Alice: "The March Hare will be the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be raving mad .... at least not so mad as it was in March."

"Mad as a March hare" is a common British English phrase . . . . and appears in John Heywood's collection of proverbs published in 1546.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration (right) also shows him with straw on his head, a common way to depict madness in Victorian times.

You didn't ask, but .... here is a handy (take it with a grain of salt ! ) chart of the political bias inherent in many "news" outlets.