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."

[SevenofNine]

Don't forget in our Bunny rabbit slippers LOL!

[Windcatcher]

Someone needs to whack that lib with a cluebat:

You can't lie any more, MSM

[jrewingjr]

[MD_Willington_1976]

ahhh...she upset my delicate fee...lings...

Of course I know she said what she said because it truly takes a village and it's for the children...[/BARF BARF

LOL

[Chieftain]

That could make the title of a movie: "60 Minutes: Gone in 24 Hours."

I think you're onto something!

[js1138]

"60 Minutes: Gone in 24 Hours."

Could be the title of a fund-raising book to benefit FR. Some of the better researchers could simply string together the best posts from those days.

[SandRat]

All I say about what she is saying is

and

[GOP_1900AD]

Us pajamadeen have certainly gotten the MSM's attention.

[GSlob]

"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... "
Indeed. I would date it from Goldwater '64. Besides, this is not a jihad, but a Crusade. Somebody shall explain to her the differences [Crusaders normally enjoy tax forgiveness and other privileges].

[fishhound]

"with a harsh political bent" she sounds like she felt that they personally inconvenienced her....she trampled on the truth and got rebuffed...so solly!!!!

Yes, maybe they had a motive... but the execise was platonic, it did not start via agaenda other than the motive of revealing and seeking truth...

Here is a good metaphor, ironically, from a film about the newsbusiness, Mary... "I am mad as hell and I am not gonna take it anymore" (anyone old enough to remember this film...LOL)


Someone else said it best...
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"

people saw and made the best catch hands down.

[Rca2000]

Anyone but me think that this picture of Daschle, is reminiscent of a kid, about to see the principal(back when that had a BAD connotation to it, not nowdays)?

[Rca2000]

Anyone but me think that this picture of Daschle, is reminiscent of a kid, about to see the principal(back when that had a BAD connotation to it, not nowdays)?

[Rca2000]

Darn pop-ups, caused me to double-post!!

[an amused spectator]

And if I recall correctly, the whole "TNG Documents" deal actually broke early, didn't it? IIRC, It was supposed to come out the weekend BEFORE the election, so that the Bush administration would have no way to respond before the votes were cast. But one newspaper began leaking it, and the stuff hit the fan, and it all went to hell for Danny and CBS.

I'm pretty sure you'll be able to get an accurate timeline on that scenario from Mapes' book.

NOT.

This appears to have broken around the 8th of September, 2004. Timeline is about 7 weeks before they needed to release it the weekend before the election.

[JamminJAY]

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

LOL!

Her DU plans crumbled many liberals cried and became more angry.

Good.

Sleep well liberal (like cindy in a ditch), we own the WH, Senate, Congress, most Governors, most State Houses.

Hey you lib's got See-B-S, only without danny and maples.

I bet it hurts her in her new job to ask "paper or plastic?".

[rrrod]

Note to Miss Mapes.....WE ARE JUST GETTING WARMED UP!!!!!!!!!!

[Henry Hnyellar]

I didn't get the email/memo/secret handshake. How do I join this vast right wing political jihad? Or is it vast right wing conspiracy?

[bilhosty]

Mary that is is just the way we are. The three things we hate are communism, terrorism and CBS news.

[Fred Nerks]

Yummy yummy another chance to post the freeper cartoon!

[Bringbackthedraft]

We're not a vast right wing conspiracy, we're truth detectors. They just can't deal with it.