LA shooter frequent morning talk show guest on NBC affiliate

[librechik]

http://news.yahoo.com/john-russell-houser--what-we-know-about-louisiana-movie-theater-shooting-suspect-134806223.html

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(Houser) appeared on "Calvin Floyd Live," previously called “Rise and Shine,” on WLTZ NBC 38 in more than 60 episodes, according to the LinkedIn page.

“Invited political controversy on every one of them, and loved every minute of it,” he said.

The show’s host, Floyd, told Yahoo News that he invited Houser on his show many times to discuss his radical views because it was entertaining and caused tremendous buzz.

“He was a guest because he was good TV entertainment, not because it was a respected opinion that he had to say. But he was very entertaining all the time,” Floyd said in a phone interview with Yahoo news. “He had Tea Party-radical Republican views on everything. I’d have a Democratic spokesperson on [for the opposing perspective]. He generated a lot of phone calls.”

Houser was a member of Tea Party Nation, according to the group’s website."

Is this guy a radio celebrity troll? Of course he is...WTF

[freshwest]

1. Coverage on the show likely made him feel righteous and empowered, not ashamed. n/t

[0rganism]

3. Fisher King redux

for those who don't know: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/

[johnp3907]

2. "he was good TV entertainment"

Still is. Until the next one.

[sufrommich]

4. "because it was entertaining and caused tremendous buzz."

They do not care what mayhem comes from encouraging this crap.

[Nevernose]

5. My conspiracy theory:

This gun nut was one of the gun nuts that believe everyone should be armed. And murdered people in that movie theater in order to make everyone else feel afraid enough to start carrying their own guns. I've got $20 that some evidence comes to light, eventually, that he viewed himself as a martyr for the gun nuts' cause.

[villager]

6. Many so-called "Undergrounders" on this very website will neatly fall into that trap, calling for

...more guns, everywhere and everyplace.

[Nevernose]

8. Viewing guns as the solution

Instead of the problem is, at best, insanity.

[wheniwasincongress]

10. I think he hated women

and went to Trainwreck, a film starring a woman who is getting a lot of praise, a film about a woman's dating escapades involving sometimes-doofus men... I would bet he began firing after the audience laughed at one of these male characters, that he saw it as an affront to him and men everywhere.

[GusBob]

11. If you go to the tea party website he belonged to

In their forum they are discussing exactly this. And that everyone must be a good shot

You win 20

[arcane1]

7. “He was a guest because he was good TV entertainment, not because it was a respected opinion"

Sounds like Trump!

[truebluegreen]

9. Sounds like all of them, hosts included. nt

[Initech]

12. The textbook definition of a troll. Thankfully now banned from life.

Sucks that he had to take other people with him.