James Holmes: Five questionable reports about weird behavior

By Michael Roberts Fri., Jul. 27 2012 at 6:59 AM

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An image from Holmes's reported Adult Friend Finder page.

Usually, TMZ reports items as if there's no question of their legitimacy -- but the site uses a number of hedging words in reporting about Holmes and prostitutes. The headline notes a "possible" connection, as evidenced by a message board featuring his "supposed" screen name and posts detailing multiple sexual encounters with hookers.

The site contacted three women Holmes "supposedly" reviewed. The first couldn't remember him, the second said he looked familiar but couldn't confirm he was a client, and the third was "POSITIVE" she'd been with him not once but twice. The latter woman, identified as Tiffany, claimed, "He felt bad that I wasn't getting more customers while in Colorado, so he called a few days later and we met up again."

Spit Take

ABC, citing Denver's 7News, reported that Holmes had been spitting so much at jail personnel that they were forced to use a spit guard when moving him from one part of the facility to another.

The piece making this assertion remains online, with spitting in the headline -- but at the bottom of the report is this editor's note: "On Tuesday night, ABC News local affiliate station KMGH reported that sources they contacted denied that James Holmes had spit at guards or was made to wear a facemask."

Even after that, however, the likes of PerezHilton.com were still sharing the story as if it hadn't already been contradicted.

Tags:

Aurora, James Holmes, theater shooting

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vanilla.twist

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we as a society are to blame, we need to ask ourselves what we are doing wrong that creates an environment that breeds violence, hopelessness and despair. Until we fix what is wrong with us, we will continue to create victims like James Holmes.

Juan_Leg topcommenter

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That mask wouldn't even come close to hiding Carole Chamber's repulsiveness !

Night time discussions between the Chambers', " Bag, mask, or dark, tonight, Honey ? "

" Your call, Babe. You put another 16 yr old on Death Row today, so it's your choice ! "

Neil Womack

writing stories about this is good, it's news. But stop posting about it on facebook every two minutes. The last thing I want to see on my newsfeed is this douche-nozzle's face. #unfollowed

DonkeyHotay topcommenter

Michael, the new VV advertorial format requires you ..

... to put

... each item

... of an inane

... list on

... a separate

... page to artificially

... inflate page views

.... and advertising revenue

hth.

Craig Talbert

Maybe one of his neuroscience friends got him doped up on scopolamine and told him to do it.

WhoCares

"He asked, 'Why am I here?'""

Why are you in jail? Because you are taking the fall for this police pysop dude. How did it end? Well supposedly after you left the police shot a bunch of people for real and pinned it on you. You won't be joining any white gangs in prison seeing as how the real shooters (none were white) targeted white people. Most likely Somalians or Ethiopians were used to do the real shooting. You were duped by your black friends dude. The same ones that suggested you color your hair like bozo the clown. You were drugged out and allegedly shot into he air to signal the rest of the police pyops team to to the actual shooting. While your CU buds said it was a training exercise http://tinyurl.com/cwz7acm they failed to mention that you are the real world dupe.

The jokes on you dude. You were suckered in the worst way. The people who actually carried this out want you to get the death penalty or be killed in prison probably by white gangs seeing as how all the victims were white. CU must have failed to mention their terror "training" exercise included you as the dupe. It appears you were part of the exercise and the police pyops goons flipped the script.

You should have known that there us a lot of white hate in Aurora, Colorado and the city is in the most corrupt county in the USA. way to let tge police sucker you fool.

This is blatantly a police psyop. Now when you get beat in prison or you get the death penalty the police pysop goons and sleazeball media will laugh their asses off.

Juan_Leg topcommenter

@WhoCares

You and Hotay , should be friends.

The two of you w/ Chase are a real source.

Perhaps it's easier to see from afar.

DonkeyHotay topcommenter

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@WhoCares ... take your meds, psycho.

Juan_Leg topcommenter

@DonkeyHotay

I bet if you two were to sit in the same room,

the result would be a respected friendship.

Tyler Halstead

I used to like the westword, now I think I'll just open every box I see and throw them all away.

Terence Hayden

Westword seriously, I will give you all one more day of this banal "reporting". Then it's goodbye, stick with your core-competency please

Jason Thomas

Theoretically speaking what would be sad is if someone where to print out Westword's Facebook page with endless example after example of insensitive articles regarding the shooting and send them to the Aurora mayor's office, the Denver's mayor's office, the Aurora police Department, the various victim's advocacy agencies, the major news networks and newspapers. Then (theoretically speaking of course) that person starts a Facebook group to campaign for people to take as many Westword magazines from their free spots and trash them. And then (again theoretically speaking) inform as many of Westword's advertisers about what is going on. Of course pure theory speaking here.