CNN: In New Tape, Bin Laden "Comes Off Like An Angry Blogger"

Think Progress:

On Friday, 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden issued a new videotape in which he said, among other statements, that he will "escalate the killing and fighting against" Americans.

Yesterday, CNN Justice Correspondent Kelli Arena compared bin Laden's tape to the writings of an "angry blogger":

An obvious news junkie with a lot of time on his hands he makes several references to current affairs proof that the videotape is a new one. ... 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.

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Comments

[momofsonofwar]

07:20 PM on 09/09/2007

As my photographer husband says:

(Don't believe any picture)

[accountability]

07:20 PM on 09/09/2007

I don't think he is dead. I think his being alive serves the mis-administration very well.

it looked like him to me, the nose near the eyes and the mouth.
Granted we haven't seen him in a while.

The one they pulled out way back, the fat one who looked But this one... I think it is him.
As for the beard being darker, that is true. The beard is very significant in that culture. A longer beard, a darker beard has more "gravitas."

[citizenofmars]

09:51 PM on 09/09/2007

rense.com has a link to "Whatreallyhappened.com" that shows a moving gif. image of the 'new' Bin Laden morphing with a verified photo. It's so obvious the 'new' one is a fake. A must see. five stars. This settles it for me. Muslims do dye their beards with orange henna, but Grecian Formula is prohibited. What a slimy joke this all is. They're not even GOOD criminals.

[SaviourMachine]

05:37 PM on 09/09/2007

To say I find this tape suspect is an understatement.
But I will never trust the "translations" provided.

As for the 'angry blogger' the tone of whoever that is in the video sounded very unemotional to me.

I think 'angry bloggers' have every right to be angry about what has been perpetrated(the robbery,rape and torture of a soveriegn nation) by this government with our tax dollars,for greed and power,while our country bleeds a slow death.

Anyone who isn't angry is either braindead(29%ers) or making money off this immoral and criminal debacle.

[InofTouch]

05:19 PM on 09/09/2007

Well if you were to place that video on youtube...it be nothing speical..really and I like the quick judgment that if your a blogger then your liberal.

[Purple Girl]

05:08 PM on 09/09/2007

Oh as for Brooks and Arena- their just fearful for their no talent required positions. She simply read of the screen, what the writer had stolen from Brooks the night before on PBS. Frankly Brooks should be on CNN, better than screwing up a lovely ensemble on The News Hour- he's too immature to sit at the big boys and girls table either. Put him with Wolfe & Lou- lower the bar Brook your struggling.

[Purple Girl]

05:02 PM on 09/09/2007

I'd love to know he's dead. But if we kill him he will be martyred and something to aspire to even more- sainthood crap. If we capture him and hold him- their glorify his imprisonment- even if we set him up IN a HILTON. Let him slowly and uncermoniously died of kidney failure and blood poisoning. If it's him he looks to be circling the drain, If it's not- then that stand in better see a Doc- he's retaining fluid and looks ashy.
Although revenge is a dish served better cold- I think we should just concentrate on those physically able to carrry out attacks. He's just a figure head and the Jihad philosophy has already been spread to followers, who will bred followers ....It's the ideology- not just a man.

[RanTalbott]

04:43 PM on 09/09/2007

Meanwhile, Arena comes off like an angry dittohead, regurgitating the latest talking points injected into her brain by Rush.

[eastearll]

03:41 PM on 09/09/2007

Angry blogger? Sounds like a normal MOONBAT at Huffpo, the DUmp or the PIgpen to me.

[Grulg]

03:32 PM on 09/09/2007

It IS Bin Laden-but they've screwed up the translation. His lips move, but what he's Really saying is being looped in by some joker in Dubai. Sounds like he's reading off the ingredients to a bottle of Vanish.

[NABNYC]

03:08 PM on 09/09/2007

I assume it is bin Laden, but do not assume the translation provided by Bush, or even the audio portion released by Bush, is accurate.

My concern is whether this is part of a Cointelpro, Part II, by which the U.S. government through the FBI, CIA, and every other agency that is now wiretapping us and reading our e-mails, is inventing more ways to attack the U.S. and anyone who opposes them.

When did they receive the tape?

Remember Bush just issued yet another Law Of The King -- or Executive Order -- by which he proclaims that anyone who aids "the enemy" will have all their assets grabbed by the government, no trial, no conviction, no attorney needed.

By providing a translation with bin Laden saying that U.S. policy is dictated by the corporations, which is true, is this just a scam to be able to shut down blogs by saying they are aiding the enemy? Seize assets of people who note that Halliburton and Blackwater are making millions off of the murder of Iraqis?

Interesting timing too leading into yet another campaign season. I guess if we criticize the politicians for taking bribes from corporate America, Bush can now say we are on the same side as bin Laden, and grab our assets, maybe throw us in prison?

So CNN says blogger = bin Laden? Interesting. The only thing anyone should say about this tape is that George Bush made the conscious decision to let bin Laden go free, and to use our military instead to go into Iraq to steal their oil.

Bush has bankrupt our country, allowed our roads, bridges, schools, hospitals to deteriorate, let his friends loot the treasury, turned every country in the world into an enemy, and left us completely unprotected with even our National Guard stranded in the desert in Iraq.

[jake106]

06:24 PM on 09/09/2007

What in the HELL are you talking about?

[accountability]

07:14 PM on 09/09/2007

read slowly. use your finger under the words if you must. it is very simple.

[RandyRanson]

02:52 PM on 09/09/2007

Osama says, "I'm Back", to use a Hollywood line, that is so over used. Bush, when asked if he remembers who Osama Bin Laden is, responded, "I don't recall", to borrow a Republican line that is now becoming so over used, even the public have started using it.

[wadenelson1]

02:45 PM on 09/09/2007

.

AN ANGRY BLOGGER! I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK!

[milo9]

05:02 PM on 09/09/2007

Eff CNN and their "angry blogger" remark. If they would do their job there would be a helluva lot fewer "angry bloggers"

[accountability]

07:08 PM on 09/09/2007

LMAO
wadenelson1

[gerontion72]

02:04 PM on 09/09/2007

Bin Laden is dead. Has been for years. I can't believe anyone buys this crap anymore.

[citizenofmars]

02:08 PM on 09/09/2007

Democrats all seem to buy it.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

02:20 PM on 09/09/2007

I remember when I used to believe what newspapers said. I remember in 2001 a friend of mine from Norway telling me about WTC 7, and I actually said, "But why wouldn't this be in the newspaper?"

LOL. I was an idiot.

it wasn't until FIVE YEARS LATER when I saw Loose Change that I saw the photos of the Pentagon lawn, the 16 foot hole, no plane in sight. I followed the white rabbit (Webster Tarpley) and I've been falling down the rabbit hole ever since.

The End.

[citizenofmars]

01:53 PM on 09/09/2007

Alex Jones said it best. OBL appears to use Grecian Formula. They actually said that older Muslim men customarily dye their beards and eyebrows. Riiiiiight. Compare this to that tape they released of OBL as a fat Maharishi Mahesh Yogi sorta guy, with puffy chipmunk cheeks. No way that was Bin Laden either. This video looks like a virtual reality OBL, a cartoon if you will. This pathetic attempt at mind control is being laughed right off the internet, and at home too, as confused newscasters refuse to even comment on the obvious craziness of the new OBL look. If anyone out there in Huffland still thinks 911 wasn't an inside job, I give you this latest example of INEPT housecleaning by the guilty perps, namely our military leaders.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

01:54 PM on 09/09/2007

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189318.php
Alex Jones Arrested

[citizenofmars]

02:03 PM on 09/09/2007

That link you give appears to be some sort of a fake anti-terrorist site. A FOX-NEWS inspired attempt at feeding the flames of hatred in the Muslim World. What an ugly website-Yecccchhhh!

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

01:47 PM on 09/09/2007

I'm picturing a bunch of non-bloggers sitting on their couches thinking, "Gosh, good thing I'm not one of them bloggers."

[testerwebbdemocrat]

04:33 PM on 09/09/2007

Did you pick up on that from the CNN Fox wannabes?

Angry Liberal Bloggers = Osama Bin Laden

I guarantee you, every old fart in the last 29% Club, thats exactly what they heard.

[TheBurritoAssassin]

09:25 PM on 09/09/2007

who cares what you think, you defile the memory of those lost on Flight 77 because you are so lazy as to believe everything you see, hear and read on the internet.

Rube. Pathetic rube at that.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

09:33 PM on 09/09/2007

you defile their memories by enabling wars of aggression based on lies and myths that use their deaths to wage a GWOT that is destroying America.

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