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At one point, a reporter yelled to Jones, "Are you just toying with us to get attention?" -- the most blindingly obvious question in recent journalism. Another yelled: "You're just using us! We should all leave!" Fearing they might miss something, no one left.

...It is the globalization of insanity... the propaganda of the idiotic gesture....rule by the most creative and outrageous lunatics
-- Michael Gerson. The Internet: Enabling Pastor Terry Jones and crazies everywhere, Washington Post (September 14, 2010).
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