Mark Steyn: Obama's lazy tribute to Daniel Pearl

oc register ^ | 5/21/10 | Mark Steyn

[ExTexasRedhead]

Makes my skin crawl just reading about such a cold, calculating anti-American representing our country. The words I would rather use I can’t print here.

[McLynnan]

I started reading expecting Steyn’s usual on target humor. But it was appropriately sobering. Steyn is po’d. So am I.

[basil]

Another great column by MS.

The comments to his article article are very good.....

[Tax-chick]

Great article!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"I mentioned last week the attorney general's peculiar insistence that 'radical Islam' was nothing to do with the Times Square bomber, the Pantybomber, the Fort Hood killer. Just a lot of moments 'capturing the world's imagination.' For now, the jihadists seem to have ceased cutting our heads off.

Listening to Obama and Eric Holder, perhaps they've figured out there's nothing much up there anyway."

Steyn BUMP!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

jgc111 wrote:

“If I had to listen to Obama’s speeches, I’d cut my own head off!”

[GeronL]

Something we hoped could never happen here, we have literally elected an anti-American administration

[two23]

Good article; Steyn is brilliant when describing the character weaknesses of 0bama.

[griswold3]

Another ‘Obamaism’.

[two23]

"Another ‘Obamaism’"

The things that matter most to Real Americans, is what 0bama fails so miserably with.

[dennisw]

I saw some of this speech by 0bama. He was lifeless. His heart wasn’t in it at all. You can easily tell when he could care less about a certain issue. Cap and trade and 0bama-care are what really turn on our Kenyan socialist president

[KosmicKitty]

BO’s “captured our imaginations” was one of the most disgusting remarks I’ve ever heard. BO is am ass!!!

[rbg81]

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.”

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All I can say is: Huh? Daniel Pearl’s death had everything to do with him being Jewish and almost nothing to do with him being a reporter (except that he took stupid risks as a reporter). But, of course, that doesn’t fit Obama’s narrative that Islam=Peace, so it won’t be said. It almost sounds like Obama is using Pearl as an excuse to bail out all those failing liberal newspapers and ragazines.

[griswold3]

I think Jonathan Alter had him pegged. Obama lacks leadership skills. Alter pointed out the Obama failed to convince anyone to follow him.
kinda turns the Biden ‘joke’ about ‘look behind you, President Bush’ right back on Obama where it belongs.

[lonestar67]

Great article post. Steyn devastates the great faux orator.

[240B]

Not just Anti American but Pro Islam.

The most dangerous combination in history. Jimmah Carter was just a fool. But this guy is an actual enemy. Big difference.

[denydenydeny]

I saw some of this speech by 0bama. He was lifeless. His heart wasn’t in it at all. You can easily tell when he could care less about a certain issue. Cap and trade and 0bama-care are what really turn on our Kenyan socialist president

You can always tell when he cares about something, because he shows actual emotion, as in his infamous "Cambridge police acted stupidly" soundbite. When it comes to flashpoints of race or "social justice," our boy is always on fire. All other times, he's just a bad stage actor going through the motions transparently and obviously.

[spodefly]

Obama got elected President of the United States by using fluffy, meaningless, values-neutral, morally relative phrases. So for him, a man being beheaded with a knife isn’t horrific, infuriating, sickening, disgusting, or any of 1000 other emotions any human being would feel. For him, it’s a one world, one size fits all, opportunity to advance the collective ideology.

[IncPen]

This is a must read.

I can’t help but believe that this will change the hearts of even a few of his admirers.