[lbo-talk] Harpers on the "Happocalypse"

[George Scialabba]

It was Ken I sent the quotes to, noting only that they were from the Xtian 
website. Not his fault for not knowing it had come from here. Apologies all 
'round.

George

At 03:09 PM 7/23/2006, you wrote:
>The Harper's version is attributed to Ken Silverstein, an excellent
>journalist whom I don't think of as doing things like this...
>
>On Jul 23, 2006, at 2:47 PM, B. wrote:
>
>>Just after midnight on July 18 (12:52 AM CST) I posted
>>an excerpt to LBO-Talk from the "End Times" chat board
>>of happily apocalyptic Xtians.
>>
>>Harpers Magazine posted this later that same day:
>>
>>http://harpers.org/rapture-ready-20060718001.html
>>
>>Looks familiar to me!
>>
>>I got the excerpts a day or so before from a forum
>>post made on SG News, from someone there who culled
>>the quotes selectively and did the dirty work
>>basically repro'd without credit by Harpers.
>>
>>-B.
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