{"id":2872,"date":"2004-09-18T13:15:59","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/why-i-am-not-a-democrat\/"},"modified":"2004-09-18T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2004-09-18T20:15:59","slug":"why-i-am-not-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/18\/why-i-am-not-a-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am not a Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRadical feminists have way too much influence over the Democratic Party. It shows up again in the Rathergate story. Burkett’s phony memos came to Rather from the Kerry campaign through producer Mary Mapes. Here’s her story:<\/a><\/p>\n

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…Mapes’ father sees a political agenda behind his daughter’s work. Don Mapes, 76, was a recent guest on a radio talk show hosted by John Carlson on KVI in Seattle.<\/p>\n

He said, “I’m really ashamed of what my daughter has become. She’s a typical liberal. She went into journalism with an ax to grind, and that was to promote radical feminism.”<\/p>\n

He confessed to being disappointed in his daughter’s role in the controversy. He said, “When I heard about 60 Minutes, I suspected she would be the producer of the show.”<\/p>\n

In an interview with Talon News, Don Mapes said his suspicion was because that he believed, “Dan Rather and she have been working on this ever since Bush was elected.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’re in the party, in the media, and in the schools. Evidently, J. Edgar was right.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radical feminists have way too much influence over the Democratic Party. It shows up again in the Rathergate story. Burkett’s phony memos came to Rather from the Kerry campaign through producer Mary Mapes. Here’s her story: …Mapes’ father sees a political agenda behind his daughter’s work. Don Mapes, 76, was a recent guest on a … Continue reading “Why I am not a Democrat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Kk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}