ABC links Batman shooter to Tea Party...

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incorrectly. :blink:

Brian Ross claimed the shooter was linked to the Tea Party but it was the wrong guy. Sloppy journalism that assumes the Tea Party is a violent organization. Interesting that ABC intentionally checked the local Tea Party members to see if there was a link. Wonder if they checked any other political organizations...

Tea Party reacts to Brian Ross's ABC report - POLITICO.com
 
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hndog609 said:
The truly troubling part of this is...I'm really not surprised in the least.
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yep - it's funny to read the comments on some of the stories. Anti-Tea Party posters go on wild angry rants about how TP members are unhinged and prone to violence at the slightest provocation (this time it's Rush Limbaugh talking about Dem strategy concerning the character Bain(Bane?) in the movie). When you read these posts, it is the anti-TP people that sound unhinged.
 
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volinbham said:
Interesting that ABC intentionally checked the local Tea Party members to see if there was a link.
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If they checked to see if there was a link, then why did they run the report?

It appears to me that they didn't check at all.
 
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Lexvol said:
You asked for clarification. What are your thoughts on what ABC did?
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My understanding is that they found the name on some sort of list of Colorado TPers and in their haste to be the first to report it, didn't make sure it was the same guy.

If you are saying that the ABC team jumped to the conclusion that it was the same person because they believe that TPers are in some way prone to this kind of thing, I'd day that is correct.

If you say that, even if their assumption about TPers was accurate, that they should have double or triple checked I'd say you are correct. There was overtly nothing political about this. This was not a Democratic or liberal or progressives political event. It just doesn't make sense on its face that, even if he were a TPer, he would choose a midnight showing of Batman to make his statement.

We can debate whether their gut that it might have to do with the TP is in some way disqualifying as a journalist. If so, you have to basically fire all of Fox news for their readiness to leap to conclusions about black people.
 
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lawgator1 said:
My understanding is that they found the name on some sort of list of Colorado TPers and in their haste to be the first to report it, didn't make sure it was the same guy.

If you are saying that the ABC team jumped to the conclusion that it was the same person because they believe that TPers are in some way prone to this kind of thing, I'd day that is correct.

If you say that, even if their assumption about TPers was accurate, that they should have double or triple checked I'd say you are correct. There was overtly nothing political about this. This was not a Democratic or liberal or progressives political event. It just doesn't make sense on its face that, even if he were a TPer, he would choose a midnight showing of Batman to make his statement.

We can debate whether their gut that it might have to do with the TP is in some way disqualifying as a journalist. If so, you have to basically fire all of Fox news for their readiness to leap to conclusions about black people.
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Wow!
 
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lawgator1 said:
My understanding is that they found the name on some sort of list of Colorado TPers and in their haste to be the first to report it, didn't make sure it was the same guy.
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Was that reported somewhere?

How do you know he didn't just google the name and run with the first one he found?
 
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there goes LG once again, inferring that the Tea Party is racist

are all graduates of UFlaw such gutless turds?
 
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