One of my favorite examples involved the threads that utterly savaged anyone who said anything less than 100% complimentary about the film, "The Passion of the Christ". Check out this post of mine on one of those threads, excerpting a couple of dozen disgusting attacks on an author who had merely pointed out that Mel Gibson had missed a chance to reassure his critics during an interview, and had instead said some things which were likely to keep the controversy alive.
The author was immediately denounced as "an angry socialist as full of the aggressive zeal possessed by any loyal Trotskyite", who was "beneath contempt", who "probably stood up for Clinton", who "believes other people's suffering has less significance", a "rancid dingbat" and "lying leftist", etc. etc. A quick Google of her other essays, however, revealed positions which would not be out of place in a Mark Steyn or Ann Coulter column... (See link for details).
It was bizarre to see how many people jumped to vicious conclusions about the author based on, well, nothing at all.
I took only a brief glance at the link in your post #884, and it was bizarre...well, you know, it was like this also, during the whole Terri Shiavo incident...
During that time, I got called a Nazi, because I simply asked the question, if it was considered a sin by the Catholic Church to be cremated...people said a lot of things during that time also, which were truly bizarre...
I hated that movie. But you should admit that most of the people who attacked others were Catholics on those Passion threads.