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Fri. Sep 07, 2007
Dreams of Propaganda Inadequacy
I had a dream last night. In this dream, I found out why Osama bin Laden’s beard looks so different in the “new” photo from the upcoming video. He had shaved it off in order to disguise his appearance, but had a false one put on for the video so his “followers” would recognize him. In the video, he revealed the reason he required such drastic disguise measures was because we was now … in America. And preparing to martyr himself.
On the new season of “Dancing with the Stars.”
Then he showed a clip of himself practicing choreographed dance routines, and also plugged his upcoming appearance on “The View.” He claimed he’d once put a fatwa out against Rosie O’Donnell, but loved the show since Whoopi had joined it.
It was a really scary dream.
Update: My dream was not exactly psychic. Bin Laden’s actual video talks about global warming, his position on a flat tax, and comments on our do-nothing Democratic Congress. In other words, he sounds like he is running for President. Which is even scarier than my dream on one level, and oh-so-boring on another. The man behind the 9/11 attacks now sounds like Just Another Politician. With a bad face toupeé.
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Why don’t we get the Osama bin Laden look-alike down in Australia to admit that he also made the video?
Now that I think of it, that’s a wonderful idea: flood the market with scores of phoney Osama videos with contradictory messages and have the CIA “confirm” that each of them is authentic.
That might even flush the real maniac out of his hole (assuming he’s not dead already).
Why can’t the USA conduct a decent disinformation campaign anymore?
“Why can’t the USA conduct a decent disinformation campaign anymore?”
Thus the title of this entry, and my hyperbole about Osama on TV shows. I mean, it’s either laugh or cry.
We’re the country that made advertising the profitable monstrosity it is today. We practically invented it. And we’ve been getting our butt kicked on the information/propaganda front since about early 2002.
And we’ve been getting our butt kicked on the information/propaganda front since about early 2002.
Well, success is the best propaganda, so I doubt it’s a coincidence.
It’s been a huge boon to the radicals, because now they can say that they’ve managed to get two superpowers mired in unwinnable wars against Islam, thus demonstrably proving that Allah’s on their side and all that stuff. It’s going to be a great recruiting tool for years, plus the training, networking, and experience the thousands of them have gained in Iraq is probably going to have far-reaching consequences all over the globe for years to come.