[See NewsBusters for more.] After ABC's Brian Ross tried to tie the Aurora mass shooter to the Tea Party in 2012, you would have thought the media learned their lesson about tying politics to mass shootings without any evidence. Unfortunately, the cast of Wednesday's Morning Joe on MSNBC failed to learn this lesson as they blamed the Republican Party for the murder of eight people, including six Asian-American women, in Atlanta on Tuesday.
Host Joe Scarborough, despite recognizing the problem of jumping to conclusions without evidence, jumped to conclusions when he asked Republican-turned Democrat Kurt Bardella, "While we can't jump -- police officers won't want us jumping to any quick conclusions now, it certainly looks like some of your greatest fears in that column last week were recognized in Atlanta last night."