The same degenerate mainstream media that spent three entire days feasting off the corpses of the dead in Tucson in the hopes of destroying Sarah Palin and turning the Right into something that will raise its hand for permission before criticizing ObamaCare, obviously had zero evidence of any kind of connection between political rhetoric and an individual who, if found guilty, can’t be executed quickly enough. No political maps marked with bullseyes were found in his pockets, no Glenn Beck posters on the wall, no Sarah Palin action figures. Nope, just craven left-wingers and their allies in the media exploiting a national tragedy in pursuit of the worst kind of political opportunism. And the permanent damage they have done to themselves with this political witch hunt makes me smile like the words “Rather” and “Gate.”

And some in Hollywood, like Roger Ebert, Michael Moore, Elizabeth Banks, John Legend, Jeff Wells, Jane Fonda, Michael McKean, and Piers Morgan, jumped right in with both pedicured feet. Let’s call these witch hunters the Hollywood 8.

There is news on this front to report now. Interesting news. According to those who know the suspect, we now know that Jared Lee Loughner (must it always be three names?) absolutely loved the punk band Anti-Flag. The Incredible Shrinking L.A. Times informs us, that Anti-Flag is a “radical leftist punk band whose music focuses on themes of corporate greed, U.S. foreign policy and opposition to war.” We’ve also been told that Loughner was “driven over the edge “by a film called “Zeitgeist” – a conspiracy theory documentary that touched on subjects as diverse as 9/11, currency, and religion.

Music and a movie. How about that?

Unlike Governor Palin and Glenn Beck, this band and this film are KNOWN connections to the suspected killer and also products created by our very own entertainment industry. And yet, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, George Soros’ Eric Boehlert, and the rest of the MSM fever swamps have yet to point to or question any of this. And the reason is obvious: they don’t care what might have drove this killer. All they care about is scoring political points against their enemies on the right.

Who I’d really like to hear from on this, though, are Michael Moore and Elizabeth Banks and the rest of the Hollywood 8. Five days ago they believed something as innocuous as a standard political map drove this man to murder. Five days ago they believed political rhetoric from the Right put a gun in this man’s hand. Okay… Now that we know for a fact exactly what political images and words Loughner was exposed to, what say them now?

Time to “watch what we say” in documentary films, Mr. Moore? Time to “watch what we sing,” John Legend?

Or are you not so concerned with political words and images that don’t come from a mother of five residing in Alaska?

That’s what I thought.

That was my larger point. But in these times where we must now be absurdly clear about what we say — I’m talking to you Film School Rejects — let me be very clear in saying that no matter how reprehensible Anti-Flag and “Zeitgest” might be, neither is in any way responsible for a reprehensible crime committed by someone else. I’m no doctor but I do watch a lot of television*, and from my long years of toiling away in the trenches of true crime viewing, it’s pretty obvious that if these sickos didn’t have a punk band or a conspiracy doc to obsess over, there would be novel or a next door neighbor or a door knob to take their place.

*that was a joke, though that is my personal belief