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
Did they include the part about the 2.5% flat tax rate that bin Laden favors?