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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: in hoc signo vinces
Typical lib...always a victim, but mostly a victim of their own stupidity and absurdity.

Excellent!

181 posted on 10/05/2005 7:43:10 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: dead

Hey Mary, if you are reading this thread click on this link...

http://www.allspirit.co.uk/overit.html


182 posted on 10/05/2005 7:44:22 AM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (Know the difference between honoring diversity and honoring perversity? No? You must be a liberal!)
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To: dead

> "This was something else, something new and
> fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes.
> "I had never seen this kind of response to any story.

That's only because the story itself was rare:
an 11th-hour attempt to influence an election using
ineptly (but criminally) faked government documents.

These people still do not get it. Rather is still
proclaiming that the story is true and that the docs
might yet be legit. His own mis-reporting of the
unmasking (he thought Buckhead was a web site) indicates
that he also has not personally checked the information
his staff provided him. He's living in la-la land
because people around him make sure he gets only la-la
information.


183 posted on 10/05/2005 7:44:43 AM PDT by Boundless
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To: dead

Mapes' reaction exhibits two of the main qualities of the MSM media: (1) their sense of entitlement and authority, i.e., that when they speak, they are to be believed and even obeyed; and (2) their unawareness of their own anger and hate, which they project onto conservatives. Conservatives tend to know when they're we're bad boys, but liberals' self-image prevents them from seeing the depths of their own hate.


184 posted on 10/05/2005 7:46:00 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Always Right

Amazing. It's "frightening" to liberals when conservatives confront them about something they disagree with. But when liberals confront conservatives about something, liberals consider that to be "patriotism".


185 posted on 10/05/2005 7:46:16 AM PDT by texasmountainman (proud father of a U.S. Marine)
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To: AFPhys

ROTFLMPO
(Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Pajamas Off)

EXCELLENT!


186 posted on 10/05/2005 7:46:19 AM PDT by AmericanDave (God bless .......and MORE COWBELL)
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To: dead

JeeeeeeeHaaaahhhhhaaaaaaddd !!!


187 posted on 10/05/2005 7:46:49 AM PDT by cblue55
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To: dead

Did she somehow forget she had aired FORGED DOCUMENTS????


188 posted on 10/05/2005 7:48:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: dead

Gee, I was just minding my own business, using forged, fake documents, trying to ensure the failure of the reelection of President Bush, using the power of the national mainstream media and press, airing the documents and issuing the story just before the election, and these mean conservative web sites started saying things, like how my forged, fake documents were "forged, faked documents!"

I'm saddenned...


189 posted on 10/05/2005 7:48:47 AM PDT by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: All; PJ-Comix

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1496597/posts

Click on this link for a FReeper critique of her book!

(DUmmie FUnnies by PJ Comix)


190 posted on 10/05/2005 7:49:24 AM PDT by CSM ( It's all Bush's fault! He should have known Mayor Gumbo was a retard! - Travis McGee (9/2))
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To: dead

Mary, Mary Mary...! I can't understand your rhetoric, calling FR part of a
"political jihad." Would that be something like the "sorosization" of America? (Confirmed as major part of the vast-left-wing conspiracy).


191 posted on 10/05/2005 7:49:36 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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To: dead

Mary,

Ahh...you never heard of doing research? Have you ever heard of looking at both sides of an issue? Have you ever heard of looking at what your opponents are saying? Did you ever stop to think that MIGHT be another side?

Mar, sweetie, you are supposed to be a professional. You appear to be, at this point, an unmitigated failure. See, you really should have taken a trip out of NY once in awhile, or at least tracked down the conservative in NYC.


192 posted on 10/05/2005 7:50:26 AM PDT by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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To: dead

Ha! Skypilot's a genius...(not)


193 posted on 10/05/2005 7:51:14 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they have to.)
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To: dead

I want my VRWC Tshirt, coffee mug, key chain and commemorative plate. Please let me know the full cost including shipping and handling.
Needless to say I think all freepers should take time to pause and chuckle with glee over her statement.


194 posted on 10/05/2005 7:51:16 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: GOPJ

The "birth of a political jihad" was definitely earlier, as you state.

I have 2GigaBytes of political and aviation info dating from late in Bush'41 and the first days of the 'Toon presidency... using GOPHER, mostly, to access the web.

That was so much easier than EMail lists and FTP that came even earlier than that...

The birth came well before '96/'97 ... by '96 I recall laughing at the statement by the Old Mediots "we don't know whether we're going to cover the political conventions any more - they've just become paid political announcements"... my retort to my friends was, "in a few years, I'll be WATCHING them on the Internet", and this past year that is exactly what I did!


196 posted on 10/05/2005 7:52:28 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Semper FReep, Mary


197 posted on 10/05/2005 7:52:37 AM PDT by llevrok (Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote)
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To: dead

Mary Mapes has a case of Sour Grapes, LOL. It seems she doesn't like it when the shoe is on the other foot; that is when conservatives exercise their free speech and it gets heard. Guess none of those liberal media loons are used to that. Too bad.


198 posted on 10/05/2005 7:52:37 AM PDT by An American In Dairyland
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To: dead

Oh poooooor baby....now she has got a taste of what most of us have been subjected to for the last half century. Especially by the hate-American First, Blame-America first MSM. I have absolutely NO sypmathy for her, she is one of the travelers in the group.


199 posted on 10/05/2005 7:52:52 AM PDT by marty60
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To: Izzy Dunne
Mapes quote: "It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."

Izzy Dunne reply: "No, dummy. The jihad started long ago. You were there when the other side fired back."

Very, very good point. Mapes' saying that the exposing of the falsity of the memo is like someone saying that our war on terrorism is the jihad.
200 posted on 10/05/2005 7:53:12 AM PDT by Pirate21 (The liberal media are as sheep clearing the path along which they will be lead to the slaughter.)
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