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Media breathlessly tries to tie Colorado shooter to Tea Party

Posted on Friday, July 20, 2012 at 11:40 AM

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The masked and heavily armed shooter burst into the crowded Aurora Colorado theater, threw a gas canister of some kind, then opened up with semi-automatic weapons into the confused and horrified crowd. The attack seemed thoroughly planned, the gunman wore a gas mask and had full body armor on. He was immune to the effects of the gas and in case any among the crowd was armed, he was protected.

In the wake of this brutal assault, 12 lay dead and perhaps another 50 lay wounded amongst the mostly young crowd who had jammed the theater to see the opening night of the new Batman movie, "Dark Knight Rising."

But while the smoke still swirled in that tragic theatre, news first hit the wires the shooters name was Jim Holmes....Internet search engines immediately were engaged to look him up to see if he was a registered Republican or if he was a member of the Tea Party.

This is shades of the Congresswoman Gabby Giffords shooting in Arizona. Almost as soon as the shooting happened the media and local partisan politicians immediately assumed this was a Tea Party inspired shooting and went about to make it a fact by stating it early and often.

The main stream media had almost everyone convinced the Gabby Giffords shooter was a crazed Tea Party member. Only later did the real facts emerge that the shooter was an unstable, delusional lone gunman,.

In the Giffords shooting, the media made up a story and went with it, regardless of the facts...It fit a pre conceived idea they had about the Tea Party and it conveniently fit a narrative they wanted to build about the need for gun control and make an assault on our 2nd Amendment rights...It was a two-fer.
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Read about Gabby Giffords here:

Left wing jumped the gun in Tucson shooting

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This morning the main stream media was chomping at the bit to pin this on the Tea Party.

On ABC's Good Morning America, Former Clinton media adviser and Democrat operative, George Stephanopolous, breathlessly interviewed Brian Ross on the scene in Colorado. Ross reported the shooter might be a member of the Tea Party as he had found a man by the name of Jim Holmes registered as an Aurora Colorado member.

Here is the interchange as reported in Breitbart News: The Usual Suspects: ABC's Ross, Stephanolpoulos Point to Tea Party in Dark Knight Shooting UPDATE: Wrong Jim Holmes?

The mainstream media and politicians should be careful to jump the gun again in this tragedy, or else they could be thoroughly discredited and embarrassed like they were after the Gabby Giffords shooting. Lets wait to see all of the facts come out about this tragedy before jumping to conclusions.

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seanomelb | Jul 24, 2012, 08:08 PM EDT

25 people a day are shot in the USA thats about 9,000 people a year. give me the nanny state any day. I'm afraid Mman your monoracial remark could be construed as a racial slur I suggest you never wear a hoody.

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BigDaddy | Jul 24, 2012, 09:49 AM EDT

OK, then monsoon, if the population of Norway is monoracial(?) and you deduce that makes them ripe for a nanny state (I'm unsure how you make that quantum leap but anyway,do you always speak in Rush Limbaughisms) who is it that you feel the need to be protected from? Would you give up your gun if America was entirely "monoracial"?

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Monsoonman | Jul 23, 2012, 11:14 PM EDT

The USA has 60 times the pop of Norway and a wildly diverse bunch of folks. Norway is monoracial, the size of a US city. Ripe for nanny statism, the US is not. We need guns to protect ourselves...So do the Norwegians it seems

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McNamara31 | Jul 23, 2012, 09:51 PM EDT

The mass killings in Norway happened once in their history. Compare those stats to the U.S.where gun violence and mass killings grow each year.

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Monsoonman | Jul 23, 2012, 09:42 PM EDT

The NRA is not in Norway...What do you attribute the 77 murders and 150 wounded to 1 gunman to? Lone gunman had nothing to fear from his unarmed victims, residents of the nanny state of Norway

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seanomelb | Jul 23, 2012, 06:59 PM EDT

The NRA is the enabler of mass murderers.

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Monsoonman | Jul 22, 2012, 08:55 PM EDT

Since no one knows who Jim is. It was on the newswires & all search engines know what trends, the 1st searches were to see if shooter was in tea party or member of GOP. Listen to stephanopolous and brian ross try to gin up the tea party angle...

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BigDaddy | Jul 22, 2012, 08:00 PM EDT

Jim, just out of curiosity, how do you know that search engines were whirring with activity hoping to connect this to the Tea Party? And how do you know this was done breathlessly?

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McNamara31 | Jul 22, 2012, 09:44 AM EDT

***In the home for the purpose of self-defense*** This is the Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment: "The Second Amendment protects the right to possess a handgun in the home for the purpose of self-defense,” Alito said. “A provision of the Bill of Rights that protects a right that is fundamental from an American perspective applies equally to the federal government and the states.”“The Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self-defense,” Breyer wrote.

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Monsoonman | Jul 21, 2012, 10:00 PM EDT

But there's a pesky part of the constitution known as the 2nd Amendment which guarantees the right of all US citizens to have firearms. So that wont work, unless you want a new country

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McNamara31 | Jul 21, 2012, 08:41 PM EDT

The problem with gun accessibility has to be dealt with on a federal level. And those stats you quoted must have been from this past June, when the state GOP had their 2012 convention in Chicago. (just joking)

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seanomelb | Jul 21, 2012, 08:03 PM EDT

There are to many Wyatt Earp's in the USA (millions of them) they need to have their trigger happy fingers clipped with common sense gun laws. From 1965 to 1975 80,000 Americans died from gunshots and in the same period 50,000 died in Vietnam,what a cruel waste of life.

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Monsoonman | Jul 21, 2012, 07:33 PM EDT

I noticed you glided over the FACT the most strict gun control city of Chicago is also the deadliest for violent murder? More deadly than Afghanistan and Iraq most weekends...waiting for your answer

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McNamara31 | Jul 21, 2012, 04:41 PM EDT

No...All it takes is the "village idiot" with an assault weapon!

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Monsoonman | Jul 21, 2012, 01:53 PM EDT

Takes a village right? I vote for carry and conceal, or open carry for every law abiding citizen in the US. How many mass shootings do you see in Israel? None/seldom, because they get nipped in the bud by armed citizens

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