Now appears report of shooter seeking partisan identity of players FALSE

[Foamfollower]

Confused the shooter with another person:

New details from Josh Marshall:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/josh-m

Edited to add another link:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-details

[leftstreet]

1. It's too late. They got their media soundbite out there

And on the President's birthday no less!

[TheBlackAdder]

21. They'll say this even if there weren't soundbites.... because they are lying, conniving fucks!

[Cosmocat]

34. YEP

its part of their reality now ...

[Neema]

2. Doesn't matter. The story is out there now.

Every single RW idiot will be saying it.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Too soon to believe much of any news reports now...

Just thankful it's over and suspect is contained.

[Va Lefty]

4. Something to keep in mind...

Link to tweet

[JI7]

5. wasnt the congress member who said that in first place not there when shooting happened ?

[unblock]

14. yeah he left before the shooting.

someone in a crowd asked about party affiliation, and someone in a crowd shot.

so the congresscritter conveniently decided to assume the questioner was the shooter.

after all, who but a shooter would possibly care about party affiliation of congresscritters....

[JI7]

19. and yet they ran with the story

Knowing he wasn't there

[unblock]

28. the story even included admitted speculation

the congresscritter said he "thinks" it was the shooter.

it's amazing that people even bother to go to journalism school so they can be outright propagandists.

eh, what do i know, maybe they don't even take any journalism classes.
if they even learned anything about proofreading, even that certainly doesn't show.

[unblock]

6. wow, i'm shocked, shocked!

oh goodness me, whatever could possibly have gone oh so wrong for someone to have decided to get that completely innocent and honest mistake into the media.

i'm sure the guy who made that false statement will be self-flagellating 100 times tonight and vow never to make any such mistake again.

[Squinch]

7. Kick

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8. Kick

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9. Kick

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11. Kick

[FSogol]

12. K & R. n/t

[4139]

13. Your link not working

[Foamfollower]

15. Works fine for me.

Goes directly to Josh MArshall's page on Talkingpointsmemo.com

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-details

That's direct to the article. I'll update.

[4139]

17. Works now... maybe they were tweeting something when I tried before

[herding cats]

18. It works for me. nt

[herding cats]

16. Like I said, the descriptions of the two people didn't match.

Which doesn't mean it wasn't a targeted shooting of Republicans, but that was just a mistaken assumption. Which happens often in these types of events.

[Foamfollower]

20. I'd say likely motive would have been general hatred of Congress, not partisan.

[Kaleva]

23. Looking at the shooters Facebook page, he hated Trump and supported Bernie

[herding cats]

24. Maybe, but it's just too early to say yet.

There's a host of various possibilities out there. In time we'll have a better idea of what was the motive here.

[cwydro]

22. I never believed that nonsense.

Silly report.

[Wednesdays]

25. "He was specifically targeting Republicans"

--George Stephanopoulos, ABC News 10:56 a.m.

[Neema]

26. He's been identified and he's a Bernie-or-Bust dude.

The GOP will milk this for all it's worth.

[sarge43]

31. Link? n/t

[Kaleva]

33. There are threads here giving links to his Facebook pages

His postings are pro enviroment, pro Bernie, anti Trump, anti corporations and so on.

[Bucky]

36. But not with us on gun control

Evil fucker, regardless of party affiliation

[Kaleva]

37. Reading his Facebook postings, I think he was independent radical leftwing.

[sarge43]

38. OK. Has it been confirmed it's the same person?

Right now the media is making bricks without straw. It's running with every rumor, bystander's opinion and post hoc it can find. Until there's confirmation, some skepticism might be in order.

[Heartstrings]

27. K & R. Nt

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

29. Geez.

[FlightRN]

30. Interview on MSNBC

I don't know who the Rep. was, but he was at the field. Interviewed by Kasey Hunt said the words "political terrorism."

[malaise]

32. Hahahahhaha

All ReTHUGs are LIARS. I knew this was false information

[58Sunliner]

35. If the right wing doesn't have to own their hundreds of shootings-

Why the fu** should we. Push back. I am not carrying water for rethugs.

[Deb]

39. Thank you!

"Earlier reports that the gunman asked the partisan identification of the people practicing before opening fire appears to have been in error, a good faith confusion of another person with the shooter. I’m not sure we can definitively rule that report out. But it now appears that report is at best unconfirmed and likely erroneous."

[liberal N proud]

40. Republicans want to play the victim and now they have it in the heads of the misinformed

[yurbud]

41. right is waiting for excuse to go violent. The big difference between Tea Party & prior Repub pols..

Is not policies but lack of intelligence.

They were chosen because they actually believe their parties propaganda that their ideas work not just that they will help their big donors.

Since they lack such basic analytical skills, if told to go violent or go fascist, they will because they can't imagine what would happen if they fail.

Some of the GOP backers during the Bush era seemed to be pushing for fascism, but enough Republicans were hesitant to pull the trigger, not out of idealism or patriotism necessarily but more likely self-preservation, that they couldn't get it done.

When you have angry, dumb as dirt pols running Congress and the White House, watch out.