Loughner was not on the right or left

In the height of the news media jumping on the "blame the right" bandwagon as for the reason Jared Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killed six and injured many others, the one thing many of these commentators on MSNBC and writers at the New York Times left out altogether... was really Loughner himself.

As stated in my commentary blog on Monday, literally just moments after this massacre took place in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday, voices on the left blamed the Republican Party, the Tea Party, Talk Radio, Fox News and particularly Sarah Palin, for provoking violence. Again, I honestly don't care that much for Sarah Palin as a politician, but isn't it just a little bit ironic that the same people on the left say that Sarah Palin is the stupidest woman on Earth, but yet she does have enough intelligence to help orchestrate a tragic shooting in Arizona?

Insane.

Well rest assured, this game of blame should soon quietly be laid to rest, based on an interview this morning on ABC's Good Morning America with Ashleigh Banfield. Ms. Banfield interviewed one of Jared Loughner's best friends from high school, Zach Osler, and was asked if Loughner was influenced by the news or talk radio. Osler replied: "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."

That should pretty much debunk this notion of the right wing in this country being responsible. Another comment made by Osler was that Loughner was inspired by the 2007 documentary film Zeitgeist, which discusses a wide range variety of conspiracy theories including the International Monetary System, religion and how 9/11 was orchestrated by the American Government.

In short, the news media, particularly the New York Times and specific commentators on MSNBC such as Chris Matthews, seemed to have failed miserably to even do the slightest bit of research on this despicable example of human existence, instead relying on contributors to spew their same rhetoric over and over again. I have yet to hear anyone on MSNBC or at the New York Times bring up an issue over Democratic Senator Joe Manchin's election ad this last November were he was "promoting guns". Or what about the Democratic Committee in 2004 using almost an identical "target map" on Republicans, when President Bush was up for re-election?

All of that has just been an oversight?

Yeah right.

Some of these people in the news media are down right lazy, pathetic and apparently cannot take five minutes of their time to do a little bit of research on facts. The New York Times said in November of 2009 following the Ford Hood massacre for all of us to "not jump to conclusions". 

Why didn't that same rule of thumb not apply to the massacre in Tucson?