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Rdtf
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: Mary Mapes Cries Foul-says"the birth of political jihad |
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This is just too gooood.  
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/54739.htm
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| Quote: | 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." |
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | "It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad." |
Mary Mapes: Look at yourself in the mirror! |
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Deuce
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Anker-Klanker wrote: | | Quote: | | "It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad." |
Mary Mapes: Look at yourself in the mirror! |
Dang, Anker,
While I know you're right, in my heart, for a few seconds, I was a proud, non-uniformed, hyperconservative jihadi in the War on Terror. You just deflated my over-inlated ego again. 
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becca1223
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | "Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes... |
That is too funny!!!!! Where has she been? 
Mary Mapes, Welcome to the informational icons of today, tomorrow...and the future!
Americans for Truth see reality and speak out! The MSM political jihad on Americans has ended!!!!!!!! Go stick your head back in your hole, B****!!!!!!! |
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: Mary Mapes Cries Foul-says"the birth of political j |
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"They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS." |
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Unfortunately for Ms. Mapes, they were also hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS who ate her "journalistic" lunch. |
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wwIIvetsdaughter
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| So the exercise of the First Amendment frightens this "journalist" Ms. Mapes? This is just too rich! |
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mtboone
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:52 am Post subject: Re: Mary Mapes Cries Foul-says"the birth of political j |
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| Rdtf wrote: | This is just too gooood.
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/54739.htm
excerpt:
| Quote: | 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." |
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Why does the truth hurt or be painful to someone who is suppose to tell the truth who lied and brought forth forged documents and people exposed the lies? I am always amazed how people keep trying to spin what happened.
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LewWaters
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I never realized it was right winged bloggers that falsified memos and sent them through Kinko's
Odd how not one part of her story mentions how she failed, along with others, to verufy the truthfullness of what she couldn't wait to place on TV.
"Vast Right-Winged Conspiracy?" Now, where have I heard that before, hmmmm? |
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DanVCC
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Please note that Ms Mapes does not mention the circmstances of the situation that caused her to be fired. Instead, she attacks "the messenger" and thereby clouds the question of fraud both she, Rather and CBS attempted.
This approach is consistent with the Democratic Party's manual which offers advice on how to handle an attack by a political opponent. |
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gmez2001
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:10 pm Post subject: working |
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Where is Mapes working now?
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Uisguex Jack
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | "Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mape
"They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS." |
This really is too rich. And these people call themselves journalists??!!
The vitriolic emotions concerning Comrade Rather span at least three decades. That is a long, long time to be hiding one's head in the sand, no?
How could a news researcher not have ever read anything on The Free Republic's website??
Incompitance at its archtype paragon. |
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Ohio Voter
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject: Re: Mary Mapes Cries Foul-says"the birth of political j |
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What the heck is a hyperconservative or an ultraconservative? I have seen it too many times when the leftists are talking about Republicans. The latest run-in where they are saying James Dobson is an ultra.. Is this a new talking point since the "Hitler" title was getting old?
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dusty
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | 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. |
Pardon me all to hell Mrs. Mapes but you were derailed by the truth.
Of course that is something you obviously would not recognize if it bit you on the butt.
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GM Strong
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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Pardon me all to hell Mrs. Mapes but you were derailed by the truth.
Of course that is something you obviously would not recognize if it bit you on the butt.
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How true, but it did bite her on the Butt big time and she did not realize it. Otherwise she would not have said what she said.
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