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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.
41 posted on 10/05/2005 7:07:06 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: dead

Poor Mary. LOL.


42 posted on 10/05/2005 7:07:06 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: dead

Freeper Akbar!!!


43 posted on 10/05/2005 7:07:10 AM PDT by Perseverando
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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.
44 posted on 10/05/2005 7:07:21 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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"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.

45 posted on 10/05/2005 7:07:23 AM PDT by kromike
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"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....)
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"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
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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)
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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)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

LOL


50 posted on 10/05/2005 7:08:08 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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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
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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)
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To: lightingguy

ping


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)
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To: dead

Git 'er done, Freepers!


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))
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To: dead

Mary Mapes & Dan Rather - political roadkill on the freeper highway.


55 posted on 10/05/2005 7:08:20 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Member of Arbor Day Foundation, travelling the country and destroying open space)
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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!)
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To: dead

Political Jihad is not for the faint hearted.


57 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.)
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"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.

58 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.)
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To: dead

Hyperconservatism is cool.


59 posted on 10/05/2005 7:08:40 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: dead
Go back under your rock Mapes.

You and your kind are done.

60 posted on 10/05/2005 7:08:49 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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