Making rounds in the Internet is an image macro which describes how Jeanne Assam shot a church murderer in Colorado in 2007. The image praises her for pulling out her "legal, concealed gun", then says you would never hear about her from the "Liberal Media, because she is an inconvenient fact in their war to disarm America".
According to the image, the liars who take credit for it are TeaPartyCommunity.com.
They are lying only by omission when it comes to the shooting and the heroic take-down by Ms. Assam. They are leaving out one important fact: Jeanne Assam was a retired cop and she was on duty as a security officer when she pulled out her "legal, concealed gun".
That's a big omission, because the so-called liberal plan to disarm America would not extend towards Jeanne Assam. Even people calling for tighter gun control generally aren't saying we should disarm cops and qualified security guards. In fact the Colorado Springs shooting might be a perfect example of the point that Liberal America is trying to make: It should be harder for deranged lunatics to get guns, and guns belong in the hands of properly trained public servants.
Tea Party Community may be lying by omission about Assam, but they are lying directly about the media. The incident was covered at the time. In fact, the press coverage of Assam was extensive enough to be used as an example in this critique by NBC on the use of the word "exclusive":
I'm tired of these fake so called exclusives wherein networks make us to believe that the only place to have a certain of information. If you're watching cable news Monday night, you might have seen interviews with Jeanne Assam, the volunteer security guard who killed the gunman at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. She was on CNN on Monday night as indicated in their exclusive banner and the next hour, she was on FOX News. If you tuned in to GOOD MORNING AMERICA on Tuesday morning, lo and behold, GMA exclusive.
And the website for Assam's book has
quotes from the press. Four years later Ms. Assam was in the spotlight again, when she said the church which she so bravely defended asked her to
leave because she was gay.
Sadly, Snopes has the misleading image macro in an article which explores the question, "Was a church shooting foiled by an armed woman in the congregation?". Indeed the answer to that question is "yes", but Snopes, like Tea Party Community, fails to mention that Assam was an ex-cop and a security guard, and the use of the image in that article strongly suggests that the words in the image are true.
So another right wing lie goes viral and those willing to take a little time to do some fact checking bang our heads in frustration.
Edit: I had to add the "ne" in a couple of places where I left it off.