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  • If the mobs they've ginned-up were really interested in a dialogue about healthcare, then why scream and shout at townhall meeting for the purpose of legitimate discussion and debate.

    Democrats accuse GOP of inciting mobs 2009

  • Though it employs barely 600,000 of Pakistan's 170 million citizens, it uses ginned-up fears about India to consume around one-fourth of the national budget each year—more than twice as much as education and health care combined.

    Pakistan as Terror Sanctuary Sadanand Dhume 2011

  • Even as the UN Deputy Secretary General was warning investors against "putting all our eggs in the government basket" because "The carbon-burning economy is tomorrow's Rust Belt," Koch Industries was gearing up a major ad campaign against federal government encouragement for clean energy, booking $5 million dollars worth of TV ads designed to further inflate the ginned-up conservative outrage over the bankruptcy of Solyndra.

    Carl Pope: Why We Need Uncle Sam Carl Pope 2012

  • Even as the UN Deputy Secretary General was warning investors against "putting all our eggs in the government basket" because "The carbon-burning economy is tomorrow's Rust Belt," Koch Industries was gearing up a major ad campaign against federal government encouragement for clean energy, booking $5 million dollars worth of TV ads designed to further inflate the ginned-up conservative outrage over the bankruptcy of Solyndra.

    Carl Pope: Why We Need Uncle Sam Carl Pope 2012

  • Republicans have injected so much ginned-up lab-tested indignation into their campaigns that their nomination contest looks more like a professional wrestling road show than a civic debate about America's future.

    Jeffrey Feldman: GOP Candidatemania 2012 Jeffrey Feldman 2011

  • It's all about the entertainment value inherent in ginned-up controversy.

    Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud, Part 2 2010

  • The ginned-up threat of regulation or the suggestion of legislation has already been driving down the stock prices of these companies.

    Tom Matzzie: Senate Invites Arsonist to Testify on Cause of Fire... Kind Of 2010

  • "What is the same about these four ginned-up Fox News-initiated would-be scandals?"

    Rachel Maddow: Fox News Stoking Racial Fears Among Whites (VIDEO) 2010

  • The ginned-up threat of regulation or the suggestion of legislation has already been driving down the stock prices of these companies.

    Tom Matzzie: Senate Invites Arsonist to Testify on Cause of Fire... Kind Of 2010

  • It's the fall I'm talking about, when, for what reasons I forget, the I.R.A. had ginned-up the old bombing campaign, and for a few weeks it seemed there was a bomb going off somewheres in London — pub, postal box, or station — about every hour or so.

    Confessions of an I.R.A. Terrorist 2010

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