Powerline blog on Bin Laden's latest video:

It's got everything: ad hominem, specious reasoning, up is down-ism, along with a big dose of contempt for liberals. (emp add)

• "It has never been plausible to suggest that the war in Iraq is anything other than fundamental to our conflict with al Qaeda and related groups; after this video, any such suggestion is impossible."
• "Second, the affinity between Muslim extremism and Western leftism has never been so clearly displayed."
• "Remember the video that bin Laden released just before the 2004 election? It was virtually a campaign commercial for John Kerry."
• "... it sounds like [Bin Laden] may be a fan of left-wing web sites as well. Thus, "all of mankind is in danger because of...global warming."
• "Speaking of Vietnam: just as the Democrats can't let go of Vietnam analogies, neither can bin Laden."
• On Iraq, bin Laden reads from the liberal script. Iraq is a "civil war;" ... the justifications for the Iraq war are "based on deception and blatant lies;"
• "I'm starting to think bin Laden is a regular poster on the Daily Kos."
• "Bin Laden's tirade does have a point: "To conclude, I invite you to embrace Islam." Presumably the American liberals who share so many of bin Laden's beliefs don't intend to convert."

This is Limbaugh territory.


posted by Quiddity at 9/07/2007 06:21:00 PM