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Ex-CBS Journalist Mary Mapes Assumes the Victim Position in Her New Book

Ah yes. The rapid transformation from strong feminist to the put upon "victim" of digital McCarthyism.
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“Conservative bloggers are part of the story. They have vilified me, mounted a “wilding” attack against me…we were, it seemed the first victims of a new kind of digital McCarthyism, which uses the same techniques as the old McCarthyism–rumors, slurs, false charges and ugly attacks–but now employs the Internet, talk radio and cable TV echo chamber to ricochet information around the world…meanwhile, the mainstream media…were happy to stoke the firewood on a competitor’s funeral pyre, repeating the conservative blogs, mischaracterizing events and not doing any real reporting of their own. Honestly, it hurt. It all hurt terribly….”

(It should you lying ...)

"I’ll take you inside CBS as panic spread like mad cow disease during the initial blogging attacks, turning “60 Minutes Wednesday” into “Survivor,” where employees were pitted against each other to try to outwit, outmaneuver and outlast everyone else. In the end, we were all voted off the island except, of course, for the architect of the cruel game, Andrew Heyward…”

(I must say that it warms the cockels of my cold heart to visualize bastions of CBS employees tearing at each other like crazed hyenas. There SHOULD be consequences for promoting a false story in an attempt to unseat a President in wartime. And to think, Dan Rather asserted that she had spent 4 YEARS on this story.)

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