Obama: Beheading of Daniel Pearl ‘captured the world’s imagination’ [video]

daily caller ^ | May 18, 2010 | staff

[Nachum]

President Obama today signed into law The Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act, which expands efforts to identify countries that don’t share our love for the First Amendment. He also took time to honor the man the bill is named after, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic extremists in 2002 in what the President — with nary a teleprompter in sight — called a moment that ‘captured the world’s imagination.’ The Obama administration has pushed to have Pearl’s professed killer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, tried in civilian court.

[Nachum]

Say what? ...As Charlie Brown used to say "Aaauuuugghhh!"

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[coydog]

So where’s the “Projectile Barf Alert” on this one?

[BelegStrongbow]

There really are no better words than Charlie’s there.

[Puppage]

There was no imagination to it. It was HORRIFIC.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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This can’t be right — he didn’t really say “Captured the world’s imagination” did he?

That wouldn’t make any sense!

[carton253]

Surely, he did not say that. Just when I thought I couldn’t be any more dumfounded.

[a fool in paradise]

It captured the world’s imagination because the press refused to air the clip of the horrors of Islamonazism. The audience had to “think” of what happened themselves.

[Califreak]

Beheadings do not capture one’s imagination, they horrify.

For something like that to capture your imagination, you’d have to be a bloodthirsty jihadist....

[pissant]

He’s speaking code to his islamist allies yet again

[John W]

Hmmm...

[Alberta's Child]

Good heavens. Let this guy speak without a teleprompter, and he’s less lucid than a babbling idiot.

[benewton]

I really need this clown show to be gone,

[TexasCajun]

Imagination? ...wasn’t there video ? ...then off camera you could hear everything.

[swarthyguy]

Very dubious choice of words. A most inappropriate tone.

Almost admiring.....Neil Armstrong captured the imagination of the world, but L’Affaire Pearl?

[GoCards]

Captured the worlds imagination? Does that seem odd to you, that statement?

[Crim]

Freudian slip...

I wonder if he watched it as a snuff flick...

[Spok]

It’s the glory of allah-only a muzzie would understand.

[caseinpoint]

The world of jihadists, perhaps. Is he including himself?

[GreenHornet]

“Captured the imagination?” This was not a sporting event - this was the cold blooded, sadistic murder of an innocent human being.