Perl was killed because he was a jew - not because he was journalist some don't forget
On May 22, 8:31 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > After all Daniel Pearl was one of their own. Does the death of one of > their own really mean so little to the media? > > Establishment Press Largely Covers Obama's Tracks on Disgraceful > Daniel Pearl Remark > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/05/22/establishment-press-largely-cover...> > > Filed under: MSM Biz/Other Bias > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/msm-biz-bias/>, MSM Biz/Other > Ignorance <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/msm-biz-ignorance/>, Taxes > & Government <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/taxes-government/> --- > TBlumer @ 10:33 am > > DanielPearlInIslamistCaptorsVid2002President Barack Obama's statement > just before he signed the Freedom of the Press Act on Monday painfully > avoided reality to the point of giving offense. If it became widely > known, it would likely become very problematic. > > Here is what the President said > <http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-signing-...> > that was particularly offensive (bolds are mine): > > And 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, and it reminded us that there are > those who would go to any length in order to silence journalists > around the world. > > Two key administration-protecting original news disseminators picked up > on the need to keep the bolded words out of their news coverage of the > event. The Associated Press, which usually (i.e., almost always) quotes > the president in related stories, provided no quotes in its terse > five-paragraph report > <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3WHtDXRETxBP2JN2_i...>, > the first four of which follow (for fair use and discussion purposes, of > course): > > *Obama signs Freedom of Press Act* > > President Barack Obama has signed a law intended to provide more > protections for a free press around the world. > > The law, the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act, expands efforts to > identify countries where press freedom is being violated. The law is > named after Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded > by militants in Pakistan in 2002. > > The law expands an annual report on human rights practices to > include information about media treatment, and identify countries > where the media is being repressed. > > Obama said the law would be a signal to governments around the world > that their actions, including treatment of the media, are being watched. > > The New York Times's five-paragraph story > <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/18press.html?scp=2&sq=daniel+...> > quoted other portions of Obama's statement: > > *U.S. to Promote Press Freedom* > > President Obama signed legislation on Monday intended to promote a > free press around the world, a bipartisan measure inspired by the > murder in Pakistan of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal > reporter, shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. > > ... The new law "puts us clearly on the side of journalistic > freedom," Mr. Obama said, praising Mr. Pearl's family for being > "outspoken and so courageous" in pursuing the cause. With the law, > the president added, "his legacy lives on." > > The less influential wire service AFP must not have gotten the memo, as > carried it the statement quoted above. Its 10-paragraph story > <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5glN6l4afLkwukZGjvR...> > also provided historical context AP and the Times avoided, as well as a > clearly superior headline: > > *Obama signs law honoring slain reporter Daniel Pearl* > > ..."The loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured > the world's imagination because it reminded us how valuable a free > press is," Obama said. > > ... Pearl, 38, was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street > Journal when he was abducted in Karachi on January 23, 2002 while > researching a story about Islamist militants. > > A graphic video showing his decapitation was delivered to the US > consulate in the city nearly a month later. > > Mariane Pearl was pregnant with their son when her husband was murdered. > > In 2007, she filed a lawsuit Wednesday against 23 individuals and > organizations over the abduction and murder of Pearl, naming > Al-Qaeda, the group's alleged mastermind kingpin Khalid Sheikh > Mohammed --- who claimed responsibility for beheading Pearl and is > now in US custody --- and Pakistan's Habib Bank among the defendants. > > In his column > <http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/pearl-249812-daniel-obama.html> > today, Mark Steyn finishes the job AFP only began. As usual with Steyn, > read the whole thing. Here are selected paragraphs: > > ... its clumsiness and insipidness is most revealing. First of all, > note the passivity: "The loss of Daniel Pearl." He wasn't "lost." He > was kidnapped and beheaded. He was murdered on a snuff video. He was > specifically targeted, seized as a trophy, a high-value scalp. And > the circumstances of his "loss" merit some vigor in the prose. Yet > Obama can muster none. > > Even if Americans don't get the message, the rest of the world does. > This week's pictures of the leaders of Brazil and Turkey clasping > hands with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are also monuments to American passivity. > > But what did the "loss" of Daniel Pearl mean? Well, says the > president, it was "one of those moments that captured the world's > imagination." Really? Evidently it never captured Obama's > imagination because, if it had, he could never have uttered anything > so fatuous. 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." > > Notice how reflexively Obama lapses into sentimental one-worldism: > Despite our many zip codes, we are one people, with a single > imagination. In fact, the murder of Daniel Pearl teaches just the > opposite -- that we are many worlds, and worlds within worlds. Some > of them don't even need an "imagination." Across the planet, the > video of an American getting his head sawed off did brisk business > in the bazaars and madrassahs and Internet downloads. Excited young > men e-mailed it to friends, from cell phone to cell phone, from > Karachi to Jakarta to Khartoum to London to Toronto to Falls Church, > Virginia. In the old days, you needed an "imagination" to conjure > the juicy bits of a distant victory over the Great Satan. But in an > age of high-tech barbarism the sight of Pearl's severed head is a > mere click away. > > And the rest of "the world"? Most gave a shrug of indifference. And > far too many found the reality of Pearl's death too uncomfortable, > and chose to take refuge in the same kind of delusional pap as Obama. > > I daresay that if a Republican or conservative president had suggested > that the "loss" of Dr. Martin Luther King had "captured the world's > imagination," the AP and the Times would not have so deliberately > avoided such a statement, and would instead have eagerly sought out > others to criticize it. > > /Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org > <http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2010/05/22/establishment-pres...>. > / > > /http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/05/22/establishment-press-largely-cover... > / > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help seehttp://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community athttp://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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