HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITER ROGER SIMON has some thoughts on the latest bin Laden release, and on the media coverage that it has produced. (“[N]ot exactly a ready for prime time performance.”) But Jim Henley offers a useful point:

Old footage makes us, bin Laden’s enemies, skeptical. But it won’t have that effect on his target audience.

He’s right, of course. Or perhaps we should say, “the target audience,” since I am, indeed, skeptical that bin Laden is in a position to target anyone.