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."

[Grampa Dave]

SAPS* STUCK ON STUPID!

*Stone Age Press

[lightingguy]

Priceless

[Tribune7]

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

No baby. It was the death of one.

[RasterMaster]

I saw that too....need to add the little Vorizon guy pic.

[Marine_Uncle]

Mary is nothing more then a yellow belly SAP Sucker.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yo! Mary! THIS one's for YOU! :)

[AFPhys]

I agree, and I like SAPs as the more general noun, with FRAUDcasters being specific.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Can you hear me now?(Classic Jim Rob reply/understatement) 419 posted on 10/05/2005 11:28:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

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Absolutely ROFLMAO!!!

[Southack]

"Can you hear me now?"

Not in her liberal echo chamber.

[Grampa Dave]

This is a really big reason why all of us need to be monthly donors to keep Free Republic alive and thriving.

Free Republic will put more lying/spinning MSM maggot mediots out of business if we donate, participate and help keep Free Republic going.

[Humidston]

..Wikipedia, yet with no reference to Free Republic.

That stinks, doesn't it? Here BUCKHEAD on FREEREPUBLIC.COM broke the bogus lies here and they can't even identify us?

....Sheesh!

[RasterMaster]

I want my FReeper T.V.!

[jerri]

LOL!

[Grampa Dave]

Freeper approved tv programs are pretty good.

[backhoe]

The Stone Age Press ( AKA TOM, or Tired Old Media ) don't like being fact-checked, do they?

-60 Minutes to Infamy- those forged memos and The Shot Heard Round the World--

[w1andsodidwe]

I little bit of checking would have showed the documents to be false. After seeing all the evidence here, I download the documents and showed them to my cleaning lady(an ex airforce clerk). She immediately began pointing out all the format problems. If my cleaning lady (not a real genius) was able to immediately spot the forgery, why was nobody at CBS able to spot the it?

So, Mary don't try and tell me you didn't know before you went to air. Next time, call me and I will loan you my cleaning lady for the day.

[Bullfrogg]

I have yet to see a dumb-ass freeper. By now these left wing-nuts should know these things don't exists. As far as Little Green Footballs, she may have been hitting the sauce a little hard lately. She is still reeling from Dan Rather after shock.

Bullfrog

[sharkhawk]

Were the documents ever checked physically to determine whether a typewriter was actually used?

No. CBS claims they never saw the original documents. Kind of makes you wonder how they could have ever claimed to have verified the docs, especially since their signature expert told them that he could not fully verify that the signatures were from that document and not cut and pasted without seeing the originals.

[Wonder Warthog]

Not just "FRAUD", but "BUTT-UGLY" too.

[ThinkDifferent]

Buckhead and FR are prominently mentioned in Wikipedia's Killian documents entry.