MoveOn, Osama

Well, I wasn't the only who thought the almost lifelike Osama bin Laden sounded like a whiny leftwing blogger on his recent video.

If Osama bin Laden ever gets tired of waging global jihad, perhaps he should interview for a job with MoveOn.org.

He'd get one, judging from his latest videotape to the American people: The first in three years, it contains vast sections of rambling rhetoric indistinguishable from the latest "netroots" rant.

"Why are the leaders of the White House keen to start wars and wage them around the world," he asks, "occasionally even creating justifications based on deception and blatant lies, as you saw in Iraq?"

As it turns out, it's all because of those evil oil companies: "The capitalist system," he continues, "seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the major corporations under the label of 'globalization' in order to protect democracy."

Sound familiar?

The world's most enlightened terror boss even shows his green side.

"The life of all mankind," he says, "is in danger because of the global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations, yet despite that, the representative of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord."

Of course, it's not just Bush's big-business friends that draw Osama's ire. He's also mad at the Democrats for not doing enough to get U.S. troops out of Iraq - despite, he says, their clear mandate to do so in the 2006 elections.

So what's behind Osama's newfound progressivism?

Truth be told, the radical left and radical Islam have long had an intellectual alliance, going back at least to the Iranian Revolution, when a collection of Communists and "anti-imperialists" supported the Ayatollah Khomeni's push to overthrow the U.S.-backed shah.

Both groups, after all, share a fundamental rejection of modern Western "bourgeois" values.

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Naturally, some Konfuzed Kos Kidz are left bewildered, realizing he sounds just like one of them.

Noam Chomsky was unavailable for comment.

NewsBusters notes the insipid Keith Olbermann, who sounds just like bin Laden, lamely tried to compare him to Sean Hannity and Brent Bozell.

Weak.