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."

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"what is the best term for members of the SAP?"

Stone Aged Press? SAPs?

LOL

Let me know any necessary updates to my tagline, OK?

I, a mind-numbed Limbaugh/Bush/Rovebot FReeper, will meekly do as instructed.

This post sponsored by HALLIBURTON.

/schadenfreude OFF

[concretebob]

Snackbar????We have a snackbar???Thats so cool..I need a Pepsi and a bag of popcorn pleaee.

[concretebob]

Come again, OF..would mind expounding upon that, please?

[concretebob]

You...would you..would you mind...

[MitchellC]

She's slow.

[IPWGOP]

Mary Mapes' 5 (or 6) year vendetta against Bush failed. Gee, is she bitter?

She's such scum... and so busted. I think her biggest gripe is that she perceives she was busted by 'inferiors'.

And let us not forget THIS now famous quote:

"You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of check and balances [at '60 Minutes'] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing." -- Former vice president of CBS News Jonathan Klein.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

Get used to the new media, you vicious biased shrew!
We will bring you down!

[hawkaw]

hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather

Well I don't know how politically angry or hyperconservative I am compared to some on this board. But I have enjoyed FR since 1998 and she sure is right in my hatred for Captain Dan the News Man Ra^ther.

[airborne]

She is convinced she was the victim of a group of loosely associated Internet bloggers "with a harsh political bent"

So, that's what the left is calling the truth nowadays!

[concretebob]

You sure got this thing figured out.
Thanks for typing what I've been thinking for the last 20 years.
Cecil Rhoades said it best when he said "we must own or control portions of the press, for the press controls the mind of the people"
That was in 1878 I think. He was laying the groundwork for the future he envisioned.
His endowment to Oxford, the Rhoades Scholarship, was begun to recruit the people who would run his vision.
Super-elitists, who would put their own advancements above the needs of others; people who would stop at nothing to gain power, but be able to mask it in sympathy for the plight of others and be able to bite their bottom lip and get all misty eyed on cue..
...how many politicians have I just described?

[doug from upland]

Hannity reading this now on the radio.

[ajolympian2004]

Woo Hoo! Sean Hannity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrStumpy]

Burst on target fire for effect!!!!

[ajolympian2004]

Hopefully the Powerline and Little Green Football folks heard that!

[hershey]

Mapes continues to be a victim of her own stupidity.

[nuclady]

Yessss........ Hannity is rockin' today. Said "this should end up with over 1000 comments on Free Republic." When I tried to get back on this thread, FR was SLOWWW.......

FR must be getting slammed right now! :))

[Conservative4Ever]

hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS."

No Ms. Mapes....just the TRUTH...something you and your ilk have long since forgotten while pushing your socialistic/communistic agenda. You and others like you of your political bent are in the decline, dying on the vine and you know it. And if Rather was stupid enough to be one of your dupes...he deserves what he got too. Long live the pajama jihad...whoo hoo.

[BOBTHENAILER]

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

I hope she sleeps under her bed every night now, shivering with Liberal FEAR.

[doug from upland]

MIDI - IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE

As producer, shots I'm calling...my agenda I'd advance
I'd be slamming pubbies...that was so easy...I'd go on one of my rants...of my rants

I got caught in forgery...whoa is me

I had a dream job, but it's over now
I had a dream job...FReepers got me somehow
I had a dream job, but it's over now
I'll still get George Bush...I am making that vow

We contended there's no bias...that's the lie that we had told
We've been even handed...that's how we spun it...now I've watched it all unfold

But I got caught in forgery...so whoa is me

I had a dream job, but it's over now
Had a dream job...FReepers got me somehow
I had a dream job, but it's over now
I will still get George Bush...I will still get George Bush

I had a dream job, but it's over now
I had a dream job...FReepers got me somehow
I had a dream job, but it's over now
I will still get George Bush...I'm making that vow

Unemployment is never fun...waiting in those long lines
There'll be such smelly people everywhere
But I've got to pick up my check

With time on my hands, the change is profound
I'll join the RAT underground...join the RAT underground

How depressing...I am out of work
I am out of work
I hate Buckhead

[doug from upland]

MIDI - MARY TYLER MOORE

Who chose to use a forgery
Who spent five years and thought she'd fool the viewers so easily
Well, it's Mary Mapes, and we know it
She had a good job but, oh man, did she blow it
With the DNC she had been scheming
She will be the one who gets a reaming
Martha, your cellmate's on the way