Alberto Dee, 21, who boarded the train in Truckee, said Hsu “freaked out” when Amtrak personnel approached, and was roaming a train car “without shoes and no shirt. … I thought he had a suitcase full of crack or meth.” I mean, the guy was giving money to Hillary!

Links to Jeff’s posts from yesterday: “Transcript — Osama slams Dems for failing to end war, praises Chomsky, calls for end of democracy” a CITIZEN JOURNALIST, unable to embed in Iraq, does the next best thing Propaganda Wars, 2: this time it’s personal G.I. Joe: Transnationalist Progressive SUPERHERO! On “the Bush Report” [UPDATE] Fa-llujah Daddy

Think Progress: Last night on PBS’ The NewsHour, New York Times columnist David Brooks compared 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden’s latest video message to “lefty blogs,” saying the al Qaeda head is like “one of these childish people posting rants at the bottom of the page.” He then went to describe why he drew such a comparison: You read this thing, and it’s like he’s been sitting around reading lefty

They’ve been back for a week now, but haven’t had anything new to say about Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Personally, I think we ought to resume clamoring. Thankfully, they’ve resumed the serious business of debunking conservative myths about the S-CHIP.

According to Keith’s latest bizarre screed, Osama’s prog talking points speech was reminiscent of Hannity*:

After serving his 24 hours for contempt. No surprise there. But this article states that around 20 supporters were there to greet him. The accompanying picture shows only a few of them, which is too bad, because I wanted to see what these morons look like. Perhaps one of you can find a more comprehensive pic.

Matthias Kuntzel’s tremendous article in The Weekly Standard: