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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
Apparently the word "pajamahadeen" was just to much for her. Incidentally, it made it into
Wikipedia, yet with no reference to Free Republic.
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posted on
10/05/2005 7:07:06 AM PDT
by
Quilla
To: dead
To: dead
To: dead
You say potato, I say po-tah-to, you say "political jihad", I say "the truth".It's so hard now to make things up and report them. Poor Mary.
To: dead
"They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS."So, I suppose that MoveOn, ANSWER, and all the other socialist groups that attended the "peace rally" a couple of Saturdays ago consisted of people who were polite, pleasant, well-groomed, and articulate.
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posted on
10/05/2005 7:07:23 AM PDT
by
kromike
To: dead
"
loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS."But for Jim's posting rules, profanities would be included. Stated simply, a lot of us hate those who like to cheat, lie and support anti-American causes....
46
posted on
10/05/2005 7:07:35 AM PDT
by
eureka!
(Hey Lefties: Only 3 and 1/4 more years of W. Hehehehe....)
To: Izzy Dunne
"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad." Typical MSM newsie - she's years late. The birth was '96 or '97 - and some sites even earlier...
47
posted on
10/05/2005 7:07:54 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
To: dead
Don't worry, Mary.
FR is now on a jihad against the President.
48
posted on
10/05/2005 7:07:56 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson)
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... Hehehehe...
49
posted on
10/05/2005 7:07:56 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
To: JustAnotherOkie
She was a LIE when the light of truth was turned on.
51
posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:08 AM PDT
by
nadlo
To: dead
Like the word.."Vitriol".
Rolls right off your tongue
52
posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:08 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
To: lightingguy
53
posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:15 AM PDT
by
agrace
(Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me if you know so much. Job 38:4)
To: dead
54
posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:16 AM PDT
by
samanella
((Proud member of the vast right wing conspiracy-all my bumper stickers say so))
To: dead
Mary Mapes & Dan Rather - political roadkill on the freeper highway.
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posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:20 AM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(Member of Arbor Day Foundation, travelling the country and destroying open space)
To: dead
56
posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:27 AM PDT
by
South40
(Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
To: dead
Political Jihad is not for the faint hearted.
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posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:34 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Ponce de Leon is coming here to look for the fountain of dumb. The DNC is his first stop.)
To: dead; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Lazamataz; holdonnow; Darksheare; pissant; Dashing Dasher; najida; ...
"It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad." - Mapes I am damn proud to be a member.
Hey Mary, glad we could help sort out that memo stuff for you.
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posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:38 AM PDT
by
Jersey Republican Biker Chick
(People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
To: dead
Hyperconservatism is cool.
To: dead
Go back under your rock Mapes.
You and your kind are done.
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posted on
10/05/2005 7:08:49 AM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
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