Even given Obama’s ever more terrifying and lethal performance in office, his comments about the jihadi murder of Daniel Pearl, and in front of Daniel’s bereaved family, are simply astounding. This is what Obama said:
‘Obviously, the loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured the world’s imagination because it reminded us of how valuable a free press is.’
Daniel Pearl was not murdered because he was a journalist. He was decapitated because he was an American Jew. Khalid Sheikh Mohamed cut off his head in an act of unimaginable barbarism, which was videoed in order to incite other Muslims to similar acts of barbarism and to destroy the will of the west to defend itself. But in signing the Daniel Pearl Press Freedom Act, Obama came up with the remarkable statement that the significance of Daniel Pearl’s murder was merely that
it reminded us of how valuable a free press is.
Any decent and rational person would think that the significance of Daniel Pearl’s murder was actually that the west is up against a psychopathic death cult which has a particular aim of killing Jews and destroying America. But not the American President. In front of the Pearl family, Obama couldn’t even bring himself to say Daniel was murdered. And ‘one of those moments that captured the world’s imagination’??
As ever, Mark Steyn nails it:
He seems literally unable to imagine Pearl’s fate, and so, cruising on autopilot, he reaches for the all-purpose bromides of therapeutic sedation: ‘one of those moments’- you know, like Princess Di's wedding, Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, whatever – ‘that captured the world's imagination.’
... Daniel Pearl was the first, and in his calm, coherent final words, understood why he was there: ‘My name is Daniel Pearl. I am a Jewish American from Encino, California, USA.’ He didn't have a prompter. But he spoke the truth. That’s all President Obama owed him - to do the same.
Is it possible to fathom such moral obtuseness in the US President?
Update: And this is how the free press dealt with Obama's remark.
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