01-10-2011, 03:39 AM
It bothers me that people use this event as political ammo (feel free to choose a better word). Several million people listen to Beck, Hannity, Rush, etc., and none of them did anything like this (except one, _maybe_). If several million people took a particular medication, and one of them died, you wouldn't say the medication kills people. You might reasonably look at what is different about that particular person, and that would be more likely the cause. If Beck, et al. cause violence, you would expect a whole lot more of it considering the large numbers of people who tune in to it. This is not to say a person can't object to their sort of hostile political style, but to say it had much, if any, role in causing a murder such as this, makes little rational sense at all. There is quite a bit of evidence he was not a tea bagger type, but I don't think it matters either way. kj.