Fired CBSer Cries Foul (Mary Mapes: names FreeRepublic.com as "the birth of political jihad")

NY Post ^ | 10/5/5 | Adam Buckman

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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."

[xkaydet65]

People like Mapes need to be reminded that the Wall came down 16 years ago and THEIR SIDE LOST. Get over it!!!

[Condor51]

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Mary, Mary, you're quite contrary,
Now how did your story go?
With ^superscript and proportional fonts,
And MS Word centered them in a row.

Btw Mary - nice hair.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[exdem2000]

Great Post. LMAO!!!!1

[Nam Vet]

You tell 'em, Big Jim !

Nam Vet

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

So under the CBS fact checking theory, if I sent them a map of the Ponderosa, they would have to believe "Bonanza" was real as the original map was burned in the opening credits.

[trubluolyguy]

"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic

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Well, Mary we DID a lot to do you in but we couldn't have done it without you!

At least they spelled FreeRepublic correctly.

[PjhCPA]

cool

[sweetliberty]

"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."

I believe Ms. Mapes' hostility is misdirected. She clearly failed to recognize that it is the left who is shouting the tormented cry of "jihad," as they writhe in a toxic sea of decadence of their own creation, with only the venom dripping from their godless tongues for nourishment.

[KamperKen]

Is it really possible for anyone to be this dumb and still live?

[Enchante]

"Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic"

Dear Mary, as a leading SAP (Stone Age Press) practitioner you may feel you don't need to know about something called the Internet, or about the WorldWideWeb, but here's a hint: if you were to read FreeRepublic daily for the rest of your life you could become far better informed than you ever have been before! Free yourself from the SAP, Mary, and discover the fabulous world of the web where 'amateurs' from all over spotted and picked apart (in minutes and hours) the frauds you had been working on for years and years. It's a brave new world, Mary, and you are a dinosaur enroute to extinction.

[trubluolyguy]

FR is now on a jihad against the President.

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Nope. Just some of us on one or two issues have a disagreement with him.


Uh, that is still allowed isn't it?

[GOPJ]

LOL

Stick'em up Mary! The charge? STUCK ON STUPID!

[Grampa Dave]

I think that Stuck on Stupid really fits Mapes and the other lying maggot mediots of the MSM.

[Rakkasan1]

...Proud Mary keep on rollin' ,dumb DU keep on trollin' - trollin', trollin' trollin' in the river. (and the Pajamahadeen doesn't use GI Joe dolls as fake captives)

[AFPhys]

FRAUDcasters still fits, too...

Maybe we can use that exclusively to refer to ABCNNBCBS and kin.

SAPs would refer to the NYSlimes, WashCompost, etc., either exclusively or in addition to the FRAUDcasters.

New Bumper Sticker: ???

NYSlimes & ABCNNBCBS == the SAPs and FRAUDcasters

[HorsePlayer]

Mary Mapes is as near nothing as I have ever seen or of which I have heard. We, in Texas, would describe her as "sorry".

Yes, Yes, I know Rather is originally from Texas. But he ain't allowed back here no more.

[peacebaby]

To be a member of a "HARDCORE" weblog.

Boy, have I arrived.

[Grampa Dave]

Ladies and Gentlemen Jim Rob's reply is classic. ""Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes..."

Can you hear me now?(Classic Jim Rob reply/understatement) 419 posted on 10/05/2005 11:28:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

[Enchante]

True, 'FRAUDcaster' fits much better with broadcast media, while 'SAP' is better for print press...... but I do like being able to refer to Mary Mapes as a SAP! :^)