Poll says that 57% of Americans don’t buy the media's leftist spin on the Tucson massacre

Nearly six in 10 Americans say the country’s heated political rhetoric is not to blame for the Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to a CBS News poll. There’s mounting evidence that the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wasn’t a political act at all but a plan by a disturbed high school dropout who had few friends and no clear agenda. Instead, Loughner may have had some self-generated dislike of Giffords that stemmed from when he first spoke to her at an event in 2007. The CBS poll shows that only 42% of Democrats and 33% of independents believe that the shootings were a political act.

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