If ABC News does fire Brian Ross, he could always find a job working for Aaron Sorkin.
Ross, a veteran investigative reporter for ABC News, blew it Friday morning when he suggested that the Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect, James Holmes, might be connected with the Tea Party.
“There is 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,” Ross ominously informed Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos, who thought the news “might be significant.”
Or it might not.
Actually, it definitely isn’t significant. The fiftysomething tea-party Holmes, we soon learned, wasn’t the same guy as the twentysomething mass-slaying suspect.
Brent Bozell of the conservative watchdog outfit the Media Research Center calls Ross’s statement a “brazen attempt to smear the Tea Party.”
And other conservatives, particularly tea-party members, have every right to be angry. The list of calumnies and distortions about them is too lengthy to recount here. They’ve been cast as dangerous, racist, fascistic, and murderous.
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