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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Is there any truth to the allegations that the killer is the homosexual bondage slave of ABC’s Brian Ross who also financed the purchase of the guns and ammunition used in the attack?
If Mr. Ross denies those allegations, what kind of proof can he provide that they are false?
Inquiring minds want to know?
Translation: “We’re sorry, and we’ll do it again, every chance we get!”
“ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.”
Sorry you got caught trying to propagandize an awful tragedy. Go to blazes ABC, and kindly perform an anatomically impossible act on yourself, Brian Ross. (i.e. go bleep yourself!)
If they start a legal fund to pursue this, I am in
Uh, sorry in my previous post meaning ABC is only sorry because they got caught.
source?
Brain Ross indecency with a 10 yr old child...... a minor via the Internet for the purpose of having sex, jail records show. ... After officers brought the girls to police headquarters!
Oh, this isn't the same Ross guy on the tube you say?....you see I too can grab chit from the Internet and run with it...ALA Brain Ross against the Tea Party!! Two can play the same game!!
Over four thousand people named James Holmes living in this country, and he was so sure that he was the same one who joined the tea party. ;-)
How much time has he spent investigating the name 0bama?
David Burge @iowahawkblog ABC News' Brian Ross arrested for being 'habitual violator' in SC http://augustacrime.com/brian-ross/
David Burge @iowahawkblog ABC News' Brian Ross arrested for driving on suspended license in FL http://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Brian_Ross_8087443/
David Burge @iowahawkblog ABC News' Brian Ross a registered FL sex offender http://www.sexoffenderin.com/reg68950/brian_ross_scottmugshot.htm
Someone ought to file a defamation lawsuit immediately.
This stuff has now gone beyond just a liberal media bias. Every single time something like this happens, the left-wing media fish and hunt for any shred of “evidence” that can link conservatives or tea partiers to any crime whatsoever.
Despite the fact that unlike Occupy, Tea party rallies, cleans up and goes home like regular Americans. All these facts don’t matter. “Vetting” doesn’t matter to the media when they let their inherit bias overcome the quest for the truth.
This is how communists spread propaganda and hate, they place the blame on a group of people or a belief
"Never let a crisis go to waste"
1 - Get your narative out early. Fill the information vacuum before the true facts are known.
2 - Apologize later - people will still remember your version.
Now they can get onto the real story of this kid being an Occupy terrorist. ...Coming soon, ...er, well, coming sometime, maybe.
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Security Guard Richard Jewell was blamed by WABC 770am NYC morning drive radio host ‘Lionel’ (a liberal democrat attorney) for the Atlanta bombing over and over again
‘Lionel’ and WABC were sued bigtime for Tons O’ Bucks - and lost..... BIGTIME
Is Ross a paid agent of the DNC or just another true-believer?
They did exactly what they wanted to do, and that was try and associate the killings with the one threat the MSM hates the most.
Their apology is insincere and bogus.
” Evil White Hispanic”?
“Breitbart News spoke to James Michael Holmes, the Tea Party member falsely identified this morning by ABC News’ Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America as the possible suspect in the mass shooting early this morning at a screening of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. He is a 52-year-old Hispanic conservative who joined the Tea Party after becoming disillusioned with the Republican party.”
According to the MSM all crimes are “tea-party” crimes until proven otherwise.
Definitely purposeful.
It wasn’t a report -it was an opinion plain and simple.
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