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."

[Cinnamon Girl]

So... is she sorry for peddling lies on broadcast news yet?

[Doctor Raoul]

Mary, it's not the crime, it's the cover up.

[ALWAYSWELDING]

Keen observation Hoody

[GOPJ]

bump

[GOPJ]

She was derailed when the TRUTH came out; not some right-wing conspiracy. Are liberals really this stupid?

In a word, Yes.

[Doctor Raoul]

Mary, who is Lucy Ramirez and why hasn't Mike Wallace kicked in her door yet with a 60 Minutes camera crew?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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MARY MAPES is not alone.


DAVID SHAW: RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not Liberal..?

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts


Both are now History and...

...so are their kind of Media "Journalism."

Enter...

...US Freepers,

...just for the CLARITY of it.

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[ntnychik]

Bookmarking this thread. Thanks for the ping. Feeling really, really PROUD right now.

[nutmeg]

HeHe... heard this on Sean Hannity's radio show today. Sean said this will be good for 1,000 posts on Free Republic.. LOL.

Thanks for the heads up, Grampa Dave!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[Denver Ditdat]

What a cute lil' fruity flag flying to the left of skypilot's post. I'll bet his newly acquired Jihad name is Mustaaf Herod Apyur Puupyr.

[Polybius]

Well, I didn't join the USAF until 1981, but the formats were there same (or very close) until 1992 when we radically changed our memo formats. The early 70's era memos that CBS tried to pass off were in the new 90's format.

Funny, isn't it?

That type of information might be called military paperwork factual trivia.

Buckhead's comments about proportional fonts might be called civilian paperwork factual trivia or computer nerd factual trivia.

Those were the extremely mundane non-political facts that brought Ms. Mapes' world crashing down around her.

Yet, Ms, Mapes characterizes her downfall, courtesy of FreeRepublic's collective life experience, as "political jihad".

When non-political facts are called "political jihad", you are dealing with an individual that is, indeed, on a "political jihad" herself.

[WasDougsLamb]

"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes...


Come on Mary, you just "happend" upon Free Republic? I know if I got fired, I would immediatley know to go online to a site I have never heard of and see if they were talking about me......what a liar.

[WasDougsLamb]

"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes...


Come on Mary, you just "happened" upon Free Republic? I know if I got fired, I would immediately know to go online to a site I have never heard of and see if they were talking about me......what a liar.

[Rca2000]

Hey Mary....

As I said in a poem I wrote a few months ago....


We're here, we're making a difference.. We're FReeprs and were PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rca2000]

Hey Mary....

As I said in a poem I wrote a few months ago....


We're here, we're making a difference.. We're FReeprs and were PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rca2000]

sorry about the double post!

[lawdog]

"This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening.."

Yes, it is frightening when you find out you're not the only game in town..anymore...Why does her description remind me of a certain Queen of France ?

[Watery Tart]

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...

You see, Miss Mapes, the difference between your organization and ours? Whether or not we have a "harsh political bent," we can't just log in and start bla^thering about any old thing.

We must have provable facts and be able to cite reliable sources. Any other behavior results in automatic censure by fellow FReepers or our own beloved Admin Moderators. I am guessing the equivalent in your business would be "fact checkers" or "editors" or "bosses" or "personal integrity." Please use them in the future.

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And as we like to say around here, we are deeply saddened with your situation. Write when you find a job. Do you need any references? Have a nice day!

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[Watery Tart]

BUMP TO 1,000 for Sean Hannity!

[beyond the sea]

They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS."

LOL .............. and, in pajamas.

;-)