahahahah, yah God.
If you haven't seen it PJ-comix has used Mary's book as fodder for the DUmmy FUnnies.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1496597/posts
It is priceless.
Mary, you should be thankful for being shown the Real World.
Did you live in a cave or what?
DUmmie FUnnies 10-04-05 (Mary Mapes Spins Fiction---Book Excerpt)
Everytime a liberal cries, an angel gets its wings.
Hmmmmm,
I knew there was some poetic symbolism when I saw a car nearly get smoooshed by a huge flatbed of portapotties.
I so needed this today.
She is talking about 60 Minutes. I had not realized she was with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes from its birth.
I was thinking the same thing. These people are so out of touch, it is unbelievable! They've created their own little world to live in, safe and sound, where they are always right.
Is that "progressive?"
It's not just a river in Egypt! Victim my butt.
She and Dan Rather committed fraud and FR/LGF nailed them! The "victim" of the crime is GWB who only ended up being assisted by their chicanery.
I still fail to see the logic in the continued dismissal of the forgeries. "But the story is esentially true!"
"This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes. "I had never seen this kind of response to any story.
Now you know not to make up $h!t. That's what happens when people find out they've been sold a bill of goods.
Mary , you ignorant sl*t".... THINK before you try to fabricate a news story (lie) about our President..... The new media is here, it ain't going anywhere and it's keeping you jerks at the MSM inline!
She hadn't been visiting DU, D-Kos, and other leftist blogs? It only shows two possibilities: (1) she's okay with the "vulgarity" of the left, but not of the right. (2) Err... she never visited any blog but called herself a 'credible' journalist?
Hey Map, guess what, c bs is not the only news outlet anymore.
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