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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: dead

All I can say is, "ROFLMHO!"


381 posted on 10/05/2005 9:45:59 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: wardaddy

The left is plumb eat up with drama queens.


382 posted on 10/05/2005 9:48:00 AM PDT by kenth
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To: GOPJ

Tag away!


383 posted on 10/05/2005 9:51:04 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: dighton
"I had never seen this kind of response to any story.

Then you weren't looking or listening.

We've been screaming at our TVs for decades. The internet came along and gave us all a way to be together in the same room, watching you guys lie and distort and propagandize on the little screen.

Your big mistake was in thinking you were smarter than the rest of us. You aren't.

384 posted on 10/05/2005 9:55:54 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: dead
"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line,"

All my favorites, with FP being far and away #1!!!

Looks like it's time to hit that "donation" button.

385 posted on 10/05/2005 9:57:41 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: dead

Still Crazy After All These Years

Or at least after one year. And maybe it isn't crazy--just, mentally challenged. Mary Mapes still doesn't get it:

Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Web sites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line.
This is the first hint of her cluelessness. The fact that she'd never heard of these sites before shows how insulated she was. Free Republic has been around for many years now, and was instrumental in bringing out many of the Clinton scandals. It's one thing to say (as I'd expect a hard-core Democrat to) that they have no credibility, but to claim ignorance of their very existence?

http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/005786.html


386 posted on 10/05/2005 9:57:54 AM PDT by AMERIKA (goofy ass freeper...)
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To: dead
I plan to donate to Free Republic today and seeing this makes me more certain than ever that I'm donating to a wonderful, important cause: Truth!

My donation will be made in the names Rather and Mapes!
387 posted on 10/05/2005 9:58:05 AM PDT by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: dead

Mary Mary quite contrary, ya lie ya die in the nooooze business ya cunning runt ! You got caught by folks in their pajamas with yer pants down Mary.....that is the really funny part.

Ya been freeped reeeeeeeeeel good !

If ya don't have yer ducks in a row a freeper "will" squash yer salted quacker in a loud and public manner.


388 posted on 10/05/2005 9:58:15 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: dead

The word jihad was used intentionally.


389 posted on 10/05/2005 9:58:16 AM PDT by kinghorse
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To: conservativebabe

Congratulations!


390 posted on 10/05/2005 10:03:14 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: dead; All

Hmmmm?? Is Mary Mapes mad enough to assist Earle in his pursuit of DeLay. It seems Earle has come up with "new evidence" over the weekend. Plus, Dan Rather's daughter is associated with this same group of people.

I already don't like the smell of that "new evidence"!


391 posted on 10/05/2005 10:04:49 AM PDT by CyberAnt (America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
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To: Howlin; All
In a recent interview w/Marvin Kalb, Dan Rather STILL maintained that the info was true.

As for Mary, she's mentally slooooooow. Dan and Mary...LIARS, INC.

392 posted on 10/05/2005 10:07:11 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning......Psalm 30:5)
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To: dead
This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes.

Isn't that interesting? What I find "frightening" is an out-of-control and drunk-with-power news media that finds it acceptable to manufacture (from NOTHING) a story about a good and decent man in order to bring about his political demise.

But that's just me.

393 posted on 10/05/2005 10:07:31 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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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 ....

..."This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes. "I had never seen this kind of response to any story

...Forged Docs overlayed by Microsoft Word Doc.

...courtesy 'little green footballs'.

394 posted on 10/05/2005 10:08:22 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate". NYTimes)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
That is a work of art, really.

From what I understand, that was created on the default Microsoft Word settings!

Worst.
Forgery.
Ever.

395 posted on 10/05/2005 10:11:43 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

"I had never seen this kind of response to any story."

Surprise, surprise surprise!


396 posted on 10/05/2005 10:13:56 AM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: dead

No sour grapes on her part! };-)


397 posted on 10/05/2005 10:16:46 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: dead

This woman is so far behind the power curve it is unbelievable, to not know the opposition will kill you every time.


398 posted on 10/05/2005 10:18:11 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: AFPhys; bray
Stone Age Press

Very astute. I say we replace MSM with the acronym for the Stone Age Press.

i.e. SAP's

399 posted on 10/05/2005 10:19:26 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Take the high road. You'll never have to meet a Democrat.)
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To: TigersEye
"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."

She's been part of the leftist political jihad for so long that it just outrages her when anyone dares to answer back. It's all 'new' and 'frightening' because she's been raised in the MSM left-wing echo chamber and is convinced of her own purity and sanctity. Get the message, Mary Mapes: you and Dan Rather are SCUM, you engaged in fraudulent and what should be CRIMINAL activities to try to bring down a president you oppose, and in a just world you would be a pariah from any MSM or professional position for the rest of your sorry life.
400 posted on 10/05/2005 10:20:36 AM PDT by Enchante (Mary Mapes serves the interests of Zarqawi and Bin Laden)
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