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It appears that some people have an issue with this tongue-in-cheek post from yesterday. 

Colorado killer, James Holmes, ties to academia

A young man who recently dropped out of the University of Colorado is the deranged killer of a dozen people in a movie theater in Colorado early this morning.

It is unclear at this point if he was motivated by President Obama's campaign rhetoric to hit back twice as hard, the poisonous atmosphere of ideological Leftism that influences university students, was a member of the Occupy movement or if he simply didn't like another Batman movie. One thing we know for sure, despite the desire of George Stephanopolis and Brain Ross of ABC News to blame the Tea Party, the killer, James Holmes, was not a member of that broad middle class movement. Instead, he seems to have been a perpetual student and part of ABC's audience.

So I looked at it and I am amazed to find that it meets pretty much all the standards of a professional journalist.

What is there to disagree with?   Let's analyze it:

James Holmes is a killer …. in Colorado.  Check.

Age 24 makes him a young man.  Check.

He has ties to academia?  It’s a safe bet that he’s been going to one school or another since he was 6 years old and the University of Colorado confirmed his status.  Many, many news stories tie a person’s identity to their occupation, their hobbies or avocation, something I’m doing here.   Check.

Was he deranged?  Too early to tell, so I may have to offer a retraction (a la Brian Ross) on this one.

Like other members of the media, it’s almost incumbent upon us to speculate on his motivation.  But instead of choosing the usual MSM talking points I chose my own.  Note how Sarah Palin was accused of motivating the murderer who shot Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson.  Using the exact same lack of evidence I have every right to speculate that the eliminationist rhetoric of Obama, the pervasive Leftist indoctrination of academia, the often violent Occupy movement or the movie itself motivated Holmes.  It’s waaaay too late to take the Palin smear back.  The aggressor sets the rules in combat and these are the rules that apply.   Check.

Despite the efforts of ABC to smear the Tea Party and tie them to this murderer, we know it’s not true.  We KNOW that because the Holmes they tagged as a Tea party member is not the killer.  Check.

It appears that in the 24 years of his life he’s always been a student so we can call him a perpetual student.  Check.

And finally, we have a high degree of confidence that anyone who has ever watched TV in their lives has viewed programs on the ABC network.  Check.

So far I would classify my analysis as having much more basis in fact than the proven lies disseminated by ABC and Brian Ross.

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