Why the Term “Bedwetter” Became Popular
Because it fits! At popular deadender blog “The Jawa Report,” Rusty Shackleford reacts to a new video appearing on Islamic extremist websites:
I’m listening to the audio now. Starts out with sirens, gunshots, and panicked people screaming. There is a voice over in Arabic. Very menacing. Not at all like the usual. There’s shouting and screaming, and gunshots. Very different than most of these types of audios which are usually calm sermons with nasheeds (music) in the background.
No bin Laden audio, but towards the end of the audio is a nasheed praising Osama bin Laden. Then gunshots. Then it ends. Scary.
Sounds threatening to me. And considering that I monitor a lot of this stuff, if I even think its scary, then I think that’s saying something.
1) No, it’s not.
2) Maybe there’s an attack in the works – why wouldn’t there be? But this is a man feeling threatened because of the production values of a web video. The soundtrack has sirens and gunshots. Ooh!
3) Apparently the actual “special gift” from OBL, still enjoying the alive part of dead or alive, is likely to be a new Bin Laden video. This makes sense. The “Petraeus Report,” or Petraeus and Crocker Report, or the White House Report in the Names of Petraeus and Crocker, will come out around September 11, possibly right on that date. Because this White House is to subtle staging of events what Ferdinand Marcos was to the discreet elimination of political opponents. But Bin Laden is worried it might not be enough. He desperately wants to keep America stomping all over Iraq and surely would love to encourage the Bush Administration to bomb Iran as well. Bin Laden profits politically from American militarism. He figures a sudden appearance of the Bogey Man – himself – ought to ensure the US Congress ponies up whatever money Al Qaeda’s useful idiot, the President, asks for. This kind of thing worked for him before.
4) Previous item aside, it’s probably fun to be Osama Bin Laden during this season. How galling is that? Six years after that dead or alive business, six years after perpetrating unforgivable atrocity, he’s still free and in operation. He has gotten away with it. At the rate the Bush Administration is going, we’ll have to hope Bin Laden gets so cocky he signs up for the White House tour just to do it and knocks over a stanchion while waiting for a view of the East Room. Maybe, maybe we might nab the bastard then.
Comment by SomeCallMeTim —
September 6, 2007 @ 9:48 pm
But this is a man feeling threatened because of the production values of a web video.
Perhaps he’s saying the better production values suggest that the terrorists now have Macs. The easier interface means more productive terrorist planners.
Comment by Bill —
September 6, 2007 @ 9:55 pm
Better production values mean more jihadist recruits and more terrified bedwetter types. Its a two-fer.
Comment by Some dude —
September 6, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
I’m pretty sure that if Rusty spoke Arabic he’d have heard the guy saying, “Just wait for the infidels to jump through my hoops! The money we spent on QuickTime Pro was, like, the best $30 we ever spent. If we can raise ten times as much for a better video suite we can make infidels shit their pants at will. Donate now!”
Comment by Thomas —
September 6, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
I left an eighteen dollar balance on a student credit card I had in college. Just shy of my twenty seventh birthday, I got a letter saying that I owed nearly a hundred dollars on this long forgotten debt.
In the intervening six years I had moved nine times, changed my phone number three times, moved out of the country and back in and had my parents, who had been signatories on the credit card, move twice.
How is it that Equifax can find me but the entire US DoD can’t find one abnormally tall, world famous religious militant who is in such ill health he can barely stand up, let alone run anywhere?
I’m half convinced we already have him in a bunker somewhere and are going to whip him out just before the election next year in order to bolster opinion of the Republican party.
Comment by CaseyL —
September 6, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
I particularly like the way the MSM advertised the latest from OBL: he’s giving a “presentation” to the American people. As if it were a Very Special Episode of Saving Grace or something; just another entry in the ratings sweeps period.
Or a special fashion presentation: On NPR they commented that OBL seemed to have dyed his beard black, as opposed to his previous black-and-white striped beard. Maybe we can also get some commentary on his clothing choice. Network Eye for the Terrorist Guy.
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September 6, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
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Comment by huh —
September 6, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
So what is the administration’s “motive” or “goal” for the recent and ongoing violence overseas? Is nabbing OBL a plus for those objectives? The nab would help the Republicans (is that an administration priority?) but it would reduce public support for the war effort, correct?
Comment by Thoreau —
September 6, 2007 @ 11:31 pm
Thomas-
Damn good point. My mother was stalked for years by a Mary Kay saleswoman. OK, we didn’t move as much as you did, but we did move a few times, including a move out of state, and so I was impressed by her relentlessness.
I think Bin Laden needs some skin care products. Put Mary Kay on this and we could have Bin Laden by next week.
Comment by Sean —
September 6, 2007 @ 11:51 pm
Boy, Jim, I think you’re a real smart guy, but OBL “got away” with it? Do you really think dude has experienced a high quality of life in the last 6 years? Really?
“Dead” may be absolute, but there there are lots of varieties of “alive”.
Comment by matthew hogan —
September 7, 2007 @ 12:03 am
“Dead†may be absolute, but there there are lots of varieties of “aliveâ€.
True, but none of the varieties of “captured”, the key operative term that goes with “dead or alive”, seems to be fitting Mr. OBL, whatever his current quality of life concerns.
Comment by ML —
September 7, 2007 @ 12:21 am
Sean: What makes you think that the quality of life Usama bin Ladin is now enjoying in Pakistan(?) is worse than the quality of life he enjoyed in Afghanistan before 2001?
Comment by josephdietrich —
September 7, 2007 @ 12:49 am
How is it that Equifax can find me but the entire US DoD can’t find one abnormally tall, world famous religious militant who is in such ill health he can barely stand up, let alone run anywhere?
Now Thomas, that one is easy: it is all about profit.
Equifax was able to track you down because they were able to profit from it. Similarly, the Administration profits from not tracking Osama bin Laden down.
Part of me wants to say that I’m joking about the above; that the Executive and its organs are making good-faith efforts to track the criminal down and bring him to justice. But after more than seven years of incompetence and malfeasance I cannot help but take the idea seriously; that the relevant actors are simply not attempting to apprehend the man. After all, wasn’t it the Decider-in-Chief himself who famously said that he didn’t think about bin Laden all that much?
Either that, or al-Qaeda is disturbingly better than our intelligence and law-enforcement services at all this.
Comment by Alex —
September 7, 2007 @ 4:45 am
More importantly, has anyone else noticed that this guy, and all the wingnut wannabe spooks like him, are literally going out of their way to be terrifed? They seek out this stuff like less warped people seek out porno sites.
Comment by ajay —
September 7, 2007 @ 5:54 am
Boy, Jim, I think you’re a real smart guy, but OBL “got away†with it? Do you really think dude has experienced a high quality of life in the last 6 years? Really?
Speaking as someone who almost had a BLOODY GREAT AIRLINER DRIVEN INTO MY HEAD as a result of this loon’s views on foreign policy, I would rather we could say something a little more positive about Osama than “Well, yes, he is still at large. We’ve been completely unable to capture him. But his diet can’t be very varied, and he probably can’t get broadband.”
If he’s dyeing his beard black, that implies he’s trying to conceal the fact that he’s going grey. Run all you like, Osama! Soon you’ll die of old age! Then justice will have been served!
(Ironically, the main cause of death for Death Row prisoners in the US is also “natural causes”.)
Comment by Barry —
September 7, 2007 @ 8:08 am
I gotta pile on – think of all the people who are willing to suffer for various (good and bad) causes. To them, OBL has had a d*mn good life. He accomplished an amazing feat, and lived to laugh about it. Not only that, but the retaliation has played into his hands.
It’d be like McVeigh not only getting away to send video’s from ’somewhere in South America’, but having a small civil war raging in the US by 2000.
Comment by jlw —
September 7, 2007 @ 9:09 am
Laugh all you want, but wait until 2009, when George W. Bush periodically releases taunting video pronouncements from his Paraguayan estate. “I’ll have Jenna Bush in the White House by 2020, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me! Bwah ha ha!”
Oh, your blood will boil then.
Comment by SomeCallMeTim —
September 7, 2007 @ 9:42 am
But his diet can’t be very varied, and he probably can’t get broadband.â€
Written like someone who has never had to suffer through dial-up. He probably can’t even watch his own organization’s videos.
Comment by ran —
September 7, 2007 @ 10:23 am
Put the number of civilians Osama’s allegedly responsible for murdering versus how many civilians Bush and Cheney have murdered in this bloody farce of a “GWOT”. It’s not even remotely close.
Now why are terrorists Bush and Cheney still walking around free men, much less still running this country?
Comment by ajay —
September 7, 2007 @ 10:47 am
I gotta pile on – think of all the people who are willing to suffer for various (good and bad) causes. To them, OBL has had a d*mn good life. He accomplished an amazing feat, and lived to laugh about it. Not only that, but the retaliation has played into his hands.
Plus, everyone has heard his name and millions of people worldwide think he’s a hero. He’s got more fans than Coldplay.
Comment by Ugh —
September 7, 2007 @ 11:32 am
At least the administration solved the whole anthrax thing, oh wait.
Comment by jamie —
September 7, 2007 @ 11:57 am
“He’s got more fans than Coldplay.”
Jesus, what a choice. The man who wants to bring western civilisation to an end versus the band that makes you think he got there too late.
Comment by jumpy —
September 7, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
OBL does indeed want the U.S. to continue with it’s Iraq misadventure. And the U.S. bombing or attacking Iran in some other way also is another goal of his.
And the neocons are all too happy to oblige. These sheltered, coddled, think-tank philosophers have deluded themselves into this disasterous militarisitic approach. It doesn’t work. It was never going to work. Many people warned it won’t work. And as the failures mount, they become all the more passionate for it. Increasingly deserpate to prove they were right all along.
It’s funny, watching the neocons consistently get out-thought and out-strategized by a cave-dwelling religious zealot.
Comment by sglover —
September 7, 2007 @ 3:20 pm
I don’t think history offers many examples of people drawn to revolutionary or guerilla activities because of the plush accomodations.
Comment by Thoreau —
September 7, 2007 @ 8:27 pm
The thing with Bin Laden dying his beard black just shows that nowadays it’s all about the image for that guy. Remember back in the day, when he was still interested in the murder and mayhem?
Man, before he became famous, he would start his shows with a homemade bomb (this was before he could afford the commercial ones) and then halfway through he’d do a scimitar solo on a live prisoner. That was hardcore, man. Now he’s just releasing videos and worrying about how he looks on camera.
Face it, man, Bin Laden has sold out.
Comment by Jillian —
September 8, 2007 @ 1:33 am
I could live with the 2.5% flat tax, personally.
The rest is just Jerry Fallwell the way he really wanted to be. See, if you keep away from the supersized fries you can be the world’s great religious terrorist mastermind, you don’t even need your own cable network or an unaccredited madrasa in Lynchburg.
Comment by CharleyCarp —
September 8, 2007 @ 7:39 am
Accept for a moment that there are millions upon millions of people who believe in the active intervention of the Almighty in human affairs. Imagine what such people might think about why God has arranged for Bin Laden to survive onslaught/manhunt by the greatest superpower ever.
Comment by atheist —
September 9, 2007 @ 7:07 am
And the neocons are all too happy to oblige. These sheltered, coddled, think-tank philosophers have deluded themselves into this disasterous militarisitic approach. It doesn’t work. It was never going to work. Many people warned it won’t work. And as the failures mount, they become all the more passionate for it. Increasingly deserpate to prove they were right all along.
But, Jumpy, you haven’t made the last necessary connection: maybe the “Global War on Terror” was never meant to ‘work’. It was only meant to keep the populace scared and enable the US to start wars.
Indeed, it was obvious from very early, to anyone who actually thought about it, that the “Global War on Terror”, as the neo-cons were defining it, would not work. Maybe most of the neo-cons were stupid enough to actually believe it could work. But at least a few of them must have known the actual purpose.
Comment by Terry C - Bush Enablers R Nutz —
September 10, 2007 @ 8:38 am
“I’ll have Jenna Bush in the White House by 2020, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me! Bwah ha ha!â€
Nah – the bitch will have drank herself to death by then, as I sincerely hope her sperm donor does.
Comment by Spud1 —
September 10, 2007 @ 9:20 am
I was so fucking scared watching Independence Day – I thought for sure we were being attacked by aliens. That film had great production values.
Comment by Duckman GR —
September 10, 2007 @ 9:21 am
Coldplay. Ick, Jamie, you are so right. I’ve tried all these bands, they aren’t rock and rollers, they’re tired and boring. Sorry.
joseph, it IS all about the profit. There’s no other explanation. It even trumps the personal fear and cowardice of all the admin people who think obl might snuff out their own highly important lives, and that’s all that matters to them. And these are so called leaders and policy makers.
Maybe starting over isn’t such a bad idea after all.
Comment by Brian C.B. —
September 10, 2007 @ 10:10 am
The MTV Awards turned down OBL for a Britney comeback. Boy, is the joke ever on them.
Comment by IntelVet —
September 10, 2007 @ 10:20 am
The video is a fake, your post is about one of many reasons.
Comment by r€nato —
September 10, 2007 @ 10:53 am
Credit agencies? Mary Kay? HAH! It is to laugh.
I know how to find Bin Laden. Tell the Jehovah’s Witnesses that OBL wants to convert. They’ll lead you right to his front door.
Comment by Bin Shopping —
September 10, 2007 @ 11:26 am
I’m really hoping that Britney video was a fake.
That scared me.
Comment by Newton Snookers —
September 10, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
As for finding Osama…
…I suggest direct mail. (No, I’m not Karl Rove.) Perhaps a Papa John’s grand opening advertising an “Infidel-Hater special” pizza could lure the bastard out…
Comment by Heimlich County, Texas —
September 10, 2007 @ 3:20 pm
Rusty Shackleford is a fitting nom-de-blog for a bedwetter since it is the favored pseudonym of well-known cartoon bedwetter and right-wing conspiracy nut Dale Gribble of television’s “King of the Hill.”
Comment by edgewise —
September 10, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
At this point, when I encounter the rare republicans who don’t insist that they are and having always really been independents, I only have one question. Do they wear diapers because they need to, or because they want to?
Comment by wilderness voice —
September 10, 2007 @ 3:27 pm
On not apprehending Bin Laden – see the book Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen. from an interview:
Gary Berntsen: ” . I called for, you know, 6-800 Rangers to be inserted in there and had 600-800 Rangers been inserted we probably would have ended the thing.”
O’Donnell: “So you called for back-up and you didn’t get it?
Gary Berntsen: “Well, the point was that that wasn’t my call. I got, I made the request in the first 2 or 3 days of December. We initiated that operation, we inserted our team in late November into Jalalabad… We killed quite a large number of bin Laden’s force…., but bin Laden and his element were able to escape.”
according to Suskind’s bok the “one Percent Doctrine” Bush was personally apprised of this request and it was denied.
Comment by whisperwolf —
September 10, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
Could always tell the Scientologists that OBL dissed L Ron Hubbard. I bet they’d get him into court real quick…
Comment by bartcopfan —
September 10, 2007 @ 5:53 pm
Depends….
[rimshot!]
Comment by Tony —
September 10, 2007 @ 5:54 pm
Bill said:
I disagree. The terrorists improved their production values because they are becoming increasingly more desperate. The video proves the surge is working.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go change my pants.
Comment by MrMtyzptlk —
September 10, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
Get Columbia House Records on his tail. They can find anyone.
Comment by Fred C. Dobbs —
September 10, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
>>>”…don’t think history offers many examples of people drawn to revolutionary or guerilla activities because of the plush accomodations.”
Cuban Exile, anti-Fidel zealots are the exception which prove the rule.
Comment by Court Jester —
September 10, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
#36: I don’t watch “King of the Hill”, but Rusty sure would be an appropriate name for someone who habitually wets the bed!
Comment by (: Tom :) —
September 11, 2007 @ 7:11 am
Rusty Shackleford? Maybe Rusty Bedsprings would be more appropos…
Comment by Bic —
September 11, 2007 @ 11:00 am
I’ll have a large serving of Building 7 with a little U.S. military anthrax sprinkled on top.
Oh wait, you already served that.
Ok…how ’bout setting off some nukes in Louisiana, finish that job once and for all.
But then you’d have to get warheads into the state. Hard to do that unnoticed.
Oh shit…
Trackback by Wizbang Blue —
September 11, 2007 @ 11:32 am
Six Years Later Osama bin-Laden is Still Free…
Why doesn’t this administration want to bring bin-Laden to justice? Are the horrific images of the destruction of life and property at WTC on 9/11 more powerful and useful to the Republicans with bin-Laden still free, instead of being captured……
Comment by actor212 —
September 11, 2007 @ 6:49 pm
Hm, this thread has given me an idea…what if we recruited and then sicced a whole army of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who would storm the Kandahar/Pashtun regions of Afhanipakistan, knocking on caves? Bet they’d find him in a heartbeat.
Just imagine: Gen. Michael Jackson.