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Osama The Silent

By The Daily Dish

Nov 4 2008, 6:19 AM ET

Noam Scheiber theorizes as to why there was no bin Laden tape this election:

...in the final week or so before today's election, Obama appeared to have a pretty insurmountable lead. Even if a bin Laden tape would have narrowed the margin, it probably wouldn't have made a winner of McCain. In which case it would have exposed bin Laden to be kind of impotent.



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