[Wolverine]

"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."

Congratulations FReepers!

[sausageseller]

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

It is not "something new", Ms. Mapes.

Yes, "fundamentally frightening" to those that push lies.

You have never seen "this kind of response" before because you had you head buried up the posteriors of your liberal,lying ,partners of distortion!

[SierraWasp]

I prefer to think of it as the death of a political monopoly in the media! Thank you very much!!!

[cricket]

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

. . .yes, Mary you are 'half-right'.

There is a political jihad; what you refuse to acknowedge is that it is your side'that declared it. . .and you were and remain; part of it.