One week after...

One week after Bill O'Reilly called Moveon and Netroots Nation the equivalent of hate groups like the Klan and white power movements, we find this out.

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We all were shocked by the tragic shooting at a church in Tennessee earlier this week.

Information has come out as to the killer's motive:

Knoxville News:

Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church in order to kill liberals "who are ruining the country," court records show.
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Adkisson targeted the church, Still wrote in the document obtained by WBIR-TV, Channel 10, "because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of media outlets."
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Inside the house, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly.

Obviously, he was a disturbed man to begin with. Probably was far gone long ago. So saying rightwing radio caused this would be a real stretch.

Though a steady diet of such angry, divisive rhetoric certainly doesn't help.

But I think Bill can quit pointing fingers as to who's spreading hate now. That line about the war on terror and the media sounds a bit O'Reilly-esque.

Also, O'Reilly and his kind are often the first to blame film and music for violence in society. If they really believe that, will they push just as hard to police their own content?