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	<title>Comments on: Brooks: In His New Tape, Bin Laden Sounds Like He&#8217;s Been &#8216;Reading Lefty Blogs&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: The Totalizer</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/brooks-bin-laden-blogs/comment-page-5/#comment-4074191</link>
		<dc:creator>The Totalizer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What surprises me most about the transcript is UBL&#039;s ability to coopt criticism of his enemies, divide them internally and keep them bickering.  This is what makes him so successful in the Moslem world and allows him to remain in hiding in Pakistan.  Bin Laden may claim to agree with positions held by Democrats, leftists or libertarians, but he is certainly not a liberal.  Keep in mind his goal of creating a theocratic movement.  He will tell Republicans what they want to hear (e.g. US troops are fighting terrorists and Iraq is the central front) then in the next breath tell the opposition what they want to hear (corporate interests are destroying the American economy and political sphere of influence).  The longer the occupation, the greater the opportunities for him to further his ends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What surprises me most about the transcript is UBL&#8217;s ability to coopt criticism of his enemies, divide them internally and keep them bickering.  This is what makes him so successful in the Moslem world and allows him to remain in hiding in Pakistan.  Bin Laden may claim to agree with positions held by Democrats, leftists or libertarians, but he is certainly not a liberal.  Keep in mind his goal of creating a theocratic movement.  He will tell Republicans what they want to hear (e.g. US troops are fighting terrorists and Iraq is the central front) then in the next breath tell the opposition what they want to hear (corporate interests are destroying the American economy and political sphere of influence).  The longer the occupation, the greater the opportunities for him to further his ends.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4074191', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JoeCaribe</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/brooks-bin-laden-blogs/comment-page-5/#comment-4070392</link>
		<dc:creator>JoeCaribe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who is David Brooks?  Is he a Zionist? If the answer is yes, why are we worried about his comments?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who is David Brooks?  Is he a Zionist? If the answer is yes, why are we worried about his comments?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4070392', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JoeCaribe</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/brooks-bin-laden-blogs/comment-page-5/#comment-4070385</link>
		<dc:creator>JoeCaribe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me tell you a story.  Right after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the head of the National police force in Havana Efigenio Almejeiras told Fidel Castro he was ready and willing to sequester from Miami one of Batista&quot;s most looked for criminal henchmen, Rolando Mansferrer aka &quot;The Tiger&quot;.  Castro told him if he ever did that he would &quot;order him to be shot&quot;, because &quot;Mansferrer is the kind of enemy we need on the other side&quot;. bin-Laden is exactly that: the best enemy we can have on the othe side. Choose not your friends, but your enemies!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me tell you a story.  Right after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the head of the National police force in Havana Efigenio Almejeiras told Fidel Castro he was ready and willing to sequester from Miami one of Batista&#8221;s most looked for criminal henchmen, Rolando Mansferrer aka &#8220;The Tiger&#8221;.  Castro told him if he ever did that he would &#8220;order him to be shot&#8221;, because &#8220;Mansferrer is the kind of enemy we need on the other side&#8221;. bin-Laden is exactly that: the best enemy we can have on the othe side. Choose not your friends, but your enemies!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4070385', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: freethought</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/brooks-bin-laden-blogs/comment-page-5/#comment-4069490</link>
		<dc:creator>freethought</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;â€œProgs have the same complaints about America as osama.â€  - some moron above.&lt;/i&gt;

Right wing authoritarian bastards don&#039;t think - they perform many logical fallacies, which to them feels like thinking.  Notice the above - the complaints are similar, the moron says, so the implication is that all people who have such complaints are akin to Osama!!  How damn brilliant you are, random right wing jerkwad.  Osama might also identify other problems, such as existence of disease or wet farts, will this make you Osama for agreeing?!

As some stated above, some of the things Osama is attacking are real problems we need to solve(like authoritarianism at the workplace, global warming, over-taxation, and some others) - but his &quot;solution&quot; isn&#039;t just &quot;a little too harsh&quot; - it firstly is not a solution at all, and secondly - it&#039;s way way more than just a &quot;little too harsh&quot;.  Choose your words carefully, lefties.

We need theocracy like we need authoritarian capitalism and a 3rd leg - not at all, and it doesn&#039;t matter if it&#039;s islam, or christianity, or some other set of superstitious nonsense meant to subjugate populations.

Wake up apes!  The corporations are only &quot;evil&quot; because you all go to work every day and think submission to your assigned managers is how it should be, instead of demanding to collectively distribute profits yourselves.   Profit percolates up, stays there, and is used to bribe the politicians that  you supposedly elect, by those that need to sell their weapon stock piles before the expiration dates.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>â€œProgs have the same complaints about America as osama.â€  &#8211; some moron above.</i></p>
<p>Right wing authoritarian bastards don&#8217;t think &#8211; they perform many logical fallacies, which to them feels like thinking.  Notice the above &#8211; the complaints are similar, the moron says, so the implication is that all people who have such complaints are akin to Osama!!  How damn brilliant you are, random right wing jerkwad.  Osama might also identify other problems, such as existence of disease or wet farts, will this make you Osama for agreeing?!</p>
<p>As some stated above, some of the things Osama is attacking are real problems we need to solve(like authoritarianism at the workplace, global warming, over-taxation, and some others) &#8211; but his &#8220;solution&#8221; isn&#8217;t just &#8220;a little too harsh&#8221; &#8211; it firstly is not a solution at all, and secondly &#8211; it&#8217;s way way more than just a &#8220;little too harsh&#8221;.  Choose your words carefully, lefties.</p>
<p>We need theocracy like we need authoritarian capitalism and a 3rd leg &#8211; not at all, and it doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s islam, or christianity, or some other set of superstitious nonsense meant to subjugate populations.</p>
<p>Wake up apes!  The corporations are only &#8220;evil&#8221; because you all go to work every day and think submission to your assigned managers is how it should be, instead of demanding to collectively distribute profits yourselves.   Profit percolates up, stays there, and is used to bribe the politicians that  you supposedly elect, by those that need to sell their weapon stock piles before the expiration dates.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4069490', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Roy Rodgers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roy Rodgers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why is it that we Americans allow everything in the world &amp; ourselves to be pigeon holed into left center and right? Conservative and Liberal?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is it that we Americans allow everything in the world &amp; ourselves to be pigeon holed into left center and right? Conservative and Liberal?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4069407', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ef</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/brooks-bin-laden-blogs/comment-page-5/#comment-4067723</link>
		<dc:creator>ef</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From all the way back up top.

&lt;i&gt;Just proves one thing: OBL is a hell of a lot more astute than the fools spouting off about him. At least he can recognize the problems in the world even if his solutions may be a little harsh. He doesnâ€™t run around with his head firmly implanted in the bushco rectum as most of the right wing-nut clowns do.&lt;/i&gt;

Right on point. Thanks

OBL is astute and his methods a little harsh? Here is one of your own apparently pining for the future OBL administration. There is so much wrong with just this one paragraph. That it went unchallenged says far too much.

&lt;i&gt;Brooks and his fellow conservativesâ€™ attempts at humor&lt;/i&gt;

You may laugh, but I&#039;m pretty sure it wasn&#039;t humor.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From all the way back up top.</p>
<p><i>Just proves one thing: OBL is a hell of a lot more astute than the fools spouting off about him. At least he can recognize the problems in the world even if his solutions may be a little harsh. He doesnâ€™t run around with his head firmly implanted in the bushco rectum as most of the right wing-nut clowns do.</i></p>
<p>Right on point. Thanks</p>
<p>OBL is astute and his methods a little harsh? Here is one of your own apparently pining for the future OBL administration. There is so much wrong with just this one paragraph. That it went unchallenged says far too much.</p>
<p><i>Brooks and his fellow conservativesâ€™ attempts at humor</i></p>
<p>You may laugh, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it wasn&#8217;t humor.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4067723', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: fauxreal</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/brooks-bin-laden-blogs/comment-page-5/#comment-4067413</link>
		<dc:creator>fauxreal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>uprl- 

this is a right-wing talking point (about liberals and obl) because you can find just as many issues that OBL supports, or claims to, that could allow someone to say that OBL shares a view with talibornagains, say, about how America should be run. 

again, intel has noted (as in the obl video before the 2004 elections) that it is to his benefit to have republicans in power b/c they do not know how to defeat an ideology...because obl offers an ideology. He is not a nation (if he were, we should be bombing SA since 19 of the hijackers came from that bush-friendly nation.)

but you just keep on pushing that shwag talk. most americans want universal health care, do not think gays can be (or need to be) &quot;cured&quot; by quack religious campers. They do not think that America should have socialism for the rich, or war profiteering by the v.p. they do not like that the republicans lied and that Iraq is a disaster. 

I suppose my other post is lost in the ether, but just to say that Jesus&#039; message had more to do with liberal goals than republican ones. And his followers were freaking communists -- giving away all they owned, helping the poor-- I guess you could say that Jesus and OBL share a lot of the same talking points too.</description>
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<p>this is a right-wing talking point (about liberals and obl) because you can find just as many issues that OBL supports, or claims to, that could allow someone to say that OBL shares a view with talibornagains, say, about how America should be run. </p>
<p>again, intel has noted (as in the obl video before the 2004 elections) that it is to his benefit to have republicans in power b/c they do not know how to defeat an ideology&#8230;because obl offers an ideology. He is not a nation (if he were, we should be bombing SA since 19 of the hijackers came from that bush-friendly nation.)</p>
<p>but you just keep on pushing that shwag talk. most americans want universal health care, do not think gays can be (or need to be) &#8220;cured&#8221; by quack religious campers. They do not think that America should have socialism for the rich, or war profiteering by the v.p. they do not like that the republicans lied and that Iraq is a disaster. </p>
<p>I suppose my other post is lost in the ether, but just to say that Jesus&#8217; message had more to do with liberal goals than republican ones. And his followers were freaking communists &#8212; giving away all they owned, helping the poor&#8211; I guess you could say that Jesus and OBL share a lot of the same talking points too.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4067413', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: upright left</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/brooks-bin-laden-blogs/comment-page-5/#comment-4067251</link>
		<dc:creator>upright left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you consider that a â€œcontrol issueâ€ then intelligent debate is perhaps not your forte.

Comment by jjcomet â€” September 9, 2007 @ 5:13 pm

Your failure to acknowledge what everyone knows is true, that osama&#039;s message contained striking similarities to the arguments posted here by progs, is part of the control issue.  We all know his message could have been lifted right from these threads, yet libs insist on asking for proof.  I&#039;m not going to post the message for you.  If you can read it after I post it here, then you can look it up for yourself and read it.  If I refer to something not readily available, I&#039;ll provide a link.  Osama apparently shares quite a bit of the prog view of how America should be run.  That&#039;s a fact. Sorry if it&#039;s hard for you to take, bud. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you consider that a â€œcontrol issueâ€ then intelligent debate is perhaps not your forte.</p>
<p>Comment by jjcomet â€” September 9, 2007 @ 5:13 pm</p>
<p>Your failure to acknowledge what everyone knows is true, that osama&#8217;s message contained striking similarities to the arguments posted here by progs, is part of the control issue.  We all know his message could have been lifted right from these threads, yet libs insist on asking for proof.  I&#8217;m not going to post the message for you.  If you can read it after I post it here, then you can look it up for yourself and read it.  If I refer to something not readily available, I&#8217;ll provide a link.  Osama apparently shares quite a bit of the prog view of how America should be run.  That&#8217;s a fact. Sorry if it&#8217;s hard for you to take, bud. ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4067251', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jjcomet</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/brooks-bin-laden-blogs/comment-page-5/#comment-4066906</link>
		<dc:creator>jjcomet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Osama&#039;s message, as it always has been, is the same as the far right&#039;s message: &quot;I believe I&#039;m right because my God told me so, which justifies anything I wish to do. Don&#039;t confuse me with inconvenient facts that might conflict with my worldview.&quot; Even the rambling that Brooks noted echoes the hard core of Bush dead-enders. 

In fact, I never asked you to &quot;find and post material;&quot; I asked you to detail what you saw as the similarities between the mesage on the recent bin Laden tape and what you perceive to be a &quot;progressive&quot; message. That requires only having a coherent position and being able to articulate it logically and intelligently. If you consider that a &quot;control issue&quot; then intelligent debate is perhaps not your forte.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Osama&#8217;s message, as it always has been, is the same as the far right&#8217;s message: &#8220;I believe I&#8217;m right because my God told me so, which justifies anything I wish to do. Don&#8217;t confuse me with inconvenient facts that might conflict with my worldview.&#8221; Even the rambling that Brooks noted echoes the hard core of Bush dead-enders. </p>
<p>In fact, I never asked you to &#8220;find and post material;&#8221; I asked you to detail what you saw as the similarities between the mesage on the recent bin Laden tape and what you perceive to be a &#8220;progressive&#8221; message. That requires only having a coherent position and being able to articulate it logically and intelligently. If you consider that a &#8220;control issue&#8221; then intelligent debate is perhaps not your forte.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066906', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: upright left</title>
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		<dc:creator>upright left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What makes me angry is the demeaning fashion of Brooks about Chomsky. I mean on one side you have this crazy right winger who is taking advantage of his 20 minutes on Television by spouting off random absurdities without eloquently providing hardly any information behind them. 

Comment by Justin Cook â€” September 9, 2007 @ 3:25 pm

How about the fact that osama&#039;s views agree largely with progs when it comes to the U.S.   So if he is wrong in those opinions, so are progs.  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What makes me angry is the demeaning fashion of Brooks about Chomsky. I mean on one side you have this crazy right winger who is taking advantage of his 20 minutes on Television by spouting off random absurdities without eloquently providing hardly any information behind them. </p>
<p>Comment by Justin Cook â€” September 9, 2007 @ 3:25 pm</p>
<p>How about the fact that osama&#8217;s views agree largely with progs when it comes to the U.S.   So if he is wrong in those opinions, so are progs.  ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066808', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: upright left</title>
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		<dc:creator>upright left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot; thatâ€™s all you need to know about the intellectual honesty of the far right. They actually try to make a virtue of their inability to back up any of their assertions. I notice that â€œcontrol of the exchangeâ€ is whatâ€™s really important here, not whether or not the original argument has any merit.&quot;

Well, bud, I could have posted the text of osama&#039;s statement for all the proof we need, but since it is so fresh in everyone&#039;s mind, thatâ€™s really unnecessary.  Progs don&#039;t need me to show them what they are seeing on the news several times a day already. That&#039;s where the control issue comes in to play.  Progs are trying to get conservatives to spend their time finding and posting material instead of bringing progs right back to the point that their message is osama&#039;s message.  Of course, you already knew that didn&#039;t ya, jj.  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8221; thatâ€™s all you need to know about the intellectual honesty of the far right. They actually try to make a virtue of their inability to back up any of their assertions. I notice that â€œcontrol of the exchangeâ€ is whatâ€™s really important here, not whether or not the original argument has any merit.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, bud, I could have posted the text of osama&#8217;s statement for all the proof we need, but since it is so fresh in everyone&#8217;s mind, thatâ€™s really unnecessary.  Progs don&#8217;t need me to show them what they are seeing on the news several times a day already. That&#8217;s where the control issue comes in to play.  Progs are trying to get conservatives to spend their time finding and posting material instead of bringing progs right back to the point that their message is osama&#8217;s message.  Of course, you already knew that didn&#8217;t ya, jj.  ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066806', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Justin Cook</title>
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		<dc:creator>Justin Cook</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What makes me angry is the demeaning fashion of Brooks about Chomsky. I mean on one side you have this crazy right winger who is taking advantage of his 20 minutes on Television by spouting off random absurdities without eloquently providing hardly any information behind them. 

While someone such as Chomsky who has already told the world of this technique spends so much time and a lot more effort, with his many pages of work (books, blogs, papers,interviews,lectures/talks) to make sure that the whole picture and understanding is brought forth in his presentations. 

How dare we allow this to continue happening...news and television has been reduced to worthless chatter degrading who ever is in opposition to the media outlet owners. The Internet still partly has its freedoms thank god...or the propaganda machines would be to much to bare...bloggers are the devil though watch out...we aren&#039;t completely owned (yet). Free yourselves and quit supporting this horse crap we call television</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What makes me angry is the demeaning fashion of Brooks about Chomsky. I mean on one side you have this crazy right winger who is taking advantage of his 20 minutes on Television by spouting off random absurdities without eloquently providing hardly any information behind them. </p>
<p>While someone such as Chomsky who has already told the world of this technique spends so much time and a lot more effort, with his many pages of work (books, blogs, papers,interviews,lectures/talks) to make sure that the whole picture and understanding is brought forth in his presentations. </p>
<p>How dare we allow this to continue happening&#8230;news and television has been reduced to worthless chatter degrading who ever is in opposition to the media outlet owners. The Internet still partly has its freedoms thank god&#8230;or the propaganda machines would be to much to bare&#8230;bloggers are the devil though watch out&#8230;we aren&#8217;t completely owned (yet). Free yourselves and quit supporting this horse crap we call television<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066797', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: upright left</title>
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		<dc:creator>upright left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doesnâ€™t he listen to right wing talk radio???? Talk about childish rants.

Comment by starwheel â€” September 9, 2007 @ 9:38 am

Childish, maybe, but they don&#039;t share osama&#039;s view of America.  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesnâ€™t he listen to right wing talk radio???? Talk about childish rants.</p>
<p>Comment by starwheel â€” September 9, 2007 @ 9:38 am</p>
<p>Childish, maybe, but they don&#8217;t share osama&#8217;s view of America.  ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066790', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: upright left</title>
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		<dc:creator>upright left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Faux noise is Osama best agent. Theyâ€™d have him on for an interview if they could. Goebbels would be proud of them.

Comment by Bruno Hauptmann â€” September 9, 2007 @ 8:56 am

And that would really be a problem for those progs trying to deny that osama shares their views about the U.S. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Faux noise is Osama best agent. Theyâ€™d have him on for an interview if they could. Goebbels would be proud of them.</p>
<p>Comment by Bruno Hauptmann â€” September 9, 2007 @ 8:56 am</p>
<p>And that would really be a problem for those progs trying to deny that osama shares their views about the U.S. ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066788', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: upright left</title>
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		<dc:creator>upright left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why would Osama want to help Liberals upright left, 
Comment by michaelIsRetarded â€” September 9, 2007 @ 2:49 am

You&#039;re really beginning to earn your name, retard.  He wants to help you because he&#039;s one of you.  That&#039;s the whole point here, bud.  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why would Osama want to help Liberals upright left,<br />
Comment by michaelIsRetarded â€” September 9, 2007 @ 2:49 am</p>
<p>You&#8217;re really beginning to earn your name, retard.  He wants to help you because he&#8217;s one of you.  That&#8217;s the whole point here, bud.  ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066786', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: procrastipundit</title>
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		<dc:creator>procrastipundit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; sound like a &quot;lefty,&quot; but that doesn&#039;t mean that &quot;lefties&quot; have to take his side.  Hitler was an ardent anti-Communist, but that doesn&#039;t mean that Truman&#039;s and Reagan&#039;s anti-Communist beliefs were wrong.  The man clearly sees that many people are angry with Bush and thinks he can get them to his side by talking like them.  Already people who supported attacking Afghanistan are calling that war a waste and gleefully pointing at every poppy that blossoms in the fields of that recovering failed state.  No wonder bin Laden uses their talking points.  All you have to do now is to show him that he&#039;s wrong at that you&#039;re civilized first, American second, and Bush-hating somewhere down the line.  That you have as much in common with bin Laden as your grandparents did with Hitler, which is to say, &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; nothing.  I hope.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He <em>does</em> sound like a &#8220;lefty,&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t mean that &#8220;lefties&#8221; have to take his side.  Hitler was an ardent anti-Communist, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that Truman&#8217;s and Reagan&#8217;s anti-Communist beliefs were wrong.  The man clearly sees that many people are angry with Bush and thinks he can get them to his side by talking like them.  Already people who supported attacking Afghanistan are calling that war a waste and gleefully pointing at every poppy that blossoms in the fields of that recovering failed state.  No wonder bin Laden uses their talking points.  All you have to do now is to show him that he&#8217;s wrong at that you&#8217;re civilized first, American second, and Bush-hating somewhere down the line.  That you have as much in common with bin Laden as your grandparents did with Hitler, which is to say, <em>almost</em> nothing.  I hope.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066744', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Gryphen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gryphen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I certainly hope is quoting form &quot;lefty blogs&quot;.  

I have not been sending him my updates for three years for nothing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I certainly hope is quoting form &#8220;lefty blogs&#8221;.  </p>
<p>I have not been sending him my updates for three years for nothing.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066671', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Neeko</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neeko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll say it again. Bin Laden wants Republicans to &quot;lead&quot; because they do such a bad job of trying to kill him.

If Gore had taken his rightful place as President, Osama would have been killed years ago.

So neocons equal Jesus to you robots eh? How about you fast until your version of reality becomes true? You and the Islamic fundamentalists have so much in common.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll say it again. Bin Laden wants Republicans to &#8220;lead&#8221; because they do such a bad job of trying to kill him.</p>
<p>If Gore had taken his rightful place as President, Osama would have been killed years ago.</p>
<p>So neocons equal Jesus to you robots eh? How about you fast until your version of reality becomes true? You and the Islamic fundamentalists have so much in common.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066642', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Juliette</title>
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		<dc:creator>Juliette</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where does David Brooks find the time to do political commentary when he allegedly spends so much of his time with his panties around his ankles in the public toilets at Herald Square?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where does David Brooks find the time to do political commentary when he allegedly spends so much of his time with his panties around his ankles in the public toilets at Herald Square?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066625', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Horatio</title>
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		<dc:creator>Horatio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Osama Bin Laden was employed by the CIA, like Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega and a host of others who have become and will in the future become a &quot;terrorist&quot; when it&#039;s convenient for them to become a &quot;terrorist&quot; in the eyes of the US Government; and there is no reason to doubt Osama is still employed by the CIA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Osama Bin Laden was employed by the CIA, like Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega and a host of others who have become and will in the future become a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; when it&#8217;s convenient for them to become a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; in the eyes of the US Government; and there is no reason to doubt Osama is still employed by the CIA.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4066622', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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