Reply #53: Two things bother me about this tape [View All]

[Mudcloth]

First, it's an audio tape. A really crappy sounding audio tape. It's sounds like he recorded it on a wax cylinder and transferred it to an answering machine.Think about it. Who uses tape? You mean there's no laptop in his entourage? He couldn't burn a cd. I don't care if you're on the run in the mountains of pakistan, if you can record on a tape machine you can record on anything. His voice should be crystal clear with no static or fuzz.
Secondly, if you can record a message on to audio tape why not make a video? I've heard that maybe he's changed his appearance and doesn't want to be seen but if he's trying to rally his base it would be more important to be clearly seen and heard.
Who really belives this guy is still alive? When I heard this on NPR yesterday as their lead story at 5:00 I thought " Are you kidding me?". It was everybody's lead with no one questioning the authenticity of it. "The C.I.A. confirms it was Bin Laden." Well if they confirm it it must be true! Why would the C.I.A. say this? Why does the MSN fall right into line with this bullshit?
I can't believe they're trying to use scare tactics again. "Let's see, things have been going very badly for us over the last few months and it's about to get worse. What can we do? We could pull another Bin Laden tape out of our ass. Yes, let's go with that." Jesus, they're just phoning it in now. God I hope it doesn't work on any of the 61 percenters.