Osama Bin Laden

Yesterday CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked GOP strategist Ed Rollins if a Hail Mary pass from Osama bin Laden might save John McCain’s electoral prospects. He cited the 2004 election, when a new video by the al-Qaeda head surfaced within days of the election.
“The problem when you do something late in the campaign is that you [...]

A new ad campaign urges Twin Citizens to “make an effort” to be nice to visiting Republicans. The Strib is reportedly cutting ties with the Associated Press. And Fox News, again, shows its news mettle. All in this edition of Media Monitor.

So Osama bin Laden released a tape last week.  You may have heard about it, what with all the screaming and pants wetting and fawning obsession that it was greeted with by the right-wing types.  After all, bin Laden’s rambling diatribe seemed calibrated to win friends on the left, so clearly that’s proof that bin [...]

The blogging community reacted fear, scorn, and disdain to the recent video released by Osama bin Laden, timed to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Conservative blogs generally took bin Laden’s statement as endorsing liberal ideals.  John Hinderaker at Power Line opined that he is “starting to think bin Laden is a regular [...]