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 ...
Political jihad? I don't think so. Try telling the truth and see what the reaction is! That's all we want is the truth!
dumb and goofy....coming from someone that carries a banner of perversion.
Stuck on DUMB.
"I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line"
"Never heard of before"
Has this liberal sow been living in a cave, with her eyes closed, on Mars for the last five years?
Thanks! I actually laugh/snorted out loud in my cubicle at work when I read your post! Then I had to do that unconvincing cough thing to try to cover it up.
Thank you buckhead! I'm proud to be a member of the same team.
Translation: we'd never had to back down from one our lie infested stories before.
Didn't you have a Pajama Patrol badge at one time?
Yeah, 'cause only hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative types would find anything wrong with using unverified, and ultimately fake documents from an anonymous source to damage a political rival!
I suppose HER airing of forged documents was "just OK" though...
Even Ann Coulter doesn't get a free ride here, she has to earn it.
You LIED Mary, now deal with the consequences of your lie.
How clueless can the MSM be???
Mary, if you're lurking (again) do we need to remind you of the national stories FR has broken over the last 6 years?
I guess in your clueless MSM dinousaur brains, all of these FR stories didn't "break" until you read them in the MSM.
Mary, you are pathetic.
Somebody post the cartoon of the MSM dinosaurs watching the incoming comet, with all of the comprehension of cows watching trains.
"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes..."
"THIS was her downfall. If she had been in the business for this long and not heard of these sites it is obvious she was a VERY POOR researcher."
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Bingo.
Many of us have been doing research regarding news stories for ten and more years using the internet.
This statement just shows how out of touch with reality that Mapes and her cronies have been. IF they had listened to Rush, Hannity or Gallagher even sporadically, they would have been far better informed about us... That the existance of this type of networking was a surprise to them in itelf shows how far they have fallen.
They blindly have gone along for lo these many years believing that they have had a complete monopoly on news and analysis.
They haven't.
ROTFLMPO
(Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Pajamas Off)
Well Darn!
I'd finally stopped gloating about the last election, and she had to get me started, again.
Hyperconservative? And she says it like that is a bad thing?
And we won that round! Proud to be a Freeper.
As we get closer to the one year anniversary of last year's election. It is fun to read how the dummies over at du were basking in their own stupidity. And even more fun to read of one dummie who apparently had just enough smarts to realize that the jig was up.
"Perhaps they should think of us as free fact checkers."
Hey that's great: the FFC corp.
Oh That is so funny.
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