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.
HEY MARY WHY DON’T YOU WRITE ANOTHER FAILBOOK AND CALL IT “TUESDAYS WITH LUCY”
Delusional.
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.
Thanks for the ping!
bttt
Here’s your Mapes stroy
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!
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.
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.
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.
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