A young medical school dropout has murdered more than a dozen people at a showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, and some are already trying to make political hay. ABC, in the most shameful example, went on the air to report that the murderer had a connection to the Colorado Tea Party, only to have to recant minutes later when they learned that the gentleman they identified, though having the same name as the murderer, is a 52 year-old ex-law enforcement Hispanic, not a 24 year-old, as the suspect had already been reported to be. Too good to check, as they say, so they ran with it, apparently suffering from the liberal elite belief that Tea Party members are psychopathic mass murderers waiting to happen.
The reality, I'm fairly certain, is that the young man was suffering from manic depression/schizophrenia, and was simply very sick. We will shortly find that there was nothing political whatsoever about this tragedy.
Will that keep the media and the Democrats from exploiting it? I doubt it.
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