Skip to comments.
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004election; boofreakinhoo; buckhead; cbs; cbsnews; danrather; donetodeath; election2004; forgedmemos; fr; freerepublic; frinthenews; howtostealanelection; ilovekinkos; imavictim; lgf; mapes; marymapes; mediabias; pajamahadeen; pajamapeoplerule; putsomeiceonit; ratherbiased; rathergate; rehash; sandinhervagina; schadenfreude; seebsnews; tankerkc; viacom; vrwc
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-80, 81-100, 101-120 ... 601-613 next last
To: dead
Dear Mary...
KMA.
XOXOXO,
BigB
81
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:09 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(I propose banning anyone who starts a thread with the words, "I just got this in an email...")
To: reagan_fanatic
Everytime a liberal cries, an angel gets its wings. LOL
82
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:12 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
To: dead
ROTFLMAO!!!
Durka Durka, Baby!!
83
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:21 AM PDT
by
Ladysmith
((NRA and SAS) 2005 WI PPA/CCW Ping List ~Contact me if you want on/off the ping list~)
To: Charles Henrickson
84
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:26 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: dead
85
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:27 AM PDT
by
meandog
(FUDU)
To: dead
86
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:27 AM PDT
by
StoneGiant
(Power without morality is disaster. Morality without power is useless.)
To: conservativebabe
Ex-actly!
87
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:29 AM PDT
by
kinsman redeemer
(the real enemy seeks to devour what is good)
To: dead; All
I watched the whole thing here that night.
She never thought that we were there ready to expose the lie so quickly. She got the quick class on the New Media.
She got schooled.
88
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:36 AM PDT
by
WakeUpAndVote
(Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy since 1992!)
To: dead; All
I'm a proud member of the
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy! |
89
posted on
10/05/2005 7:11:53 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: bobsatwork
She is so full of herself. She still doesn't understand the her purpose should be to present the facts, CBS news should not be an entertainment source.
90
posted on
10/05/2005 7:12:01 AM PDT
by
jaydubya
To: dead
Mighty nice of her to give us credit, but as I recall it was one Cagen idiot-stick who declare "this is waaa".
When it was the democrats trashing Reagan for several decades, it didn't classify as waaa, but when we decided to make sure the 'other side' got out, that was.
Mary, ever heard of James Carville? Didn't think so.
91
posted on
10/05/2005 7:12:04 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: dead
Does anyone else remember an event that happened back during the 1988 presidential campaign? Dan Quayle combined an outdoor rally with a news conference. A couple of male CBS reporters (might have been Bob Schieffer and Bill Plant) started asking Quayle some of those "let's get this guy" kinds of questions, ones that he had already answered.
The crowd began to vigorously boo the CBS guys and what was most telling was the reporters' "we're shocked and offended" reaction--how dare they do this to us. I'll never forget that.
92
posted on
10/05/2005 7:12:13 AM PDT
by
zook
To: reagan_fanatic; silent_jonny
jonny had a similar tagline not long ago. Good stuff. Great minds think alike?
To: dead
"This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes. "I had never seen this kind of response to any story. T R U T H HURTS, HUH, MARY?........
94
posted on
10/05/2005 7:12:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you settle for...........)
To: rightinthemiddle
I love it that it sticks in their craw like that.
95
posted on
10/05/2005 7:12:46 AM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Liberal Democrats = The Excrement of America)
To: dead
That may be the funniest thing I have ever seen on this site. Thanks for posting.
To: rightinthemiddle
I love it that it sticks in their craw like that.
97
posted on
10/05/2005 7:12:51 AM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Liberal Democrats = The Excrement of America)
To: dead
"hyperconservative" oh, I like that.
To: WakeUpAndVote
To: dead
"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes... Utter, unadulterated, c_BS.
100
posted on
10/05/2005 7:13:48 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-80, 81-100, 101-120 ... 601-613 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
