Bin Laden Goes Green, Limbaugh Still An Idiot

Despite the whole of his spiel or whatever the purpose, regardless of anything else he might have had to say, Osama bin Laden's latest audio installment was really pretty much spot on in many respects at the start.

In it he talks about the dangers of global climate change, and how the preponderance of responsibility for the mess lies squarely at the feet of the United States and the Western industrialized nations.

Al-Quaeda à la Al-Gore, you might say. But the similarities between the two of them shouldn't in fact surprise anyone, actually, seeing how that bin Laden is so much a Democrat at heart.

Leave it to Rush Limbaugh to point out this inconvenient truth, check, check, checking off bin Laden's parroting so many of the Democratic party's talking points.

To bin Laden criticizing George W. Bush for rejecting the Kyoto Protocol for benefiting giant corporations, Limbaugh asks, "Does this not sound like an average Democrat? Okay, blame the U.S. and greedy, evil corporations? Check. This is right off the Democrat Party playbook."

Of course, bin Laden is right on those points. The Kyoto Protocol was signed off on by 141 nations, including all European and all other developed industrial countries, excepting the U.S. and Australia, despite GWB's campaign promises in 2000 to regulate CO₂; instead he pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto accords as one of his first acts as president, describing it as an "ever-tightening straitjacket".

In the new tape, bin Laden also brings up Noam Chomsky, saying that he was correct comparing the U.S. policies to those of the Mafia. Apparently, another Democrat notion that we think of America as some sort of global capo crimini, according to Limbaugh: "Okay, cites Noam Chomsky? Check."

In that same gist, bin Laden goes on calling America "the true terrorists" and leaves a nice segue for Limbaugh's calling out yet another, "Check. It's right off the Democrat party's talking points."

Not that Noam Chomsky doesn't raise some good points (I think so anyway), but I would hardly count him a mouthpiece for either party, opposing as he does U.S. foreign policy altogether. In fact, Chomsky supposes that Obama has carried on the Bush status quo, with just a different rhetorical style.

What I thought to be the most goofus were these final two bits. Referring to bin Laden's previous tape, warning that there would be further attacks on the U.S. unless Barack Obama took steps to resolve the Palestinian conflict, comes another Rush gush:

"Oh, Palestinian conflict? Yes. Forget that. That's passe because Obama said, 'I can't fix it; that's too hard.' So, now climate change is where it's at? Check."

I am quite open about being no fan of Israel anyhow, but whatever any president, past, present or future, might try to do fixing up that mess is a waste of time and, in my opinion, misguided. Still, though, I don't recall Obama ever having whined about it being too hard to deal with.

In fact, just for the record, kind of funny Limbaugh getting all snarky about Obama and the Middle East, considering that it was George W. Bush who received the greatest criticism of all the presidents over the past four decades, in dealing with that washout over there.

Finally, Limbaugh ends up with this absurdity, the pièce de résistance, to use his phraseology, just so plainly wrong in so many ways it boggles the mind:

"Now, the Obama administration dismissed bin Laden's comments on the earlier tape and said intelligence analysts had not confirmed that the voice was that of bin Laden. Wait a minute, now. This can't be. This is the pièce de résistance! Is Obama actually now starting to throw doubts on whether bin Laden is alive? The Obama analysts had not confirmed the voice was that of bin Laden. What's that? What's that? Bin Laden may be dead? Is that going to be the lame excuse now for not finding him after more than a year?"

Because never over eight years did we ever hear about Bush's intelligence analysts going to the trouble confirming a bin Laden tape to be legit. That would have just been a stupid thing to do.

No, wait... now that I think about it, it seems that maybe even Bush and his gang of dunderheads weren't quite so deficient as to make comments about the tapes back then, until everything checked out.

That lastest part there, though, about Obama possibly using the "lame excuse" that perhaps Osama is really dead after all, in order to explain away why for we haven't found him yet after "more than a year"... I don't even have the words to go there.