My grandfather, who was born and raised on the East Coast and later moved to the West Coast (like the rest of my family), told me when I was a kid that the reason there are so many crazy people in California is because the nation tilts toward the left and all the nuts roll that way eventually to be stopped by the Pacific Ocean (the world's largest prophylatic?)...
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What Is It About the O.C.?
American terrorists, California boys, and how the press thinks about treason.
By Julia Rabig
The Revealer
California Boys: Gadahn and Lindh
In the wake of the FBI’s public appeal earlier this week for help locating seven alleged terrorists, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and MSNBC -- not to mention the Orange County Register -- responded with profiles of Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the only American citizen among the suspects. Although none of them explicitly links Gadahn to John Walker Lindh (the "American Taliban"), most of these stories try to fit him into the taxonomy of the impassioned California seeker gone awry, an archetype of American journalism.
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