Most Americans do not blame political rhetoric for AZ shootings, survey says | Raw Story
WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans reject the view that heated political rhetoric was a factor in the weekend shootings in Arizona which killed six and critically wounded a congresswoman, a CBS News poll said on Tuesday.
The problem for progressives here is not that some vaguely-reported quickie let's-phone-a-few-people poll finds a couple of hundred adults who don't think political rhetoric had anything to do with the Arizona murders, it's that in order to pin any violence at all on political rhetoric you also have to be willing to indict movies, TV, rap lyrics, and videogames, not to mention the current and former crop of arguably unnecessary wars in places with faraway names, which isn't likely to happen any time soon.
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