While it may be true that they got the information from outside the ABC organization, that doesn't excuse the fact that they friggin tripped over themselves to report it, rather than investigate first. The whole focus of the "apology" is to blame the source rather than their own libtard agenda for making them careless and irresponsible.
Using Intelius and google it took me all of two minutes to discover that there were at least 8 James Holmes in Aurora and find the Tea Party page and see that that Jim Holmes intends to see Brigitte Gabriel next Thursday. Two minutesand these partisan hacks Steffi and Ross wouldn’t take two minutes to verify their info.And Ross had already been on line, only his google search went this way...
James Holmes: Tea Party: Aurora Colorado.
No doubt they would have been MUCH more careful had this guy had connections with obama.
This should remind us to also be very careful who we propose as perps in various situations.