Posted on 07/23/2012 3:43:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Arlene Holmes, the mother of Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes, has suggested that ABC News mischaracterized her when it reported that her initial statement to the reporter, "you have the right person," was a reference to her son.
"This statement is to clarify a statement made by ABC media. I was awakened by a call from a reporter by ABC on July 20 about 5:45 in the morning. I did not know anything about a shooting in Aurora at that time," Holmes said in a statement this afternoon, read to the national press by attorney Lisa Damiani. "He asked if I was Arlene Holmes and if my son was James Holmes who lives in Aurora, Colorado. I answered yes, you have the right person. I was referring to myself."
"I asked him to tell me why he was calling and he told me about a shooting in Aurora," she continues. "He asked for a comment. I told him I could not comment because I did not know if the person he was talking about was my son, and I would need to find out."
In the first paragraph of its initial report on Friday, ABC News reported that it had identified the correct James Holmes because his mother "told ABC News her son was likely the alleged culprit, saying, 'You have the right person.'"
If Arlene Holmes' latest statement is true, it means that she did not tell ABC News her son was likely the alleged culprit, calling into question the reporting of a network that has already been marred by one inaccuracy.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Another lawsuit?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/07/abc-news-tea-party-connection-incorrect-129588.html
They have a history of lies.
ABC News needs to be shut down.
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aBS, cBS, and nBS are really stepping it with this story.
Yeah, but that’s almost ten in Noo Yawk.
abc with the likes of stepnfetchit and gRoss should be just mortified... but then they wouldn’t be abc.
abc with the likes of stepnfetchit and gRoss should be just mortified... but then they wouldn’t be abc.
ABC lies again?
SHOCKING!
That would be "almost nine".
Can we say “unexpected”?
Was she in the Pacific Ocean?
What shocks me it that Politico is reporting this.
I’d expect to hear it from Rush or Beck.
Imagining the phone call to her the dual interpretation possibility of “you have the right person” fragment ate at me too as every outlet who picked it up was running with only one. The silver lining here is that the incompetence and malice of ABC is on full display. Hopefully it’s instructive to the uninitiated and they are legion, believe or not. Sometimes we forget that.
Why the sarc tag? Everything you said was perfectly true.
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