Althouse: The Osama bin Laden boring home movie.

May 7, 2011

The Osama bin Laden boring home movie.

1. We see Osama talking, 2. We see a TV which, some of the time, has Osama talking, and 3. The camera backs up and we see Osama watching TV, that is watching himself on TV.

36 comments:

Fred4Pres said...: Was he watching himself watching himself on TV?

Because then he would be like the Land O Lakes girl.; 5/7/11, 2:25 PM
coketown said...: You think Obama doesn't do the same thing? He probably adds in another camera for good measure. Obama watching Obama watching Obama.; 5/7/11, 2:26 PM
J said...: Osama watches himself on TV; Obama writes books about himself.

Two egomaniacs.; 5/7/11, 2:27 PM
Fred4Pres said...: This is for Titus.; 5/7/11, 2:27 PM
Blue@9 said...: Worst reality show ever. A little Charlie Sheen would have livened up the episodes considerably.; 5/7/11, 2:28 PM
edutcher said...: Just proves he was just another guy.

Hey, even Hitler wasn't all bad, he liked dogs and big blondes.; 5/7/11, 2:30 PM
Rialby said...: How meta; 5/7/11, 2:50 PM
MayBee said...: His house doesn't look so very mansiony after all.; 5/7/11, 2:54 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: Poor bastard was an obvious victim of the Digital Divide plus I heard cable TV service was not available in that town. What an outrage- I demand a congressional investigation of the Cabletown Company.; 5/7/11, 2:55 PM
traditionalguy said...: Wow! Obsama lived in terror of the USA while the USA lived in security over the last 6 years. I blame Bush.; 5/7/11, 3:03 PM
Unknown said...: You need an "Obama is like Osama" tag.; 5/7/11, 3:06 PM
Unknown said...: I wonder if they have a video of his reaction to "2 Girls - One Cup"?; 5/7/11, 3:07 PM
Anonymous said...: When will the Press focus on the lives of Muslim women and children in Bin Ladin's (may he rot in hell) compound? Why cannot we use this right action to do what is right about empowering people in the Muslim world?; 5/7/11, 3:37 PM
Fred4Pres said...: Osama deserved to die for making such boring home movies.; 5/7/11, 4:00 PM
Ipso Fatso said...: I wonder if he had a teleprompter?; 5/7/11, 4:27 PM
edutcher said...: In the end, his final abode was only a little better than Der Fuhrer's.

You really can't hide, can you?

Joan said...

I wonder if they have a video of his reaction to "2 Girls - One Cup"?

Most guys prefer 1 Girl - 2 Cups, preferably DD or better.; 5/7/11, 4:41 PM
Carol_Herman said...: DOG BITE! Don't let the story just slip through your fingers!

Osama was afraid to leave home!

And, one of the dogs that came in with the Navy Seals BIT wife #5 in the calf. If you think about it ... that position is not low ... for a lunging dog. If a Navy Seal person had let out a shot ... the lower portion of wife #5's leg would have been blown off!

You bet the dogs scared the living crap out of Osama. And, everyone else in that house! Who didn't expect it! So, they got surprised!

As to the Pakistani military being close by ... so, too, was an ATM machine. How else did Obama pay his bills? If not in cash, then what?

Gosh, the Pakistani's sure thought they had the USA flummoxed.

Who was watching Jarrett ... so she couldn't call over to her friends and tell them what's up?

Oh, yeah. Maybe, someday we will get a poem to the greatest SNAFU, so far, this side of this century!

The "I-Man" went on TV to take credit. And, he caught it worse than a dog bite to his arse.

Gee, I'm so glad he wanted the camera IN the Situation Room! He could very well be even more incompetent than Jimmy Carter.

But our military ACED IT!; 5/7/11, 4:41 PM
Terrye said...: I have to admit, I am kind of getting tired of Osama myself.; 5/7/11, 5:17 PM
Carol_Herman said...: Gee, I wonder if the Bin Laden family, so full of Saud's, will be celebrating 9/11 in quite the same way, again?

I wonder how this news shows up on Q-Daffy's radar screen?

Maybe, we can just use decoys of dogs barking, just to see who comes running out of buildings?

Reminds me of a scene where the mafia was meeting up in the Catskills. When the Feds showed up. And, suddenly, the goons started to depart the building through windows.

[Nixon thought he got credit for putting a man on the moon.]; 5/7/11, 5:19 PM
Anonymous said...: He'll never know who won Season 10 American Idol...; 5/7/11, 5:31 PM
William said...: The worm of Ourbouros. This is like a video of a porn star masturbating to a video of that same star masturbating.....He looks old and neglected and forlorn of past glory. The intelligence people say that he still had an active role in AQ activities. I'd take that with a grain of salt. Hitler in his bunker launched phantom armies against the Russian invaders. All the planned attacks may have been nothing but Bin Laden's pathetic fantasies. But, for God's sake, don't take my word for it.; 5/7/11, 5:54 PM
Chip S. said...: Sitting around the house watching old videos from when you were younger and the world worried about you? Derek Jeter will be doing this well before his contract expires.

He'd better worry about the Steinbrenner boys sending in a hit squad to get out from under that contract.; 5/7/11, 6:05 PM
Anonymous said...: There was a replica of the compound in Afghanistan, see http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-secret-life-of-alqaidas-leader-2280971.html. I am still waiting to hear about the life in the compound from his wife and daughter. Why cannot the Press do a better job?; 5/7/11, 6:22 PM
Methadras said...: One was an international terrorist and the other associates with domestic ones while committing atrocities on our economy via his Muslim sympathized Marxist philosophies. America, what a great country!!!; 5/7/11, 7:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Our press is weak and irrelevant. Look at Al Jazeera, you can watch it live, http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/.

I mean I cannot get CNN live or anything. How disgusting? I want to get all news about bin ladin now, so that I can learn more about this pig lived. Only on Al Jazeera I can find. What is the US press doing? Sleeping.; 5/7/11, 7:16 PM
Anonymous said...: I saw that still photo of Osama watching Osama on TV and thought: 'I bet it stinks in there.'; 5/7/11, 7:34 PM
KitaIkki said...: Osama bin Biden 2012; 5/7/11, 7:50 PM
Peter V. Bella said...: Wow!!!!!!! Obama killed Osama and all we get is a home video. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the story keeps changing.; 5/7/11, 7:54 PM
Al said...: All those years "The Pacer" was holed up in a sweltering, poorly-decorated virtual prison (no cable?!), GW Bush was eating fine steaks in well-appointed surroundings, probably even had a phone.

Some called that a win for OBL.; 5/7/11, 8:15 PM
Fred4Pres said...: Osama did not get 72 virgins, but he did get 72 versions of his last few minutes!; 5/7/11, 8:23 PM
The Dude said...: America's Politiho - why the anti-muzzie vitriol? Those are your people. Democrats love jihadis. Some of them are jihadis. Your messages are the same - global warming, socialism, blah blah blah.

If you are really going to rant about how muzzies treat women, why not get some of your "girlfriends" to start protesting - heck, none of you have any jobs, some of you can write up some signs (don't you do that - they need to be in English) and get out there and protest. Nothing could go wrong.

Or am I responding to a parody or a Moby or some other troll? Seriously, you are all over the map. Pick a persona and stick with it.; 5/7/11, 8:47 PM
JAL said...: I spent a few days in Harlem a few years back with a group of what might be called radicals -- typical anti-war Catholic priest who was in fact quite un priestlike, a serious South American intellectual student with black hair and glasses who was sure. Just so SURE. that communism would fix everything. (I told him he would be one of the first shot.)

And an assortment of 60s radicals (it was the late 60s) who were into demonstrations of all varieties (post recent Stonewall riots, perpetual anti-war stuff ... usual 60s). They were downtown demonstrating against something, mixing it up with the cops, and ran back home to watch themselves on the 6 o'clock news.

Pathetic then. Pathetic now.; 5/7/11, 8:56 PM
Carol_Herman said...: In the "home video" everyone can see that Obama has a TV! They can see that he has a White beard, too.

So, when he made his videos he dyed his facial hairs. The turban let him get away with the grey, underneath.

Given that the Navy Seals came in one-two-three. And, had dogs with them. Obama had to feel "panic."

At the end his abode was on par with the fuselage of the aircraft that was hijacked.

He threw Wife #5 in front of the Seals he saw. And, yes. He had a Kalashnikov. Which is probably now a collector's item owned by a general in the Pakistani army. (A keepsake.)

The DOG BIT the wife! Because one bullet from any of the Navy Seals would surely have meant the lady lost her leg.

And, it was a KILL SQUAD, because they weren't going to stop and call in a medic.

A dog bite leaves you plenty of time to get to the hospital.

Not that you're going to get anything honest out of the media.

The beauty of this thing will remain for Leon Panetta. He figured out a way to see that the Navy Seals were not waylaid in any way by Obama's dithering.

You mean you think everything inside the democrapic "house" is in order? REALLY?

I think they're in worse shape than the occupants of the "villa" in Abbottabad. Because the Pakistani's were very happy hosts.

What's the democrapic party got?

Didn't the bamster just ruin a perfectly good story?

Oh, in Libya, the russians are protecting Q-Daffy. So he's not going to be easily removed.

The same is true in Syria.

If the bamster just didn't fumble this football ... we'd have scared Assad and Q-Daffy somewhat more.; 5/7/11, 10:00 PM
Carol_Herman said...: Saying "Obama" when I meant "Osama" can be confusing to others. But what's the big deal.

Without Obama, Osama wouldn't have 72 versions.; 5/7/11, 10:01 PM
sykes.1 said...: Wasn't Osama supposed to be left handed?; 5/8/11, 5:50 AM
Erik Robert Nelson said...: "Wow! Obsama lived in terror of the USA while the USA lived in security over the last 6 years. I blame Bush."

This. If Osama had been holed up there for as long as is claimed, then I can only conclude that our Mideast policy was at least somewhat effective. And since that policy was put in place by Bush and continued (unwillingly, I think) by Obama, then we know where to put at least some of the credit.; 5/8/11, 6:01 AM