Yesterday Newsbusters posted a story about a segment to be aired on ABC's "This Week" today. The segment was about a town hall meeting held as part of the healing process after the shootings in Tucson last Saturday.
The news segment that was aired left out a rather significant item. The article reports:
"As NewsBusters previously reported, a survivor of last week's Tucson shootings issed a death threat to a Tea Party member Saturday in the middle of a taping for a town hall meeting to be aired on ABC's "This Week."
"For some reason, ABC World News Saturday in its report about the gathering chose to omit the seriousness of the threat and that it was made to a Tea Partier."
The article at NewsBusters gives videos and a full account of what actually happened. It was very misleading for ABC to leave out the fact that there was a threat made to a Tea Partier. All of us need to realize that volatile rhetoric happens on both sides of the political spectrum. We also need to realize that to disagree with someone's political ideas is not hate speech. There need to be two sides in order to have meaningful debate.
Please follow the above link to read the entire story.
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