Mapes: 'Ha-Ha: Right-Wing Bloggers Don't Matter Any More'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Mary Mapes is in gloat over-drive. Dan Rather's erstwhile producer, the woman behind Memogate, is beside herself with joy at what she sees as the impending death of the conservative blogosphere.

It's her expectation that Barack Obama will win the presidency that has Mapes so hopeful. Annotated excerpts from her HuffPo column, The Monster is Dying [emphasis added]:

* This whole thing is starting to feel a lot like the climactic death scene at the end of a 1950s monster movie. * Palin actually resembles that old monster movie staple -- the beautiful-but-bookish brunette working as a lab assistant for the older scientist whose irresponsible experiments lead to tragedy.

Gee, with one or two emendations, couldn't that be a description of . . . Mapes herself?

[slackerjack]

This reminds me of what the lamestream media was saying about the demise of Rush’s radio show when Clinton won in ‘92. If anything it gave Rush more material to use, like manna from heaven. It’s the same here in Massachusetts with Howie Carr and the democratic governor Coup deval.

[mylife]

What a Maroon, Mapes will mope soon.

[an amused spectator]

One of the most interesting results of this election is that if Obama is elected, we will truly be able to change the handle of "the Main Stream Media" to "the Government Media" - ala "the Government Schools" nickname for public schools.

Basically, 90% of the campaign coverage by television and newspaper media this fall was an undeclared, illegal campaign donation to the Obama campaign.

[mlocher]

Americans aren't responding to the old plays -- the fake fears, the faux outrage, the conservatives who yell "Communist" at the news cameras, the pompous right-wing bloggers who once held such sway. I know all too well how scary and effective these old tactics were in 2004. Today, they are toothless. Ha, ha. Nothing makes me happier than seeing once swaggering players like Powerline, Free Republic and Little Green Footballs forced onto the sidelines, left to limply watch this campaign pass by like a parade in which they play no meaningful part. They just don't matter anymore.

Mapes never disputes the fact that Obama is anything but what we call him. She is basically saying that independents don't respond to the truth that bloggers discuss.

[LtKerst]

Mary Mapes is in gloat over-drive

is acid dripping from her Gorgon fangs?

who cares what Her opinion is?

She prostituted her credability by fostering a Partizan Lie...

[Doogle]

...for a woman who spent 5 years trying to dig up dirt on President Bush only to fail and resort to false papers as a result...she can talk about what matters?

[Carling]