April 15, 2005

I Am a Digital McCarthyite! (Updated)

First it was the vast right wing conspiracy. Then it was digital brownshirts. Now it's the digital McCarthyites. Well, sign me up folks. I'm a digital McCarthyite. From Mary Mapes new book:

“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
The Anchoress has more via Instapundit.

Thoughts Online notes that the connotative usage of 'wilding' refers to the 1989 Central Park Jogger incident. Thus, Mapes equates right-wing bloggers with a pack of rapists and paints herself a sexual assault victim. Classy.

Prepare for the swarm Ms. Mapes.

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Any other volunteers for the Digital McCarthyites? Any one have a better logo they can think of?

UPDATE: Tom over at Scared Monkeys Digial McCarthyite designed this logo. Awesome! Feel free to download the image here.

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Goldfalcon comes up with his own McCarthy photoshop (it helps if you know something about old movies).

Other Digital McCarthyites (like a gang 'wilding' Ms. Mapes in an online Central Park): Charles Johnson, Bill Quick, Mean Mr. Mustard, Ace, Cream and Bastards, Scared Monkeys, INDCent Bill, Vince Aut Morire, Scared Monkeys, Beth at My VRWC, Dread Pundit Bluto, Musing Minds, NIF, The Right Nation, The Nose on Your Face, and a whole gang of others...

Posted by: Rusty at 03:38 PM | Comments (31) | Add Comment
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1 Should we form The League of digital McCathyites?

Posted by: Tom at April 15, 2005 04:25 PM (9geoP)

2 A proven liar - she'll be popular among the kool-aid drinking Democrats.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at April 15, 2005 04:26 PM (xauGB)

3 Wilding? You should be ashamed of yourself, Mapes. It's so like a Liberal to carelessly insult people by claiming victimhood and stripping words of their meaning. Liberals insult the real victims of the Holocaust by comparing Bush to Hitler and calling righwingers "nazis." This Mapes insults rape victims. Rape victims are INNOCENT, and they get their vaginas forcibly PENETRATED, and then they get beaten within inches of their life. Mapes, you just lost your job, and you deserved it you stupid cow.

Posted by: Carlos at April 15, 2005 04:26 PM (8e/V4)

4 Absolutely. The league has begun.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at April 15, 2005 04:43 PM (JQjhA)

5 Well, "wilding" is just slang, and does not necessarily refer to one specific case. Here is the dictionary definition: wilding. Slang. The act or practice of going about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2004).

Posted by: Mark James at April 15, 2005 05:23 PM (Snt6b)

6 What do the repubs make of this? The party is going down hard, and that will put a smile on my face. I am sick of this president being only as correct as he must in order to stay just right of center, we need a real man and a real leader, not chumps like Bush. Oh, but wait, he secured Iraq! We don't need borders now, right? This passport move is just one in a long line of idiotic moves that a moderate lib like Bush can be expected to make.

Posted by: Lune at April 15, 2005 05:43 PM (k56Dr)

7 Someone's been listening to Savage.

Posted by: Carlos at April 15, 2005 05:49 PM (8e/V4)

8 Well, "wilding" is just slang, I have never heard 'wilding' used in any other context than to describe the actions of the group of young men in the Central Park Jogger case, and the term certainly wasn't in popular usage until after that incident, as this Google search shows.

Posted by: GoldFalcon at April 15, 2005 05:53 PM (LCCTJ)

9 Wilding may be slang, but the slang originated with the 1989 gang rape attacks in Central Park. So it is a slang term that means, "Being assaulted or raped by roving gangs."

Posted by: Bill Quick at April 15, 2005 06:17 PM (1GniF)

10 "Being assaulted or raped by roving gangs." Please, you'll excite Filthy.

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at April 15, 2005 06:44 PM (frMrc)

11 Or Mary.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at April 15, 2005 06:46 PM (xauGB)

12 It looks like Glenn is about to grab Senator McCarthy to stuff him in a blender - watch out Rusty, you could be next!

Posted by: The Babaganoosh at April 15, 2005 07:47 PM (2Sfuq)

13 Oh, definitely sign me up for this one!

Posted by: Eric at April 15, 2005 07:53 PM (lK7Sh)

14 We will commence building a logo when children are asleep Tom

Posted by: Tom at April 15, 2005 07:55 PM (9geoP)

15 "rumors, slurs, false charges, and ugly attacks" throw in cheap-ass forgery, and you've got CBS Nooz in a nutshell!

Posted by: Steve the llamabutcher at April 15, 2005 08:07 PM (eVpBU)

16 I need some feedback. There is the new Digital McCarthyite logo on my site, let me know if we need any changes. http://www.scaredmonkeys.com/?p=481 If you like it, grab it, link to it, I have the bandwidth if you want to just link to it. Tom

Posted by: Tom at April 15, 2005 09:28 PM (9geoP)

17 Mapes: "... 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..." Rumors? Slurs? False charges? Who is she referring to CBS or us Digi-McCarthites? Exactly what part about the fact that the Bush National Guard Docs were fakes did she not quite understand? Earth to Mary Mapes ... the docs were phonies. I would think the ugly attacks and fabricating a smear peice on a sitting President so close to an election in an effort to have the MSM chose a President is quite a heneous act,

Posted by: Red at April 15, 2005 10:45 PM (UHAGR)

18 "Someone's been listening to Savage." and Beck, Drudge, Ingrahm... Oh, and reading Day as well. I guess you think the homeland security recommendation (and now law) about requiring passports (those internationally recognized ID thingies) for international travel across our borders is no good because it would be bad for free trade (the mechanism that enables us to support slave labor in China all while increasing our trade deficit) in North America?

Posted by: Lune at April 15, 2005 11:03 PM (k56Dr)

19 How did they get Anwar's picture?

Posted by: greyrooster at April 16, 2005 06:59 AM (sB5vg)

20 Greetings from the Digital McCarthyites of the italian blogosphere

Posted by: a.man. at April 16, 2005 12:12 PM (ByTzj)

21 Let the interrogations commence.

Posted by: BobG at April 16, 2005 01:38 PM (KMJ0B)

22 Lune: Can you run that down for us dumbasses that don't fully understand what you said. Sorry pal, but I missed your point. Thx.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 16, 2005 02:53 PM (DAWnL)

23 Lune, I agree with Savage.

Posted by: Carlos at April 16, 2005 05:05 PM (8e/V4)

24 Are you now, or have you ever been, an employee of "Sixty Minutes 2?"

Posted by: Digital McCarthy Eric at April 16, 2005 06:07 PM (lK7Sh)

25 Hey folks, long weekend for me. Very little time to blog. But I do have a list of Commuunist infiltrators at CBS..........

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at April 16, 2005 07:39 PM (JQjhA)

26 McCarthy was mostly right.

Posted by: Carlos at April 16, 2005 08:18 PM (8e/V4)

27 Lune: Who do you recommend to replace Bush as president?

Posted by: greyrooster at April 17, 2005 11:53 AM (sqa1t)

28 Colin Powell

Posted by: Collin Baber at April 17, 2005 06:15 PM (FV4oJ)

29 I don't speak to traitors.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 17, 2005 08:44 PM (sqa1t)

30 Who do I want in the oral office? A “conservative” from the Repub party that will do something about our borders and “free trade”, there are a only a few of them and I don't think the party wants them as Pres. As for the future, I clearly want someone that is actually interested in edifying and properly limiting government. Not just remaking it and putting a different face on it. Sorry Carlos, I am a lunatic.

Posted by: Lune at April 17, 2005 09:07 PM (k56Dr)

31 I thought so. I'm really getting good. But who. The problem is at present we are not better than the moonbats when it comes to a future canidate. We need a strong leader. Maybe a Marine Corps General. Not a puppet of the system claiming to be a republican.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 18, 2005 08:12 AM (OJsiJ)

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