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ABC News apologizes for 'incorrect' Tea party report
Politico ^ | July 20, 2012 | Dylan Byers

Posted on 07/20/2012 10:24:18 AM PDT by God luvs America

Edited on 07/20/2012 10:28:14 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

ABC News and Brian Ross are apologizing for an "incorrect" report that James Holmes, the suspect in the Colorado theater shooting, may have had connections to the Tea Party.

"An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect," ABC News said in a statement. "ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted."

In a similar statement released minutes earlier, ABC News said the report was "incorrect" but, rather than apologize, wrote: "Several other local residents with similar names were also contacted via social media by members of the public who mistook them for the suspect." The statement appeared at first to be an attempt byt the network to abdicate responsibility for the report.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abc; abcnews; aurorashooting; banglist; batmanshooting; brianross; enemedia; jamesholmes; jimholmes; liars; mediabias; mediamalpractice; teaparty; teapartyshooter
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To: God luvs America

Yea, they only make this mistake every time there is a tragedy..


121 posted on 07/20/2012 12:16:04 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: God luvs America

Yea, they only make this mistake every time there is a tragedy..


122 posted on 07/20/2012 12:16:04 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: Marathoner

Bookmark


123 posted on 07/20/2012 12:17:07 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: God luvs America

Words can’t begin to express how sorry ABC is.

Sorry-@ssed, ABC, not apologetic.

ANYTHING to advance Hussein’s agenda at America’s expense.

FU ABC!!!!


124 posted on 07/20/2012 12:17:37 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Terry Mross

Do you have a link please.


125 posted on 07/20/2012 12:23:32 PM PDT by angcat (Without Valor there is no hope.)
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To: angcat

http://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/SC1231066/Brian-Thomas-Ross.html


126 posted on 07/20/2012 12:30:57 PM PDT by angcat (Without Valor there is no hope.)
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To: God luvs America

Easy to apologize after putting the thought in everyone’s mind!


127 posted on 07/20/2012 12:34:14 PM PDT by luvie (Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Impala64ssa

They still think Zimmerman is guilty.


128 posted on 07/20/2012 12:36:26 PM PDT by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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To: God luvs America
I'm shocked! SHOCKED he was mis-identified as a Tea Partier!

Sadly something to be expected. Of course the claim is out there now and it's impossible to un-ring.

129 posted on 07/20/2012 12:46:18 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Pontius Pilate 'voters' are arrogant, delusional, lilly-livered collaborators.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Brian Ross is a weasel.

He’s like the kind of kid you wanted to smack when you were in 3rd grade.


130 posted on 07/20/2012 12:58:11 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: God luvs America

Oh sure. Just like they didn’t put up that huge banner across the Zimmerman tape. Sorry, ABC, too many lies.


131 posted on 07/20/2012 1:20:53 PM PDT by bgill
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To: God luvs America
Scum masquerading as reporter.
132 posted on 07/20/2012 1:22:21 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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To: Impala64ssa

Their peabrains are always in gear for slander and false accusations when it comes to the ‘right’.

Their songbird forgot to ask the WH what to say, like the NYT does.


133 posted on 07/20/2012 1:26:40 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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To: Walmartian

Not sure about this guy but it could probably be the ABC reporter, maybe, kinda.

Last Known Address: 13 OUTLAW ROAD HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC 29926
 
Race: Caucasian    
Sex: Male Eyes: Blue
Height: 5’8 Hair: Brown
Weight 145 lbs. Age/DOB: 50
Offense or Statute
Offense/Statute: 16-15-140 - COMMIT OR ATTEMPT LEWD ACT ON CHILD <16Date Convicted: 18 August 1994
Offense/Statute: 23-3-470(A)(B)(1) - SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY VIOLATION 1ST OFFENSEDate Convicted: 10 January 2007
Alias(es)
BRIAN ROSS
BRIAN THOMAS ROSS

Collected from this official state registry website or page:

http://www.icrimewatch.net/offenderdetails.php?OfndrID=1231066&AgencyID=54575


134 posted on 07/20/2012 1:28:41 PM PDT by BarryM
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Someone should resign over this.

Someone should have their ass handed to them over this, lose their job, lose their house, lose their savings and then go to jail.

These people need to be made ACCOUNTABLE for this bullshit. Of course they won't though, because they, like friggin politicians are a protected species.

Time to clean house in this country. Getting pretty tired of this crap.

135 posted on 07/20/2012 1:32:14 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: God luvs America
Strange that ABC didn't try to connect him to the disastrous Obama economy.

Seems more like an OWS type.

His mother recently told a neighbour that Holmes could not find a job after earning a master's degree from a public university in California.

136 posted on 07/20/2012 1:42:07 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: angcat

Earlier it was posted that a “Brian Ross” was listed on the SC sex registry. Nobody said it was the same “Brian Ross”. Get it?


137 posted on 07/20/2012 1:44:55 PM PDT by Terry Mross ( To kin and former friends: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
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To: BarryM

138 posted on 07/20/2012 1:49:24 PM PDT by sunny48
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To: oldbrowser
Must I at length the sword of justice draw?
Oh, cursed effects of necessary law!
How ill my fear they by my mercy scan!
Beware the fury of a patient man!
Law they require, let law then show her face;
They could not be content to look on grace,
Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye
To tempt the terror of her front and die.
By their own arts 'tis righteously decreed,
Those dire artificers of death shall bleed.
Against themselves their witnesses will swear,
Till, viper-like, their mother-plot they tear;
And suck for nutriment that bloody gore,
Which was their principle of life before.
Their Belial with their Beelzebub will fight:
Thus on my foes, my foes shall do me right.
Nor doubt the event: for factious crowds engage,
In their first onset, all their brutal rage.
Then let them take an unresisted course;
Retire, and traverse, and delude their force;
But when they stand all breathless, urge the fight,
And rise upon them with redoubled might--
For lawful power is still superior found;
When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

He said: The Almighty, nodding, gave consent;
And peals of thunder shook the firmament.
Henceforth a series of new time began,
The mighty years in long procession ran:
Once more the god-like David was restored,
And willing nations knew their lawful lord.

--John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"

139 posted on 07/20/2012 1:52:33 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: God luvs America

How sick in the head is Brian Ross and ABC News that one of the first things they do in reporting this story is to go look up whether the shooter is a Tea Party member?? How craven and partisan can the US news media get?? I mean honestly-—their first thought is political and let’s see how we can get political advantage for Obama and the Democrats out of this?? At what point does the FEC start to go after the US news media for illegal campaign support of the Obama campaign, both in 2008 and in 2012? The media has so thoroughly whored itself out to this empty suit president that there is nothing that’s too low for them to stoop for. Buy your soul back Mr. Ross!


140 posted on 07/20/2012 2:00:05 PM PDT by MissesBush (The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)
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