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CBS Poll: Majority Doesn’t Link Tucson Shootings to Political Rhetoric
A new CBS poll shows that nearly six in ten Americans do not believe that political rhetoric was to blame for the shootings in Tucson that critically wounded a U.S. Congressman and left six other people dead.
From CBS News
Overall, 57 percent of respondents said the harsh political tone had nothing to do with the shooting, compared to 32 percent who felt it did. Republicans were more likely to feel the two were unrelated – 69 percent said rhetoric was not to blame; 19 percent said it played a part. Democrats were more split on the issue – 49 percent saw no connection; 42 percent said there was.
Independents more closely reflected the overall breakdown – 56 percent said rhetoric had nothing to do with the attack; 33 percent felt it did.
The telephone poll was conducted Jan 9-10 among 673 adults across the country. The margin of error is +/- 4 percent.
And yet the mainstream media jumped on the story from the beginning by trying to blame Sarah Palin as well as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Fox News for fanning the flames leading to the attack.
Once again the mainstream media’s liberal bias got the best of them as they jumped to conclusions without the benefit of any facts or evidence only to be proven wrong in their assumptions.
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6 Comments for CBS Poll: Majority Doesn’t Link Tucson Shootings to Political Rhetoric
To Joseph: Right on! I agree. Just because a majority of poll respondents “think” or “believe” something … either pro or con … does not make it so.
And regardless of the cause(s) of the Arizona shooting … there’s clearly far too much extremist political partisan rhetoric and personal attacks being engaged in AND being regurgitated over-and-over again in EVERY form of media.
Do they mean the harsh political tone coming from the Neo-Comm left?
The ones who were advocating for, wishing for, and making movies about the assassination of GW Bush?
The ones with the “boot on the neck” of BP?
Hey Nick! Why not just say “all of the above” (of what you said here)?So, it seems that this lugnut Loughner thought that he could make things “better” by taking out one on the left, Giffords. His ambush just shows how wacked he really is.
As always with liberals they prefer to blame everything and everyone ecept the ones who did it becuase liberals are such a bunch of blabbering nincompoops
The TEA PARTIES ARE NOT TO BLAME,SARA PALIN,IS NOT TO BLAME,THE NRA IS NOT TO BLAME,GUNS ARE NOT TO BLAME THE SUPREUM COURTS McDONALDS RULING IS NOT TO BLAME ITS THE ONE WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER THATS TO BLAME
I was unaware that because of what other people think about why someone did something you could tell why they did it. Your fucking retarded if you believe this.