{"id":29087,"date":"2012-07-23T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29087"},"modified":"2012-07-21T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T16:02:23","slug":"there-was-a-time-id-have-called-it-casualty-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29087","title":{"rendered":"There Was A Time I’d Have Called It “Casualty #14”"},"content":{"rendered":"

That casualty would be “any sense that the media is not working an agenda against conservatives, especially organized conservatives like the Tea Party”.<\/p>\n

But that time was many years and at least one set of ideals ago.<\/p>\n

During the confusion over the identity of the shooter in Aurora, ABC’s Brian Ross went on the air and reported…<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s 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\u2019t know if this is the same Jim Holmes. But it\u2019s Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which has been, by the way, the leftymedia’s process for reporting on the Tea Party since the very beginning; find the slenderest reed of possible allowing the assumption of guilt, and work back from there (because there will be no consequences).<\/p>\n

Brian Moran at Pajamas Media remembers that time<\/a> as well:<\/p>\n

There used to be a time when journalists had a rough integrity about what they said over the air and took pride in striving for accuracy. Who could ever forget ABC\u2019s Frank Reynolds, ABC News anchorman, who, after receiving and announcing word that James Brady had been killed in the Reagan assassination attempt only to discover the press secretary was still alive, got visibly angry and to no one in particular barked on air, \u201cLet\u2019s get this right. Let\u2019s nail this down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Stephanopoulos thanked Brian Ross for smearing the Tea Party by reporting a lie. Ross should be suspended or lose his job for this attempt to inject politics into a national tragedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I noted the phenomenon years ago; in their unquenchable hunger to demonize the Tea Party – literally, to rhetorically turn them into demons – the media was bending over backwards <\/a>to find the slenderest reed of association with the Tea Party first, and worry about attribution and proof later. \u00a0It was so pervasive, it launched an entire category on this blog, “The Slander Files<\/a>“, chronicling the left’s demented quest to make the facts, such as they were, fit their narrative. \u00a0 It’s been a busy category. \u00a0Do you remember when…:<\/p>\n