Osama is a Liberal Democrat Blogger

Or so the Right-Wing media machine wants you to believe.

David Brooks thinks bin Laden has "been sitting around reading lefty blogs" and posting in the comments.
Watch it:

ThinkProgress and C&L have more.

It doesn't stop there. Faux News' Sean Hannity thinks bin Laden sounds like Democrats.
Watch it. I & II

News Hounds has more.

And you know Faux News' John Gibson had to join in too. He gets in an Osama smear against the Democrats, Kieth Olbermann, and DailyKos all in one sentence.

"Does Osama bin Laden sound like a Democrat, or do the Democrats sound like Osama?" I read this thing today and said you know, I've heard this stuff before. Finally this afternoon it came to me, where i'd heard it. Where? In the special commentaries of [Kieth Olbermann] and the speeches of angry Democrats trying to make nice with the Daily Kos ..."

Listen to it:

And CNN's Kelli Arena thinks Osama sounds like an “angry blogger.”
Watch it:

ThinkProgress also points out:

In 2004, Arena baselessly claimed that there is “some speculation that Al Qaeda believes it has a better chance of winning in Iraq if John Kerry is in the White House.”

This is by no means the first time the Right-Wing media machine has done this following an Osama recording release. The last time Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough and Tucker Carlson were among the newscasters pundits who echoed the same thing. You don't hear any mention from the msm that in his video Osama actually slams the Dems, and promised to lower taxes, which sounds a lot more like that other party I think. Besides, if they want to be honest about who Osama bin laden really sounds like, well, Digby nailed it a couple years ago. lol.

ThinkProgress and News Hounds have contact info to send complaints (be nice) about the slanderously biased coverage.

We definitely need to do something before the msm tries to undermine the 2008 Presidential election with their lies just like they did before.

[Late Update] ThinkProgress:

Yesterday, the New York Post published an editorial equating Osama bin Laden and his recent video tape with MoveOn.org:

If Osama bin Laden ever gets tired of waging global jihad, perhaps he should interview for a job with MoveOn.org.

So that's PBS, CNN, the NY Post, and of course, Faux. We'll keep an eye out for more.

Stephen Hayes Still Linking al-Qaeda and Iraq

Tim Robbins asks him to apologize to the American people for helping to deceive us into this mess when he wrote "The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America". Hayes refused and continued to assert the claim and the audience wasn't having any of it.

C&L has the video.

Robbins: You can lie a thousand times—it doesn’t make it true.

For the record, Tim Robbins, Bill Maher and Stephen Hayes could all be considered 'technically' correct, but in Stephen's case it's a stretch to be kind. Keane did say Iraq and al Qaeda affiliated persons had several “contacts” with each other but he also said there was never any evidence that the contacts produced any sort of “collaborative relationship” on any level. Anyone calling that a “relationship” is spinning the wrong way for sure, and you have to ask, why?

Here's a MUCH better example of a "relationship" with Saddam:

Guardian: Rumsfeld ‘offered help to Saddam’ *
Declassified papers leave the White House hawk exposed over his role during the Iran-Iraq war

WaPo: U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup *
Trade in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, Kurds

And from GWU's National Security Archive:

Bill Maher Counter-Spins O'Reilly

BillO starts off by trying to slam Maher's show (and Arianna Huffington in the process, calling her a "loon") and Bill Maher set him straight. O'Reilly had to admit he just blurted it out without knowing WTF he was talking about.

And you got to love the end of the interview, unless you're part of the Giuliani campaign. They probably soiled themselves when Maher pointed that out to the largest conservative base teevee audience there is.