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.
sarc/
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.
No one will believe this. /s
I can’t believe you actually posted that.
Re; I can’t believe you actually posted that.
I Agree That was the SICKEST post I have ever seen!!!
Not nice.
Maybe that post was motivated by alcohol intake and this person is not as miserable as it would appear.
Wow. Just wow.
Indeed. A most vile and contemptible post. Uncalled for and totally lacking humanity, humility or compassion.
Some folks need a huge cup of STFU!
I’ve reported it to the mods.
A most vile and contemptible post. Uncalled for and totally lacking humanity, humility or compassion.
Probably best to delete your post.
Thanks.
And do you really want to attack his mother? Should the world hold your mother responsible for all you do? Should you be held responsible for the acts of your child(ren)?
Your post was highly inappropriate. We're all pissed at the cowardly punk who murdered and victimized so many. But until and unless his mother defends her son's cowardly acts she deserves our sympathy not scorn.
Almost ten. The poster was correct. That's because of the speed of the New York minute.
Kind of you to say...but I admit I was wrong.
I was the one in a rush.
I was just poking fun. :)
Nova Scotia is in the Atlantic timezone in which case it would be 10 Noo Yawk time...
But I do give credence to the Noo Yawk Minute concept.
I’m sick and tired of humanity and compassion for parents that loose their progeny on society to murder over a dozen innocents! As a parent I believe others bear responsibility for what their offspring do!
The millions upon millions of dollars, over the cost of lives, should be heaped upon the heads of these clueless parent figures!
STFU? That’s the rallying cry of an America that buries their heads in the sand! Look what that’s got us!
Suck it up, Gator!
In the early 50’s I actually drank out of one of those tin cups in a battlefield situation.
Did you?
Then you’ll get a medal!
How much have you donated to this website?
Well thanks for cuttine me some non-needed slack!
My vent is against parents that haven’t a clue how their children are progressing and what they’ve turned into!
Well thanks for cutting me some non-needed slack!
My vent is against parents that haven’t a clue how their children are progressing and what they’ve turned into!
Some children are just born evil. I'm sorry to say that, but I believe it to be the true. And such a belief is not contrary to a Judeo-Christian worldview: We are, after all, born with original sin; and though most of us never commit such a great evil, we are all capable of doing evil.
Thank God all my children grew up without ever displaying any kind of criminal behavior. But I do tell myself "there but for the grace of God go I..."
I see, you were in the battlefield so you can be an asshole. No, I was never in combat.
Shocking... shocking I tell you. It says a lot that in these times it’s easier to believe the mother of a mass murderer rather than what is supposed to be reputable news gathering organization.
This is the kind of nonsense that will tip the scales towards Obama in November... how does any conservative candidate have a chance when the media is so bent these days...
Gator, calling me a ‘nasty’ name doesn’t get you any kudos. It takes a real slime to slime someone else on this website for expressing their feelings abour parenthood!
I’m not surprised you were never in combat as it’s more comfortable for you to hide behind an alias!
Maybe not ... but the "report" was made in the very same "news" cast as Brian Ross's slander of the Tea Party member.
Btw, I called BS the very first time I heard this "report" about what the mother said.
It was obvious to me this was yet another piece of myth-making on the part of the MSM.
Really? Only one?
Then you are old enough to know better.
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