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Suburban Guerrilla — Why would Newsweek consider the fact newsworthy that some fringe fundamentalists think Obama is the anti-Christ?

Does Lisa Miller Have Sex With Goats?
Eschaton — Does Lisa Miller Have Sex With Goats? It's a widely held belief. The people who hold it may be jumping to conclusions, but they're not nuts.

The Antichrist Comes A-Knockin'
Shakesville — ... Washington Times, but Newsweek, c'mon, you should know better. And using phrases like "Obama probably isn't the Antichrist" (emphasis mine) in your articles, even if it's attributed to an interviewee, is pretty fuckin' dicey, especially when the whole tone of the article doesn't seem too concerned with countering that idea. * For the record, that is not true. But if Newsweek can print wildly inflammatory bullshit, so can I. (Via Steve Benen.)

Questioning questions
slacktivist — ... Maybe that's not the nicest way to make that point (Steve Benen is just as exasperated by Miller's article, but he expresses this without dragging up those rumors of Miller's affection for goats) but I'm not inclined to work hard at being nice when Miller also repeats the error of referring to prophecy mania as a form of "conservative" Christianity -- as though the right-wing politics of a fringe sect somehow makes their 19th-century inventions the new standard for orthodox theology. ...