"This morning on “Good Morning America,” ABC’s Ashleigh Banfield sat down with Zach Osler, a high school friend of Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson massacre.

Osler says his friend wasn’t shooting at people, “he was shooting at the world.” Regarding the high-pitched talk radio and cable news political rhetoric, Osler says his friend didn’t even watch the news.

He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right."

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/jared-loughners-friend-says-suspect-did-not-watch-tv-disliked-the-news_b48040

That's BS. So he was mad, bo ho. There are much better ways to handle dissatisfaction with society.

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"The new details from Mr. Gutierrez about Mr. Loughner — including his philosophy of anarchy and his expertise with a handgun, suggest that the earliest signs of behavior that may have ultimately led to the attacks started several years ago.
Mr. Gutierrez said his friend had become obsessed with the meaning of dreams and their importance. He talked about reading Friedrich Nietzsche’s book “The Will To Power” and embraced ideas about the corrosive, destructive effects of nihilism — a belief in nothing. And every day, his friend said, Mr. Loughner would get up and write in his dream journal, recording the world he experienced in sleep and its possible meanings.

“Jared felt nothing existed but his subconscious,” Mr. Gutierrez said. “The dream world was what was real to Jared, not the day-to-day of our lives.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/us/12loughner.html?_r=1

It wasn't Palin, it was Neitzsche!

Imagine what would've become of him if he'd read, "Mein Kampf" and "Communist Manifesto"!

I read he was the ghost writer of both.

I think we've established that he's nuts. BTW, I don't know anyone under 60 that watches TV news or listens to talk radio so it's probably true that he didn't either.

It's really important to you that he wasn't influenced by the rampant ballistic metaphors used primarily by the right, isn't it? Purely coincidence. He's a nutball, nothing more. He never watched TV, didn't listen to the news on the radio, never read a paper or magazine, couldn't recognize the names Beck, Palin, Angle, O'Reilly if his life depended on it. He was in his own little bizarre world, completely cut off from any outside influences, absolutely unaffected by the violent, vitriolic HATE spewed for the most part by members of the extreme right, regardless of his apparent violent streak. Nothing he heard or read in the least empowered him to get a gun and take action against a government he felt was evil. Nothing he heard or read about "reloading", "taking aim", "second amendment solutions" ," taking candidates out" caused him to cozy up just a little bit more to the warmth of a weapon.... OK.

I can accept that. No problem.

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^^^ Don't hate those kind of people? You know the type.

Some people are just plane crazy, trying to identify the cause of their actions rates someplace between staring at your navel and watching NASCAR.

It is hysterical the way that some ( liberal types, mostly) want to rationalize the actions of an irrational person to score ( or try to) political points!
By the way, it isn't working according to the latest polls. Expect the media machine to move on as this strategy is not working with the people.

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I seem to remember plenty of folks trying to score "political points" when the crazy muslim guy shot up fort hood. Was that any different?

Personally, I found it distasteful (to say the lest) in both cases.