Ass hats. To me this shows 'news' is more about entertainment than anything else.
Facts be damned....we want viewers!!! On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The blame game started early. This is from Good Morning America this > morning. > > Stephanolpoulos: I'm going to go to Brian Ross. You've been investigating > the background of Jim Holmes here. You found something that might be > significant. > > Ross: There's a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea > party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now, > we don't know if this is the same Jim Holmes. But it's Jim Holmes of > Aurora, Colorado. > > Stephanolpoulos: Okay, we'll keep looking at that. Brian Ross, thanks very > much. > > > Why were they looking on a Tea Party website? Did they check any other > political groups for membership? > > Turns out this is a completely different guy. In fact there are several > Jim Holmes who live in the area. > > It would be so nice to have responsible journalism. > > At least ABC "corrected" the story (but did not apologize for the mistake). > They blamed social media. > > Here's one: Verify everything, especially things found on social media > sites (if indeed it where found there). > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352892 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
