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FILLING THE
CELEBRITY NEWS HOLE -

... one meadow muffin at a time ...

Has Osama bin Laden become another Paris Hilton - mostly famous for being famous and a complicit product of the Celebrity Media Machinery?

Well, another day, another bodice-ripper,
but we ain't talkin' Fabio here...

Following the fizzy "revelation" that Osama had the hots for Whitney Houston, comes the disillusionment of disclosures that O.J. Simpson's watch is purportedly a pseudo-Rolex and Osama thinks your taxes are insanely high.

What next? Will Osama endorse a line of athletic shoes named after Mohammed's horse? He can't believe that his margarine isn't butter...

Is Osama the pirate who stole your heart or the brigand who robbed your maidenhood? Is he correctly positioned to make you weak in the knees?

Did O.J. do it? Did Osama do it? Is there really still a debate? And, if so, do you at all care? But aren't you getting even a tiny bit bored with them already?

Faisal Devji, a history professor at the New School in NYC, reviews Osama's latest video address. And this is not the Roger Ebert approach. Prof Devji is obviously a trained thinker who subjects it to a rigorous analysis and
a scathing critique.

Naturally, it's posted at Spiked!

:: The Ventriloquist ::

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