Rising to Thackeray's bait, some of his counterparts on the lunatic fringe of Pakistani politics have issued similar threats against Indian players.

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In 1840 people who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery and full equal rights for Americans of African descent were the lunatic fringe.

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Regrettably, this is not some lunatic fringe conspiracy.

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Avoid the obscene rants and the lunatic fringe.

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Did Mr. Krugman ever object to the "opinion pieces" of his New York Times colleague Maureen Dowd, whose serial character assassinations of senior U.S. officials would, by any objective measure, be examples of, in his words, "the media establishment joining hands with the lunatic fringe"?

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