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Glenn Beck just couldn't resist. Even as he is giving credit to the President, he says "Kill Obama..."

It's not accidental on the part of these idiots. They do it on purpose, and one day some wingnut is going to take them up on it.

Bonus: He finds tape of President Obama using the term "caliphate", and thinks it justifies his own whacko conspiracy theories. All in the span of 1 minute, 14 seconds.

It may be a new record.

Newshoggers: The White House claims Osama was not the 9/11 mastermind! Despite that startling assertion, G-Dub is pulling out all the stops to apprehend the apparently peripheral terrorist.

Americablog: Newsweek is reporting McCain lied about a Factcheck.org report, and CBS caught that 'honorable' man lying in the same ad about Katie Couric. That's integrity! Next thing ya know he'll be denouncing the Cub Scouts. What a bunch of irredeemable sh*theels.

Catsandbeer: The real list of books the Talibunny tried to have banned

EconoSpeak: Anti-trust a la Bush

Prose Before Hos: I'm not sure America is ready for a smart president

First Draft: Embrace the Pig. Panda over at Gahzette was doing it back in 2006! (h/t CLW)

Associated Press:

Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father — except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway down his back. Then there's the black leather biker jacket.

The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview with The Associated Press, he said there is better way to defend Islam than militancy: Omar wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West.

"It's about changing the ideas of the Western mind. A lot of people think Arabs — especially the bin Ladens, especially the sons of Osama — are all terrorists. This is not the truth," Omar told the AP last week at a cafe in a Cairo shopping mall. Read on...

(Nicole:) One of the things that has always annoyed me about the current demonization of Muslims by many in the press and GOP as silently complicit with the "Islamofascists" (a word that makes no sense) is that they are not silent. But rarely does the press give air time to someone who believes in peace.

Talk 2 Action: Values Voter debate panelist miffed at GOP no-shows: "How can we expect these no-show candidates to take on Osama Bin Laden and other world leaders when they're afraid to show up and answer questions from Phyllis Schlafly?"

Hey, I've got an idea, let's put Phyllis in an undisclosed cave somewhere along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, and then re-invite the now-unafraid GOP field to a "values debate" where they are expected to bash homosexuals, women, Hispanics, and other potential voters in order to make a small minority of so-called "Christians" less unhappy.

James Wolcott's Blog: It is a measure of Petraeus's obliging pliancy that he would even accede to testifying on the anniversary of 9/11, thus ensuring that his report would function as a 'tie-in' product.

Beggars Can Be Choosers: Hillary has returned the Hsu money.  When will George W. Bush return the $1.4 million his campaign received from Enron?

Consortiumblog: When former CIA officer Ray McGovern made the vocal suggestion -- during a technical delay to fix Gen. David Petraeus' microphone -- that the witness be sworn in, McGovern was forced to leave the hearing room.

Robert Reich's Blog: The way to prevent the looming recession

10 Zen Monkeys: In one corner, we have a disheveled , sickly looking maniac who can barely move and appears to be in some kind of drug-enduced stupor while babbling messages of madness.

And in the other corner, we have Osama bin Laden

Media Bloodhound: Quality reporting demands accuracy, honesty, context and a willingness to report the hard truths.  We Want News

Hullabaloo: Those who think the Iraqi disaster has killed the influence of neoconservativism should follow Giuliani's campaign with interest.

Words of Power: To the Bush-Cheney national insecurity team, the Cult formerly known as the Republican party, and the US mainstream news media, the Democratic leadership should say simply, bring me the head of Osama Bin Laden, or just shut up and hire yourselves lawyers for the Hague.

Suburban Guerrilla: You already knew Chimpy wouldn't nominate a moderate for Attorney General. But it's hard to imagine three worse possible choices than this bunch.

A Tiny Revolution: If you made up a list of the top 1000 priorities of the people who run America, human life might come in as high as 997th."

Obsidian Wings: And a bit more on "priorities"

AlterNet: Humboldt County, California, became the latest, and largest, jurisdiction to abolish the disastrous legal doctrine known as "corporate personhood." (h/t Medford Tim)

Fred Thompson’s reaction to today’s Osama bin Laden tape:

“Bin Laden is more symbolism than anything else,” he said.

Mitt Romney on bin Laden:

[Romney] said the country would be safer by only “a small percentage” and would see “a very insignificant increase in safety” if al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught because another terrorist would rise to power. “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person,” Romney said.

Bush on bin Laden:

“I truly am not that concerned about him.”

At what point did the GOP decide that bin Laden no longer matters? And how would the right respond if Dems made similar comments?

Shakesville: Publicity shy, cave-dwelling killer Osama bin Laden, without a release for nearly three years, is scheduled to hit the charts again with a new video in which he plans to show off a new beard style to go along with what many are calling a new "funky-fresh" call for Jihad.

Taylor Marsh: Carnage, Petreaus, and a secret report

onegoodmove: Some good reads for ya

Prairie Weather: Republicans aint doin' so good...gonna nommy-nate that moonshiner.  Norbizness has a remix of the GOP primary debate

Firedoglake: Deliberate lies and manipulations

INSTAPUTZ: The brilliant Iraqi blogger, Riverbend, received horrible treatment at the hands of warbloggers.  They'll be happy to know that she's fled to Syria.

Happy Blogiversary to The Strange Death of Liberal America

I happen to like Ed personally as you guys know, but let's say we differ in our politics ever so slightly... The Republicans are deathly afraid of a YouTube debate. One might say---how could they confront Osama if they can't confront YouTube?...Anyway...via Balloon Juice.

"Captain Ed proposes a solution to the cowardice of the GOP regarding the CNN/YouTube debate"

John Cole does the honor of filling in the questions for the right wing nutosphere...

This Modern World

From a new review in Ha’aretz:

Speaking of George Bush, with whom Sharon developed a very close relationship, Uri Dan recalls that Sharon’s delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: “I will screw him in the ass!”

Dear God, I hope no one tells David Broder about this!

It would be nice if he would have caught him instead....