Why Is Brian Ross Still Working for ABC News?
ABC News reporter Brian Ross committed what used to be a fatal mistake to a journalist’s career: He blurted out a wild, unsubstantiated, speculative observation that hadn’t been vetted by anyone and was explosively political at the same time.
Via Breitbart:
Here is the exchange between ABC News chief investigator Brian Ross and host George Stephanopoulos about apparent suspect James Holmes:
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.
Thanks for what? Ross just tried to connect the Tea Party to the murder of 12 innocents based on the thinnest of speculation: that the name on the website almost matched the name of the suspect.
The political implications of the attempted smear were dynamite. And yet, the casual manner in which Ross reported this “fact” — even with a fig leaf caveat — was shocking. No attempt was made to confirm anything.
ABC News has now issued a correction and Ross has included an apology.
When will the NBA Player’s Assoc. be issuing a press release?
Turns out the guy is another drugged out Californian and a registered Democrat.
I just wrote ABC an email demanding the firing of Brian Ross and rejecting his phony apology.
Here’s their comments form.
http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=ABCNews.com%20comments
Thanks for the link. I just echoed your sentiments to ABC News as well.
thks i used ur info to register my views on their lousy leftist reporting
I also echoed your sentiments…fire Brian Ross.
Any firings should not start and stop with Ross. This was not some “Oops, My bad” gaffe. This was intentional. It was deliberate. And it was planned. Stephanopolous was in on it as well. And if ABC chose to conduct a thorough investigation, it would no doubt reveal that many others there at Good Morning America were in on it.
How many psychos, loons and nutjobs called or descended upon this man’s house because they thought (thanks to ABC News) that he was the shooter, terrorizing him and his family?
Sloppy, lazy, agenda-driven, drive-by, careless, reckless; no term even comes close to describing this ‘reporting’.
I repeat, it was no gaffe. It was deliberate.
Thanks for the link. Complaint registered.
They will not fire him for toeing in line with editorial policies of the news organization. He delivered what he was expected to deliver – a smear of anybody and anything that is not democrate, whenever and whichever way possible.
I fully agree. Whenever the MSM “reports” now I usually assume that the opposite is true, or that they are purposefully ignoring some important information and context. They have no credibility with me.
I get my news now from a variety of web news organizations, most of which did not exist 12 years ago, PJ Media is one of them.
I stopped watching ABC, except for sports, about 12 years ago. Same for NBC and CBS. If I was a shareholder I would be very concerned about my news department after reading this. Lucky for us, they don’t care. It’s why they will go bankrupt. There product is outdated and defective. There are much better resources available now.
Probably not, but that’s no reason for ABC not to receive the wrath of the nation. CBS didn’t fire Dan Rather right away after the phony Texas Air National Guard/Bush memos either. But public scorn pretty much forced their hand.
ABC News has been embarassed by this. They got caught with their pants down. I’m hoping that it gets him a suspension (at least) and serves as a message that ratings will be affected with this kind of reporting. George Stephanopoulis was also salivating at this report. He set him up for it. It’s a stain on him as well. I’m even going to sit out Dancing With The Stars to show my dispeasure.
Goiung after the ivory tower of ABC is like spitting into the wind. Go after the your local affiliate, call the station and ask to put a formal complaint in their license renewal file. Protest news broadcasts which are not in keeping with the needs of the local community if their incediary nature and rumor mongering.
The local affiliates will have to answer for this to the FCC. THEY will get the message to corporate. A network without local affiliates can’t sell advertising. Call your local affiliate ombudsman file a complaint with him. Ask for a list of local advertisers that you can file protests with. All the $$$$ pressure will put Brian Ross on MSNBC in weeks.
Keep protesting we have the power but we have to get involved, raise the conservative voice that we will not tolerate cheap hatch job journalism.
I love the auto-reply from ABC trying to get me to purchase the bs DVDs and transcripts.
Done! I hope they fire him.
I wrote them as well demanding his firing
Thanks for the link. I urged them to fire both Ross and Stephanopoulos.
Nice escalation! I like it. How about Christiane Amanpour too!
These media whores would have been better suited for the old Soviet Union, for they are truly Alien to America. How far this country has fallen.
Thank you from me as well; fire the hack!
waste of time writing these idiots…. this type of reporting is exactly what the top boss’s of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR are directing the Brian Ross’s of the new world to do…. i’ve written them for over 30 years to no avail… they just keep getting worse….
PHS, went over to the link you provided and left two excoriating commentaries. No profanity, just a good ol’ effusive and ebullient castigation. Ha Ha Ha!!! Brian Ross, you need to be fired. Liberalism is a DISEASE.
I think I will pray a novena or 20 for these LSM folks to simply go bankrupt once and for all. St. Max Kolbe, pray for us!
Thanks for the link! Used all 500 characters letting them know how fed up I am with their propaganda!
Used your linky to give ‘em hell on this one. God. That. Felt. Good.
Thank’ee P.H.S.
I also wrote to ABC News to give them a snootful of my wrath, not that they will ever read these e-mails. They are too intent on promoting their obama/democrat agenda to be bothered with reporting the facts, no matter how poorly it reflects on them and affects their ratings. If the televison news ratings and newspaper sales are an indicator, the American people are fed up with constantly being fed “news” from the left-wing drivel trough. I certainly am tired of it. Bravo to the New Media for giving us accurate and truthful reportin.
Thanks for providing the link. For whatever good it will do, I also sent in a complaint.
The smirking fools–they somehow thought that, if they could prove this link, they’d just won the election for their guy (or something).
Suppose he really had been connected with the Tea Party? What would that show, other than that a loser capable of acting out his personal inadequacies through incredible violence against innocent people had at least once shown up and perhaps given money to an organization that has nothing to do with his actions. I wonder what church, if any, he attended while growing up? Maybe playing on soccer teams as a youth drove him to this act of violence. Virtually nothing is known, yet, about the perpetrator–but Ross didn’t mind making stuff up, essentially.
Thanks for the site. I, too, sent them a comment questioning why Ross still had a job.
Thanks for link I just wrote abc too
In fairness to the ABC guy (not that he deserves any) he probably did not “make a beeline” to the Tea Party site to see if Holmes was a member. He probably just googled “Jim Holmes” and the Tea Party site came up.
More likely: an intern Googled “Jim Ross Aurora Tea Party.”
CORRECTION: More likely: an intern Googled “Jim HOLMES Aurora Tea Party.”
Doubt it. Google “Jim Holmes” now. Only reason “tea party” comes up is b/c of the stupidity (or planned malice) of Ross and Steph in the bogus “reporting” in the first place. And if the standard at ABC news for investigation is googling and nothing else, the network news division ought to be shut down. See Iowahawk’s twitter feed for what turns up with a simple “Brian Ross” search…bet Mr. Ross wouldn’t appreciate being linked to all that was found.
Somebody made a beeline to the tea party. So who ?
It’s slander, that’s what. Ross named a private individual who had nothing whatsoever to do with the shooting.
I’m pretty Tea Party James’ phone (when he plugs it back in) will be ringing off the hook with attorneys offering to represent him in his suit against ABC.
It seems to me that the tea party has been slandered as well.
Yes, but legally Ross can get away with that.
He can’t get away with slandering a private individual. There’s not much to laugh about today, but the fact that Brian Ross slandered a politically active person does make me smile a little bit.
If I were Jim Holmes of the Aurora Tea Party, my lawyer would be doing the money dance right about now.
Thats not really a defense. Its his job to gather the facts before reporting. Based on what he stated there was NO evidence at all and what was present made no sense and should have been held back. regardless if he was TP or not. I dont believe for a second that this was not him taking advantage of the situation. while he may have not been searching for the tea party directly. when that name and tea party came up. you can be sure that all research stopped after that as he was sure he found the culprit and prove once and for all us ‘teabaggers’ were violent ignorant monsters. the shooter is a 24 yr old white male graduate. the other is a middle ages hispanic male tea party member.
HMMMMM….reminds me of the “Spike ( toad turd ) Lee who was responsible for shooting from the hip on an elderly couple named Zimmerman? Seems these lib nuts don’t need proof…they love innuendo and rumor to fuel their ignorance and bias?
And they never apologize or held accountable?
I don’t think his job is to gather the facts and report the news. The people at ABC are not stupid, they are playing the News rating game. ABC, like all of the news stations intentionally create biased news reports tailored for their target audience. There is nothing unintentional happening here.
Let’s just say for the sake of argument, that the killer was indeed, a member of the Tea Party, which requires only an initial membership fee. So that would somehow tarnish the reputation of the entire movement???
Hmm, I thought stereotyping was wrong!
On the other hand, the Occupy crowd engages in rape, murder, attacks on law enforcement, and wholesale destruction of property, but always gets a pass!!!!!
The intellectual corruption of these media folks is without limits!!!
I hope sues all and sundry for libel, gets millions and wins.
So where’s the right-wing legal defense force?
If the Jim Holmes of Aurora, CA, was a OWS-er, George Soros would give Pony-tailed Public Defenders United millions to bring down the whole bleeding network on Jim Holmes’ behalf.
Well, where ARE you teapussies?
Most likely some 20 something producer who entered journalism to “make a difference” found that and passed it on to Ross who should have known better but didn’t. Both should be fired.
Amen!
I bet you are spot on with that one.
It’s so sad though- it’s sad that the narrative of those in the media comes through so clearly and it’s sad that the narrative is so nasty and negative. They really WANT conservative Americans to be these violent, racist, intolerant, religious nuts. They’re just waiting, ready to pounce and scream “Seee see we TOLD you see!!!!”
The real Racist is the Impostor in the White House, who sat in the pews before Jeremiah Wright for 20 Long Years, supporting his anti-white bigotry!
Twenty Years!
What a Disgrace!
May God forgive America for allowing such a reprobate to take control!
It’s true: add a racial dimension to this and the black political Left would be all over this. As off now: crickets. The greater good is left to others. The black Left is a no-show in many other ways. They are irrelevant. They should be marginalized and put out to pasture with the KKK and neo-Nazis. Let the adults do the thinnin’ around here.
Which of Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals applies here?
Personalize and vilify
This is standard procedure for MSM. In 2011 Jacob Weisberg made a shooter/Tea Party connection for Jared Loughner and the Gabby Giffords shooting. There was no apology.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2011/01/the_tea_party_and_the_tucson_tragedy.html
What is a nanosecond? The time it takes the MSM to connect a national tragedy to the Tea Party.
ABC wanted to float the phrase “Tea Party” out there so the blame can stick before the truth comes out and they subsequently “apologize.” It was all very conscious and intentional.
How many people read the apology, as compared to saw the original false accusation? Very few.
First impressions matter. ABC is banking on that.
Exactly. To this day many people associate Loughner and the Giffords shooting with the Tea Party, conservatives, Palin, etc. In fact, most people do– because even those aware of the later debunking, even those well aware Loughner is a nut who has nothing to do with the Tea Party, conservatives, Palin, nevertheless received that original impression. The association was and is made. When “Loughner/ Giffords” comes up, “Tea Party/ conservatives/ immigration/ Palin” lie not far off in the neural networks of the brain.
Those associations, even if *consciously* straightened out and qualified, still have a great deal of *subconscious* power.
It’s despicable.
Why, don’t you know, it was a perfectly rational connection to make, therefore an easy error to make.
Today, if you Google “Loughner Giffords” the front page results will show an article from Slate linking Loughner to the Tea party. Do we really need to wonder about all this?
Absolutely. “A lie makes it halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put on its shoes.”
Of course, that’ll be the basis of the lawsuit against ABC, too, so there’s a bit of a silver lining.
Brian Ross should issue an on air apology to the nation in the same time slot that he aired the accusation. He should then respectfully tender his resignation.
Anything short of this simply implies that ABC News condones the actions of it’s employees.
The reason the Ministry of Truth (aka MSM) immediately links incidents like this to the Tea Party is because they know that a percentage of their audience will accept it uncritically and never attempt to find out the facts for themselves. Those people will repeat it to their friends: “I heard on the news he was a Tea Party member.”
If the media keeps doing that enough, a not-insignificant proportion of the populace will automatically-–and unconsciously–-associate the Tea Party with dangerous, violent, antisocial people.
No way in hell was it an accident.
Brian Ross stiil works and will continue to work for ABC because he can be relied upon to spew completely false, made up accusations at conservatives while simultaneously covering up liberal crimes. He suits ABC fine. In fact, prepare for a bidding war for Ross’s services. This is just what NBC is after. These false charges against the Teaparty will be discussed quite seriousely in the fall campaign season. It has already entered the progressive meme lexicon.
I’ve already messaged ABC with my complaint about this. I hope their server melts down.
I just looked it up — there are at a minimum 192 “James Holmes”s in and around Denver, including several in Aurora:
“Public Information Results Summary: 192 Results found for James Holmes ” (From an online phone number database.)
With a name that common, there are surely “James Holmes”s of every imaginable political persuasion.
This totally debunks #3. Roscoe’s claim that “In fairness to the ABC guy (not that he deserves any) he probably did not “make a beeline” to the Tea Party site to see if Holmes was a member. He probably just googled “Jim Holmes” and the Tea Party site came up.”
Ross MUST have directly gone to the Tea Party site looking for Holmeses — there’s no other way he could have suddenly focused on this particular one.
Ross needs to fired ASAP, and ABC shunned by all rational people henceforth.
ABC “News” is already shunned by all rational people. I haven’t watched anything put out by that organization since David Brinkley retired.
Stopped watching ABC/Disney years ago.
This should be ABC’s death knell. NBC should be taken off the air after their doctoring of the Zimmerman 911 call. CBS should be taken off the air for the Rathergate forgeries. That’s the big three. When the FCC gives you a license that is conditioned on providing public news, and you utterly fail in that endeavor; no, you intentionally defraud the public under the guise of providing legitimate, unbiased “news,” why do you still have a license?
The FCC doesn’t license networks. They license stations.
Looky here. Brian Ross.
http://www.sexoffenderin.com/reg68950/brian_ross_scottmugshot.htm
Is this the same BRIAN ROSS who was charged with sexting little girls in CA & asking them for photos & sex? It MIGHT not be ABC’s BRIAN ROSS, but BRIAN ROSS was arrested & I thought I should get it out there. Maybe George should “investigate.”
Why would Brian Ross be fired for doing his job?
He used his position as an established, “objective”, “journalist” to frame the tragedy as a natural consequence of conservatism, smeared the Tea Party, and gave obama a free campaign commercial.
He is more likely to get a bonus and promotion than to be fired.
It could only have been better if he had had the time to link Romney in somehow. It must have been too hectic to come up with something quickly enough to be first out of the box with the propaganda.
Excellent point. We see it as mendacious hackery. Ross sees it as just another Friday at the office.
Indeed…they are chuckling at us right now…
High-five-ing eachother because our “anger” at them merely shows how much power they have to stir the pot, and work us to a lather.
It was nothing but some fast and loud trash-talk to intended to further rattle us, as the “blocked shot” effect of this event overshadowing Obummers “you didnt make that” Gaffe has them cheering this on as a potential game changer…they’re trying to make the most of it, and false accusations against us helps whip up their base.
They know we can never “win” a shooting story, even if its a Black Panther Communist shooting kids in Sunday school…
Guns = bad, call the NRA and GOP to “defend” the shooting…Whoo-hoo.
Shouting “Tea Party” is just an extra bit of fun you do when the adreanaline is pumping.
They’re HAPPY when we’re outraged at their blatant lies.
This is the criminal organization or democrats that fiends for power and tax payer dollars doing the only thing they know how. They simply cannot win elections on merit or honesty. They are the party of PERPETUAL FRAUD and they are only getting PROGRESSIVELY worse.
Did anyone else see the Telegraph article where they linked the guy to “Occupy Black Block”?
Yeah, but let’s wait for confirmation.
Either the GOP completely boycotts ABC news and denounces them at every opportunity, or go on ABC News and denounce them at every opportunity. And they should also encourage a boycott of ABC’s advertisers. And if they don’t have the balls to do that (they probably don’t), then talk radio should lead the charge.
The same GOP that chose to block attaching a repeal Obamacare amendment to must-pass bill within a month of Obamacare passage? It’s time to realize that every time you hear/read of someone giving the GOP/Romney advice they are recognizing the GOP continue to fail and play by the old rules. The GOP has proven itself inept too many times for any rational person to still think they are trying to win. The GOP works just hard enough to claim they tried. The GOP gets the almost best perks, and the almost best offices, and very little bad by playing the “tomato can” to the commielibs.
A party with Boehner and McConnel as leaders isn’t a serious party or a party doing anything but phoning it in.
By the way Rick, in all seriousness, have you spoken to Terry about all this? Are the two of you even still on speaking terms, given your political differences? I would think you could have an inside scoop on this.
Why is there any political speculation at all? Why would a Tea Partier, no matter how “racist” and “violent,” shoot up a Batman movie? I don’t see the connection. If Mr. Ross does, I think he needs to find another line of work.
If memory serves correctly, Richard Jewel was able to successfully sue several “news” organizaions over falsely being named as the Olympic Park Bomber. If my name was Jim Holmes, I would be speaking with legal representation right now.
leftists/progressives/commies/socialists whatever you want to call them are all one thing: a sad, pathetic bunch.
They are a vicious and cunning bunch. they do not hesitate to defame innocents when it serves their purposes and advances their agenda.
As a former investigative reporter and newspaper editor, I cannot help but wonder why any reputable news organization would employ Brian Ross. His grotesque error is such a fundamental and blatant violation of journalism — and human decency — that he is obviously and wholly unfit for his profession, or anything resembling it. Worse, he has a well established reputation for shoddy workmanship.
I hope the “real” Tea Party member Mr. Holmes finds a good lawyer and sues ABC to kingdom come. He has grounds (a reckless disregard for the truth).
This is what MSM should be reporting on. Social media dominates. MSM is wrong 99% of the time.
Anybody hear of “BlackBloc Anachists?” Well, an FBI agent on a talk show, said this Colorado shooting had enough elements associated with it, leading to conclude this organization is responsible for this horrendous act of unmitigated violence…A Timothy McVeigh type. Obama MUST dial back his vitriol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3tG9Y2E-v8k
Folks, FBI commentator on Laura Ingram show 7/20/12 said this
James Holmes Colorado movie theatre shooter was a “Black Bloc”
anarchist.
These are nefarious elements circulating amongst our children and
schools, recruiting and instructing on everything negative their
philosphy of life embodies.
Be Alert, Be Wise. Watch for signs in all our neighborhoods.
God Save America. Amen.
Yesterday, in the wake of the bombing in Bulgaria, ABC News/Good Morning America left the story (video of bomber in bus terminal) by saying that he “looked Western.” Yes, he did. He also was a student of Islam and a prisoner at Gitmo.
Is this the same Brian Ross who tried to tie producer Robert Evans to the DeLorean coke case back in the eighties? Again same name, wrong person. Evans says he was barely able to keep it off the news as Ross was determined to run with it.
The attention that the left wing media is giving this whack-job only guarantees that there will be another. Why don’t they handle it like the Chicago media does? In Chicago, there are this many killed every weekend, every weekend, and no one cares. Of course, in Chicago, the perps are all Holder’s people so the media covers for them.
ABC: Anything But Credible
Stephanopoulos: I’m going to go to Brian Ross, who has some rumors and gossip to ‘report.’ Brian?
Ross: We don’t know if this is true, but we’re gonna ‘report’ it anyway.
Stephanopoulos: Mission accomplished! Thank you, thank you very much.
Stay tuned for more, when the ‘reporters report’ on how they feel as they hypothesize what might have happened.
For the MSM, such an association is “fake but accurate.” Even after it’s retracted and corrected, the MSM has already propagated that impression and association– they’ve already left the (at least subconscious) impression on their viewers that he *could* have been Tea Partier, that it’s plausible he’d be a Tea Partier, that this is the kind of things Tea Partiers are capable of and apt to do… so much so that a supposedly respectable journalist would immediately make that leap, that connection.
Has there ever been a single incident of violence that’s actually factually connected to the Tea Party? I don’t know of a single one. And yet, in the popular imagination, those associations have been made. It’s despicable.
This is true: Brian Ross was arrested yesterday in Fontana, CA for sexting little girls and asking them for sex.
http://www.pe.com/local-news/san-bernardino-county/san-bernardino-county-headlines-index/20120319-fontana-mentone-man-arrested-in-sexting-case.ece
(H/T Steve Foley at Minority Report)
I just left feedback for ABC News telling them to fire this irresponsible, biased reporter. Probably won’t happen and they will bury the whole thing – if we let ‘em. I did this to honor Andrew Breitbart, I never would have done this before, I would just not go to ABC News and leave it at that. No I have to say something about this, I have to stand up and express my anger at the MSM for being lazy and dishonest.
Don’t you know if it was not for the Tea Party ABC and other news outlets would not have made the connection? It is the conservative, Bible Thumping, Gun toting citizens that caused this tragedy. Debbie W-shultz will blame everyone including Romney, Rush, Hannity, & Beck for instigating this tragedy to take away coverage of the Obama campaign…never let a chance go by to exploit a tragedy for political gain. I just feel and pray for those people and their families..
Wife was watching GMA this morning, I hear Ross makes a comment that “carrying guns in a car is not illegal in Colorado”.
I thought WTF!!! This guy just shot 50 people, did Ross really think a law against carrying guns in a car would have stopped him????
Ross had an agenda when he went on, like that’s a big surprise. (Never let a crisis go to waste)
Sorry, I must insist this was pre-planned and choreographed.
The guy was just too well prepped.
And 3 days ago 4 left-wing shows, back to back, were moaning about “Reagan dumped all these crazies on the street, what if one of them gets a gun?
We must have gun control NOW”
The Clinton years proved (foreign) cells can commit multiple large scale attacks while the blame is expediently laid on opponents of the regime.
Therefore, is something big, or several somethings, coming this way?
Well, whenever the Prez says something really, really stupid
http://www.pibillwarner.com/2012/07/occupy-black-bloc-member-james-holmes.html
Take a look and help me find out if this is legit. You can DM me on twitter @debrakcarey
Why Is Brian Ross Still Working for ABC News?
Because in the eyes of his bosses at ABC, it is his job to smear the right/the Tea Party/the GOP at every possible opportunity. Failure to do so is what would get him fired.
the anti-Tea Party / Rush Limbaugh yammering worked in the Giffords shooting; facts don’t matter for ABC and the rest of the MSM
I wish I watched ABC News, so that I could stop watching it. What a surprise that they didn’t Google this maniac against any lefty organizations. Not even a small effort to hide thier bias anymore.
Hmmm, I wonder why ABC didn’t investigate whether or not the shooter was a member of the communist party or some other left-wing organization? If he was a member of Greenpeace, can we now say that all members of Greenpeace are homicidal maniacs? If he was a member of the Democratic Party, does that mean that all Democrats are now killers? The hypocrisy members of the mainstream media show on a daily basis is simply stunning. It also shows you how un-American they really are. They would rather persecute fellow Americans on the thinnest of accusations rather than dig for some real facts. What a lousy bunch of lieing bums they are.
HE IS a registered Democrat. Inactive, but registered nonetheless.
The CO shooter did his dirty work as a result of being immersed in & indoctrinated with left-wing philosophies during college & graduate school.
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Let-Kids-Drink-Kool-Aid/dp/1596981512
http://www.amazon.com/One-Party-Classroom-Professors-Indoctrinate-Undermine/dp/0307452557
No successful mass murderer does it on his own. He used roads and infrastructure provided by the government in order to perpetrate his heinous act. Aren’t we all up to speed on the new paradigm, yet? Assign blame as warren(ted).
Nailed it!!
Don’t forget to give credit to his teachers!
BRILLIANT
IF Holmes had been a Tea Party member, would’ve that meant Romney would have to drop out of the race to let Obama win a second term in November? Sick.
I don’t think anyone should care what ABC News does about the matter, for they have revealed their day-in, day-out nature, to wit a pro-Left mob. Perhas college graduated, but a mob none the less. They can fire Ross, it will not matter. A mob they will remain.
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Enter CINNA the poet.
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And things unlucky charge my fantasy:
I have no will to wander forth of doors,
Yet something leads me forth.
Enter Citizens.
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Second Citizen Whither are you going?
Third Citizen Where do you dwell?
Fourth Citizen Are you a married man or a bachelor?
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Fourth Citizen Ay, and wisely.
Third Citizen Ay, and truly, you were best.
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dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to
answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and
truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor.
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you’ll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly.
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Second Citizen That matter is answered directly.
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Exeunt
Not only bad reporting, but they are covering a tragic murder and when they report it may have been a Tea Party member, they both have smiles on their faces. Absolutely appalling.
And, of course, it turns out its another drugged out malcontent. This one from California and a registered Democrat.
Maybe “liberalism is a mental disorder.”
Brian Ross rung a bell that can’t be un-rung; Jim Holmes now will be forever connected to that event in which he had no connection. I see a major lawsuit,
and I hope he and his lawyer each come away multi-millionaires.
The legal terms for this are extreme malice and prejudice.
I don’t care if Brian Ross apologizes until hell freezes over….. apology NOT accepted. Both he and George Stephanolpoulos are guilty of the worst kind of reporting….. it’s nothing more than propaganda. Why either of them continue to be employed is a clear statement on the integrity of today’s mainstream media.
What you mean is “Democrat jourOlists pretending not be carrying the water for other alcoholic and/or drugged out Democrats.”
And we’re going to let these guys MODERATE the Presidential debates?? WHY??
Apologizing requires a commitment not to repeat the offense. Will Brian Ross et al now practice due diligence and exhibit professionalism? Whada ya think?? Some apology.
http://www.pibillwarner.com/2012/07/occupy-black-bloc-member-james-holmes.html
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http://www.pibillwarner.com/2012/07/occupy-black-bloc-member-james-holmes.html
They tried to blame Rush Limbaugh on twitter, found this article written the day before Rush’s remarks BY LIBERALS making the Bane/Bain comparison. So, I asked a few of them, you going to smear this guy now like you did Rush, and how about an apology TO Rush for linking his comment to this atrocity. No response but one, oh, ok was all she said.
If ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/AP/Reuters/NYT,LATimes/etc.had any shame they wouldn’t have done half what they have in the last 30 years. Few people have to pay any price for the most outrageous treatment of conservatives. Why would they treat us any better? You can’t almost have an unfair thought about a minority member without being certain the world will come down on your head. Conservatives train their opponents it is safe to do anything to conservatives.
Well atleast this moron Ross got the name write. If he googled John Holmes he may be describing the killer’s rather impressive manhood. Or Mike Holmes he would indicting that nice Canadian who fixes up peoples homes on HGTV.
I’m sure Ross was just doing what gets him attaboys there at ABC Spews.
You know the MSM these days, “Fake but accurate”.
Stephie is probably the one who insisted on airing this, so he is one of the ones who should be gone.
What a bunch!
What a shame, why did the moron not check if he had any connections with Occupy Wall street. ABC has been in the tank for Obama since 2007 and they continue to help him in what they can, how low are you folksgoing to stoop …
The reason Stephonopoulis thanked Ross was that Ross had given him the tie-in favored by the left wing that is in the symbiotic relationship with ABC. ABC is getting more and more clearly the mnemonic for Absolutely Bogus Channel. When this Jim Holmes is found to have an Obama Biden 2008 sticker on his bumper it won’t be mentioned by either of them.
I think we all are mistaken here. Ancien Regime nobles do not have to answer for wrongs committed against mere commoners.
ASSHOLE.
Brian Ross…….hmmm…..I saw a report that Brian Ross is a cross-dressing pedophile that stalks and rapes 4 year old blonde boys……it might be the same Brian Ross mentioned in this story, certainly we need to investigate what Brian does in his free time.
It it after all “the seriousness of the charge” that matters.
I am surprised that Ross did not blame George Bush.
ABC News has now issued a correction and Ross has included an apology.
Few will hear the apology but millions will remember the words Tea Party in connection with this atrocity. Mission accomplished.
Damage was done – I just heard several very nice albeit lean democrat types repeat the Brian Ross story as though it was fact – they may never get to the apology which is why the media is so dangerous since so many people take what they hear as fact.
This is EXACTLY the same thing that happened when the lunatic Jared Laughner shot Gabrielle Giffords and all those people. Before the blood had dried we had numerous Left wing MSM voices saying Laughner was a Right winger. Of course, it not only turned out to be untrue, but we found that Laughner had more Left wing beliefs than Right wing ones.
And here today we get the same thing; delighted political hacks bubbling forth about Tea Party connections. I’ll bet my pension we learn that this guy is a bi-polar lunatic and that his political connections…to the extent there are any…are on the far Left.
Ross could have found multiple “Jim Holmes” as members of the NAACP, but that didn’t slow him down and Stephanopolis agreed with him.
Turns out the guy was a drugged out Californian and a registered Democrat. Maybe “liberalism is mental disorder.”
Face it. The Tea Party is not a protected class. Ross’s job is safe. He smeared the ‘right’ people. As long as he continues to ‘investigate’ those who oppose this president, his job is secure.
Once again – who watches these stations? If not for RCP reporting on these dinosaurs no one would know. It must be Georgie’s mother. I have never listened to Steffie because he is nothing but and never has been anything but a Clinton acolyte. ABC can call him a reporter but that’s about the same as me calling my old dog an Arabian stallion. Not even close to the same gene pool.
Has anybody reported the political affiliation of the real suspect yet? Will abc report he is a democrat? Holding my breath.
Not only fire Brian Ross, but suspend George S. as well. What the hell did he mean by “significant”?
This both disgusting and pathetic.
I’ve been in journalism my entire adult life, and I’ve been asking myself this same question all day. Brian Ross should be out of a job, and Stephanopolous too, for letting the “reporting” go out. I don’t expect professionalism from Stephanopolous who, after all, is a political hack with TV looks or something, but Ross is supposedly a journalist.
Starting with the classic “IANAL” disclaimer, I suspect that right now ABC lawyers are a bit nervous, and I would not be surprised if James Holmes of the Tea Party has not talked to an attorney. The famous “absence of malace” standard applies to public figures, against a private individual it can be just negligence or acting without care.
One possible outcome of this is that a suit against Ross and/or ABC News may finally shake the news media into using better judgment before looking for Tea Party connections to crimes and violence.
That would be a good thing.
You would think the loss of viewership, revenue and employees would have done the trick, but apparently not.
Why should the bad economics of producing an inferior product which leads to bankruptcy cause them to abandon their ideology?
They know full well from the examples of the United Auto Workers Auto Union, the Teachers Unions, Solyndra, Chevy Volt, ethanol, et al, that they will receive massive pay offs from the Democrats to prop-up their failed enterprises, in exchange for carrying their water.
The MSM aint a real business, its a racket.
Why is he still at ABC news? You have to ask?
He is still there because he fits in with their liberal main scream media mindset. He is perfectly fitted for duty amongst the other left wing loons. It is the same mindset that Dan Rather used to smear GWB – the records might be forgeries but the story is still true because I want it to be. Really Dan?
Why would you expect ABC to object to Ross’s biased hyperbole?
Any joint statement from the Congressional tri-caucuses?
Ellsworth: Once again – who watches these stations? If not for RCP reporting on these dinosaurs no one would know.
Sorry, Ellsworth, but even on normal news days these stations get millions more viewers than sites like RCP. only curious people go to RCP; most people, alas, are incurious and allow the MSM to feed them their news. On days like this with a major news story ABC will have had more viewers than normal.
The actual shooter, Jim Holmes, is from California and a registered Democrat. Maybe “liberalism is a mental disorder.” Suspose there were drugs involved – you know the stuff the Hollywood drug and alcohol culture is always pushing?
Would have thought killing Whitney Houston would have been enough.
Wouldn’t it be something if the weapons and gas cannister the police were wondering how the shooter obtained ended up coming from Operation Fast & Furious?
Which one of the two people still watching ABC reported this?
Recently there have been a number of John and Jane Does showing up in morgues throughout the country. Hey Brian Ross and ABC News there seems to be a trend here, and guess what it’s probably the Tea Party, you should get right on it! I recommend you start by telling everyone on your ABC Nightly News that the Tea Party is responsible then launch and investigation to see if you can make it so. Good Luck!
Ross either believes or pretends to report the “news.”
Actually, he merely broadcasts on his own peculiar bias – no doubt shared by his network. Had the Batman shooter been a registered Democrat, it would have been a non-story. Beyond question, the shooter would have been a “troubled youth” long before he ever would have been an Islamic terrorist. (Recall that the Ft Hood murders were an instance, according to the current administration, of “workplace violence.”)
You can’t get the “news” from the networks anymore – they simply are no longer in that business. How insane would you now be if 100% of your information about the world came from MSNBC?
But, even assuming the shooter had been a Tea Party member, why would anyone assume that someone who believes in smaller government and lower taxes must ipso facto be a crazed killer? Isn’t that just what ABC/Ross believe? And doesn’t that imply that they are the ones who are actually crazy?
Now. Sit back and watch Ross NOT get fired.
Fire him for smearing the right? Why would they do that? That’s his job. That’s what they pay him to do.
Give him a break. He’s doing his part to make journalism the least trusted occupation in the US. Right now, journalists probably rank below ‘petty thief’ in trustworthiness, but they’re still a notch or two above ‘drug kingpin’. Keep trying Brian! You’re almost there!
I want to get this straight.
The lame stream prop up obozo media has been screaming that the Tea Pary is strickly a group of malcontent white older voters.
And they link this youngster, who would normally be associated with OWS, and libs/dems as a Tea Party member.
What a joke.
But the worse joke is that with all the sniping on gun control and who is at faulty, let’s seem what lawyer is going to defend this monster, locked in human form, and what perversion they are going to try to use to get this man off.
Personally I like seeing him brought to court maybe by a week from Monday, and the trial should take about two days. And then we could see the execution of this monster some time beginning of August.
And let’s see how this trial would go.
Question to the arresting officer. Did you arrest this man at the scene of the crime.
A. Yes
Q. Did he have the weapons with you.
A. Yes.
Q. how many people are dead and injured by this man.
A. 12 dead, 70 wounded. (figures may not be correct as count as this time is fluid)
Prosecution. We have no further questions, ;prosecution rests
It is most likely that ABC will be cutting a serious check to Mr. Holmes of “Tea Party fame”. Details will likely be withheld as per a non-disclosure agreement.
“And what made Ross make a beeline straight for the Tea Party website in the first place?”
I asked this same exact question on the Belmont Club comments for this story.
Maybe ABC, Brian Ross, and George Stephanopoulos took the opportunity to display their hate for the Tea Party. What is shameful is LYING to get attention, misinforming the viewers, and also distorting news, without any morality or character.
ABC News is really just a high tech, high def electronically polished virtual glory hole carved into the side of the White House, through which George Stepanopoulos’ face shines nightly, spit shining Obama and the Democratic Party. GE, which owns ABC, paid virtually no corporate taxes last year..
GE owned NBC. They sold most of that to Comcast.
Otherwise your point is taken, sort of.
I think it was ABC News that initially identified the Times Square bomber as a white male as well. I don’t remember if they ever retracted that statement.
I have it from reliable sources that James Holmes, the alleged perpetrator is actualy an ABC News reporter.
And remember it is ALWAYS George Bush’s fault.
It’s a good thing that almost no one watches ABC news. Maybe a few hundred actually saw the report. It is unbelievable that a left wing reporter made a mistake, but I’m sure that they will try to make up some excuse in the next few days for him. Maybe he can get a job as a news editor for the Today Show covering the Trevon Martin case.
I have no doubt that there is a democrat with the name Jim Holmes. Actually, I am sure that there are scores. I am also pretty sure you could find one near Aurora, CO. So, why doesn’t the MSM say, “We found a Jim Holmes, a registered democrat, in Aurora!”
Look who else “worked” for ABC:
Media manipulator’ admits he lied as a source for the Times, ABC, CBS http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/source-lied-york-times-holiday-forbes-185831470.html
Mission accomplished: To connect a killer to the TEA party politics in order to negatively effect the latter.
That’s called a MSM with an agenda.
Or, if I may suggest, Presstitutes!
I just left a comment at ABC News demanding his firing. The MSM has sunk to a new low, which is hard to do. Do they even care about credibility?
Why fire only Ross? Stephanopoulos is just as responsible. Fire them both.
Funny how the great journalist Brian ross has yet to link Obama to any Marxist or socialist organizations.
Only a few stands of DNA separate ABC from NBC. #MSMfail
My response to ABC News:
Hey, your Brian Ross completely missed the fact that there is a James Holmes who is a Supervisor for District 3 in Placer County, California. Now that is just SLOPPY journalism, and would have deprived me of the opportunity to vote against that monster, were it not for the fact that this is not election day!
So here’s a question for you: Are you even more ashamed of yourselves because you are still employing Ross? Boy, you should be!
I don’t know wny anyone gets upset at this. It’s typical. ABC News is tied in with the DNC as is CBS, CNN, NBC and MSNBC. Fox News is really the only Republican tied in station. Why does anyone expect better?
I for one am sick of state run media giving the middle finger to Conservative Americans and getting away with it. Would be curious how many emails were sent to ABC regarding Brian Ross’s “investigative reporting”, yet no on air apology, nothing, again with the middle finger.
As a Disney stock holder, I am tired of the Liberal biased crap out of ABC. You would figure a company like Disney should more conservative. It is time to start to gather a Disney stock holder voting block to attack the liberals on the board who support this trash.
Exactly, Brian Ross is a complete fool. I would have fired him. The fact he is still employed by ABC says a lot about ABC News.
What is reprehensible about Ross and Stephy is that this was the immediate investigation they did: Googled “James Holmes + Tea Party.” Without doubt, that is where Ross went first and eagerly, hoping to find the Tea Party–and by extension Mitt Romney–guilty of and discredited by this heinous crime. He thought he found the Cross he could use to repel Romney, and that is why he rushed it onto the air without the least little bit of fact checking. It confirmed what he wanted to find, and so he had his scoop and his service to his ideology and his client.
What Brian Ross did, with the help of George Stephanopoulous, was the most blatant, dispicable, and atrocious act of gutter journalism and political bias outside of NBC/MSNBC that we’ve seen. A quick internet search and a similar name had them so excited in their extreme left wing bias that they could tie the Tea Party to the Colorado Massacre that they rushed to pour their totally uncorroborated speculation onto the national airwaves to tens of millions of people, totally ignoring the most basic and simple rules of journalism! I suppose actually doctoring a tape to smear someone nationally like NBC/MSNBC has done is worse that just pouring totally unsubstantiated speculation across the airwaves, but its still dispicable based in the worst type of political bias. I truly hope that the Jim Holmes they found on the Tea Party website is looking up a lawyer to file a FCC complaint and sue ABC for billions of dollars, and the Colorado Tea Party should do the same. Brian Ross should be fired, and George Stephanopoulous should be suspended for going along with the nonsense. The mainstream media in this country is so totally corrupt, and journalism in our nation as a profession is nearly dead!
The Republicons are the masters of false reports!!!
so was it republicans that made the false report of the murdered being someone else, and related to the tea party, or was it liberal media.
Didn’t you ever learn that if you keep your mouth shut, you may be thought to be ignorant, stupid. uninformed but you open you mouth and all doubts are removed.
And why, pray tell, should Stuffanoctopus receive any lesser punishment than Ross gets, he’s equally to blame! Fire them both, or pay the price for not firing them!
I’m sick of people not saying it. Joseph Goebbels would be proud of this kind of propaganda that resulted from individual initiative. This isn’t an honest mistake , and it is symptomatic of the media, liberal and otherwise.
The current narrative says that the internet is killing newspapers. The 800 pound gorilla in the room is the loss of respect for the established media by the American public.
Episodes like those perpetrated by Brian Ross continue to bring disrepute on the Press.
The scary part is that they truly don’t care.
WHO CARES! I don’t know anything about the Tea Party & could care less. All media just keep pounding any & all coverage of any event. 99% of all media reports are rumors or constant repeating of the same thing over & over. beating a dead horse. Media has lost all credibility in the coverage of news.ie: at this mornings press conference w/Police Chief, who had just given all the info he had available, the press kept asking stupid questions that he had just answered.Used car salesmen should rejoice, media & reporters have bumped them out of the most distrusted spot. Ross probably just read whatever was jammed into his hand in the race to be the 1st.
The MSM is like a pharmaceutical commercial. Make big, bold pronouncements, and then, just at the end of the commercial, quickly and quietly rattle of the possible side-effects.
and lock them both up
Posted my complaint, thanks for the link.
That idiot Ross could have gotten this man killed with his BS remarks. Not unlike the jerk Spike Lee Tweeting the address of George Zimmerman. One of these days someone IS going to get seriously hurt or killed because of “reporting” like this.
I’ve sent a note to ABC as well – maybe enough straws will break the camel’s back.
I’m surprised that since the murderer was apparently a white male who apparently studied neuroscience, ABC did not call for the arrest of all white males who study neuroscience.
What if it turns out that this murdered was a registered Democrat? Or was gay? Or supported the Occupy movement?
Would that ever come to light?
Now if you want to get real snarky just do what Iowahawk did …google brian ross arrested or rapes or murders and then attach those links when you comment on the CBS news site ….like this
http://youviewedblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/brian-ross-one-man-crime-wave/
Any apology will also be a lie.
Deep down, these mental cases still WANT the shooter to be connected to anything that takes down conservatives and keeps their THUG AND LIAR IN CHIEF in office.
It’s sickening – these people are simply not reporters or journalists; they are merely ignorant pawns. This is why FOX News (TV), Rush and Levin (Radio), Breitbart and Drudge (internet), etc have soared to respected, most watched, most listened to and most read.
Disney owns ABC; Explains why it’s nothing more than a Mickey Mouse organization.
‘There used to be a time when journalists had a rough integrity about what they said over the air’
This is total bunk, journalist are human and they are partisan and opinionated. The difference now and then is then a) they had total monopoly over the news b)no one challenged their integrity.
Is this the same Brian Ross, the child molester located in my state?
Isn’t this why we have slander laws in this country? “Mistakes” like this from the MSM will never end, until a few multi-million dollar judgments are handed down against them.
Don’t forget that Ross was the CBS reporter that reported the exploding truck gas tanks. He got fired for that little “mis-statement”". But, of course, the MSM cover their own, so he landed at ABC. I also recall (forget the details) lots of other “mis-reporting” by him. But the MSM doesn’t seem to care. Oh well, just another day in the “Drive By Media” (Rush Limbaughism). They get to drive to the scene, mis-report, watch all the resulting mayhem and chaos, then drive away WITH NO CONSEQUECES. A lie travels twice around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. BUT THE MSM GETS ITS BIASED STORY OUT THERE, so why should they care.
It would be entirely unfair for Brian to be fired from ABC; after all, none of the other lawless, immoral, degenerate, fascist, criminal traitors there have been fired, why should he be? They have standards man.
The innocent James Holmes, Tea Party member, should sue ABC, Stephanipolus & Brian Ross for slander. This kind of political assassination won’t stop until they are made to pay.
SUE THE BASTARDS!!!
You can forget about them firing Ross. The liberal press are nothing more than a propaganda machine for radical leftists and Obama. They will say and do anything to push their ideology, just as Nazi Germany did in the 40s. If Obama is not defeated in November, expect this to increase 10 fold. It will be a scary place in America.
PJM should have a weekly “Rossie” award for incompetence and irresponsibility in journalism.
I vote that the ‘James Holmes’ that Brian Ross committed ‘defamation of character’ towards, SUES Brian Ross and the network he represents. I am even willing to donate to a fund that will insure the ‘Tea Party’ James Holmes, can begin his lawsuit and make the network where Brian Ross works televise the entire trial.
I wrote him a letter and included my full name. I let him know I am a member of the tea party in Michigan. I also let him know that I share the same exact name with a popular porn star. I am not her, and she is not me. Should anything arise with her (pun intended) in the future, I will save him the trouble in his search.
Just sent a note to ABC using the link provided in this string.
I said that I was going to start a move on Facebook to boycott all ABC advertisers if Brian Ross is not fired.
Anybody with me?
This is a simple question with an obvious answer. In fact, it has been asked and answered many times already.
ABC (CBS, NBC, MSNBC) are not news organizations–they are political dissemination outlets.
Not only should we ask for Brian Ross to be fired, but also Stephanopoulos. This is the reason: Stephanopoulos should have NEVER let Brian Ross report that story without proof. This makes Stephanopoulos just as guilty and needs to apologize as well as being fired!!!!!
“Suspended” is the LEAST that should happen to a blatant provocateur.
ABC = The A.ll B.arack C.hannel
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“Why is Brian Ross still working at ABC News?” Simple. ABC “News” is not “News” but rather one of the propaganda arms of the Democrat Party. His job is to spew propaganda in an effort to brain wash the morons who are stupid enough to watch ABC “News”. Fortunately for ABC, their few viewers are gullible dolts.
I believe Brian Ross is a Democrat, I have no particular proof of that, only that he’s an idiot and fits the profile!
This is where all news must go if postmodernism continues to dominate culture. In Heidegger’s fascist epistemology, there is no such thing as an objective truth claim. All truth claims are simply attempts at tribal dominion. Since Ross is part of the correct tribe. It only matters that his statements achieve the goals of his tribe. Accuracy is both irrelevant and inconsequential.
Also be warned the truth claims against his tribe (regardless of accuracy) are not merely statements of fact, but acts of violence and aggression. If society makes laws or social contracts against such claims, then more than just violence, these claims can be considered sedition, or even treason.
This Socialist Workers Party(Nazi) epistemology allows political correct thinking to not only censor accurate statements of fact, but to be openly promoted (as propaganda) despite the absence of (irrelevant) factual accuracy.
In other words, Brian Ross is a fascist.
Why would the ABC brass fire Brian Ross? He was following orders. No way that kind of reckless slander flies unless there is tacit encouragement coming from the top. Medigoguery of the International Left. They play for keeps. Terror, death, insinuation, and slander are their favorite weapons.
They keep him because he says what they think, so what’s the prob?
Network nes has been a lib temple since the ’50s. Since affirmative action since the ’60s made almost all management minorities, who are deeply stewed in victimhood, it is only white people (almost always male) who are wrong, all the time.
Ross is merely agreeing with them.
The Tea Party is their dog whistle for “White people who aren’t liberal”.
What difference would it make even if he were a member of the Tea Party? The Tea Party in everything they do and say has shown nothing but a non-racist, non-violent, orderly goal to simply get our government to change the way they fiscally conduct themselves. There are always nutcases and fringe elements around, so if this guy’s horrid actions were instigated for political reasons, it would be anathema to Tea Party conduct and be against all they have said and done. Now I would not say the same for Occupy. They have conducted themselves, said things and encouraged behavior that is divisive, violent and non-orderly. In their case, there is a large contingency that is anti-social, racist at times, anti-wealth and semi-violent. This behavior has not been put down by those that control the movement or have something say in how it is to be conducted (if there are any). I may be bias, but I do make a hard attempt to look at everything objectively and this is what I have seen.
Even a summer journalism intern has the sense to make sure they had the “right” Jim Holmes before going on national TV and connecting him with a mass murder. In a nation of 300 million, there must be dozens, if a couple hundred people named Jim Holmes. Pathetic.
I watched this Pravda “network” last night to see if there would be an on air apology, boy was I stupid, not only no apology, but they actually had Brian Ross reporting on the shootings…you simply cannot make this stuff up.
— “Why Is Brian Ross Still Working for ABC News?”
Because he’s one of them. He’s an ABC man through and through. He shares the same values, the same politics, the same morals. This is ABC News. An outfit I stopped watching years ago, because of their endless lies and manipulations of the facts. Arrogant bastards.
Fire the enabler Stephanopoulos as well. I think that I will be going on a no ABC News diet for a while.
Brian Ross is the epitome of ABC news,
completely unconcerned about the real world & he lives in a utopia bubble,
he couldn’t care less about anyone besides himself and his fantasy world.
Summarizes the disgrace that is called US Media
Fortunately, they only provide distraction, and are source of advertising and the vast majority of people ignore their content and liberal fanaticism.
If you are interested in the news check it online, I would rather watch two people fish for walleyes then listen to Brian Ross.
If ABC had any decency, which they do not, Brian Ross would be fired.
You must be kidding. He’ll probably make the journalism Hall of Fame for his reporting. Journalism: Lying, smearing, distorting, and manipulating information for the purpose of obscuring the disaster that is the Democrat party.
Hubby saw a large military funeral this week. Four blocks long. Who died? Why has the media suddenly gone silent on the wars? Do we not still have soldiers dying in Afghanistan? Hello? In the Bush years it was a steady drum beat and criticism of Bush for not going to the funerals. This President can’t be bothered to respect Memorial Day. The scope of the disaster that is the Fifth Column in this country boggles the mind. Brian Ross is just a cog in that filthy machine. The American people have no idea what is going on in their country.
Ross like many others in the drive by media should be identified as “Democrat operative”. Lose the pretense of journalist.
A 30 second search of the federal online sex offenders list quickly points out that Mr. Ross is using the massacre as a forum to advance his political views and hide the fact that he is a pedophile. Is the view point of a convicted pervert that relevant.
Rick,
Why is Ross still working at ABC news?
Surely, that’s a rhetorical question.
Boycott ABC if they do not fire Brian Ross. Hit them where it hurts there wallet, or purse….
There’s a registered sex offender named Brian Ross in the metro-D.C. region. Now, we don’t know if this is the same Brian Ross. But it’s Brian Ross of metropolitan D.C.