Other James Holmes receives threats and disconnects phone (Unbelievable)

The Examiner ^ | 7/20/2012 | Dean Chambers

[tobyhill]

Within minutes of the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting, Brian Ross of ABC News reports to George Stephanopoulos that a man named James Holmes, same first and last name as the reported suspect, is listed as member of a local Tea Party group. Ross speculates, with any proof to connect them, that this James Holmes is the suspect. A search on PeopleSmart.com finds no fewer than 12 individuals sharing that same first and last name.

Mark Steyn, substituting for Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show today, reports that the James Holmes who is listed with the local Tea Party group has received several threatening calls from what Steyn calls “left wing loonies.” As a result, Holmes request and have his own phone disconnected to stop the harassing phone calls he's received as a result of the speculation by the media that he might be the shooting suspect.

[daler]

I imagine he'll get a huge settlement, until Obama vetoes it.

Yes, I'm aware that presidents aren't supposed to be able to do that; but, Obama will anyway.

[The Antiyuppie]

“The peace loving left now want to murder people with the same name as James Holmes. I tell ya, liberalism is a mental disease.”

The Terminator did basically the same thing, and he seemed pretty smart...for a robot...:)

[beelzepug]

Wasn’t It? I know this was a bad day but those guys had me in stitches. Way to turn the Alinsky tactics back on the left and ridicule the crap out of them.

[Carriage Hill]

I heard him and the other 2 doing that routine; I was laughing so hard the tears were running down my face. The enormity of Aurora just hadn’t quite sunk-in at that point, for me. Now it has, and I want those ABC/Ross bastards SUED-TO-DEATH and DESTROYED!

[upchuck]

I'll speculate that when Brian Ross discovered that the shooter was a Tea Party member he began to salivate excessively, had an orgasm and broke a finger trying to get Stephie on his cell phone.

I'll further speculate that Ross spent zero time attempting to verify the truth of his suspicion.

http://www.whitepages.com/name/James-Holmes/Colorado

[Hardraade]

Jeppers. Between not getting any sleep, x-files with cannibals and floor scrubbing :).

[MikeSteelBe]

Blaming the commies for the Reichstag fire worked for the Nazis, so I’m not surprised ABC is not letting this crisis go to waste.

Fascist is as fascist does.

[MarkL]

Shades of Richard Jewell.

The media ruined his life. I don’t recall if he got any death threats. But he was crucified in the media, he endured personal slurs from the media who proclaimed him guilty of the bombing.

The media did the same to George Zimmerman. He’s been declared guilty in the press. People speaking of the case refer to his committing murder. Frankly, he should have gotten the hell out of the USA when he had a chance. Because he’s been convicted in the media, and on the off chance that he’s found “not guilty,” you can bet he’ll be sued, and probably brought up on federal charges as well. There’s no way he’ll ever get a “fair” trial, and they’ll keep bringing charges against him until he’s convicted or murdered.

Now we’ve got the national media slurring innocent people, who immediately begin getting death threats. GMA and ABC needs to be held accountable for anything that happens to people who happen to have the same name.

Mark