Word: fanaticized
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The mystery, of course, is why. Why there, why now? Who has a reason, however perverse? What do they gain from this carnage? In the earlier era of terrorism, the years of skyjackings and Lebanese horrors, the purpose was usually obvious, a bloody form of bargaining, and the perpetrators trumpeted...
...church and a sincere belief in God--it caused barely a ripple. Blumenthal did apologize following a bit of Republican grumbling, but there was nothing like the uproar that routinely accompanies a public insult regarding, say, race or gender or sexual orientation. Indeed, the question of Ewing's alleged fanaticism so pricked the interest of the New York Times, zeitgeist arbiter of the Establishment, that it dispatched a reporter to investigate. The result is hilarious: a classic of condescension posing as judiciousness...
On the one hand, writes Francis X. Clines, the Times's designated anthropologist to the Bible Belt, "some critics find it revealing that his 1980 law-review article 'Combatting Official Corruption by All Available Means' began with an Old Testament quotation." The horror! By that standard Martin Luther King was...
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In the speech, Blumenthal called Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's deputy Hickman W. Ewing a "religious fanatic." Blumenthal's comment prompted an outcry from numerous Capitol Hill Republicans.