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Rollie Chance, misidentified as Navy Yard shooter, demands media accountability
Washington Post ^ | 9/20/2013 | Tom Jackman

Posted on 09/20/2013 6:15:18 PM PDT by markomalley

Rollie Chance was home in Stafford, about 40 miles south of Washington, when he began watching the news about the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard Monday morning. A retired Navy lieutenant, he had worked in Building 197 on the fourth floor and was worried that some of his friends and former colleagues might have been killed.

Then shortly after noon, he got a phone call from someone who said they were with ABC News. “They asked me if I knew Rollie Chance,” Rollie Chance said. “Then they said, ‘Did you know Rollie Chance was the perpetrator of the Washington Navy Yard shootings?’”

Chance, 50, thought the call was a joke. He told the caller, “I guarantee you 100 percent Rollie Chance didn’t do it,” and hung up.

Moments later, FBI agents arrived at his home. Soon after, reporters began piling up at the curb. And on Twitter, reporters for both NBC and CBS named Chance as the now-deceased killer. CBS also identified Chance on national radio. ABC, which called Chance, did not report any connection.

The two network news outlets quickly retracted their tweets and CBS corrected its radio report. But Chance is wondering how he will ever erase the accusatory Internet trail that led to his door and is trying to work through days of anxiety for his family, including his 9-year-old daughter, whom he held out of school for a day.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: navyyardshooting; rolliechance
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1 posted on 09/20/2013 6:15:18 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

“demands media accountability”

Now THAT is funny.


2 posted on 09/20/2013 6:18:03 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: markomalley
He's going to need to get some rope. Quite a bit of it.

/johnny

3 posted on 09/20/2013 6:21:15 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: markomalley

“Reports of my murder spree and death have been greatly exaggerated...”

A Twitter-er posted a picture of him. He looked nothing like a murderous rampager!


4 posted on 09/20/2013 6:22:14 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: markomalley
NBC News officials said in a statement: “We received misinformation from reliable sources and immediately corrected.”

Another MSM example of fake, but accurate.

5 posted on 09/20/2013 6:23:40 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: mrsmith

It seems that according to the MSM, all black people look alike.


6 posted on 09/20/2013 6:27:38 PM PDT by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: markomalley; Old Sarge; boxlunch; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; sweetiepiezer; txnuke; ...

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Ping.

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7 posted on 09/20/2013 6:33:36 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: markomalley

Is that similar to the new AR-15 Shotgun that was just invented out of thin air by the LSM?


8 posted on 09/20/2013 6:33:39 PM PDT by Southern by Grace (kickbacks, bribes, maifia payoffs is how the D's get R' done!)
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To: Southern by Grace

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010/02/12/atis-new-12-gauge-ar-15-patterned-shotgun/


9 posted on 09/20/2013 6:34:42 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: markomalley
"It's not the truth or accuracy of the report that matters, but the seriousness of the charge!"

Let's accuse, nationwide, all the network talking heads of child molestation, and see if they consider that a trivial inconvenience.

10 posted on 09/20/2013 6:36:36 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: markomalley

Rollie should change his first name to “Little” and he’ll see the answer.


11 posted on 09/20/2013 6:42:24 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: publius911

A friend of a friend of a friend whose name I don’t know told me that Brian Williams likes little girls.


12 posted on 09/20/2013 6:44:41 PM PDT by rocksblues (The Obama administration the most unlawful, corrupt administration in US history.)
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To: LucyT

He was on Greta last night and she told him at the least the media should have to get all the pictures of the perk with his name on it off the net. Media should have to get the job done no matter the cost


13 posted on 09/20/2013 6:49:39 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: LucyT

Where did theyget this man ‘s name in the first place? I missed a lot of this.


14 posted on 09/20/2013 6:52:08 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: markomalley

I remember that on CNN Coyote Blitzer turned to the screen and asked the infamous CNN query “Jake, what are you learning, what do you know”? Then came the Rollie Chance, the “shotgun”, AR-15, and pistols.

I can only imagine Coyote Blitzer on CNN turning to the screen and saying, “Well Jake, we sure f—ked that up. We didn’t get sh!t right this time you dumb lazy turd. Now Jake, we got to go grovel to some black guy and humble ourselves and violate the natural order by admitting as Progressives we have actually made a mistake. I hope they fire your dumb a$$ Jake.”


15 posted on 09/20/2013 6:53:14 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Excessive numbers of coincidences are known as patterns.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

I guess I wasn’t there for it but you can buy one for 6 bills and change. Sounds like I really need one of those too!

Have to see the banker (wife) to see if the bank is solvent at the juncture...


16 posted on 09/20/2013 6:54:08 PM PDT by Southern by Grace (kickbacks, bribes, maifia payoffs is how the D's get R' done!)
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To: Southern by Grace

They do make a shotgun that looks like an AR.


17 posted on 09/20/2013 7:09:32 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: Southern by Grace

Like white hispanic.


18 posted on 09/20/2013 7:14:18 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: markomalley

He should change his name to Richard Jewell.


19 posted on 09/20/2013 7:20:01 PM PDT by TChad
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To: markomalley

This is the first I have heard of this. The poor man must have been scared out of his wits.


20 posted on 09/20/2013 7:39:03 PM PDT by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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