bin Laden = American Liberals

The night before last, Chris (Tweety bird) Matthews likened Osama bin Laden to Michael Moore. A number of bloggers, including me, sent e-mail complaints to MSNBC about this. Some of the more popular bloggers (e.g., Americablog) managed to round up hundreds, perhaps thousands, of others to write.

Last night, Tweety and MSNBC responded by likening us all to Osama. Here's part of the transcript:

MATTHEWS: Why is [bin Laden] doing it? Why is he trying to track what he picks up in the internet and from the media as the lingo of the left in America, like Moore? Why would he start to talk like Moore? People misunderstood what I said last night. I think he’s getting some advice from people, he’s getting some lingo, some wordage that he hears working in the United States about this thing for war profiteers and he’s jumping on every opportunity. Is that what you are saying Joe?

SCARBOROUGH: Listen, if somebody can’t look at the words that Bin Laden said last night and match them up with what Michael Moore said, with what John Kerry said on Face the Nation with he said Americans were terrorizing Iraqi women and children in their homes hat night, which is what Bin Laden in effect said. What Ted Kennedy has been saying. Remember he said after Abu Ghraib that Saddam’s torture came bers were turned over to — chambers were turned over to new management, U.S. troops, that’s the same thing Bin Laden hit on.