Yeah, alot of our MSM TV news have been reporting it as a “new” tape too. I’m not holding my breath waiting for the (on-air) retractions. And I, too, haven’t bothered wasting my time telling them it’s footage from an old, old tape.

andycanuck on July 16, 2007 at 4:37 PM

It’s hard to choose between the pleasure of quietly enjoying their ignorance and the pleasure of insulting them for it.

The alleged UBL video that was just released may have old footage of Osama bin Laden from 2002.

al Qaeda tape contains old clip of bin Laden
From Yahoo News:
 
A leading French terrorism expert cautioned on Thursday against taking…

Hot Air is my first source for news and especially since the addition of links to other breaking news.

What’s taking the news so long to figure that out?

RushBaby on July 16, 2007 at 1:12 PM

I rely greatly on AllahPundit and Mark Steyn for their skill in filtering the news. Thus, the only reason I know about the saturating coverage of Paris Hilton is that they mentioned it, inter alia. In news of science and technology, I rely on ScienceDaily.com as an aggregator. For everything else, there’s Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke, Nietzsche, the American Founders, the Straussian school, Google, Amazon, Flickr, and Craigslist.

I’m sitting here smiling to think of the possibilities of another no-lose situation for Bush if he plays any death announcement of OBL the right way.

I also think MM can crow about the tape and rip Geraldo at the same time. He’s no contest for her anyway.

It’s things like this that remind me students tend to pick “journalism” as a major because they can’t cut it under the real curriculums…

RushBaby on July 16, 2007 at 1:33 PM

Hey I want a Michelle poster too…Of course we’ll have to cut AP in for, what, 10% if we sell ‘em…

doriangrey on July 16, 2007 at 1:37 PM

*cough* thanks! I know I saw a site too that you can enlarge a picture to some huge size, and this free program online (somewhere…I forget what it is tho) that will print it on your printer in a mosaic…and you just put the pieces together on a wall.

Just further proof of what I’ve been saying about how little influence blogs have.

AP, they are NEVER going to verbally give you credit for influencing them!!
You can forget recognition in the traditional sense!!

But you can write blogs ribbing the MSM for getting their original thought from you, whenever it even slightly appears that way.

Your confirmation that you are an influence will come later in your blogging career, when their are MSM defectors casually soliciting for a HA job interview.

((((( I know.. I know.. nobody LOOVES you.))))))))

Greta is tough enough to bear, but he adds a slippery persona that would be better served on MSNBC, or Democracy Now.

I’m keeping the champaign in the fridge.

I’m sure it would be embarassing. That will hardly happen though and they won’t show their embarassment. Once one outfit realizes it’s all over the blogs and day old news, they’ll quickly seque through it in manner indicating they found it out themselves through their own hard work. Watch for the rush to use “Exclusive” and “Breaking”.

And I don’t doubt one bit they’ll wait for some talkinghead on contract to pick up on Ali’s thoughts or comes to their own version of it before broadcasting it. To parapharse my wife, they are nothing if not the best business people.

Well you know I wouldnt want to step on any toes or anything (HA MM) but if say you had the graphics I know where you could get your hands on oh say a “Allahpundit for President” Tee-shirt… :0

Sorry, I didn’t quite *cough catch that cough*

*Cough I have a cafepress account where if you have uncopyrighted material it can be made into posters and such Cough*

Hey – I’ll pitch in half for the printing costs, then split the posters with you! Classic Geraldo posters in your den, Gorgeous Michelle screencaps in my den.

Exit question: Will MM get to do a little crowing about this tonight on O’R or will she be too busy tearing Geraldo a new one?

It’s an hour-long show…plenty of time for both I hope!

PS: I’d love to print up some posters of these screencaps…frame ‘em and hang ‘em in my den. Classic Geraldo grin!

Sure would be funny if the new news story were that all the media had the tape and had to have the blog’s point out to them that it was old news.

AP, next time you should try sending it as a press release! That’s what Associated Press says they sit around waiting for.

Anyway, let the MSM have their fun so we can watch the comedy show. It’s better than killing a week long news story and their having to fill the gap by reporting on celebrities.

If anyone at Fox is reading this, that was pathetic. Did you have Geraldo doing the research for this story or something? If so, tell him that I think wanusmaximus at Facebook will be releasing a tape this week as well.

Ali Eteraz has the first interesting read on the tape that I’ve seen too, suggesting that it may be AQ’s way of laying the groundwork for an announcement that Bin Laden’s dead.

I was thinking that this morning as well… but I’ve kind of always thought we was dead… at least for a couple years.

Exit question: Will MM get to do a little crowing about this tonight on O’R or will she be too busy tearing Geraldo a new one?

I hope (though doubt) she’ll have the full time needed to handle Geraldo and this. At least she really took him to task in that post.