During the Rathergate scandal, Weepy Dan was confronted with the fact that the new media is able to pull together vast numbers of people from across the nation who have facts and expertise on just about any subject one can name. And they can now pool that knowledge to discover an obvious forgery and the political motivations behind it that purport to be "news."
But for Dan there is another function of the Internet which will forever haunt him and that is its collective memory. The Elite Media Monoculture will move on to other things in their endless attempt to bring back the glory days of their fading empire and they will never again mention Rathergate. But the Internet will not forget. And when weepy Dan goes out in public to demonstrate his limitless capability for self-pity, bloggers will be there to remind everyone of just why he is feeling sorry for himself and why none of the rest of us should wish to join him.
And now Mary Mapes has come out with a book of her very own which gives us a glimpse into the sheer surprise and terror of The Elite Media Monoculture as it discovers that there are many people who do not automatically take the media's word on the matter when they bring forward fabricated documents just days before a presidential election in the hope of using them to smear a candidate that they hold in contempt. Mapes's shock is an indicator of just how out of touch with reality the elites on the coasts have become. And they show no sign of learning anything new anytime soon.
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