Posted on 07/21/2012 1:10:38 PM PDT by Kfobbs
During a morning news segment of Good Morning America, Anchor George Stephanopoulos, and Brian Ross, ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent erroneously and callously linked an innocent Colorado man with the same name to this tragedy without making any attempt at verification of his identity. His only “alleged crime” was being a member of the Tea Party.
So in an instant, the name of an innocent man was automatically linked to one of the most despicable acts of violence perpetrated against the nation’s citizens, and the Tea Party was demonized. This was done, because ABC’s Brian Ross neglected to follow the first essential rule of journalism 101, always, always check and verify your facts!
Make no mistake, this was not an innocent accident, because on previous occasions, former Clinton White House Political Advisor George Stephanopoulos has attempted to link or malign the Tea Party or Sarah Palin.
This was done most notably in after the assassination attempt upon U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen other people in Casas Adobes, just outside of Tucson, Arizona in January 2011. This type of gotcha journalism practiced at any cost must be stopped.
There is a limit where yellow journalistic practices by media organizations which continue to perpetrate an active and ongoing fraud of disinformation campaigns must be eliminated. The perpetrators must be fined, suspended or fired as was the case involving Dan Rather in 2004, when he aired falsified forged documents about President Bush on CBS ’60 Minutes.
ABC Brian Ross’ blurting out a clear un-validated libelous statement, showed an apparent intent to cast a dark ominous shadow on the Tea Party in the midst of a Presidential election years. Again, past was prologue in 2004, when Dan Rather’s equally sinister design was to place doubt and suspicion in the minds of an unsuspecting...
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I think they should keep him. We need him in the media to make fun of.
All they are is propagandists using the only tool in their toolbox. Doing what they do best, smearing innocent people to advance their filthy politics.
Why bother, you say?
Mr. Holmes should bother because the left will not let a “crisis” go to waste...they will nail you any way they can, if given the opportunity.
Mr. Holmes has the opportunity and the ammo to file a lawsuit against Ross, Stephanopoulos and their employers. I hope he goes for it. The left and their media need to be dealt with any time an opportunity comes up. Mr. Holmes need to go for the jugular. Go, Johnny, go!
That’s the problem. He only had to put it out once. Now nutjobs are threatening an innocent man. And the apology was issued ON LINE instead of being broadcast. So there are a lot of people who missed that and will always believe the shooter was in the Tea Party.
They should fire him for just being a moron.
Its idiotic reporting that is killing the mass media so you can say he is firing them all in the long run. The more garbage like this happens, the less people tune in to the lame stream media.
Yes.
Ross AND “Step on all of us.”
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules.“You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
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According to Edward Klein’s new book, The Amateur, Ross spilled the beans about Jeremiah Wright when his journalistic colleagues were conspiratorially keeping a tight lid on his identity and his relationship with Zero.
So, just in case he might do it again, I’d keep him around.
The problem is that Rather’;s target was a moderate Republican, Bush, and his liberal father. Rove and their other lackies will keep quiet about what Ross and “Steppenwolf” are doing, because they are opposed to the Tea Party folks as welll
The problem is that Rather’;s target was a moderate Republican, Bush, and his liberal father. Rove and their other lackies will keep quiet about what Ross and “Steppenwolf” are doing, because they are opposed to the Tea Party folks as welll
The problem is that Rather’;s target was a moderate Republican, Bush, and his liberal father. Rove and their other lackies will keep quiet about what Ross and “Steppenwolf” are doing, because they are opposed to the Tea Party folks as welll
If nothing else, they should can him for simply being a liberal a - - hole.
ABC should fire both Ross and Stephsyphillis or whatever his name is.
I hope the innocent Colorado man sues those two pseudo-journalists and their network.
I say amen to this article. Ross and Stephy should resign.
You know, now we can spread the word far and wide that whatever we hear from these two are actually 0bama/Jarrett/Axelrod’s words in Whiteface.
Yes
Since he came up with a James Holmes joining the Tea Party, he would have had to purposely search for "James Holmes + Tea Party. Guilty.
I sure would if I expected to sell papers here in this country!
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