Estimate the net worth of ABC, add 2 zeros, sue for that amount.
New post on Scotty Starnes's Blog |  | Hope he sues ABC for their inaccurate "investigative" reporting. From DC: Colorado Tea Party Patriots member Jim Holmes told The Daily Caller in a Friday interview that his day has been "surreal" after falsely being linked to the movie theater massacre in Colorado by an on-air ABC News reporter. "What kind of idiot makes that kind of statement?" Holmes told TheDC. "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?" Holmes has the unfortunate coincidence of sharing a similar name with James Holmes, the 24-year-old accused of going on a rampage during a midnight showing of the "Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo., early Friday morning. What ABC New's head investigative reporter didn't know is that this James Holmes was a 52-year-old former law enforcement officer. Ross basically didn't a basic Google search and pulled up the Colorado Tea Party page that happened to have "James Holmes" listed as a member. Instead of investigating, Ross decided to go on air and use this "gotcha" information to slander both Holmes and the Tea Party as he smirked. ABC apologized for Ross' mistake. ...Recalling his day, Holmes said his wife first told him about the movie theater shooting Friday morning. He then received a text from a friend telling him that he was being mentioned on the news. After the calls started pouring in, Holmes unplugged his home phone. He wanted to learn more about what was being said about him before commenting to anyone, he said. "I was getting called from area codes I just don't get." "And I don't anticipate plugging my phone in for a couple of days," he said. His message to reporters: "I do understand what making a mistake means… But is it really worth the person's reputation, the potential ruining of the person's reputation?" He added that he knows from his law enforcement experience that one should "never, ever, ever bring somebody's name or association into an accusation into the public eye until I know the truth." Holmes said it has also been a chilling day for him and his family because he considered going to see the midnight opening of the Batman film with his 19-year-old daughter. But she decided to go see a film at another theater with her boyfriend that night, he said. "I decided not to," Holmes told TheDC. "I might have been there. Seriously." | | | |
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