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You gotta love that wacky bunch of wingnuts over at Fox.  One day they’re inviting al-Qaeda to strike San Francisco, the next day they’re saying that the American “far left” has been working for bin Laden.  It’s just funny, in a crazy coward-traitor-scoundrel kinda way.

And I think it was exceptionally bad manners for bin Laden not to thank Bill O’Reilly for his suggestion that al-Qaeda blow up the Coit Tower.  What a lousy ingrate.

Posted by on 01/20 at 02:22 PM

  1. I finally thought of a post 9-11 slogan:

    “Before 9-11, I used to like blowjobs, but now I’m just like the rest of the Democrats--foregoing the foreplay and just getting screwed.”

    Here’s a little something from a newspaper clipping I saved after this September’s massive earthquake in Pakistan:

    OFFICIAL REPORT OSAMA CAVE LIKELY SPARED.

    Washington--

    Though Saturday’s deadly earthquake rocked the part of Pakistan where Osama is believed to be hiding, there is no evidence that he is either dead or injured, officials said. The terror mastermind is thought to be hiding near the Afghan border.

    What did they do: go from cave to cave testing for DNA? Or looking for a dead tall guy in a white robe?

    Posted by  on  01/20  at  05:21 PM

  2. And then they moved from Fox to MSNBC, to make sure everyone else gets the talking point as Rove conceived:
    During tonight’s show, Matthews didn’t apologize. Instead he claimed that he was misunderstood:

    MATTHEWS: Why is he doing it? Why is he trying to track what he picks up in the internet and from the media as the lingo of the left in America, like Moore? Why would he start to talk like Moore? People misunderstood what I said last night. I think he’s getting some advice from people, he’s getting some lingo, some wordage that he hears working in the United States about this thing for war profiteers and he’s jumping on every opportunity. Is that what you are saying Joe?

    SCARBOROUGH: Listen, if somebody can’t look at the words that Bin Laden said last night and match them up with what Michael Moore said, with what John Kerry said on Face the Nation with he said Americans were terrorizing Iraqi women and children in their homes hat night, which is what Bin Laden in effect said. What Ted Kennedy has been saying. Remember he said after Abu Ghraib that Saddam’s torture chambers were turned over to — chambers were turned over to new management, U.S. troops, that’s the same thing Bin Laden hit on.

    Posted by  on  01/20  at  09:46 PM

  3. Just tuned into the Berube blog network after a week away.  When did that new photo of a knife-branding, Al Qaeda-look-alike prof pop up?  Vaguely recall it appearing last summer in a different context.  In this context, that photo has trouble written all over it—are you courting it?  Just wait until DH gets his grubby hands on that.

    Posted by  on  01/21  at  12:03 AM

  4. kd, I’m not an al-Qaeda look-alike.  Chris Matthews is.  Just look at the way his hate-America lingo changes his whole appearance.

    And here’s to Omage’s post-9/11 slogan.

    Posted by Michael  on  01/21  at  09:24 AM

  5. Michael --

    I know you’ve been waiting for this day, and now it’s here—added to Perrin’s blogroll! Yeah! All right! Woo!

    Great stuff you’re turning out. Keep it comin’.

    Posted by  on  01/21  at  11:49 AM

  6. Hi Michael,

    Thanks. You know what I really think? I think these sporadic tape-releases by “Osama bin Laden” and friends are probably the hard work of Dick Cheney’s parody-meisters. The weird thing is how they’re using Osama’s voice to rehearse the arguments and logic of the American left. Now THAT is brilliantly evil!

    Here’s something interesting from 2004, “Osama’s Tape and the Logic of the Left.”
    http://billroggio.com/archives/2004/10/osamas_tape_and.php

    But now this “logic of the left” thread continues: Make the world’s most hated and feared terrorist use the same arguments as Michael Moore, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and the Democrats. Then who ends up looking preposterous when they try to protest the NSA spy scandal, demanding accountability? Hey, when you sound like Osama bin Laden, it’s hard to take your concerns seriously…

    The timing is just so uncanny; the last time he surfaced was right before the 2004 elections.
    http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/001947.php

    The other weird thing that bothers me after all these years is the Osama tape that came out right after 9-11. Remember the initial tape that surfaced, http://www.greatdreams.com/osama_tape.htm
    where Osama laughs about how they didn’t even think they’d be able to knock out the towers:

    UBL: (...Inaudible...) we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. (...Inaudible...) due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for.

    Well, I always thought it was weird that the two planes struck the towers so EARLY in the morning, like RIGHT BEFORE most people would get to work. So if “Osama” didn’t expect to knock out the towers, then he also seems to have been very generous in his timing, almost as if he just wanted to give people a really big scare and not kill too many of them....

    You know what I’m saying?

    Posted by  on  01/21  at  03:51 PM

  7. I know what you’re saying, omage, and all I have to say in return is that it’s truly miraculous that the nation hasn’t gone to a higher state of alert since the release of that tape.  Back in 2004, you’ll remember, we were being bumped up to orange every couple of weeks—but now, hey, we’re imperturbable.  Thank goodness we made the right choice in November!  Clearly it’s made all the difference in the world.

    Posted by Michael  on  01/22  at  01:03 PM

  8. I am beginning to feel a bit sadder today, as i realize there are at this moment 114 comments concerning a topic for which there simply is no reasonable response (personal aesthetics notwithstanding) while here there are seven, now eight.  And six of these are repeat offenders, myself included. I do agree with Omage’s theory that the US is behind the production and release of these ‘tapes.’ They serve no other purpose than to encourage useless and senseless discussion among pundits, hiding from public comment the more substantive discourses this nation needs to have about the seeming infinite war on terror requiring a unitary executive authority above and beyond the constitution.  Rove’s speech on Friday asked the GOP to frame all subsequent talking points on the righteousness of Bush’s war on the world.  Immediately we get this stupid Kerry/Moore are Osama BS.  The AG rushes to the mics to tell the world the FBI caught a bunch of terrorists; not mentioning of course that the indictments were obtained by confessions of non-indicted or charged informants who have actually confessed to carrying out the acts: “i burned this building but they were their watching me.”

    But what do we get here (well, in the most recent post)?  Brilliant escapism. 

    I love the pop-up word choice provided me down below here---nuclear.

    Posted by  on  01/22  at  04:03 PM

  9. "Before 9-11, I used to like voting in real elections, but now I’ve resigned myself to choosing my favorite American Idol. At least there, I feel like my vote really matters.”

    To spyder:
    I think that sense of ‘empowerment’ that people get when they are allowed to vote for their favorite songs is a nice break from the disempowerment that so many of us feel in other aspects of our lives. We can’t seem to do anything to change the way that most people in this nation act like sheep, or the way in which the media encourages herd-like behavior, but we CAN debate about which band kicks ass!

    I’m like you, feeling sort of sad. I don’t blame people for avoiding this more serious topic. My pop-up is “Friend” which is kind of nice.

    Posted by  on  01/22  at  04:31 PM

  10. This morning (yes i am late getting back on this one) CBS kissed some Foxy Bushco ass with this:
    “Today, CBS’ Bob Schieffer borrowed a page from Chris Matthews. NewsMax reports:

    “ “Asked whether bin Laden had expressed “almost the same” sentiments that [Sen. John] Kerry did during an appearance on [Bob] Schieffer’s “Face the Nation” broadcast in December, the CBS anchorman told WABC Radio’s Mark Simone: “Well, he did. That’s exactly right.” “ “

    Neither Schieffer nor Matthews bill themselves as right-wing propagandists. They are, by their own descriptions, journalists. Yet, over the past few days, they have said things about prominent liberals that would make Karl Rove blush.”

    I was beginning to wonder why Bob would spin this too, when during the halftime of the AFC game, Greg Gumbel mentions that Bob is scheduled to do an exclusive interview with Georgie Porgie on Friday.  I can only assume that kissing Rovian arses (they are huge, thus plural) is necessary to insure an interview.  Wouldn’t it be nice one of these days if people actually shrugged off Bush and said “forged-abo-dit”

    Let’s see: the word now is “became” thus we have ‘nuclear friend became...’

    Posted by  on  01/22  at  06:27 PM

  11. Oh my dog…

    My new pop-up word is “evidence.”

    If we make a sentence with all our words, we have “Evidence became a nuclear friend.” (or a nuclear option, at the very least).

    The thing I don’t understand about the Democrats and the broader media is why someone doesn’t point out what seems obvious: that Cheney (or someone who’s a really clever DJ) is “dubbing” Osama bin Ladin, “riffing” off of his intonations and speech habits, and coming up with new tunes?
    It’s the Hiss-lamic Donkey Blues.

    Why doesn’t someone in the media say: “Don’t you think it’s gosh darn ODD that Osama bin Ladin would suddenly become an avid reader of Washington historian William Blum?” Don’t you think it’s freaking UNUSUAL that he sounds like the leaders of the Democratic party? Next thing you know, he’ll make some innocent yet widely ostracized remark about how Congress is run by plantation owners… smile

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/20/AR2006012001971.html

    PS: I had to resend this because my password wasn’t going through, and this time my word is DEATH…

    Posted by  on  01/23  at  11:13 AM

  12. okay, let’s say you’d like to learn about an actual political campaign to impeach the president ...

    ah, none of this noise about a yearning for somebody to go do it ...

    in addition, you’d like to learn about a game plan to snag Osama ...

    if all the above meets with your approval, then click, somehow, on the following hyperlink:

    http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/osama-and-our-president-dumass-botch_20.html

    and get ready for a ride on a wild blog

    toodles
    .......\
    .he who is known as sefton

    oh, yes, the above was copied and then pasted by an actual human being, who visited this aponymous blog.

    oh, one more thing, keep an eye on the 10th Congressional District ... I’m trying to base my campaign on the three planks I nailed together in my platform ... “impeach bush” is the first plank ... the second is “impeach bush” ... and the third is like the second, “impeach bush”.

    Posted by A Alexander Stella  on  01/29  at  05:33 PM

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