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If we don't deal with our fear then we run the risk of becoming like Sarah Palin supporters - cowards in thrall to a steely, scary, incompetent scapegoater.
Aleta St. James: Fear and the Sour Grapes of Sarah Palin's Wrath 2008
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According to Berlet and Lyons, “Conspiracism is a particular narrative form of scapegoating that frames demonized enemies as part of a vast insidious plot against the common good, while it valorizes the scapegoater as a hero for sounding the alarm” [9].
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006
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The ongoing efforts to deal with the BP spill are seen as proof that Obama is an incompetent manager and serial scapegoater of large corporate interests.
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witch-hunter, scapegoater types – why are they that way?
Think Progress » Tony Snow at Wednesday’s Grover Norquist breakfast mtg: 2007
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January 28th, 2010 at 1: 17 pm tombaker says: randy’s just an avid scapegoater and paranoid dittohead, scrambling to maintain his crumbling, misanthropic worldview.
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The guy’s a liar and a scapegoater, peddling the standard “blame evolution for everything we think is immoral” line.
Oregon teacher fired after veering from evolution textbook. - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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"Conspiracism frames demonized enemies 'as part of a vast insidious plot against the common good, while it valorizes the scapegoater as a hero for sounding the alarm.'
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