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ABC News Admits 'Incorrectly' Linking Tea Party to Mass Murder in Colorado
MRC ^ | 7/20/2012 | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 07/20/2012 12:54:16 PM PDT by South40

Three hours after reporter Brian Ross attempted to connect a mass killing in Colorado to the Tea Party, ABC News admitted that the story on Good Morning America was "incorrect." The retraction was added to the top of an existing online article about the murders.

The story conceded, "An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect." [Update: Ross has now admitted his error on live ABC coverage.]

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abc; biasinthemedia; msmbias; teaparty
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From the 'comments' section of the article:
I heard from the sister of a friend of a friend that it was the James Holmes who had handed out Obama literature in 2008 and he got his weapons from Eric Holder.
1 posted on 07/20/2012 12:54:19 PM PDT by South40
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To: South40

The problem is, only 1% of those who heard the original allegation by the maggots at abc actually heard the “correction”.


2 posted on 07/20/2012 12:56:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Who is Barack Hussein Obama?)
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To: South40

ABC = All Biased Bigoted Coverage


3 posted on 07/20/2012 12:58:40 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
And ABC will do it again.
4 posted on 07/20/2012 12:59:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: South40

Here is a Brian Ross, who is part of the Kiss Army...
I found through use of the interwebs:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/brian.ross.754

This MAY be the same Brian Ross who works for ABC News.

Unsourced journalism - so easy, a caveman can do it.


5 posted on 07/20/2012 1:00:00 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: South40

Unring that bell, you lying crooks.


7 posted on 07/20/2012 1:01:15 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: South40

The “Smear” was made as the East Coast were preparing to go to work, (the swing states of Ohio and Florida). The appology comes mid afternoon when nobody see’s it.

Guess it’s better than no appology at all.


8 posted on 07/20/2012 1:02:31 PM PDT by swamprebel (Where liberty dwells, there is my country.)
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To: SandRat
ABC's Brian Ross reported this morning that there is "a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea party site... talking about him joining the Tea Party last year."

I hope that individual sues them for slander.

9 posted on 07/20/2012 1:02:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

“I hope that individual sues them for slander. “

My guess is that the legal department made ABC apolgize for that very reason. Otherwise ABC would have let it go.


10 posted on 07/20/2012 1:09:07 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: South40

How about blaming Quentin Tarintino? Didn’t he make a movie about murdering people in a movie theater?


11 posted on 07/20/2012 1:09:26 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: South40

This has the potential for a class-action slander suit on behalf of Tea Party members everywhere. It demonstrates a wanton and wilful disregard for the truth resulting in a damaged perception of the Tea Party organization. If I published an article saying that a thousand people stricken with diarrhea ate ABC Animal Crackers without even cursorily checking whether they had or if they had, whether there was any causal link, I would be guilty of libeling ABC Animal Crackers.


12 posted on 07/20/2012 1:10:12 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: ozzymandus
Didn’t he make a movie about murdering people in a movie theater?

I wouldn't call killin' Nat-zis murder.

13 posted on 07/20/2012 1:11:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: South40

This has the potential for a class-action slander suit on behalf of Tea Party members everywhere. It demonstrates a wanton and wilful disregard for the truth resulting in a damaged perception of the Tea Party organization. If I published an article saying that a thousand people stricken with diarrhea ate ABC Animal Crackers without even cursorily checking whether they had or if they had, whether there was any causal link, I would be guilty of libeling ABC Animal Crackers.


14 posted on 07/20/2012 1:13:09 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: dfwgator
I wouldn't call killin' Nat-zis murder.


15 posted on 07/20/2012 1:15:06 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: South40
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16 posted on 07/20/2012 1:16:42 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Servant of the Cross

“You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-taking business, we’re in the killin’ Nat-zi business...and cousin’...business is a-boomin’”


17 posted on 07/20/2012 1:17:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: South40

Nothing could more clearly illustrate the biased mental template of our “defenders of the truth” in the media. Their first instinct is to blame everything bad on the evil “right wing.”


18 posted on 07/20/2012 1:21:09 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: South40

Don’t think it takes a genius to realize James and Holmes and even the combo James Holmes might not be a rare name in the United States. Of course, they knew exactly what they were doing.


19 posted on 07/20/2012 1:23:34 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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Click.

MSM

20 posted on 07/20/2012 1:24:41 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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