While US President Barack Hussein Obama was delivering a speech to the world’s Muslims from Cairo, a tape from Osama bin Laden was circulating through the media and on the internet.
A man’s voice, reputedly that of Osama bin Laden, intoned the following:
“Obama and his administration put new seeds of hatred and revenge against America. The number of these seeds is the same as the number of those victims and refugees in Swat and the tribal areas in northern and southern Waziristan. This way, Obama proved that he’s is walking the same road of his predecessors to build enmity against Muslims”
Another audio tape. Uh-huh, right. How about a video of the guy, al-Qaeda?
Is that a problem? I think it probably is. < Our Osama bin Waldo article.
Obama’s speech, on the other hand, was delivered in person. Though worldwide reactions to the President’s speech did vary, the average response to it has been positive.
Here’s the US President’s speech (55 min, 45 sec.):
Has anyone else slipped and accidentally referred to Obama as “Osama” — or vice versa?
Mea culpa. Sorry Barry.
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C’mon, Matt…
Drudge Report seems to be in some sort of feeding frenzy at the moment. Maybe they’re trying to drive more traffic in order to sell more ads. Matt…?
Just check the following page leader from earlier today:
Source: www.drudgereport.com
What can I say? Well, right off the bat, it’s definitely inflammatory. And, what’s more, it’s needlessly inflammatory and not at all representative of the text contained in the linked story. When did Matthew Drudge turn into J. Jonah Jameson? (The Drudge Report website just dropped two notches in my book.)
The Drudge-linked Washington Post story goes on to say that President Obama endorses the right of the Iranian people to energy security, including the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Isn’t that what we’ve been telling Iran for years through the IAEA? Is it not already the official position of both the US government and the United Nations Security Council?
This is almost a ‘non-story’ — and yet Drudge goes BOLD RED CAPS with what, to many readers, might sound like Obama endorsing covert Iranian nuclear weapons development. Outright fear-mongering.
So, congratulations, Matt, for getting it so wrong — and for looking so cravenly propagandistic while doing it!
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