Osama to Al-Qaeda Terror Network: Don’t Bother Assassinating Joe Biden

Osama was not too worried about Uncle Joe.
The Telegraph reported:

US officials have revealed that Osama bin Laden’s diaries contain the rather startling conclusion that he didn’t think Vice President Joe Biden was worth bumping off (hat tip: a tweet from my New York colleague Jon Swaine).

According to ProPublica, the Obama administration is briefing that Barack Obama was bin Laden’s the “top target” (no surprise there) while “military chiefs like the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the defense secretary” were also major scalps.

But Joe Biden’s scalp (hair plugs and all)? Apparently, not so much. A counterterrorism official said: “There is a note indicating that the vice president is not an important target because that position has less weight.”

To be fair, it seems that Uncle Joe was not mentioned by name and the al-Qaeda leader tied the comment to the constitutional weakness of the vice-presidency rather than the antics of the garrulous current occupant.

#1 May 12, 2011 at 5:54 pm
OBAMA=FRAUD commented:

Very Interesting. The Usurper-In-Chief is targeted and Bozo Biden is spared. http://www.BirtherReport.com
#2 May 12, 2011 at 5:54 pm
rbosque commented:

So even a lunatic doesn’t want him….?
#3 May 12, 2011 at 5:56 pm
MAJ Mike commented:

Heh! Even the jihadis recognize that Biden does more damage in his present position than his death would create. The death of THE WON is probably rated the same way, except it would be more symbolic.
#4 May 12, 2011 at 6:02 pm
dwd commented:

It would have been too funny if Osama had actually used Biden’s name.

Now we see why this was released: another ego boost for Obama since he was the #1 target.
#5 May 12, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Mike W commented:

According to ProPublica? You mean the nerve center of the soros funded(bought) media think tank is calling Biden irrelevant? Seems to me if this was a serious report that soros would be the top target as he funds and directs obama and the DNC.
#6 May 12, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Valerie commented:

I agree that targeting the VP would not be what Al Qaeda would have in mind. Still, I think Joe would have made a hell of a wartime president.
#7 May 12, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Max commented:

” According to ProPublica”……. Obama was Osama’s target and Biden, not so much?
Isn’t ProPublica one of Soros’ 30 media outlet tools? Since it is, the information may well be bogus.
#8 May 12, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Jim commented:

Joe who? Wasn’t he someone important?
#9 May 12, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Iconoclast commented:

Even the diaperheads recognize joey hairplants as an utterly worthless, babbling idiot. As such, he is less a danger to them – and to this nation – than Øshama.
#10 May 12, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Marie commented:

He probably figured that Crazy Uncle Joe will get drunk at the family reunion and drop his pants, then fall into the lake and drown himself. So why bother.
#11 May 12, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Carbon Pootprint commented:

Maybe Biden will decide to primary Obama and use it as a slogan. “I’m Joe Biden and I ain’t worth killing”
#12 May 12, 2011 at 7:37 pm
ar05075 commented:

Obama was Osama’s main target??????????????…………………………damn.!!!
#13 May 12, 2011 at 8:29 pm
No Man commented:

Truly AQ has a collective lump of feces for brains.

Why would they liquidate the most valuable resource in the campaign to destroy America?
#14 May 12, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Iconoclast commented:

#12 May 12, 2011 at 7:37 pm
ar05075 commented:

Obama was Osama’s main target??????????????…………………………damn.!!!
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If I believed for one second this would be the only consequence of leaving the other maggot (OBL) alive for a bit longer, I would agree with you. Unfortunately, many good people die every day because of OBL and there is little likelihood the diaperhead jihadis could bring off such a coup, or at least not without collateral damage, likely massive.
#15 May 12, 2011 at 8:58 pm
pamlinson commented:

He assassinates himself every time he opens his mouth.
#16 May 12, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

I agree with #8 Jim.

“Joe who?”

That’s why. If they offed Biden, America’s response would be the world’s biggest chorus of:

“Meh.”
#17 May 12, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

I’d be more P.O.ed and demoralized if they offed a NJ tollbooth worker.

I think that AQ knows this.
#18 May 12, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

#11 Carbon Pootprint

ROTFLOL!
#19 May 12, 2011 at 9:39 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

osama knew there was no sense in killing old joe, he’s been dead from the neck up for years.
#20 May 12, 2011 at 9:51 pm
gus commented:

Joe Biden vs John McCain. Who is smarter???

The box of hammers.
#21 May 12, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Rock commented:

No shi! you mean to tell me Bin Laden was of the opinion that Joe was no big frakking deal. Now that has to hurt, these Dems all have swollen heads and to be considered not worth the effort must suck.
#22 May 12, 2011 at 10:51 pm
whoframedrudy commented:

I really love this country. That we can crap all over the Prez and Veep like this is such a joy.
#23 May 12, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Rock commented:

Oh I sure you are including Nancy Botox Pelosi with her little priceless gems.
#24 May 12, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

#22 You’re absolutely right.

Imagine if they could just send S.S. squads to persecute us for this?

You know, like the Left liked to imagine in their fevered, insane dreams that their “Hitler” G.W. Bush did?

God Bless America.

(Hey doofus, it’s not a “joy”, it’s a RIGHT. I see your sarcasm, and I also imagine that you’d “push the button” without a second’s thought or remorse, if doing so would just kill us all. Because you’re a lefty, and that’s how lefties think. Just like their Father in Hell. And you would. You know it. Kill, Steal, Destroy. That’s all Satan’s minions know.)
#25 May 13, 2011 at 6:17 am
bobdog commented:

One heartbeat away from the presidency…
#26 May 13, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Stuart commented:

Joe was heard to plaintively cry:”Why am I always left out of everything?”
#27 May 13, 2011 at 6:04 pm
LibertyGuy commented:

Only a Rightwing “tool” would be punk’s by the British!

Bin Laden’s ‘Don’t Bother Assassinating Joe Biden’ Quote Was Invented By UK Press
May 13, 2011 2:02 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

Right-wing bloggers are having a laugh at the expense of Vice President Joe Biden this week because it was reported in the U.K. press that documents retrieved during the Osama bin Laden raid showed Al Qaeda’s leader didn’t consider Biden to be a worthy assassination target. Bloggers are chuckling because of course the topic of Al Qaeda terrorist attacks are funny.

You can go read the Telegraph article, but you won’t find the quote from the headline anywhere in the piece (or anything remotely like it) because there’s zero indication that bin Laden ever said that or wrote that. Again, Harnden simply made the quote up and then put quotations around it for the headline.

Then, naturally, right-wing bloggers picked up the quote and repeated it, even though it was fabricated in an apparent attempt to make Biden look bad.
#28 May 13, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Journalistic Integrity commented:

Journalistic Integrity – Learn about it and then start using it.
#29 May 13, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Chisum commented:

#27 and #28,

What part of The Telegraph reported: don’t you get?

Journalistic integrity?

Why don’t you try reading comprehension?
#30 May 14, 2011 at 4:53 pm
barry commented:

So repeating a lie passes for integrit in the GOOPER world these days?

I know the entire GOOPER world is besides itself becuase Dick Cheney and GWB provided over $15 billion since 2001 to our “allies” the Pakistanis so they could protect the killer of thousands of Americans.

Hey that’s your legacy so you just have to live with it.