Bin Laden Dead?

Matos tipped me off to this, from Jason King:

The craziest moment of a crazy night comes from Nicki Minaj. RT @harryallen: RT @NlCKIMllNAJ: Obama found Bin Laden! Now what would be challenging is Finding a @LilKim song on the radio. #MissionImpossible

she's right you know

daaaaamn nicki

xp yeah this is pretty much gonna bring out the worst of the internet, I've already started purging fb friends over this, people are already posting shit like "guess what america? the world is going to be the same tomorrow as it was today" and "well we spent billions of dollars, but we got the guy with the funny name. congrats america"

I keep seeing people snickering about Fox News' spelling of "Usama". They've been spelling it that way for years, though. I don't know why.

probably to keep their fat-fingered interns from typing "Obama" by mistake

tbh I remember it spelled "Usama" when I first heard the name in the Clinton years.

Usama (D)

lol

USA is a MONSTA

the preference for "usama" over "osama" seems to be a pretty consistently right-wing thing--i remember seeing it a lot in reference to the meme that ollie north had warned clinton about bin laden (& therefore 9/11 is clinton's fault)

so this is proof that if you build a house with massive security walls, gates, and no phone/internet access anywhere in the world, it will eventually raise suspicion.

Usama (D)

*dying*

you'd have to think it has something to do with our current president's last name

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/obl050211/s_b13_RTR2LVRD.jpg

No, they were spelling it that way on 9/11/01

any reaction from Reagan yet?

wikipedia sez "Most American government agencies, including the FBI and CIA, use either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin" [...] The spelling with "o" and "e" [in bin Laden] comes from a Persian-influenced pronunciation used in Afghanistan where he lived for a long time."

xxp i don't remember that, I thought until recently it always had an "O"

LOL at the idea it was spelled that way to avoid confusion. "Oh, Usama? I thought you said Osama! My bad. We let Usama go."

ummmm the media has a history of doing things like that

"one man was holding up a t-shirt that said, Thank You President Bush."

Misread this as Osama:
"One man was holed up in a t-shir that said, Thank You President Bush."

also proof that no one, given the resources, wants to spend 10 years living in caves

ya, even hardcore terrorists love suburban sprawl

ESPECIALLY hardcore terrorists amirite?

There was fringey but perceptible speculation on "Was That Hitler's Body?" well into the '70s, so this is more than made to order for plenty o' that.

They hate us for our suburbs.

These frigging people.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aQ-haRKUDZ8/Tb4sCOZ6ZnI/AAAAAAAAHjo/-uQkHFbMRXg/s400/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-05-01%2Bat%2B10.58.40%2BPM.png

Would make sense if they'd hate you for

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SvsaNpaytxU/TFd37a9DKlI/AAAAAAAAI2Y/qtP_uB-aEuk/s1600/Arcade-Fire-The-Suburbs.png

xp

tbh the he was 'living in a dope secret mansion' aspect made me happier about this than I'd otherwise be...if we just threw a grenade in his cave or whatever it would be more 'eh whatever'

Let's see, here are all former Pres. Bush's notable interactions vis a vis Osama bin Laden:

1. Failed to react to intelligence advisory regarding his wish to attack the US.
2. Failed to capture him in Afghanistan when it was remotely possible to do so.

THANKS, DUBYA!

yeah that whole thing is kind of sickening

Obama even credited Bush, and secondly why does it really matter which president ultimately "took him out"

it matters if the black Democrat did it

he was 'living in a dope secret mansion'

foresee the Michael Mann film

If Bush had taken out Osama, than Obama never would have caught him. So Bush gets the bizarro-world assist.

If Bush had taken out Osama, it would have been sometime in the 80s and it would have been to a steakhouse

haha

"do u liek baseball"

At least from now on the absurd right wing "Obama is soft on terror" meme can now be met with this news.

and it wouldn't have been quite so teal and orange xp

lol, terror is like the one thing Obama is unambiguously firm on

Well.

The President’s Speech
May 2, 2011 9:16 A.M.
By Mark Steyn

I know, I know, if you can’t blog anything real nice it’s better not to blog at all, that’s my advice. Nevertheless:

Personally, I would have liked bin Laden’s death to have been announced by whatever lowest-level official was manning the night desk at the Department of Nondescript Bureaucrats, preferably reading it off the back of an envelope. But, if you’re going to put the head of state on TV to announce it himself, it would have been better to have been all brisk and businesslike – “At 0800 hours American military assets entered an address at 27b Jihadist Gardens, etc” – and finish off with a bit of Churchillian sober uplift about it not being the end or the beginning of the end but maybe the end of the beginning.

Instead, as Stephen Hunter, the novelist and Washington Post film critic, writes:

Any joy one might feel in the intelligence of our analysts and the bravery of our door kickers was significantly diminished by Obama’s malignant narcissism. The first part of the announcement, evoking 9/11, was vulgarly overwritten as per Obama’s view of himself as some kind of gifted orator. The adjective bloated compote was unworthy of the subject, banal and self-indulgent.

I was, I confess, a little stunned by the first part of the President’s speech. It was, as Mr Hunter says, overwritten. It managed to be both overwrought and generic – all that telepromptered overload about cloudless Tuesday mornings was not only tackily over-prettified but came over as unfelt and hand-me-down, like a course exercise in some third-rate creative-writing school’s Soaring Oratory class. Or, at any rate, as if they’d loaded up a first draft of September’s tenth anniversary speech into the machine. The official announcement was delayed for all this? If ever there was a moment for the commander-in-chief to be real, plainspoken and off his glassy-eyed follow-the-bouncing-ball routine, this was it. It’s as if nobody around him knows how to write except in the one tinny key.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to rally round the flag, and rally round the President, but rally round this speech? No thanks.

I almost called the local Cuban right wing station to correct a geriatric who said this happened "in spite of" Obama's "elimination" of the military. I was going to remind her about Afghanistan and drone rockets but I think she died while talking to the talk show host, so I shut up.

TELEPROMPTURD

heres the powerline blog steyn quotes:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/05/028948.php

with the very, uh, telling last line:

That said, God bless the commandos! Man, I would have like to have been on that entry team!

How does Obama know the area Osama was hiding in so well? Makes you think.

I would have like to have been on that entry team!

is that gay slash fic?

it is now

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten

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i keep replying "Bin Laden IS dead" to this thread title, Linguo style