THE TEA PARTY familiar with being wrongly blamed after horrific tragedies...
It’s now a familiar knee-jerk reaction: The tea party movement is blamed in the immediate aftermath of a horrific tragedy.
The end result is also familiar: Those suggesting the tea party is responsible are proven wrong.
Brian Ross of ABC News became the latest person to end up with egg on his face after news of the Batman shooting massacre in Colorado broke Friday. On ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday morning, Ross rushed to report that someone with the same name as 24-year-old suspect James Holmes was listed as a member of the Colorado Tea Party Patriots.
There’s a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colo., page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the tea party last year,” Ross told host George Stephanopoulos. “Now, we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes. But it’s Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colo.”
“The mainstream media’s handling of this situation is reckless, bordering on journalistic malpractice,” Colorado Tea Party spokesman Jason Worley said Friday. “I can’t help but wonder if the very common name had been listed somewhere on an Occupy [Wall Street] website if the media would have been as quick to beg the question.
ABC News apologized shortly after Ross’ report, realizing the tea party member wasn’t the suspect. The James Holmes they referenced is actually a 52-year-old man unconnected to the shootings.
And yet, this is hardly the first time media speculation has incorrectly linked the tea party movement to a massacre.
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Lord Emperor of Dune 2012/07/21 19:48:44
+4So, we have a party whose sole aim is to restore a sense if tradition and values to an America who has been destroyed by liberal policies for nearly a century. Why is a strong, united America so frightening for Americans? Why vilify the Tea Party? Because if the Tea Party were to have their way, it would spell an end to entitlement and government control. It's frightening to be able to walk on your own, but we are going to have to do it again someday
I had no idea Palin made that.
I think your mind has become addled with your hatred for Sarah Palin.
just like the rest of the OBEY-ME agenda!
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However, let me tell you the difference. One was a person that was expressing his own personal view while another was someone that probably within minutes of hearing about the shootings went online to search Tea Party (as well as probably NRA and numerous other organizations associated with the right) registries looking for a tie. He also went on to report it without confirming it. Granted he did say it “wasn’t confirmed if it was the same guy” but he chose to throw the accusation out there anyway. Believe me; this was intentional. I have seen the tweets out there and some people are still going with it.
That's only a LibTard activity.
Kinda typical.
#2. Get over yourself.
"We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised... when all hell breaks loose."
Search for the very first post about the theater shooting here on SH, who do you think was blamed?
This sort of thing is especially bad when on public media.
attorney's....and what have you got.?....In the end the message is dicovered to have been lost in the "translation". I say "consider the source....then discount any truth in the statement..."