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Pentagon Releases Bin Laden Home Videos: He Watches Himself On TV, Flubs His Lines

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The federal government is starting to slowly release items from what is now history’s single largest intelligence treasure trove, Osama bin Laden‘s Pakistani compound, today making public home videos of the al-Qaeda mass murderer’s daily life. Among them, the first to make it on air is that of a frail-looking bin Laden watching himself on television.

Much of the information released today on bin Laden has highlighted his publicity skills, with US intelligence reports stating that he “jealously guarded his image,” and that he went out of his way to dye his beard and appear youthful in his al-Qaeda terror messages. The two videos the Department of Defense released today, according to ABC News, are a message intended to be make public and possibly made in October or November 2010 and a video showing bin Laden– appearing much older and sicker than in the first video– watching himself on television. At one point in the video, bin Laden is said to request of the cameraman to zoom in on the TV screen, where a much younger-looking bin Laden is holding a weapon.

There is also what Fox News described as a sort of “blooper reel” attached to the first video, where bin Laden stumbles over his lines and has to do various takes to get it right. Fox News opted to show video stills of the footage rather than the videos, although the Department of Defense released the videos without sound, citing a moral obligation not to air terrorist propaganda materials.

The first reports on the new bin Laden video materials via CNN below:



Fox News’ coverage without video:

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  • The Lantern of Truth

    Blooper reel !

    Achmed . Call Dick Clark .

  • Barack Must Go

    Pentagon Releases Barack Obama Home Videos: He Watches Himself On TV, Flubs His Lines.

    There is also what Fox News described as a sort of “blooper reel” attached to the first video, where Obama stumbles over his lines and has to do various takes to get it right. Fox News opted to show video stills of the footage rather than the videos, although the Department of Defense released the videos without sound, citing a moral obligation not to air socialist propaganda materials.

    Much of the information released today on Obama has highlighted his publicity skills, with US intelligence reports stating that he “jealously guarded his image,” and that he went out of his way to dye his hair to appear youthful in his regimes propaganda messages.

  • writer

    I liked the one where the kid hits the baseball straight into his nads.

  • andrewpifko

    Of course – family guy was ahead of the curve on the tape release:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqGyXq_qqUU

  • The Lantern of Truth

    What a slob .

  • Skippy

    The funniest part is when the terror mastermind yells at his crew:

    F- IT! F-IT! WE’LL DO IT LIVE!

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    agoraphobia?

    no wonder Zawahiri snitched him out to the CIA…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    AFV…

    Tom Bergeron, how about a little comical narration…

  • Cecelia

    Whoever said that thing about the banality was evil was right on the money…

  • possibly

    Fox news is a complete joke.

    They insist on showing their audiences pictures of a silent “dead” Osama but don’t believe their ignorant audience can handle silent videos of an “alive” Osama.

    Is it possible that they don’t want to offend their new “deather” audience? Or, do they simply believe their stupid viewers will read Osama’s lips and get their country farm-fed children to interpret his 20 seconds of commands.

    Fox is news for stupid people.

  • Paul G
  • The Lantern of Truth

    Abbottabad looks like it could use a Furniture Mart .

  • writer

    A missed opportunity for Grecian Formula.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Also maybe a Best Buy and a good haberdashery .

  • writer

    Shows how out of it he was. That plain backdrop could’ve contained product placements.

  • Cecelia

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Also maybe a Best Buy and a good haberdashery .

    And enough Clorox to pollute the entire Arabian Sea.

  • writer

    Or when the Seals were at the door, he says, “Hey, the pizza guy!” And his wife says, “No, it’s DiGiorno!”

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Hey Pop ! My boyfriend asked me to marry him !

    Great , child . What’s his name ?

    Osama bin Laden .

  • jo hoochie

    I hear Joy Behar wants to invite his wife over for an interview on the View and show her how “Real Woman” live. She can make millions for a book deal and live like a queen here in the good ole U.S.A. After all, the liberals feel the Al Qaeda needs to see the good softer side of America. Let the Muslims know “We Care”

  • Cecelia

    That could have a whole new Capital One campaign.

    Instead of Huns, and Vikings, we could have seen AQ and the Taliban using their credit cards to buy new clubs for beating women not wearing a Burka.

  • writer

    Or Cialis. Bin Laden’s sitting in his bathtub, but the wife is floating in hers. He didn’t like her saying he needed it.

  • Cecelia

    I suppose Expedia or Delta would be out of the question.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Sometimes , the time is right . Like when the Lantern was looking at his girlfriend bending over the paint can . So gorgeous , so attractive . Sometimes you just go with the feeling of the moment .

    Of course , we’re now banned from that Home Depot forever .

    Rodney Dangerfield , 1991 .

  • writer

    Or his son comes in and says, “Dad, I’m thinking of joining the Navy.” Osama says, “Let’s talk about it.”

  • Nationman

    Pretty good idea, putting out these videos humiliates the memory of bin laden painting him as a regular insecure idiot rather than some significant martyr amongst radical islamists.

  • skyfet

    Now the Govt. is in the business of propaganda.

  • Nationman

    Personally I think geico should just show these videos of him watching himself and then say , “so easy bin laden could do it. “

  • writer

    Thank you, skyfet. I was about to go into joke overload.

  • Cecelia

    writer said:
    Osama says, “Let’s talk about it.”

    There’s silence…and then UBL says “Done” and tosses a grenade at the kid.

  • writer

    My wife. I think I’ll keep her. As a human shield.

  • Cecelia

    Or how about UBL yodeling RICOLA from the Afghan mountains?

  • writer

    Or a Seal bends over him and says “Can you hear me now?”

  • grafxmail7

    Mediaite said:
    Fox News opted to show video stills of the footage rather than the videos

    Fox “News” is trying anything possible to thwart the decline of self-esteem that it’s viewers are experiencing due to the fact that Obama got OBL.

  • writer

    Obama tells Bin Laden, “Let’s have a beer summit.” Bin Laden says “I don’t drink.” A Seal shoots Bin Laden in the head and holds up a Bud Lite.

  • Cecelia

    What about UBL cleaning up his Persian carpets with a Bissel carpet cleaner?

    See him frown as one wired with bomb terrorist accidentally sets it off and undoes his work.

  • writer

    Or at his sea burial, Bin Laden pops out of the bag and says “I can’t believe it’s Palmolive.” And Obama says “You’re soaking in it.”

  • Cecelia

    writer said:
    Or at his sea burial, Bin Laden pops out of the bag and says “I can’t believe it’s Palmolive.” And Obama says “You’re soaking in it.”

    Or the president saying, “some things are priceless [flash pic of UBL with bullet hole in eye], for everything else there’s Mastercard”…

  • writer

    Too….many….possibilities. Must….take….break.

  • Newsjunky

    That place is a dump both inside and out. How is it possibly worth $1 million??

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    grafxmail7 said:
    Fox “News” is trying anything possible to thwart the decline of self-esteem that it’s viewers are experiencing due to the fact that Obama got OBL.

    the video makes Osama look like an old recluse…

    maybe the compound was an old folks home for terrorists?

  • Fokker News

    “Fox News opted to show video stills of the footage rather than the videos”

    How touching. The producers at Fox News are always concerned about the sensibilities of its viewers. No Bid Laden videos and no stories (or almost none) that cast conservatives in a bad light.

  • Nacho

    There’s a picture of Donald Trump doing the same thing, somebody please release it.

  • Nacho

    Nacho said:
    There’s a picture of Donald Trump doing the same thing, somebody please release it.

    And play the first 40 seconds of audio from this FoxNews piece.

  • Gasket

    Newsjunky said:
    That place is a dump both inside and out. How is it possibly worth $1 million??

    They said that that was widely exaggerated. Seems like they are placing the value of the place at around 250 grand tops.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    yes nutroots… this is a FOX Lies! moment///////
    FOX is pure evil for not showing a video that is all over the place…

  • Gasket

    writer said:
    Too….many….possibilities. Must….take….break.

    You are my favorite righty on this site. You are actually a funny guy. No sarcasm from me.

  • WCinWI

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    I am loving watching the WH bungle this whole operation. Thank goodness our SEALS aren’t this stupid. Keep it up WH. Keep it up!

  • Dem4Ever

    Hair color for beards: $5.95
    Batteries for remote: $2.65
    A bullet in the brain: Priceless

  • Davo

    Looks like Bin Laden took notes watching Hussein engage in self-worship, then try to speak publicly without his teleprompters.

  • Girth Brick

    OBL rubbing one out to Sean Hannity – “Oh Sean, you are my kind of jihadist”

  • magnetrak

    So he’s doing a reality show in a mansion in Pakiston, on international TV, and we think he’s in a cave in the treacherous mountains…

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    osama is ALMOST as narcissistic and totally self-absorbed as is “You Lie!” hussein ! Maybe it’s a common radical islamic muslim trait for all those that hate America are are trying to destroy it.

  • Sam M.

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    osama is ALMOST as narcissistic and totally self-absorbed as is “You Lie!” hussein ! Maybe it’s a common radical islamic muslim trait for all those that hate America are are trying to destroy it.

    Why do you hate America and why are you trying to destroy it?

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Due for release Sunday :
    16 hours of Osama playing latest Pakistani video games with his wingman Abdullah .

    Even though Abdullah is the Pong champion of Islamabad , Ozzie still wins somehow .

  • Girth Brick

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    osama is ALMOST as narcissistic and totally self-absorbed as is “You Lie!” hussein ! Maybe it’s a common radical islamic muslim trait for all those that hate America are are trying to destroy it.

    During eight years of Bushy-boy he lied us into a $2 trillion war, racked up $1.3 trillion yearly deficits, ruined the banks, put TARP on us, a new Medicare Drug program, crapped on the Constitution with the PATRIOT Act – then in February 2009, one month into Obama the Teabags got boiled.

  • Azarkhan

    Mark Steyn on Danish TV: European elites drew wrong conclusion after WWII

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T463qFGsans&feature=related

    (some Danish in the first 1:30, then smooth sailing)

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Synchronisity, Azarkhan!

    Quoting Mark Steyn:
    “I think you’ve got a choice here – that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld view of the world after 9/11 more or less accorded with reality,” Steyn said. “The Obama-Biden-Harry Reid-Democratic Party showboating version of the world didn’t accord with reality. And I think this is the danger here, whether Obama is really just taking advantage from the sort of hangover of the Bush administration, or whether he understands what’s at stake here, and he would be actually willing to reverse his policy on this. I mean, the absurd thing, this joke of an attorney general the United States has at the moment, advancing the novel legal concept of national self-defense to justify this, because he’s obliged to twist himself into a pretzel, because of what he and his colleagues have said in the previous two years. I’m entirely consistent on this. I’m in favor of targeted assassination of American enemies, whether it’s done by Bush and Cheney, or Obama and Biden. I don’t have a problem with that. The Euro left are consistent. They oppose it, whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat doing it. The people who have the problem here are the American liberals who thought that Bush and Cheney were war criminals for what they did, but hail Obama’s targeted assassination as, you know, a sophisticated use of smart power.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/06/steyn-reacts-to-bin-laden-killing-this-is-strong-horseweak-horse-all-in-one/#ixzz1Li7cuN1v

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Azarkhan said:
    Mark Steyn on Danish TV: European elites drew wrong conclusion after WWII

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T463qFGsans&feature=related

    (some Danish in the first 1:30, then smooth sailing)

    Extraordinary video, Azarkhan, and an object lesson for the United States! Our leftist elites (as they think of themselves) are doing exactly the same thing here- just look at the controversy over the history courses in AZ. Why assimilate when you are being taught that the U.S (and other Western cultures) are the source of all evil? It IS long past time that we took back our culture and our country. Teach Western Civ again, teach the Constitution, be proud of this nation. Ronald Reagan was right, we are the last best hope. And, for those of you who want to continue to play the “America is evil” meme, please feel free to emigrate- no one is stopping you.

  • Azarkhan

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    Extraordinary video, Azarkhan

    I’ve only just started listening to Steyn. He’s great. I found him on youtube by way of Niall Ferguson. A series called Conversations with History.

  • WCinWI

    Azarkhan said:
    I’ve only just started listening to Steyn. He’s great. I found him on youtube by way of Niall Ferguson. A series called Conversations with History.

    He filled in for Rush this past week. Notice how they don’t link up to Steyn media on this site? Booooooooo. :)

  • “Real” American

    WCinWI said:
    He filled in for Rush this past week. Notice how they don’t link up to Steyn media on this site? Booooooooo. :)

    Yes, few people really consider delusion idiots worth covering. But y’all keep listening, don’t want Steyn to be lonely, and he is mental comfort food for simpletons.

  • Azarkhan

    Conversations with History: Mark Steyn

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K375rwCgTSs

  • WCinWI

    "Real" American said:
    Yes, few people really consider delusion idiots worth covering. But y’all keep listening, don’t want Steyn to be lonely, and he is mental comfort food for simpletons.

    Thanks for giving me permission to listen to what I want to listen to. That is so kind of you.

  • Pablo

    "Real" American said:
    Yes, few people really consider delusion idiots worth covering. But y’all keep listening, don’t want Steyn to be lonely, and he is mental comfort food for simpletons.

    How, exactly, is Steyn delusional? Do tell.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    John Boston had some great insights on how Obama’s been handling the aftermath of the killing of bin Laden.

    Bolton said Obama’s public relations shambles surrounding the bin Laden information release has tarnished the good news and has possibly jeopardized future national security opportunities. “He’s taken what is a great national triumph and it’s being frittered away in the way it’s been handled very unprofessionally,” Bolton said. “I particularly object to leaking out aspects of what we may have learned in terms of information that was in the compound. I think you need much greater discipline to exploit the potential intelligence that we had and certainly you don’t alert other potential targets that, number one, we gathered a treasure trove of intelligence, and I wouldn’t have even started there.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/06/bolton-glad-first-presidential-debate-focused-on-foreign-policy-rips-obamas-handling-of-bin-laden-information/#ixzz1LirEk6HL

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    “You Lie!” hussein !

    I LOVE this guy!!!!!!!!111 ALL Right-Thinking Patriots have awesome NICKNAMES for the MUSLIN in Chief, but this guy has a DOUBLE WHAMMY!!!!!!!!111 The HUSSEIN part reminds us that our “president” is a SCARY MUSLIN (Of course our defense is ‘Hey what are you LIBS so upset about it’s his REAL MIDDLE NAME!!!1′ but WE know EXACTLY what we’re doing LOL!!!!!1) and the “YOU LIE” part reminds us of that GUY whatshisname who said that thing that one time in a TOTALLY RESPECTFUL way!!!!!!!111 Now THAT class act needs to RUN FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!111 What was his name again?!?!?!111

    Dude you are just as good as the guy who calls everybody “SON”!!!!!!!111 We True American Patriots RULE this BLOG!!!!!!!!111 Suck it, LIBS!!!!!!111

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Gee, with WHICH side of the idealogical spectrum does bin Laden’s point of view seem to dovetail?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/world/asia/08binladen.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
    In October, when American intelligence was close on the trail of the courier and spy satellites were taking detailed photographs of the house, Bin Laden issued two audio statements urging help for victims of floods in Pakistan. “We are in need of a big change in the method of relief work because the number of victims is great due to climate changes in modern times,” he said.

    In 2007, he complained that Democratic control of Congress had not ended the war in Iraq, a fact he attributed to the pernicious influence of “big corporations.” In other messages he commented on the writings of Noam Chomsky, the leftist professor at M.I.T., and praised former President Jimmy Carter’s book supporting Palestinian rights.

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  • Rio

    Newsjunky said:
    That place is a dump both inside and out. How is it possibly worth $1 million??

    Was OBLand fifth wife victims of that little old lady in Money Pit?

  • Rio

    Gasket said:
    Seems like they are placing the value of the place at around 250 grand tops.

    Could we be seeing this “estate” among the three buyer picks on HGTV? They have sold some pretty randy foreign homes in the past.

  • mlb

    It reminds me of the “Celebrities are just like us” section of People magazine – you know where the paparazzi has taken pics of stars getting coffee, taking their kids to the park, surfing at the beach, shopping at the grocery store etc… Although several other headlines come to mind watching this segment:
    “Hollywood is just like Osama…”
    “Can we take that again? the lighting was ALL Wrong!”
    “Does the beard make me look like a leader?” ” I specifically demanded a tele-prompter like Obama!”
    “Do I look younger with a fuse on the light?”
    “Who wrote this s**t!- I want the head of the script writer!”

    I love that many have commented on how brilliant it is to show video depicting Osama as so insecure that he needed to ‘stage’ his surroundings, appearance, wardrobe, scripted his messages (nothing unprepared or spontaneous) sounds like another leader I know, just saying….

  • mlb

    There are not releasing the audio because they don’t want to broadcast Osama’s message to the world. Gee, I guess there are no deaf people or ‘signers’ that can translate the message in that part of the world.

  • CAconservative

    Take a good look at this picture Liberals. That’s going to be Obimbo in about a year and a half. Sitting there in his little living room watching reruns of himself. Wrapped in a blanket, and asking big’mama for some hot chocolate. And big’mama yelling at him, calling him a looser for not paying more attention to the job and less about his basketball picks. Hey, this could be the makings of a new comedy sitcom. “BIG’MAMA and the LOOSER”!!

  • X-3

    First, I’ve found it hilarious that so many “journalists” (including some of the liberal ones) said “-0bama” when they meant to say “Usama.”

    It does not surprise me that UBL was every bit as much of a narcissist as -0bama.

    I can cut UBL some slack on flubbing his lines–he doesn’t have a teleprompter like “dear leader” does.

  • X-3

    Azarkhan said:
    Mark Steyn on Danish TV: European elites drew wrong conclusion after WWII http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T463qFGsans&feature=related (some Danish in the first 1:30, then smooth sailing)

    A lot of folks could do well to listen to Mr. Steyn more often. I really like the guy.

  • hgarner2000

    I’ll never understand how a supposedly religious man could ever do such a mind-bogglingly hideous thing, but if I were the world’s most wanted man, I’d probably want to see what news I could get from the tv whether I was a narcisist or not.

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