New O’Reilly Book: Osama Bin Laden Supports American Progressives

[meegbear]

ThinkProgress has obtained an advance copy of Bill O’Reilly’s new book, Culture Warrior. In it, O’Reilly claims that Osama bin Laden supports American progressives. Some excerpts from Chapter 7:

Who do you think Osama Bin Laden supports in the American culture war: the traditionalists or the secular-progressives?

…(T)hink about what I am about to put forth: From his hideout somewhere in the Mulism world, Osama bin Laden and his coheorts have got to be cheering on the S-P movement…

Why does Osama bin Laden support progressives in America? O’Reilly explains that they both hate America:

…(I)t is rooted in the one thing that the secular-progressive movement and Al Qaeda have in common: Both outfits believe that the United States of America is fundamentally a bad place.

…The bedrock belief that America is, and has been, an evil country is crucial to understanding the secular-progressive point of view when it comes to the war on terror.

O’Reilly, ends the chapter with the logical conclusion: join him in the fight against progressives or die:

All clear-thinking Americans should become opponents of the S-P movement for the simple reason of self-preservation.

Meanwhile, according to O’Reilly, bin Laden is out to get him. In an interview with Barbara Walters, O’Reilly claims that the FBI informed him he was put on an al Qaeda “death list.” The claim was disputed by an FBI officer.


http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/22/oreilly-book/

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. It doesn't take a genius

to figure out that OBL would support the party of opposition.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. It never ceases to astound me how low these people will go to

sell a book.

[fasttense]

3. Well the bushes have just been so successful at catching terrorists

they still haven't caught bin Laden. They have stopped even looking for him. They have failed to prosecute all but the most petty terrorists.

You know, I wonder if neocons like O"Lielly really are supporting bin Laden. They have implemented all bin Laden's demands and are turning our country into a living hell. Now, what were those freedoms the terrorists were so jealous about?

[9119495]

4. Well I guess if the unwarranted slaughter of innocent Muslims

is something that I agree with bin Laden on...okay, I guess we agree on that thing.

But I don't think we have much else in common.

Hey bill, do you suppose bin Laden would side with you or with us on the following issues?

Gay Marriage?

Separation of Church and State?

Abortion Rights?

Freedom of Expression?

Free, compulsory, secular schools?

Shall I go on?

[KansDem]

5. If Osama supports "progressives," then why did he turn to the neo-cons

...to have American bases closed in Saudi Arabia?

US pulls out of Saudi Arabia

It is one of the main reasons given by the Saudi-born dissident - blamed by Washington for the 11 September attacks - to justify violence against the United States and its allies.

But news of the US pull-out does not mean the campaign is over for Bin Laden and his followers, according to the BBC's Arab affairs analyst Magdi Abdelhadi.

Their agenda now goes beyond the boundaries of one country, he says. Their goal is to liberate all Muslim societies from foreign troops and what they see as ungodly secular rulers.

The al-Qaeda leader was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991 because of his anti-government activities.

--more--
BBC

Maybe Bill could explain why?

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. These republican guys are so afraid that somebody is going to

raise their taxes & take their money that they equate it with terrorism.

[flpoljunkie]

7. Right! That's why OBL put out a video right before the '04 election.

Concensus was, and is, that this killed Kerry's momentum--Kerry was ahead and gaining up until the timely release of the Osama bin Laden video.

Osama bin Laden needs Bush and his neocon crazies--who have fallen into his trap, and they refuse to extricate themselves--and us!

[Disturbed]

8. O'Liely is full of shit.

Radical Muslims have more in common with RW Fundies and Radical Mormons than with any other groups in the US. No alcohol, gambling, smoking, makeup, no separation of Church and State, plural wives. (FDLS Mormons).

[sarahlee]

9. A better book

In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, Jeff Cohen takes you inside TV news and the conservative biases, timidity and tabloidism that dominate it. Few media critics have been afforded an intimate, on-the-job view of the outlets they condemn, but Cohen -- who founded the media watch group FAIR -- spent years at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. He was a senior producer at MSNBC’s Donahue during the run-up to the Iraq war, and witnessed war-enabling bias and censorship firsthand. He tells all in a biting, humorous paperback taking aim at the entire rightwing hot-air brigade that Cohen saw up close: O'Reilly, Hannity, Buchanan, Novak, Falwell, etc. (Ann Coulter wouldn’t debate him.) The book includes a foreword by Jim Hightower.

MOLLY IVINS says: "Jeff Cohen's dissection of cable TV news is both irresistibly funny and civically painful. It goes from uproarious anecdotes to those that make you wince."

IF YOU LIKED "OUTFOXED," YOU'LL LOVE CABLE NEWS CONFIDENTIAL.

The book has won praise from Robert Greenwald, Tim Robbins, Studs Terkel, Bob McChesney and others.

BARBARA EHRENREICH: "A deliciously funny expose."
HOWARD ZINN: “Future historians will have this book as a primary text."
AMY GOODMAN: "Read this book and fight for change."

Website:
http://cablenewsconfidential.com/


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[TheFarseer]

10. Did you guys get your Osama check yet this week?

Mine usually comes on Friday, but I haven't seen it yet. Oh, wait, I haven't checked my mail yet. It's probably there :eyes: