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Titolo: Fox News Attempts to Connect Osama bin Laden With American Left and Democrats

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Fox News Attempts to Connect Osama bin Laden With American Left and
Democrats
Two YouTube videos feature segments of Fox News' Hannity and Colmes,
featuring a total of four guests appearing to offer comment on the recent
video released by what appears to be Osama bin Laden. The guests and
co-host Sean Hannity work towards connecting bin Laden's speech to the
current tone among the Democrats.
In the first video, former Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card finds it
"outrageous" that the video has been released to coincide with the
anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11/2001.
"He's taunting America again," says Card, "and he's calling for us to take
action that is obscene, and I can't believe that there are people in
Congress that will actually follow the direction of a sworn enemy of this
country rather than take the direction of the person sworn to defend the
country, the President of the United States."
"I don't think that we should view all of his threats with great
credibility," continues Card, "...but we should definitely take it
seriously."
"We've had to battle fascism and Nazism and communism and
totalitarianism," says host Sean Hannity, "and I view this as modern-day
Nazism; and he really reveals the twisted ideology that he supports."
"[bin Laden's] got a warped sense of responsibility for the people that he
claims to love and lead," responds Card. "He wants to send young men and
women in innocence into situations where they're going to die. He's a
sworn enemy of this country; he's a sworn enemy of democracy."
Continues Card, "He basically says people don't have the ability to govern
themselves."
"He seems to adopt the exact same language being used by the hard left in
this country," Hannity says, "as he describes what's going on in Iraq as a
civil war. He actually used the term 'Neocons.' He talks about global
warming. He demonizes capitalisms (sic) and corporations in this whole
thing -- very, very specific language. It seems to be coming from somebody
who is keenly aware of the world situation and the battle and the conflict
in America over this war, and even admonishing the Democratic Party for
not ending the war."
Card calls al Qaeda a "good organization," saying it's "very able." He
says that bin Laden has lost the ability to control the War on Terror but
is the one "championing" it, calling for attacks on the United States and
American interests. 
"He's a desperate man, and a dangerous man."
Co-host Alan Colmes interjects that the video also speaks against
separation of church and state, and that "religion should be a very
important part of what governments do," noting that the video's talking
points don't all align with the "hard left."
Colmes, who goes on to ask how al Qaeda could have been allowed to
regroup, and if it was a mistake for President Bush to make the famous
comment in March of 2002 that he "wasn't concerned" about bin Laden. 
"The United States Government does think about bin Laden," responds Card,
"but we are also interested in winning the war on terror, so we're not
disproportionately focused on Osama bin Laden: one person."
Card, after reiterating that the current offensive in Iraq is part of the
War on Terror, says that the President is concerned about, but won't be
"preoccupied with," Osama bin Laden. 
"He's concerned about winning the War on Terror; he's concerned about
protecting the United States and our interests, and that's really what
he's doing."
al Qaeda and the reformed Taliban have regrouped, says Colmes, as he sees
it as an indication that the efforts in the War on Terror have been
lopsided, "misdirecting" efforts to Iraq while forces have been allowed to
align elsewhere.
Says Card: "Segments of their organization are--continue to be a threat,
but we are definitely winning the War on Terror. We are defeating them in
places where they're looking to be successful."
"Counterterrorism experts say al Qaeda's regrouped. The Taliban's
regrouped. Iraq: We're in the middle of a civil war," says Colmes, as he
bluntly asks what evidence Card has that the United States is winning the
War on Terror.
The War on Terror may be a battle that goes on "for generations," says
Card, citing "lots of evidence," but "we cannot let our guard down. They
want to attack us."
"Maybe if we had taken him when the Sudan offered him on a silver
platter," concludes Hannity, "we'd be in better shape today."
The second video features hosts Hannity and Colmes with Fox News Military
Analyst Bill Cowan, Pajamas Media editor Evan Miniter, and author Jeff
Scarborough.
"It's fear, it's propaganda," says Cowan of the bin Laden video, seeking
to make Americans fearful on the annniversary of 9/11. We're going to be
attacked again by "somebody," he insists, with or without a video release.
Turning to Miniter, Colmes asks if we should be concerned, given Fred
Thompson's recent flip over whether the need to capture bin Laden is real
or "symbolic."
"I don't speak for the Thompson campaign," says Miniter, "but certainly,
getting bin Laden, while this is a war, not a manhunt; is enormously
important, both for symbolic reasons and for actual military reasons." 
Miniter continues: "The United States has arrested and deported some 700
people connected to terrorism, al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations,
and we've disrupted a lot of plots."
Cowan says that we're right to continue focusing on al Qaeda because there
is yet to be another attack on the United States, despite the fact that
terrorists have been "working hard" to do so. Cowan also says that the
Iranians are "every bit as diligent" as al Qaeda about attacking the
United States.
"An attack is going to occur at some point," he repeats.
Co-host Sean Hannity and Mr. Miniter discuss the color of bin Laden's
beard in the video and debate whether or not the beard, and/or the whole
person in the video, is authentic. The voice has been authenticated, says
Miniter, but not the "video image." Also, Hannity and Miniter allude to
the video attempting to influence American opinion by using what they
consider "hard left" rhetoric.
Quips co-host Colmes, "I didn't know we could look at bin Laden as a
political pundit."
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