Bin Laden is Not On Lefty Sites, But His Speechwriter May Be

An author at lefty site ThinkProgress is lamenting the fact that "[t]he media continue to equate progressives with terrorists." (No link as per established policy; look it up yourself.)

On Friday, CNN correspondent Kelli Arena commented on the new bin Laden tape (see it on YouTube):

At times he comes off like an angry blogger chastising Americans for electing President Bush twice and the Democrats for not doing more to stop the Iraq war.

The New York Times' David Brooks followed suit and simultaneously ridiculed blog commenters while speaking on PBS's NewsHour (see it on YouTube):

You read this thing, and it’s like he’s been sitting around reading lefty blogs, and he’s one of these childish people posting rants at the bottom the page, you know, Noam Chomsky and all this stuff.

I don't think that's far from the truth. I doubt bin Laden is reading the Left Blogosphere, but it is undeniable that terrorist PR efforts make use of the internet to fashion their message. I don't think that there is a more ready-made package of anti-Bush, anti-War on Terror media than that provided daily by the Left Blogosphere.

Which net-savy terrorist may be writing bin Laden's script? The Telegraph has an article today linking traitor Adam Gadahn to bin Laden's latest video. Gadahn is the only American charged with treason in the last 55 years.

What surprised analysts was his use of the language of Left-wing protesters, which showed detailed knowledge of the economic travails of middle America.
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A former senior US intelligence official said: "It has Adam Gadahn written all over it." Mike Baker, a former CIA covert operations officer, said the tape left bin Laden with "the title of biggest gas bag in the terrorist world".

ThinkProgress may want to address why bin Laden sounds so much like a progressive commenter while it takes legacy media and the Right Blogosphere to task for noticing the similarity. Just think, the next leftist commenter whose rantings you try to avoid could be working for the other side.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 08:09 PM

Comments

1 I was always afraid that Al Qaeda will one day infiltrate the leftosphere and they will take up his lunatic message. I am happy to see that the reverse is happening. Wouldn't it be fun if the Islamic terrorism movement degenerates into hugging trees, pro-abortion rallies and not bathing for weeks? Al Qaeda folks have already achieved item #3, and seem to be doing good progress on the other items.

Posted by: Tushar D at September 09, 2007 08:21 PM (9ULFg)

2 OBL just shows up to those rallies for the hippy pussy.

Posted by: z ryan at September 09, 2007 08:33 PM (PDeVA)

"...the economic travails of middle America."

New fishing pole, or new fish-finder?

Oh the Hell with it, I'll just put them both on the credit card.

Posted by: lauraw at September 09, 2007 08:37 PM (8nB5X)

4 Somebody may have already done it, but a name that quote contest: DKOS or OSAMA would be funny.

Posted by: Eric at September 09, 2007 08:38 PM (/piN8)

5 They're not anti-war; they're just on the other side.

Posted by: Slowking Man at September 09, 2007 08:39 PM (nl0aQ)

6 No Norman Hsu on ABCnews.com or CNN.com. Did anybody watch the news chat shows this morning to see if anybody mentioned him?

Posted by: funky chicken at September 09, 2007 08:48 PM (I+jPP)

7 Sorry, Funky Chicken, there's only so much you can ask a person to do for their country--and watching the Sunday morning idiot festivals is really above and beyond. My guess? The name never came up, unless Fox said it.

Posted by: buffalo woman at September 09, 2007 09:23 PM (kDCPa)

It's pretty interesting - including the mention of this "Joshua" guy

And here I say: it would benefit you to listen to the poignant messages of your soldiers in Iraq, who are paying - with their blood, nerves and scattered limbs - the price for these sorts of irresponsible statements. Among them is the eloquent message of Joshua which he sent by way of the media, in which he wipes the tears from his eyes and describes American politicians in harsh terms and invites them to join him there for a few days.

I'm pretty sure that Osama (et al) has fallen for one of the frauds that was exposed.

I can't decide whether it's

Joshua Lansdale

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/10/claire-mccaskills-bogus-soldier.html

Jessie Macbeth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Macbeth

Either way Osama needs to get better verification of his facts before he says things like this in his speechs- look how much trouble Bush got in when Joe Wilson fact-checked him on his comments!

Seriously folks, if he wasn't already dead Osama would be pretty made at little Adam "I know these Americans!" Gadah for making him look like such a fool.

Posted by: Lokki at September 09, 2007 09:44 PM (fLG2t)

In looking up those two frauds Jessie and Joshua for the post above, I stumbled across an interesting Wiki page

American Anti-War Activists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_anti_Iraq_War_activists

After the usual suspects:

Joan Baez - Shawn Penn - Country Joe McDonald - Norman Mailer -Susan Sarandon

there aren't very many people you've ever heard of, or cared much about if you have heard of them .

One guy that caught my eye was Barack Obama -

I wonder if his campaign manager would like to comment on Obama as a "American Anti-War Activist"

Posted by: Lokki at September 09, 2007 09:57 PM (fLG2t)

10 I wouldn't put it past the American dude to have an account at Kos - I mean really, its hard to resist posting stuff on the internet, reading moronblogs, etc. and I am guessing he has a lot of free time between moving about Pakistan.

Posted by: Aaron at September 09, 2007 10:22 PM (EZg9B)

11 I don't know why anyone is surprised that Osama sounds like American lefties. Except for the fact that he believes in God, their worldviews and policy prescriptions are pretty much identical: Death to America, Death to Jews, destroy modern civilization, destroy democracy, destroy the world economy. For a leftist, what's not to like? Plus he's swarthy and has dreamy eyes. I bet he's major sexual fantasy fodder among the few non-lesbian women liberals.

Posted by: Trimegistus at September 09, 2007 11:02 PM (aHeFG)

12 I bet he's major sexual fantasy fodder among the few non-lesbian women liberals.

They're not the only ones who think he's just the dreamiest. {sigh}

I'll be in my million-dollar bunk.

Posted by: John Edwards at September 09, 2007 11:09 PM (56ssE)

13 Commonalities. My photochop nails it, if I might say so myself...

Posted by: serr8d at September 10, 2007 12:14 AM (IvngZ)

14 Daily KOsama

Posted by: Eric at September 10, 2007 09:53 AM (3f3uN)

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