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Everywhere you turn you step in more puddles of fundy meltdown.

This time it’s a Liberty University student who took homemade napalm bombs to Jerry Falwell’s funeral, the better to burn to death the Phelps family and everyone else there besides. Here’s Daddy Phelps in his glory days, desecrating murder victim Matthew Shepard’s funeral:

The Phelpses (aka Westboro Baptist Church), practice is to picket funerals, telling the mourners that god hates them and the deceased and they are all going to hell. They have their own church, composed almost entirely of their own family living in a massive enclosed compound out in the sticks – it’s a tax-advantageous, family-based minicult.

They are so out there they consider Falwell liberal; Louis Theroux says the Phelpses are the ‘most extreme people he has ever met’.

Now I can see why someone wouldn’t want a funeral disrupted by Phelpses – but napalm? Seems a little excessive. Maybe this student had some muddled idea in his head about wreaking righteous hellfire. Like PZ Myers says in his post , wow, great students that Liberty U is producing. Not.

But then I look at the guest list at that Falwell funeral and I can’t help feeling a certain wistfulness. All that bloated hypocrisy and political hubris might’ve gone in one go…

But no, that way madness, wingnuttery and Phelpsism lie.

UPDATE: Digby has a sock-it-to-me post on the US media’s deliberate ignorance of potential rightwing fundy terrorists like this.

It’s a phenomenon that’s also happening in Europe. They have a narrative, they’re going to stick with it and the facts are being fixed around the policy again.