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Does the media owe the TEA party an apology?

Does the media owe the TEA Party an apology for their assumptions regarding Loughner?


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I know that sounds good to you, but the problem is that "blowing things out of proportion" and "adding their own artistic license" are both highly subjective judgments. You and I, for example, could look at the same news clip and I argue two totally different interpretations of how objective the clip is. Furthermore, you could pick your interpretation and I could sit there and argue the exact opposite.

Which proves your original comment incorrect. Thank you.
 
The media is supposed controversial stuff. That's their job.



Against who, a generic silhouette? Take it up with 90s. :lol:

It looks more violent than cross hairs or targets on maps.:lol:

Gives me the idea to go shoot someone who is wearing a hat.
See how silly we are being?
 
But you did not say that in the original comment I quoted. If that's what you meant then you need to clarify, and not use absolutes.

And yes, some people on the left are doing that, and some people on the right are blaming the left. Stupidity is abound on both sides.

Muslims attacked us on 9/11 O'Reilly says. Behar and Whoopie walk off their stage. Not all Muslims are bad they say. Like Bill really meant All Muslims attacked us or all muslims are bad.
 
You are mistaking doing something to incite others with informing the public about something someone else is doing. Even if what that someone else is doing serves only to incite others, reporting the facts about what they're doing is nowhere near the same thing as the act itself.



That argument hasn't been made by me, so by continuing to press me on it you succeed only in making yourself look foolish.

You know, it's been a long time since I've felt as angry as I have the last few days. It sure wasn't caused by the tea party. It was caused by the bull **** and lies being spewed by the sheriff and the media about the right, the tea party and sarah palin's map.
 
You know, it's been a long time since I've felt as angry as I have the last few days. It sure wasn't caused by the tea party. It was caused by the bull **** and lies being spewed by the sheriff and the media about the right, the tea party and sarah palin's map.

When I saw the Sheriff and heard his comments my first reaction was "there is one great American". After hearing him several times, my new response is "damn, there is one really great American". He stands tall and says what must be said to those who do not want to hear it.
 
No.

The OPs argument is weak and overgeneralized. Copy/pasted right from Hannity's talking points.
 
They owe it to themselves and their readers and listeners to carefully consider the whirlwind they got themselves caught in, seemingly willingly.
 
You know, it's been a long time since I've felt as angry as I have the last few days. It sure wasn't caused by the tea party. It was caused by the bull **** and lies being spewed by the sheriff and the media about the right, the tea party and sarah palin's map.

It's the same kind of rhetoric that both sides have been vomiting all over each other for the past couple of decades. Something bad happens, and suddenly we're appealing to the lowest common denominator.
 
When I saw the Sheriff and heard his comments my first reaction was "there is one great American". After hearing him several times, my new response is "damn, there is one really great American". He stands tall and says what must be said to those who do not want to hear it.
He's a liberal Dem with a partisan agenda and he wants to capitalize on this tragedy in order to damage those on the opposite side. No wonder you like him.
 
He may be right, he may be wrong, but sheriff or not, he has the right to express his opinion.
And I agree with him.

However, being the sheriff, he has a professional responsibility to be careful about what he says.
 
I watched some of an interview with the Sheriff last night on CNN and it was crazy. He was happily admitting that:

1. he had no evidence for tying the rhetoric/tea party to the shootings.
2. it was his job as a professional to speculate (!!!) and comment about it
3. it's not Rush's fault, but that attitude anyone can see is the cause

I was trying to figure out how it could be real, the things issuing from his mouth. What he needs to learn is that Beck and Rush are Entertainers who want you to believe they are public servants. And that as a sworn public servant, he should not be behaving like an entertainer.
Strange entertainment, very strange.
Too may people take them seriously, in facts years ago, I was one.
I feel that any "sworn public servant" has the right to express himself.
The problem is the gun-loving right; the sooner they live up to this, the better off we will be.
 
He may be right, he may be wrong, but sheriff or not, he has the right to express his opinion.
And I agree with him.

apdst hit it on the head with the following:

However, being the sheriff, he has a professional responsibility to be careful about what he says.

This sheriff gave teh impression that what he was saying about the Rhetoric was supported by statements that the shooter had given by virtue of his authoritative position.

While he's free to express his opinion, he should not do so in a way that makes it look like a factual statement based on information he would be privy to that others would not be. When he makes a pure conjecture about something like this, he has a professional and ethical duty to add the disclaimer that what he is saying is essentially bull**** he's making up, not something that is supported by the perpetrator's claims.
 
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