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Mary Mapes Gloats About Pending Obama Victory and Demise of Free Republic
Friday, October 24, 2008 | Kristinn

Posted on 10/24/2008 7:50:22 AM PDT by kristinn

Mary Mapes, the former CBS News Sixty Minutes producer who lost her job in the wake of the Rathergate scandal has published an essay entitled The Monster is Dying at the Huffington Post celebrating the pending victory of Barack Obama and the demise of her conservative internet tormenters, including Free Republic.

Mapes likens the domination of conservatives and the McCain-Palin campaign to Fifties sci-fi flicks where the mad scientist gets it in the end but the pretty female assistant survives.

Mapes, who was fired after forged documents were used in a Sixty Minutes hit piece on President George W. Bush in September 2004 in an effort by CBS News to undermine Bush's re-election bid, mocks Republicnas for using "phony" imagery and "bogeymen."

An excerpt from Mapes' gloat-fest:

Americans aren't responding to the old plays -- the fake fears, the faux outrage, the conservatives who yell "Communist" at the news cameras, the pompous right-wing bloggers who once held such sway.

I know all too well how scary and effective these old tactics were in 2004.

Today, they are toothless.

Ha, ha.

Nothing makes me happier than seeing once swaggering players like Powerline, Free Republic and Little Green Footballs forced onto the sidelines, left to limply watch this campaign pass by like a parade in which they play no meaningful part.

They just don't matter anymore.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: buckhead; freerepublic; marymapes; msmharpy; rathergate; seebsnews
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To: kristinn

HEY MARY WHY DON’T YOU WRITE ANOTHER FAILBOOK AND CALL IT “TUESDAYS WITH LUCY”


141 posted on 10/24/2008 12:39:11 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: kristinn

Delusional.


142 posted on 10/24/2008 12:41:46 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: kristinn

Hey, Mary, we’ll see how the election goes. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. But no matter what we still have our integrity. That is something that can’t be taken away, only given away. Like you gave yours away.


143 posted on 10/24/2008 12:47:38 PM PDT by Chesterbelloc
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


144 posted on 10/24/2008 1:44:22 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: nutmeg; kristinn
Maybe she can get a part in one of those science fiction movies where the artificial humans go searching through dumps of body parts to get replacements. I thought I saw part of a brain over here. Out of my way--there's a face!
145 posted on 10/24/2008 2:23:31 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: kristinn
Had I the opportunity to address the young lady, I would say 'Put a sock in it, honey.'
146 posted on 10/24/2008 11:42:10 PM PDT by Fichori (I believe in a Woman's right to choose, even if she hasn't been born yet.)
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To: kristinn

bttt


147 posted on 10/25/2008 7:27:14 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: lentulusgracchus

Here’s your Mapes stroy


148 posted on 10/25/2008 7:28:19 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: gimme1ibertee
You are so bad! lol

Hope you're reading this, Mapes -- see how demoralized and stuff we are? lol

Her whole rant reads like one of those old Ronettes/Shirelles songs .....

My boy friend's back and <taunting> there's gonna be trouble,

<refrain>
Hey na, hey na,
my boyfriend's back!!

That song was soo immachure, even back in the early 60's! Get a life, Mary!

149 posted on 10/25/2008 1:53:57 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Chesterbelloc
Worth-repeating bump.
150 posted on 10/25/2008 2:00:45 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: kristinn

That’s just some sad stuff right there, in so many ways. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and waste it she did.

Glad I didn’t miss this.


151 posted on 10/25/2008 2:03:36 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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To: kristinn
They just don't matter anymore.

And Mapes does? If she's remembered at all, it will be as a joke, as a disgrace to journalism, and as someone who assisted in the death of the mainstream media.


152 posted on 10/25/2008 2:06:10 PM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: Pan_Yan
....she has no prospect for individual success, so she sees a collectivist win as very personal....

How much satisfaction do you think she'll be able to take in life, living outside herself and holding herself hostage to the political success of actors like Obama and the Clintons, people in whose mouths butter melteth not, neither doth dry ice sublimate?

Your description of her rings true, and she sounds like those nuns who go through life without experiencing the world's joys and satisfactions -- except that the nuns have their God, and His promise. She has nothing but the ingratitude and disregard of the worldly great.

153 posted on 10/25/2008 2:06:51 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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