Lately, al Qaeda's efforts to affect the American presidential election are backfiring with polls confirming Osama bin Laden is in trouble. But last night's speech by Bin Laden to followers at a cave in a mountain area of Afghanistan was interrupted by cries of "McCain" and "Elect him!" might just be the breaking point.
Bin Laden's efforts to paint Republican presidential nominee John McCain as a friend of unrepentant billionaires and an enemy of Islam and Allah are blowing up in his face.
"Instead of getting Islamo-fascists to work against McCain," said Al Jazeera reporter, Hyphen el-Hyphen, "terrorists see his election as one that would infuse the militant organization with fresh hatred of America that Barack Obama couldn't come close to doing."
"We found that Islamo-fascists are more interested in rejuvenating their constantly depleting suicide-bombers ranks than they are in actually hating Americans for their freedom," said Ali Bin Countin of the Karbul Terrorist Poll. "Al Qaeda's attempts to paint McCain as someone their fanatics should not want as a president of the western devils won't work in this partisan atmosphere. Remember, we're talking fanatics here, not hockey moms."
At one point during the meeting, Bin Laden had to take the microphone from one suicide bomber to defend his disdain for McCain.
"Sure, McCain is paling around with capitalists and I want to destroy the American dogs as much as you," declared Bin Laden, "but electing McCain is no way to get the fatwa we want."
In other bad news for the McCain/Palin ticket, for the next Philadelphia Eagles home game, Sarah Palin has been asked to handle the coin flip... by the visiting Atlanta Falcons.
Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" and blogs at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com.