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Hysterical (In The Crazed Sense) Election Night Tweets

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Harold Camping’s Apocalypse Fail Watch: To Be Rapture Ready, Adrienne Martinez Gave up on Medical School!

Concerning radio evangelist Harold Camping’s apocalypse prediction fiasco, the Christian Post this afternoon reports on a specimen of the human wreckage. Here’s what the past year has been like for the Martinez family (after Adrienne and Joel came under the spell of the May 21, 2011 rapture … Continue reading

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End Times Hysteria Watch: Lyn Benedetto Allegedly Tried to Kill Her Daughters to Save Them from The Tribulation

The Antelope Valley Press, a northern Los Angeles County newspaper, had the following disturbing headline on Sunday, March 20, 2011: Mom feared ‘The Tribulation,’ cops say: Cut daughters’ throats, then her own. And the opening paragraph to the story was … Continue reading

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Rush Limbaugh’s Cruelty on Concentrated Display

During a recently televised NFL football game in the United States, a company ran a 20 second Spanish language ad. In response, one of Rush Limbaugh’s listeners called his radio show to sound the Paul Revere patriot alarm about it (“The Mexicans … Continue reading

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Anti-gay hysteria is spreading in Africa

BBC reporter Pumza Fihlani: Earlier this month, US President Barack Obama’s criticism of the Ugandan proposals led to huge anti-gay rallies in neighbouring Kenya. Soon after, rumours of a gay wedding near the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa resulted in … Continue reading

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds—Republican Style!

At Salon today, Joan Walsh suggests that the Republican base’s general hysteria over Barack Obama could lead to even more incidents of violence than we’ve already seen over the past few months: The “town hells,” in short, don’t represent populism, they’re a display … Continue reading

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Border Crossings: The Hysterical and Paranoid Right-Wing Authoritarian—Here and Abroad

George Packer of the New Yorker on the paranoid style in Iraqi—and American—politics: A roundup (via Andrew Sullivan) of conservative anti-Obama blogging during the election. Much of it has appeared on popular right-wing Web sites, including National Review Online, disclosing … Continue reading

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The Girl with the Scarlet Letter “B” LIED—and McCain and Palin Tried to Stir Up Hysteria Over Her

Associated Press: PITTSBURGH (AP) – A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter “B” scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday. Ashley Todd, 20-year-old … Continue reading

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McCain’s “Terrorist,” “Traitor,” and “Secret Muslim” Inuendos Yield Their Fruit: Angry Hysterics Now Flocking to McCain’s Rallies

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