Plenty of conservative bloggers have noticed the resemblance between some of the rhetoric in Osama bin Laden’s latest tape, and the comments on lefty blogs in the U.S. Arianna Huffington wrote that Bush had left bin Laden “free to offer kudos to Noam Chomsky and Michael Scheuer’s Imperial Hubris, and to fret over global warming and U.S. mortgage rates.” Apparently the irony of sharing talking points with the world’s most wanted terrorist was lost on her. But Frank J suggested that Osama and the left ought to pool their resources, and AllahPundit noted that bin Laden sounds like a socialist icon. Despite the commonality of the rhetoric, some on the left are understandably very angry about the comparison. But not all, apparently. Over DailyKos, they’re wondering why people automatically dismiss Osama by saying he’s evil or crazy. Apparently, they think he’s neither crazy nor evil, or at least no more evil than say, Ronald Reagan:
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