re: #268 rwmofo

I’ll go out on a limb and speculate - much like what we’ve heard from ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC/NY Times, etc.

1) The young man who shot all those people appears to be mentally ill.

2) At this point he hasn’t declared that Sarah Palin drove him over the edge, but once Geraldo or Katie Couric or whomever eventually gets the interview, what are the odds they’ll ask him if he was influenced by the right?

I think that very few doubt that he is highly unstable.

But you seem to be ducking the question.

How do you know that someone who ranted about the gold standard, the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, and who wrote anti-government rants wasn’t influenced by anit-government rhetoric that focuses on the gold standard and the dangers of a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT?

Look - I don’t know that rightwing rhetoric was an influence for this guy, but it seems like a reasonable possibility. Yet, you seem to have ruled that possibility out. By what insight to you reach that conclusion?