That shooting in Colorado
I’m sure you’ve already read or heard about the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado last night at a showing of the movie “The Dark Knight”. I’m hearing that 15 are dead and 50 others are injured. But, as tragic as it is, the media, and especially Fox News, have made me not care about it anymore because of their idiot coverage of the event.
Apparently, the gun man threw a smoke grenade into the crowd before he opened up. How do I know it was a smoke grenade, because the idiot reporters are calling it “possibly tear gas”. Yeah if it was tear gas, there would be nothing “possibly” about it. You’d know if it was tear gas.
Yeah, I heard witnesses complain about irritation to their throats and trouble breathing, but smoke grenades do that, too. Like I said, if it was tear gas, we wouldn’t be wondering what it was.
But I don’t know how long Fox News can continue to repeat the same tired descriptions of the event without telling viewers something new, but I guess they’re going for the record. At least some of the other channels are reporting other news instead of running the same video in a loop over and over. I don’t think they’ve even told us what the weather is yet.
Category: Media
@53 – Uh……no. Perhaps you missed the correction:
“Due to a transcription error, a previous version of this article quoted Gohmert as referring to the shooting as a “crazy act of a derelict.” He in fact called it “a crazy act of terror like this.” The error has been corrected.”
The audio – minus what is above – contains exactly what Gohmert stated. The audio isn’t the best quality and it’s entirely reasonable to have had difficulty in transcription.
A far, far cry from “misrepresented, took out of context, and distorted” and “LIARS”.
Since the police in Aurora have not yet released anything to the media that will tell the rest of us what the gunman’s motive actually was, I will do a little speculating of my own. He was a doctoral candidate (withdrawing) in neuroscience. The requirements for getting PhD in anything are stiff: written exams, oral exams, and a thesis in your area of specialization. The subject of the thesis has to be a previously unexamined approach to the specialty. If it is not accepted by the examiners, you don’t get your PhD. Unlike med school or vet school, you don’t do a residency or an internship, but you can get a teaching fellowship. My guesses are as follows: 1 – He applied for a grant or a fellowship and didn’t get it 2 – He failed his written or oral exams, or both 3 – His thesis was not accepted 4 – His thesis might have been plagiarized from someon else’s work(yeah, the exams committee DOES their research, per my sister) 5 – His department head may have told him he wasn’t going any further 6- The stress is stiff and washouts are common (again, per my sister) Any one of those can put you over the edge, but especially the last one, and if you’re already paranoid for starters or you’re even vaguely linked to a group that promotes violence, you can see how it can make you snap. And understand, I am NOT taking the shooter’s side, just making an observation. Having lived in Chicago for over 30 years, (I don’t live there now) I can truly say that gun laws will NOT stop violence by criminals or by people who have guns but should not be allowed to have them. A few years ago, I drove home from work, only to find the state police and the North Chicago police on the highway with rifles aimed at a guy who would not get out of his van and was holding a handgun in his hand. There’s a huge black market in weapons of all kinds, and gun… Read more »
No. 54:
I was referring to the entire article, not, only to the one corrected error, which I said they corrected.
I will attempt to answer more fully, later today .
@56 – I hope so….as the article captured the audio from Gohmert….I would be very interested in how they could lie based on his own words.
No. 54:
First, anyone may read the short and contradictory article which you addressed (literally), and confirm (or ignore) my contentions.
Second, “Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Friday that the shootings that took place in an Aurora, Colo. movie theater hours earlier WERE A RESULT OF “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs” . . .”
He did NOT say that in the printed article — is every reader obliged to listen to every “reporter” source ??
No, I do NOT take the word of reporters !!
The reporter’s written article must be self-contained and it stands (or falls) by itself.
Third, “Gohmert was asked why he believes such senseless acts of violence take place. Gohmert responded by talking about the weakening of Christian values in the country.” —
NO — he talked about MUCH MORE (misrepresentation) — the short article itself, shows this, so it is not necessary for me to quote every damn thing for the lazy.
“. . . AND THEN some senseless crazy act of terror like this . . .” — REP Gohmert is adding points in sequence, NOT certifying cause and effect.
“. . . our founders talked about guarding our virtue and freedom . . .” — REP Gohmert makes good points, NOT “characterized” by the “reporter.”
(yes, she quotes them — which is why her other points fall or contradict or exaggerate — she is unfair by her omission.)
Just a few points, there are more — all from the self-contained short “report” in HuffPuff .
I see…so although you state that the article is contradictory, the quotes are exactly what he states in the audio.
Although the subject was the Aurora shootings, you believe he could not have possibly been inclusive of that event when he spoke of “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs”.
And although the reporter includes quotes of Gohmerts own words, you follow it with ‘NO’.
Perhaps it’s your strange hiaku style of posting…but it sounds like you’re reading what you want to read, instead of what Gohmert said.
‘HuffPuff’?
Are you thirteen? Do cutesy names add context to your position?
No. 59:
You are not reading what I wrote, therefore your No. 59 makes no sense. So long.
@60 – You’re the only person here who posts haiku….perhaps it’s not my post that makes no sense.
Regardless, I understand your unwillingness to walk back your charges.
@60 and @61 — let us know when you two decide to stop bitch slapping each other, willya?
Thanks!!!
No. 62:
I stopped when I wrote “So long.”
@63 — Okay,then.
At least one of the dead is reported as active duty. No names, assumption is US Army. All the dead have been identified now its a matter of notifying the next of kin. At least 4 other military are ok. Sometimes life is not fair. You go expecting a movie and this crap happens.
Here’s a link to the newspaper report about two Illinois men who were at the theater. The deceased man is John Larimer, USN PO3, from Crystal Lake, IL. The other man, who is okay, is from Cary, IL.
http://www.nwherald.com/2012/07/21/family-confirms-crystal-lake-man-among-dead-in-colo-shooting/a4m7x6n/?page=2