# Can't find Bin Laden? Start a whisper campaign! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786 "2004-10-23T17:38:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/1 "2004-10-23T17:38:06Z")
Well, it looks like the folks over at the freakishly right wing _WorldNetDaily_ have taken up the mantle with this headline: [**9-11 panelist says bin Laden located**](http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41059). Other notorious pages such as [NewsMax](http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/23/113806.shtml) have also picked up the claim. Republican 9-11 commission member John Lehman made the claim in California yesterday. But it would seem that he is unable to offer up any basis for the claim. So why would the Right be flogging again the oft repeated but never substantiated claims that he’s in Pakistan’s Baluchistan region? Why would they take a steaming pile of old news, shine it up, and offer it up as new? It’s all about timing. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/2 "2004-10-23T18:13:23Z")
I’m thinking of 10 reasons: October 23 October 24 October 25 October 26 October 27 October 28 October 29 October 30 October 31 November 1 And then there’s the jackpot: November 2 We knew it would happen. It’s a shame they don’t have something substantial to trot out – foriegn, domestic or otherwise. :wally ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/3 "2004-10-23T21:20:04Z")
I wonder if maybe next Friday, October 29 or so, the Bush Administration or their confederates will leak the contents mysterious email found on a hard drive in Pakistan. The email will strongly suggest, especially after being translated from Arabic, that ObL died at Tora Bora 2 years ago. Timing is crucial, however, the leak has got to make the Sunday talk shows and Monday’s papers. OTOH, it has be done close enough to November 2 so ObL can’t pull a Gotcha Ya tape of him reading the Halloween edition of the Kabul _Times_. This election is just too damn close for Bush and Rove. ---
**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/4 "2004-10-23T21:22:56Z")
> [@](#): > > I wonder if maybe next Friday, October 29 or so, the Bush Administration or their confederates will leak the contents mysterious email found on a hard drive in Pakistan. The email will strongly suggest, especially after being translated from Arabic, that ObL died at Tora Bora 2 years ago. How could they do this? The adminstration has confirmed tapes on ObL that were made after the date he would have had to die on. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/5 "2004-10-23T21:30:59Z")
> [@Kel Varnsen - Latex Division](#): > > How could they do this? The adminstration has confirmed tapes on ObL that were made after the date he would have had to die on. On further review, we find the the voice on the tapes was former Richard Nixon impersonator Rich Little. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/6 "2004-10-23T22:02:06Z")
You little scamps carry on like the right invented spin. Thanks for a good chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/7 "2004-10-23T22:02:21Z")
> [@Kel Varnsen - Latex Division](#): > > How could they do this? The adminstration has confirmed tapes on ObL that were made after the date he would have had to die on. Weeelll-- The Bush Administration has never explicitly confirmed nor denied the authenticity of those tapes. Besides, Bush knows how these people think. OK, Game 1 of the World Series is coming up. I don’t have time to Google when ObL was absolutely, positively declared alive. Maybe some Yankees fans might have the time to do that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/8 "2004-10-23T22:31:53Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > You little scamps carry on like the right invented spin. Thanks for a good chuckle. Glad to oblige! Plus it is kind of fun being called a little scamp! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/9 "2004-10-24T04:48:18Z")
> [@Kel Varnsen - Latex Division](#): > > How could they do this? The adminstration has confirmed tapes on ObL that were made after the date he would have had to die on. Same way they could have a significant proportion of the electorate still believing Saddam had WMD at the time of the recent invasion, even though the administration has admitted there weren’t any. Certain types of news carry fast and loud and are well remembered. Certain other types don’t and aren’t. Strangely, the right sort of bullshit has it in spades over the wrong sort of truth. This is what spin is all about. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/10 "2004-10-24T05:01:24Z")
We’ve always been at war with Zarqawi b’cuz of he helped Hussein w/ 9-11. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/11 "2004-10-24T05:12:31Z")
Guess we’ve gotta come clean. We evil pubbies captured ObL a while ago, and we have him working under new identity at a Shell station in North Jersey off the Garden State Parkway. We’re just waiting until after the World Series to capture all of the headlines, just in time for the election. If you believed that: click this link for Di$cO\*Nt V!.@g,Ra ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-bin-laden-start-a-whisper-campaign/270786/12 "2004-10-24T07:10:57Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Guess we’ve gotta come clean. We evil pubbies captured ObL a while ago, and we have him working under new identity at a Shell station in North Jersey off the Garden State Parkway. We’re just waiting until after the World Series to capture all of the headlines, just in time for the election. > > If you believed that: click this link for Di$cO\*Nt V!.@g,Ra Hmmmm **danceswithcats** — must be a pubbie-link 😉 it _just doesn’t work!_ But yeah, I think I saw him there now that I think about it. He was giving discounts to SUVs. 😃