Saturday, July 21, 2012

Predictable reactions to the Colorado shootings

When in doubt, blame the Tea Party!  "Tea partiers across the nation have always responded to these types of attempts to vilify in a very dignified, gracious manner.  But now it is getting to the point where these sorts of accusations no longer merit the dignity of a response from Tea Party groups.
"How many more times must the whole nation endure the embarrassment of witnessing the on-air and in-print premature speculation of folks like Ross, Stephanopoulis, and Krugman?  Who is going to clean up the mess that reckless, irresponsible words leave hanging in the air and on the internet?" Doug Mainwaring

Lib Senator Promises to to Reintroduce Gun Control Legislation In Wake Of Colorado Shooting   "Despite all of the calls not to politicize the Colorado shootings last night, gun control advocates have been demanding that politicians use it as an opportunity to take action on national gun laws."


Buzzfeed; Yesterday's Tragedy In Colorado As Told Through 50 Front Pages From Around The Country

Legal Insurrection; Analysis: Colorado shooter likely not wingnut because didn’t target gays, Muslims or foreigners
We’ll have to wait and see what motivated James Holmes to open fire on a theater full of innocent moviegoers. But if he turns out to be a psychopath with an unholy attachment to some right-wing ideology, it will not really be surprising. Indeed, it will be all too familiar, all too predictable.   Quoting Crooks and Liars. Find it yourself.
 Mark Levin Calls for ABC to Fire Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos
"When you have rogue, politically-motivated reporters like Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos - and somehow Stephanopoulos is getting a pass – both of ABC News trying to turn this into yet another disgusting attack on the Tea Party, trying to draw connections between the killer and the Tea Party, it doesn’t get any lower than that. Boy these people hate us, don’t they? I mean, they really hate us."

Colorado Massacre Caused by Heated Rhetoric and Kinky Sex Freak With 6,000 Rounds of Ammunition … "If it subsequently turns out that Holmes was involved in “Occupy,” OK. But let’s not start speculating or jumping to conclusions, because then we’ll have no credibility at all, like Brian Ross and ABC News."  Source: The Other McCain


Falsely Accused Tea Partier to ABC's Brian Ross: 'What Kind of Idiot Makes That Kind of Statement?'  "“Really, seriously, how do we take a journalist seriously when it’s pretty clear they really haven’t done any sort of check on their facts?” told the Caller's Alex Pappas: 

"Holmes informed Pappas that ABC News didn’t contact him before Ross went on air. 
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“I do understand what making a mistake means," Holmes added. "But is it really worth the person’s reputation, the potential ruining of the person’s reputation?”
Tea party leader tells media to stop ‘reckless and false reporting’ after Batman shooting  "Regina Thomson, the president of the Colorado Tea Party Patriots, said in a statement, “The member of the Colorado Tea Party Patriots, Jim Holmes, age 52 is not the same person who has been identified as the shooter.”

"“The attempts of some media organizations to characterize the shooter as a Tea Party member without having made any effort to contact our organization are shameless and reprehensible,” she said."
INTERVIEW WITH JAMES MICHAEL HOLMES, HISPANIC TEA PARTY MEMBER FALSELY ACCUSED BY ABC   
"He is a 52-year-old Hispanic conservative who joined the Tea Party after becoming disillusioned with the Republican party."
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From the comments in this post:
I'm boycotting the Companies who Advertise on ABC News and Good Morning America, until Brian Ross, and George Stephanopoulos are fired.....
Those sponsors are...
Sponsors of ABC World News
Is putting pressure on the sponsors a way of getting ABC to listen to us? Is this the right boycott list?

BULLETIN: Journalism's Dark Night

"And what was the source of their explosive accusation? They went to a Tea Party website (a funny place to start a journalistic investigation) and found someone with the same name. That's all. One of 27 people living in the area with the same name.

....In a just world, Ross would lose his job and ABC News would be slapped with the biggest fine ever levied.
"And when I say "in a just world," I mean that will happen when Hell freezes over or when the MSM starts reporting news honestly. Guess which one I think will happen first?"


And yet, media bias is so flagrant but does not merit news coverage in and of itself.

Aurora Victims Names And Stories Begin To Emerge

Buzzfeed  "Although officials have not released details of the victims identities, several of them have been identified by their families and friends. Victim Jessica Ghawi's brother Jordan went to twitter yesterday to say “Let us remember the names of the victims and not the name of the coward who committed this act.” Here's what we know so far about those who tragically lost their lives." (emphasis in the original)

Gun Control Only Makes Law-Abiding People Defenseless

Godfather Politics "The most recent riots in London indicate that lawless people will use any means at their disposal to force their wills on others. Three men were killed by an automobile, people were openly beaten in the streets, and business establishments were looted while others were burned. Store owners had no way of protecting their property. The people doing the looting, and they weren’t just the poor and disenfranchised (a millionaire’s daughter, a ballet student, a musician, an organic chef, a university graduate student, and a law student are just some of the types of people arrested), knew that they would meet little resistance."

Did the state make you great?

Charles Krauthammer

“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
— Barack Obama, Roanoke, Va., July 13
"Limited government so conceived has two indispensable advantages. It avoids inexorable European-style national insolvency. And it avoids breeding debilitating individual dependency. It encourages and celebrates character, independence, energy, hard work as the foundations of a free society and a thriving economy — precisely the virtues Obama discounts and devalues in his accounting of the wealth of nations."
McClatchy: Commentary: 'Life of Julia' is a life without ambition  "One of the major underlying issues in this year’s election is to what extent we will, as Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute put it, continue to value “earned success,” or slide into “learned helplessness.” "  E. Thomas McClanahan

Iowahawk: Julia's Circle of Life  "The continuing adventures of Barack Obama's favorite eyeless, mouthless government dependent"
More Iowahawk; Readings from the Book of Barack:
40 Then the Lord Govt turned the retailer and the manufacturer and the wholesaler and all the servicers, and said,
“I will make your taxes and regulations very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to profit.
You shall be afflicted with plagues of audits,
    the coming of Osha, and the trials of Irs.
By the sweat of thy brow you will earn thy living
    until you return it to Me.
You will suffer the droughts of subsidy and stimulus,
    and will thirst forever. You're welcome."  
More...
Ethel C. Fenig; Why you didn't build that  "Tom Smith of RightCoast extends President Barack Hussein Obama's (D) you didn't build that business alone revealing statement and then flips it, discussing those businesses that haven't been built."
Political Cartoons by Jerry Holbert

ABC's Brian Ross apologizes for blaming Colorado shooting on the right

Rick Moran  "But Brian Ross, the ABC reporter who suggested that the name "Jim Holmes" he found on a tea party website was the same man who allegedly murdered 12 people at a Colorado theater today -- and turned out to be laughably wrong -- will probably get promoted to the White House beat if Romney is elected president. After all, he showed a lot of initiative in trying to smear the right which is exactly what ABC will be looking for if Mitt wins in November.

"Now that the report has turned out to be a figament of Ross' imagination, ABC is apologizing."
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"What made Ross go to the Tea Party page in the first place? Was he looking for an excuse to blame the Tea Party for the massacre?"
The liberals are always predictable; cases in point:
Bozell: ABC's Disgraceful Rush to Judgment on the Tea Party"In a moment that demanded clarity of thought and purpose, Ross rushed to slander those with whom he does not agree politically, exposing the depths and darkness of his political prejudices."


Daily Kos Blames America First for Aurora Shooting

Twitchy Documents Liberals Blaming Rush Limbaugh for Aurora Movie Theater Shooting 


Obama Mega-Donor Bill Maher Uses Colorado Movie Shooting To Bash “American Exceptionalism” …



COLORADO THEATER CALLED 'GUN-FREE' ZONE

WND  "Gun advocates say the movie theater where a Colorado gunman opened fire Friday, killing 12 and wounded 58, has a strict policy against firearms on its premises – even for patrons [who] have concealed handgun permits."
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"That’s exactly how it happened in the same town just three months ago – when a man gunned down a pastor’s mother at the New Destiny Center church in Aurora, Colo.
"The shooter, Kiarron Parker, had been released early from prison after serving time for assaulting two officers.
"An off-duty Denver police officer – who had been carrying a concealed firearm during the church service – shot and killed the gunman.