THE GASBAGS AND THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN

Fats Limbaugh tried to make his listeners believe that Pres. Obama made the successful operation all about Obama but at least one of his listeners didn't buy that spin.  Fats was a bit off on his game today because his delivery was really awkward and that led some to report that Limbaugh wasn't spinning.  Media Matters reports that several other wingnut pundits tried the same spin.

Mark Levin had no praise for Pres. Obama and smeared liberals again by accusing them of being against the war on terror.

Michael Savage was almost reasonable when he urged his listeners to give Pres. Obama some credit.

Both Levin and Savage falsely claimed that waterboarding caused KSM to give up the crucial information about Osama's courier but that was months after KSM had been waterboarded:

Phone Call by Kuwaiti Courier Led to Bin Laden
By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO Associated Press
WASHINGTON May 2, 2011 (AP)

Mohammed did not discuss al-Kuwaiti while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He acknowledged knowing him many months later under standard interrogation, they said, leaving it once again up for debate as to whether the harsh technique was a valuable tool or an unnecessarily violent tactic. .

UPDATE: (h/t Julescator at POLITICO) I'm a little concerned about using Newsmax and former SECDEF Rumsfeld as sources but he gave Newsmax an interview and stated that no torture was used to get the tip about OBL's courier:

Rumsfeld Exclusive: There Was No Waterboarding of Courier Source
Monday, 02 May 2011 01:02 PM
By Jim Meyers and Ashley Martella
NEWSMAX

“The United States Department of Defense did not do waterboarding for interrogation purposes to anyone. It is true that some information that came from normal interrogation approaches at Guantanamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance. But it was not harsh treatment and it was not waterboarding.”