Media breathlessly tries to tie Colorado shooter to Tea Party
By: Ed Farnan | Published Friday, July 20, 2012, 10:16 PM | Updated Friday, July 20, 2012, 10:16 PM
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------------------------
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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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.seanomelb | Jul 30, 2012, 11:40 PM EDT
Wouldn't that make you hopping mad!!LOL Mman
Monsoonman | Jul 30, 2012, 08:40 PM EDT
Sorry Lad, it wasn't McDonalds who bought all of the roo meat, it was Jack in the Box restaurants, when they were owned by the pet food company, Ralston Purina...But carry on
seanomelb | Jul 30, 2012, 07:09 PM EDT
nothing as tender as a roo fillet BTW Mman a little roo history.During the seventies Australia exported thousands of tons of manufacturing beef to McDonald's in the US. A meat substitution racket was uncovered and Roo meat mixed with beef was exported. I hope you enjoyed the hopping burgers.Australia jailed some meat company execs and all was forgiven.Roo is low in fat therefore we contributed to a healthier diet for you Mman.
Monsoonman | Jul 29, 2012, 10:41 PM EDT
Cool...I'm surprised they allow you steak knives to cut those tough roo steaks. :) I suppose it is against the law to run with a knife or a sharp pencil as well in 0z.
seanomelb | Jul 29, 2012, 10:03 PM EDT
They are where I live Mman in fact carrying a concealed kitchen knife is an offense.I wonder if I can carry a concealed golf club!! probably not it can be construed as a hidden weapon.
Monsoonman | Jul 29, 2012, 08:44 PM EDT
Lad..I know you have respect for guns and know how to use them. Therefore you know guns dont kill people, people do. Did you know the vast majority of the 800K innocent people killed in Rwanda were killed w/machetes? Why are they not controlled, licensed?
seanomelb | Jul 29, 2012, 07:01 PM EDT
Oops! Mman it matters not what religious group helps to halt the murder of the innocent or helps in the demise of street(gun) violence.And you are right my heart bleeds for the thousands who die In schools, theatres on the streets or in stupid wars overseas.
Monsoonman | Jul 28, 2012, 09:57 PM EDT
Lad...I don't know what news source you get in 0z...Prolly ending in nbc of some kind. But yr bleeding heart: murder of innocent young man phrase is off the mark. Most of the killing is thug on thug
seanomelb | Jul 28, 2012, 06:06 PM EDT
It matters not what religious group helps stop the murder of the innocent y man.
Monsoonman | Jul 28, 2012, 12:49 PM EDT
Perhaps the "fruit of Islam" should provide security for all election activities in Chicago to insure fair elections? At the very least the UN should step in, don't you think Lad?
seanomelb | Jul 27, 2012, 07:11 PM EDT
If what you say is true Mman and he can help stop gun violence in Chicago fine.It's the opposite to the GOP selling guns to the Mullahs and using the money to murder kids in central America. Maybe he should ask Ollie North for that advice.
Monsoonman | Jul 27, 2012, 01:01 PM EDT
I see Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel must be reading Irish Central. He has just enlisted Nation of Islam leader, racist/misogynist, Louis Farakhan to help stop street murders. That's a good solution to gun violence, eh Lad?
seanomelb | Jul 25, 2012, 07:38 PM EDT
Now Mman trying to justify collateral damage and excuse 9000 deaths each year.If this figure is "infinitesimal" why is it in country's like Canada and Australia it's 100 times lower than your "infinitesimal"Therefore safer places to live by a factor of 100/1. To mischievously mention the President in the debate is below your dignity Mman.
Monsoonman | Jul 25, 2012, 01:13 PM EDT
Noting that the most gun related killings in the US are on 0bamas home turf of Chicago. Home to the nations most stricts gun laws and products of generational welfare-nanny state mentality
Monsoonman | Jul 24, 2012, 10:34 PM EDT
Lad 9K out of 330 mill is infinitesimal. Most of those killed are criminals & thugs. Small % are innocent collateral damage.
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.
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"?
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
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.
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
seanomelb | Jul 23, 2012, 06:59 PM EDT
The NRA is the enabler of mass murderers.
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...
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?
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.
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
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)
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.
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
McNamara31 | Jul 21, 2012, 04:41 PM EDT
No...All it takes is the "village idiot" with an assault weapon!
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
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.
Monsoonman | Jul 21, 2012, 12:53 PM EDT
The nut has bombs in his apt....I thought they were against the law?
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
joepen5 | Jul 20, 2012, 03:19 PM EDT
That's ridiculous.
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.