( CNN ) -- It was strange -- and strangely creepy -- to discover that the former California cop accused of murder has so many opinions about cable pundits and anchors . The 11-page manifesto from Christopher Dorner is filled with dark and disturbing thoughts , and his comments about television provide a macabre form of comic relief . What was equally troubling , at least to me , was an explosion of conservative comments on Twitter trying to tie his alleged rampage to ... liberals . That 's right , even with three people dead , one wounded and a manhunt under way , the ugly game of ideological finger-pointing was under way . `` This is very telling that you 've got a direct association of liberal luminaries with this killer , '' Brent Bozell , president of the conservative Media Research Center , told Fox 's Sean Hannity . Actually , it 's not telling at all . At least Bozell added that the luminaries should not be held responsible for Dorner 's actions just because his screed invoked their names . Watch : Should we care that Dorner likes liberal pundits ? Dorner seems all over the map . He wants Hillary Clinton to be president , but calls Chris Christie his second choice and praises George H.W . Bush and Colin Powell . Some of the television figures he hailed clearly lean left , others are hard-news anchors and reporters . One -- `` Morning Joe '' host Joe Scarborough -- is a former Republican congressman . `` Chris Matthews , Joe Scarborough , Pat Harvey , Brian Williams , Soledad O'Brien , Wolf Blitzer , Meredith Viera , Tavis Smiley and Anderson Cooper , keep up the great work and follow Cronkite 's lead , '' the manifesto says . And it offers advice : `` Willie Geist , you 're a talented and charismatic journalist . Stop with all the talk show shenanigans and get back to your core of reporting . '' Watch : Did Chris Christie bully the doctor who dissed him on TV ? At CNN , Dorner loves Piers Morgan but wants Fareed Zakaria deported . He mailed Cooper a DVD related to his termination from the Los Angeles police force and a coin with three bullet holes . The idea that we should take the detritus of this diseased mind seriously is ludicrous . After I tweeted a link to a colleague 's Daily Download story about the manifesto , I asked whether we should care what Dorner writes . Some on the right went haywire . `` Would you care if he loved Fox News , Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh ? '' one Twitter user asked . `` My guess is you would , hypocrite . '' And : `` Entire MSM would feed on this if it were linked to any right-wing cause . '' Oh , and someone said I was `` a sick , twisted freak and a liar '' for saying that Scarborough , the former Republican congressman turned MSNBC host , is a conservative . Watch : Should CBS have banned revealing outfits at the Grammys ? Some blatantly promoted the notion of payback : `` You guys smeared Palin over Tucson . Now it 's your turn to be linked to a murderous madman . Only this time the link 's legit . '' In other words , if Dorner admired some liberal media figures , they 're somehow to blame for inspiring the murders . Now it 's true that some on the left tried to tar Palin when Jared Loughner opened fire in a Phoenix shopping center , killing six people and wounding Gabby Giffords . Palin 's team had posted a map with crosshair targets representing Democratic lawmakers , including Giffords , that she was singling out for defeat in the 2010 midterms . On the day of the shooting , I wrote on The Daily Beast : `` This is n't about a nearly year-old Sarah Palin map ; it 's about a lone nutjob who does n't value human life . '' The use of the crosshairs imagery was dumb , I said , but there was no place for a `` sickening ritual of guilt by association . '' And the same goes for the case o fChristopher Dorner . The man is accused of killing a police officer and a couple in a parking lot . What possible difference does it make which journalists and politicians he likes or loathes ? The Giffords shooting sparked an important discussion about the need to tone down incendiary rhetoric , but that 's a far cry from accusing people of complicity in crime . Watch : Does Donald Trump have a $ 5 million case against Bill Maher ? There is also the question of whether the manifesto should have been published . In 1995 , I covered the controversy when The New York Times and The Washington Post , where I then worked , published another manifesto , this one a 35,000-word ramble by the mass murderer known as the Unabomber . His real name was Ted Kaczynski , and he threatened to keep on killing unless the papers acquiesced . The publication prompted Kaczynski 's brother to tell the FBI of his suspicions . In the wired age , there was no question that Dorner 's words would instantly ricochet around the world . No newspaper publisher can act as a gatekeeper ; the Web serves as a platform even for the poisonous words of alleged killers . But that does n't mean we should take those words and use them to rope in public figures who have the misfortune of being named . Killers are responsible for killing , no matter which television anchors they happen to like . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Howard Kurtz .
An 11-page manifesto from accused gunman comments on media personalities . Judge Kurtz says it 's foolish to pay attention to media coverage of the suspect . He says some see the arrest as payback for criticism of Palin after Giffords shooting . Kurtz : What difference does it make which celebrities , pundits the suspect admires ?