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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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McNamara31 | Jul 21, 2012, 01:31 PM EDT

Now the NRA is backing legislation to allow college students to carry guns on campus. "Some of us" realize we are living in 2012 with the rest of the globe, and the answers are not simply to arm everyone and have a shoot out. Your idea of comparing the size of a soda to the slaughters that keep happening in the U.S. is ridiculous and I think the Colorado victims would feel the same. Yes, we do have to regulate because you have idiots and maniacs out there and the greedy NRA just waiting to sell them arsenals of weapons.

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Monsoonman | Jul 21, 2012, 12:53 PM EDT

The nut has bombs in his apt....I thought they were against the law?

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Monsoonman | Jul 21, 2012, 12:43 PM EDT

I see the nanny staters are out in force thinking another regulation, or law will make it a perfect world, like your head nanny Bloomberg, wants to abolish large drinks of soda, plus ban the evil gun....How's the most heavily gun egulated cities of Chicago-New York-Washington DC doing? CRIME and CRIMINALS kill people..no matter what the weapon

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McNamara31 | Jul 21, 2012, 11:34 AM EDT

When "they" talk about no regulation, or deregulation this is the world "they" create. When is enough , enough for a push back at the NRA's hold on our politic's and our safety.This is the second major incident of slaughter in Colorado; how many more do "they" want? The founding fathers ( so often quoted by NRA supporters) wanted Americans to be able to protect their homes, not to have maniac's walking the streets slaughtering people as Zimmerman and Holmes have done.

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seanomelb | Jul 21, 2012, 02:04 AM EDT

They don't exist Mman.Roo's like all Aussies are cool and gentle.They only become a nuisance on the golf course and we cannot have that Mman.

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Monsoonman | Jul 20, 2012, 08:27 PM EDT

Lad...these were semi automatics, not fully. What is disturbing tho is that he was totally in body armor and had gas canisters....What do you use to protect yourselves from marauding gangs of roos?

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seanomelb | Jul 20, 2012, 07:49 PM EDT

Only in America where the gun is God. The continued sale of military weapons in the USA is crazy and only serves the needs of the siege mentality of some Americans.

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Monsoonman | Jul 20, 2012, 07:01 PM EDT

Hey Daddy, go talk to your left wing media who try to twist this tragedy for political gain...Is there any depth "you people" won't slink to use for political advantage?

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joepen5 | Jul 20, 2012, 03:19 PM EDT

That's ridiculous.

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DaddyMac22 | Jul 20, 2012, 02:00 PM EDT

Have a bit of common decency and put your angry, ugly politics on hold until the poor victims are even buried. Don't bother defending yourself by saying 'everyone else is doing it' - show some responsibility, take this down and think about those poor dead people, and stop defending your ugly right wing politics.

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