Video: Osama uncut
posted at 11:06 am on September 8, 2007 by Allahpundit
Thanks as always to the King Jawa for delivering the jihadi video goods. Here’s the full 25-minute version, although you’re better off skipping it and sticking with the transcript: not only does it take a fraction of the time to read but, very curiously, the video actually switches to a freeze frame of Bin Laden at the 1:55 mark and stays that way for the rest of the clip with only the audio still playing. I can’t imagine why they’d do that unless they thought he looked ill — which he sort of does — and wanted to omit the visual evidence of him fading as the speech wears on.
Our favorite liberal media water-carrier was feeling defensive last night over the similarities between Osama’s “special comment” and some of the left’s pet talking points so he did a little projecting to deflect criticism. Nice try, Krazy, but the evidence doesn’t lie.
Update: “It was at this point, I thought I was listening to Keith Olbermann.”
Link: sevenload.com
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Scheuer says Osama’s winning.
What a guy.
JammieWearingFool on September 8, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Have any of you seen what these mental cases are saying?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/07/new-bin-laden-tape-appear_n_63504.html
LtE126 on September 8, 2007 at 11:36 AM
Wow. Just…wow.
HuffPosters scare me far more than UBL these days. They’re total freaks.
aero on September 8, 2007 at 11:45 AM
About as inspiring as an automated weather beacon.
OBL would have retained more Muslim street cred if he’d kept the grey beard.
Now he looks like an insecure, uber-the-hill loser trying to impress the foxy Ji-Hotties.
He sounds like he’s recording inside a shipping container.
profitsbeard on September 8, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Ever so “conveniently”, that is before the first references to events beyond December, 2001 that could not be semi-accurately predicted.
steveegg on September 8, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Why oh why did I click the link? I agree, they scare me more than Osama now-a-days. Its just incredible to me that people can be that willfully blind
Keli on September 8, 2007 at 11:55 AM
The Huffposters are hilarious. It sounds like a round table discussion in a 9th grade political science class. I’m serious, my kid’s don’t try to make arguments that senseless. It’s frightening that common sense has all but disappeared from the simplest of arguments. 300 + posts on huffpo and NOBODY capable of making a legitimate claim or point.
That’s just frickin’ sad.
commonsensehoosier on September 8, 2007 at 11:57 AM
Why not show him animated, greeting guests, smiling, reading a paper? There is NO downside to it. It would reinforce his message that the U.S. is a paper tiger. Thank would boost his troops morale, encourage the peeples to laugh at the U.S. This just made him look like a puppet and weak.
Limerick on September 8, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Corrupt like above to:
Ji-hotties.
profitsbeard on September 8, 2007 at 12:01 PM
[Carl psychically probes the captured alien]
Carl: It’s afraid. It’s afraid.
[everyone cheers]
pc on September 8, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Ooh, ooh! I know! A talking snowman!!! Now that’s something the American people take very seriously.
aero on September 8, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Profitsbeard…I love the Ji-Hottie!
commonsensehoosier on September 8, 2007 at 12:06 PM
Ace Levy: Shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs.
okay i’ll stop, but f this mather farger and the lion bearded mather fargers following him. History has shown radical social change occurred as the result of the actions of but a few extremists.
pc on September 8, 2007 at 12:07 PM
80′s tech hasn’t made it to the caves yet.
steveegg on September 8, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Phew! I need to wash my eyes out or something! That really hurt trying to rap my head around all that logic and I wasn’t even close to doing it either.
Man o’ man alive….Is this what 40 years of liberal edumakation has produced?
God help us all!!!!
JohnnyD on September 8, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Does anybody else think Osama looks like he’s been drug through two small knotholes?
If he’s alive, he ain’t happy.
Speakup on September 8, 2007 at 12:22 PM
yes, Speakup.
Editor on September 8, 2007 at 12:32 PM
If that’s really him and he really is alive, maybe he had a stroke or something that incapacitated him enough that he couldn’t do videos for a few years. Maybe he’s only now able to sit up and speak clearly for a few minutes at a time or something like that. Perhaps he has cancer and lost his beard to chemo? Could he get chemotherapy in the caves of Pakistan? I think I’ve read that he’s diabetic. Maybe he can’t get proper care in the caves and is just really going downhill fast. There’s clearly something wrong with him–illness, injury, or death–that has been preventing him from releasing taunting videos these past few years.
aero on September 8, 2007 at 12:36 PM
This was an interesting article that went up at the AP late, late last night.
Doctor at Gitmo who was in Tora Bora
Nothing about Bin Laden’s current status, but pretty interesting what he has to say about OBL’s pansy ass.
Editor on September 8, 2007 at 12:44 PM
[aero on September 8, 2007 at 12:36 PM]
I watched to see if there were any other signs of stroke but didn’t see anything of note. Now that I see the vid, I can’t say for sure he has the droopy eye that he seemed to have in the vid-still, but I haven’t tried to run the vid through better software yet. Anyway, there are many other possibilities if he does have a droopy eye — diabetes, Bell’s Palsy, head trauma, etc. My favorite is that he suffers from a case of trichnosis.
Dusty on September 8, 2007 at 1:26 PM
John Edwards wants to know who leaked his newest stump speech to OBL and he wants to know RIGHT NOW. Oh yeah, heads are gonna roll. That was good stuff in there, read meat for the lefties, and OBL has stolen it, STOLEN IT I tell you. Yup, there’s gonna be a shaek-up in the Edwards camp.
Rational Thought on September 8, 2007 at 3:03 PM
sheesh, Osama Productions. He’s almost making Hal Roach look bad.
Well, Osama, we’ll just keep doing what we’re doing. Its obviously depriving you of a free life.
johnnyU on September 8, 2007 at 3:17 PM
But for his appearance, Osama would fit right in at a Democratic debate.
Blacksheep on September 8, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Yeah, I would have watched the video yesterday, but I watched South Park instead.
madmonkphotog on September 8, 2007 at 4:30 PM
“I’m John Edwards, and I approve this message.”
redzap on September 8, 2007 at 4:58 PM
I think that Huffingtonpost.com is part of a magnificent right-wing conspiracy with the sole intent of making the Democrats look and sound like a bunch of… well you know. They’ll deny it of course, and in fact only a small portion of the commentators at Huffingtonpost are actually in on the plot, but their job is to continually cheer their unwitting comrades ever onward into heretofore uncharted territories of paranoia and insanity. The de-evolution of human intelligence and reason advertised for all to see online at Huffingtonpost.com, making the foolishness of leftist ideology obvious and unpalatable for those of us whom still retain our minds and sanity.
Here’s my proof, and any of the Huffinton cult members can look it up for themselves, Arianna Huffington was a diehard conservative long before she became a liberal. Her metamorphosis was a necessary ingredient for the witches brew meticulously crafted into a virtual potion designed to speed up the evolution of leftist ideology several fold, faster than the rate at which the greater portion of left leaning Americans could possibly identify with. The eventual goal is to show the more moderate leftists where leftist ideology eventually leads: insanity. The strategy is conceptually similar to a before/after photo.
The commentators over at Huffingtonpost.com fell under her spell and are nothing but tools of a vast right-wing conspiracy, which they would abhor if they only understood the magnitude. The virus has already taken hold and is now thriving within their collective system, however, and even if they learn of the plot now, it is far too late. They will be unable to stop the marching progression toward their own self-destruction. Their minds are already owned and operated by the Halliburton Corporation.
FloatingRock on September 8, 2007 at 5:16 PM
They freeze the frame because that isn’t real. And the fact that our vaunted intelligence agencies think it is real is scaring me.
PierreLegrand on September 8, 2007 at 5:26 PM
The only insanity I didn’t see there was “Ron Paul 2008!”
BKennedy on September 8, 2007 at 5:37 PM
For the record, I don’t really believe that conspiracy theory mentioned above. I was just kidding around.
FloatingRock on September 8, 2007 at 7:23 PM
I don’t know whether Huffnpuff or daily kos leads the other as the web’s longest run of The Vagina Monologues rendered entirely in the leftard dialect.
No offense to actual vagina’s.
BL@KBIRD on September 8, 2007 at 7:43 PM
HuffPo moved the comments to a second page “to ease the load on their servers.”
Heh.
Karl on September 8, 2007 at 9:43 PM
Is that stinkin turd herder throwing his hat in as a Democrat Prsidential candidate?
TheSitRep on September 8, 2007 at 10:09 PM
I’ve seen the Vagina Monologues (and wrote a criticism of it for out school newspaper afterwards: The Fisking of The Vagina Monologues), the whole thing is written in leftard dialect to begin with.
BKennedy on September 9, 2007 at 4:47 AM
Rove, you magnificent bastard! ;-)
Harpazo on September 9, 2007 at 11:08 AM
This guy is D E A D !!! The government will never admit it,
that way, under the guise of looking for him, they can do whatever else they need to do !!!
aniladesai on September 9, 2007 at 9:05 PM