Sick. Obama Says Daniel Pearl's Beheading "Captured the World's Imagination" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 4:35 PM
(This post was bumped.)
That’s crazy sick. Obama told reporters yesterday that the video of Islamic radicals sawing off a Daniel Pearl’s head with a butter knife “capured the world’s imagination.”
“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.”
No, Barack. It was horrifying.
And… It had nothing to do with freedom of the press. They beheaded Daniel Pearl because he was an American and a Jew. They beheaded Daniel Pearl because they were Islamic radicals. Something you have not yet figured out.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
Neoavatara commented:
What the hell?
And this guy is supposed to be a ‘great communicator’? That is one of the worst episodes of word phrasing I have ever heard…including anything said by Bush.
http://www.neoavatara.com/blog
S. Wolf commented:
He didn’t mean the civilized world, merely the backward Mohammedan world to which he belongs.
DavidL commented:
If Dim Won is a great communicator, then I am Shirley Temple. The description for people who communicate like Obama is inarticulate.
jomojava commented:
Something that “captures the imagination” is a thing that one wants to strive for and emulate.
Perhaps it actually captured Sultan Obummer’s imagination.
newton commented:
“captured the world’s imagination”…
?
Like Indiana Jones? Harry Potter? Jurassic Park?
Keep the speechwriter you have, Barry. At the rate you’re going and with such great speech-writing talent surrounding you, sending you packing in 2012 without a bit of regret will be so much easier!
DINORight commented:
And I thought nothing that man said would shock or amaze me. That is the lowest, most heinous thing he has said, that I am aware of, at least.
He is beneath contempt. Un-presidential, un-American. One Big Awful Mistake America. Disgusting.
Tom Kubiak commented:
What a boob and to think that the majority of our Country voted for this idiot. Vote in November to minimize this fools impact.
Chisum commented:
And when asked President Messiah expressed himself to be profoundly baffled as to why he is at (-17) at the Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
How low can he go?
wolf commented:
Yes, it captured the world’s imagination; if that is the way one wishes to kill Jews!
ice commented:
Capture the Worlds imagination in November.
bg commented:
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i’m sticking with my bg @ 9:52 am #18 opinion..
OT.. in memory of the latest unmentionables.. *sigh*
The Eleven Who Perished in the Gulf Oil Rig Explosion
[I have not seen any stories in the American press about the victims.
Have you also noticed Obama has not expressed any concern for those
that perished?]
he didn’t express much sympathy
for the Fort Hood victims either..
[We hope someday to be able to thank George W. and Laura in person for all they’ve done, and continue to do. They didn’t have to head to Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.
The Obamas should have done that.
But didn’t.
Wouldn’t.
Thank goodness George W. is still on his
watch, with wonderful Laura at his side.]
Obama is a narcissistic IslaMarxist, period..
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SeniorD commented:
President B. Hussein Zero (the Almighty in his own mind) is also capturing the world’s attention through his complete lack of ability to even manage a lemonade stand, let alone the world’s only Superpower.
November can’t come fast enough.
Adirondack Patriot commented:
See. Harvard Law only chooses the best and the brightest to serve as editor of their Law review.
Kevin P commented:
The teleprompter made him say it.
Imagine what OBowMao’s been imagining!!! Is that what coke does to you?
ice #10 – I’m with you!
Freddy commented:
Obama has handed the people that committed this barbaric act EXACTLY what they wanted.
Look for copycats, that desire Obama’s approval, to release more videos in the near future!
Sen. Fuller Bull- D commented:
I wish he was standing next to me so that he could capture my regurgitation.
Isn’t it funny how many Ivy Leaguers “mis-speak?”
I shake my head, laugh, and think that these are the people who laugh at Sarah Palin for writing on her hand.
antisocialist commented:
The description for people who communicate like Obama is inarticulate.
No, I think the proper term is “dumba$$”.
Anonymous commented:
Obama is TREASON 24/7/365, a RADICAL IDEOLOGUE 24/7/365, an ANTI-AMERICAN 24/7/365, a USURPER 24/7/365, and a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR 24/7/365.
Impeach Obama
rulm commented:
I’m IMAGINING his Head on a Pyke ……… right beside the heads of his entire administration. But, I have a pretty un-PC imagination.
Dwayne the canoe guy commented:
Okay, so I googled the phrase “Captures the imagination” and landed here:
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/imagination
which had this:
“If you say that someone or something captured your imagination, you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time.”
Wow, Barack. Just. WOW.
mike191 commented:
Paging David Brooks,the stupid entertainer.
Kevin P commented:
Maybe he wouldn’t “mis-speak” so frequently if he were to actually hold a real press conference every now and then.
168 days until November elections.
noislamocommie commented:
This usurper is an ACT of WAR aidded and abetted by open borders radicals and Islamocommunists.
Conservatives better master the upper hand in language and activism to beat this back.The 40 million illegals are compliments of the leftist oligarchy Bush clan just to grease the skids for O-muzzie.
Big Mo commented:
Mark this down as another “if Bush had said this…” Is anyone compiling these idiotic statements from Obama? I’m waiting for the first Obummerisms daily desktop calendar.
Dan Pearl commented:
Barack Obama captured the world’s imagination by beheading America’s international supremacy.
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2008-11-05-voa29-66795077.html
Auntie Em commented:
I am personally deeply offended when he speaks of any American tragedy. He purposefully ruins it because he’s an evil POS.
I am glad he has not soiled the deaths of the those workers in the Gulf. For him to express any of his signature nose-in-air-tongue-in-the-cheek sympathy would only cheapen their lives and deaths.
The families want him FAR away. (I know some…I am not just talking out of my…)
I hope AirForce One crashes obliterating his sorry, despicable, hate-filled life.
manateespirit commented:
#20,
Okay, so I googled the phrase “Captures the imagination” and landed here:
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/imagination
which had this:
“If you say that someone or something captured your imagination, you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time.”
*************************************
I was thinkig exactly what you posted. “Captures the imagination” is a phrase which envokes hope and creates a possibility in a person’s mind…such as a great work of art, music, literature, etc.
What happened to Daniel Pearl should be described as “the most base and despicable act known to civilization”.
“Captures the imagination”…really, Barack? Whose side on you really on? Are you thinking that’s what you’d like to do to those who oppose your policies and excercise THEIR FREEDOM OF SPEECH? It wouldn’t surprise me. After all, you’ve promised to hit back twice as hard…
squeaky commented:
it doesn’t capture my imagination rather it breaks my heart no matter if it’s daniel pearl,
the south korean contractor, the average joe iraqi and on and on. the inhumanity and out and out savage behavior is not any thing to
capture one’s imagination.
Kevin P commented:
Auntie Em #26 – don’t become one of them. You’re better than they are.
ogee commented:
This is no mistake. He meant what he said. He means the world or dictators who hate Americans
found the beheading of an American “interesting or exciting when they saw it or heard it for the first time.”
This anti-american, illegal alien, fraudulent criminal phoney who uses 100 different social security card #’s is hated by 80% of Americans. The polls don’t reflect the truth.
This is a liars excuse to clamp down on our free speech rights. 8 years of a drunken neo con, anti privacy rights dictator and now the dictator torch gets passed to this baffoon. How much more can we take?
Kevin P commented:
I always thought the “American Dream” captured the imagination.
Ronald Reagan helped capture our Nation’s imagination.
bg commented:
++
IMO, Obama is hell bent on correcting Hitler
& the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem “mistakes”..
please read carefully, because irrespective of all of the other incriminating factors, the following alone tells me what the “transitioner” Obama’s game plan has been all about..
[In 1933 the German establishment thought it could use Hitler to restore a modicum of order to the confused and confusing Weimar Republic. In fact, Hitler did strengthen the German establishment, but not exactly in the way the bankers and businessmen had wanted; and now, fifty years later, it is clear who was using whom. Nevertheless, the Western World did not complain in 1933 because Hitler, though a fascist and a totalitarian, was seen, like countless American puppet dictators today, as someone who leaves the established order in place.]
more @ bg @ 11:45 pm #17..
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gus commented:
Excuse me people but I need to ‘splain something to you.
Obama is a f@#$ up. He says and does completely assinine things.
NO BODY IN HIS WORLD TELLS HIM HE HAS SCREWED UP.
They all lick his balls and tell him his pants are creased nicely. He lives the life of an enabled narcissist.
When he hears that people out there in the huddled masses are having TEA PARTIES to protest his MARXIST CONTROL, he is AMUSED.
You need to understand that.
xxx commented:
This country has turned into a nightmare. Hussein is a demon!
Hugh commented:
Truly–what is wrong with this person? “Captured the world’s imagination”? What? WHAT?! Mental illness. Like we didn’t already figure that one out . . .
Lori commented:
The “loss” of Daniel Pearl? Why can’t anyone in the Obama administration call things what they are? “Murder,” “butchering,” “beheading,” “slaughter”… any of those words would have been a more accurate term for what these animals did to Daniel Pearl. That’s like calling terrorism a “man-made disaster”… oh wait, never mind. That one’s already been taken by Janet Napolitano.
logprof commented:
How can you say it “captured the imagination” when it was explicity shown on video? We’re not talking about great oror movie special effects –it’s reality.
Don Rodrigo commented:
“”"”" They all lick his balls “”"”"”
Isn’t that the definition of “Tea-Bagging?”
Was Obama’s “imagination” phrase from his master, the teleprompter? If so, the speechwriter’s either coked-up or a sociopath.
right4us commented:
“They beheaded Daniel Pearl because they were Islamic radicals. Something you have not yet figured out.”
Oh – but he HAS figured it out – and KNOWS full well. It is the leftist agenda to ignore it – not report on it – or to marginalize it – then it is of little to no consequence.
And if you mention it you are a bigot, racist, Islamophobic, terrorist, teabagging, KKK supporting white devil – that the rest of the world needs to purge from the face of the earth!
This is where we are with the left in power.
That’s how twisted these pure deceivers are!!
newton commented:
Auntie Em,
There’s no need for that kind of talk.
I’m convinced that it will not be Obama’s enemies who will destroy him, but his “friends.”
As I said earlier in the thread,
“Keep the speechwriter you have, Barry. At the rate you’re going and with such great speech-writing talent surrounding you, sending you packing in 2012 without a bit of regret will be so much easier!”
Ebayer commented:
“captured the world’s imagination?”
What the hell?
Is he insinuating that the sadistic murder made for good viewing?
Obama is a sick twisted freak
archer52 commented:
Guys, I’m telling you, laugh if you will, but he is a sociopath. I’ve dealt with them all my career. From little kids, to young adults, to grown people who simply “act” a part in a big play where they are at center stage.
Obama says things he thinks makes sense. Things he thinks normal people should say. It’s an act, he is starring in his own play.
Just like the President in my book REVOLT, he simply does what he thinks will push his personal desires forward. Sociopaths have needs and dreams and desires, but they don’t care about how those things effect others. It is all about them, all the time. Clinton was a sociopath-lite personality. He actually needed attention and would do anything he had to in order to get it. Obama is different. He hates something and it infects his vision of reality.
Maybe it was his dad, or his spacey mom, or being exposed to the hatred that is communism as a child, but something snapped. You can see it in his hidden anger, his belief that HE is above everything else.
As a normal person you and I are subject to the same desire to say “What about me?!” But we have this switch in our heads that stops us from acting out with that being our only goal. We realize that we are not the only ones involved in our lives, we suffer or sacrifice for the good of others. Sociopaths do not.
It is going to be a long three years or longer.
Alana commented:
As I said on Hot Air, I finally figured out a prayer I could pray regarding Obama. I always pray for his safety, as I don’t want anything to happen to him.
But I can’t pray for his wisdom, as is customary in my religion, because in his hands, a little wisdom can do a great deal of harm.
What I pray for is that he always says what he thinks. Candidly. To where people simply can’t help but notice what he thinks and what kind of a person he is.
So this little tidbit, which formerly would have infuriated me, now stands as an answer to my prayer. To an extent I wouldn’t have predicted, that makes the whole thing a LOT easier to take.
May he continue speaking his mind.
gail commented:
“Harvard Law only chooses the best and the brightest to serve as editor of their Law review.”
He was president of the Law Review, not editor. Which is something like being bat boy for the baseball team.
Peggy commented:
I can see why he needs a teleprompter. He has a very poor way with words. And that’s a gracious way of looking at this gaffe. I will tell you, I call him President Death, as he favors infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics-embryonic stem cell research, etc. I hate to think he cheered when this video “captured his imagination.” Dear Gosh.
listingstarboard commented:
Also remember that KSM is credited with being the person who murdered Daniel Pearl. Don’t ever underestimate the hidden meaning and symbolism behind everything Obama does. Obama adheres to the Koran.
Jesusland commented:
That’s the lesson to be learned from Daniel Pearl’s beheading? The press is free? Laugh Out Loud.
olm commented:
I agree Archer. Although I don’t think he will last longer than 3 years, but he is one seriously sick man.
kyle commented:
No, Mr. President.
His cold blooded mutilation-murder reminded us how much those killers hate Jews. Read the statement he was forced to make before he was beheaded. He didn’t have to admit to being a journalist. He had to recite his Jewish lineage over and over.
As for “capturing our imagination”… no, it didn’t do that. Pixar animation captures our imagination. National Geographic’s scenic photography captures our imagination. A filmed beheading triggers revulsion–at least in most of us.
Pat the First commented:
I hope AirForce One crashes obliterating his sorry, despicable, hate-filled life.
No, you don’t. That would make him a martyr. Look at what the assassination of Kennedy made of him. Most historians with any truth in their body will tell you that Kennedy was heading to be one of the worse Presidents we ever had. No, you don’t want B.O. to die in office.
However, there is something he has been hiding because he will not release so much of his personal records. He is the only President we have had with so much secrecy. Someone needs to find out what it is and have him taken out of the WH in cuffs. That would be a great ending to his Presidency in my book.
Re: this last statement of B.O. If I were Daniel Pearl’s family right now, I cannot tell you how much that statement would offend me. I hope they speak out.
CattusMagnus commented:
What an effing @$$hole.
HoosierArmyMom commented:
Just when I think this covert muzzie that occupies the White House has blown me away with his nerve and self serving BS… he says something like this!!! Holy Cow, are we in trouble!
One of his nutbag Czars wants to control the internet too!
http://visiontoamerica.org/articles/uncovered-audio-obamas-regulatory-czar-pushes-plan-for-legally-controlling-information.html
Jesusland commented:
Umm, yeah, Daniel Pearl’s beheading was really inspiring.
Chris commented:
The teleprompter must have malfunctioned and the great orator had to speak from the heart.
Callipygian1 commented:
This man is so unbelievably stupid, if judged by his actions and words, that nobody like him will even remotely be given consideration for public office for myriad years.
For too long good Americans believed that the people we elected would work in our best interests. Our lethargy and dereliction allowed this to come about.
It’s time to relegate the unicorn breeders and butterfly ranchers back to the lunatic fringe. They have had their moments in the sun, and clearly were not up to the task.
“Don’t poke the bear” -The bear has been poked, and is now wide awake.
Robert McCoy commented:
You people live in some kind of parallel universe. Or at least a universe that doesn’t include context. He was signing a bill honoring Daniel, whose widow and daughter were standing next to him. Here’s the quote in it’s entirety,
“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.”
The true words of a terrorist.
StrangernFiction commented:
Leftists are BIZARRE creatures, and this dude is WAY LEFT!
bg commented:
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ht RG: Colonel Allen West
“this is not a perversion”
pass it on!!
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liz commented:
I told you HE IS MENTALLY ILL
Feeney commented:
This barbaric act had nothing to do with journalism; it was about terrorism. Very disturbing that a President can’t bring himself to admit this. His pansy-ass multiculturalism is disgusting.
Karen commented:
This is a very ill man. He has Sociopathic Personality Disorder.
Some of the symptoms:
Glibness and Superficial Charm
Manipulative and Conning
Do not recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering.
Grandiose Sense of Self
Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities.
Shallow Emotions
Warmth, joy, love and compassion are feigned and serve an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of others.
Sojourner commented:
.. I am thinking right now of my friend, Dani, who died in the Towers on 9/11.. she’s looking down, I just know, on this feckless Poser and nudging him ever so gently,to speak his mind more, so that we will listen and be revolted and ‘capture in our imaginations’ how dangerously detached from human feelings he is…and never forget.
2012 can’t come too soon.
gus commented:
Yes Mr. McCoy, the Islamofascists were seeking to SILENCE A FREE PRESS.
It’s beyond absurd.
Nick commented:
You forgot to add to the entire sentence, more faux-pas outrage: “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”.
gus commented:
Yes Nick, the Islamfascists that were beheading Daniel Pearl were ANTI- FREE-PRESS.
They made it clear that they were against a FREE PRESS by making him speak of his PRESS CREDENTIALS.
right??
Floradora commented:
There’s no other way to put it…there is something SERIOUSLY WRONG with Barack Obama.
Opus #6 commented:
Daniel Pearl stated just before his torture murder:
“My name is Daniel Pearl. I am a Jewish American from Encino, California USA. I come from, uh, on my father’s side the family is Zionist. My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We’ve made numerous family visits to Israel. Back in the town of Bnei Brak there is a street named after my great grandfather Chaim Pearl who is one of the founders of the town.”
He did not mention journalism, or a free press. He was murdered by Muslim terrorists because he was a Jew.
This act may have captured some people’s “imagination” but it horrified and nauseated most others.
bg commented:
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archer52 @ 3:16 pm #43
re: [we suffer or sacrifice for the
good of others. Sociopaths do not.]
Islam and Black Liberation Theology
[Islam and BLT are both based upon the principle of duality. The Koran divides up humanity into Muslims and the kafirs (unbelievers). BLT has a god that divides humanity into blacks and whites. But the duality is not the division, but a complete separation that is ethical, political, cultural and religious. The believer has nothing in common with the kafir/white. Allah loves the Muslim and a black god loves the blacks.
Allah preaches violence against the kafirs and helps Muslims to kill them. The Koran says that cruelty and hatred of the kafir is a sacred duty for Muslims.
Neither Islam nor BLT ever acknowledges the suffering of its enemies. Jihad has killed over 270 million kafirs over the last 1400 years, but there has never been any acknowledgment of the destruction of kafirs. In Mohammed's official biography, the Sira, there are hundreds of pages devoted to jihad against the kafirs. There is not one time when Mohammed expressed remorse about the beheading, torturing, killing, raping and robbery of the kafirs. Indeed, there are many occasions when he laughed at the kafirs' suffering.
The duality of total separateness from the kafir/white creates an ethical position. Ethics become dualistic. The kafir/white is treated differently from the "brother/sister". Since Allah/black God hates and plots against kafirs/whites there is no empathy with the victims of the aggression. There is no remorse and, therefore, there is never an apology. There is nothing to apologize for. Allah/black God wanted them dead, so there is
no need to weep.
This dualism in ethics means that the kafir/white can be deceived,
robbed, insulted, raped, brutalized and killed in the name of good.
However, injuries to Islam are never forgotten, no matter how long ago they happened. Witness the ranting about the Crusades, which happened seven hundred years ago. BLT has a similar fixation on the injury of slavery, the "original sin" of America. Demands for apologies from the kafir/white are a standard fare of Islam/BLT. But any injury to the kafir/white is justified by the ethical doctrine.]
The Near Enemy
[We have two sets of enemies. The far enemy is the politics of Islam.
The near enemies are the dhimmi apologists, fueled by ignorance and multiculturalism and political correctness.]
amongst other things i’m sure, Islamists are (more or less) Sociopaths
[A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others and inability or unwillingness to conform to what are considered to be the norms of society.]
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LK commented:
back to the ghetto maybe a drive-by will capture the worlds imagination.
Feeney commented:
This is crucial. This is the tipping point. The beheading of Daniel Pearl and others showed all Americans that we are dealing with a barbaric enemy. The fact that Obama would use this horror as a media event about “journalism” is disgusting. Disgusting!
bg commented:
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re: bg #70
pay very close attention @ the 1:48 mark..
The Koran says that cruelty and hatred
of the kafir is a sacred duty for Muslims.
a bit more here..
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StrangernFiction commented:
Thanks for the link bg, that is tremendous.
As for your essential point of clarification Mr. McCoy (#59). The fact that you are defending the use of the phrase “CAPTURED THE WORLD’S IMAGINATION” to describe the effect that the videotaped BEHEADING of a HUMAN BEING had on the world, says quite a lot about you, and none of it is good.
And please don’t respond — having realized the obvious error in your thinking on the matter — with something like, “sure it wasn’t an appropriate thing for POTUS to have said, but people make mistakes and you are ready to crucify him over it.” Because this is far from our first trip down, “who is this guy in the White House” lane Robert.
Chisum commented:
No, no radical Islam here.
No way.
Frustrated Man With Mortgage Problems Had Five Terror Targets
Poor thing was so frustrated that he couldn’t pay his mortgage he decided mass murder was the proper course of action.
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/05/frustrated-man-with-mortgage-problems.html
Scott commented:
#58
It didn’t capture the world’s imagination…The civilized world was horrified! Freedom of the press had nothing to do with it…Daniel Pearl was executed because he was an American and a Jew. NOT BECAUSE HE WAS A JOURNALIST! You and your dear leader are dangerous delusional fools…
Scott commented:
Their most definitely is an enemy in our midst…And he happens to be in the Whitehouse…He is doing everything but saying that he is an Islamist…He is too much of a coward to do that!
Militant Conservative commented:
Death to terrorists foreign and domestic.
Terry Gain commented:
The brutal killing of Pearl alerted me to the evils of Islam. The daily attacks of Obama on common sense and decency are painful reminders of how stupid are the elite liberals and 53% of the American public.
Petrakore commented:
And just when you think this flaming geyser of poo can’t say anything more ridiculous he says this about the gruesome beheading of Daniel Pearl:
“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.”
Captured our imagination???!!! The ‘loss’ of Daniel Pearl??? What is it about some poor guy getting his head slowly sawn off with a dull knife that is worthy of capturing anyone’s imagination? Since when is brutal murder done at the hands of disgusting, hate-filled muslims considered a ‘loss’?
I loathe this man with every fiber of my being.
But I say, let him keep flapping his callous gums. The more he speaks, the more he exposes the evil core of his despicable self. Let us all recoil in horror at what this man really is on the inside!
marie commented:
This man has no soul. Pure evil.
James Peterson commented:
Oh Lord I pray
for the dissolution and disappearance
of Islam, and that Muslims, Islam’s first victims
turn to and claim Jesus as
their Lord and Saviour
MVH commented:
What a moral i-di-ot!
Nan commented:
I guess for all the serial killers and sadists in the earth’s population it was really a thrill. For everyone else it was sickening to see such barbarism in the 21st century. What next? the holocaust captured the world’s imagination, Rwanda, the Armenian Genocide, Pol Pot? And BHO wants to be friends with them. Such a disconnect from reality. Heavy dissociation.
Elly commented:
Daniel Pearl was not executed because he represented free press. Was he a member of the press? yes. Was he an advocate of free press? yes. Was this called into question by his captors? No. Was his faith and heritage called out? YES.
Daniel Pearl was executed because he was Jewish.
bg commented:
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re: bg #70
[Since Muslims are the best of people and follow a perfect doctrine,
there is no need to even examine Islam, since, ipso facto, it is right.
Therefore, all criticism of Islam is hate speech.]
President Obama agrees with Muslims that United
Nations can Regulate Free Speech Of Every Nation
Obama’s UN Resolution to Stifle Free Speech on Islam
[On October 1, 2009, the Obama administration in conjunction with the Egyptian government, introduced an anti-free speech measure to the United Nation’s Human Rights Council (HRC). It was adopted the next
day without a vote.]
we didn’t even mention his canceling the traditional National Day of Prayer & celebrating Ramadan at the White House, not to mention him
banning Graham from attending the Day of Prayer @ the Pentagon..
(few more links @ bg @ 9:11 pm #19).. and too numerous to link other anti-Christian pro-Islamist Obama fatwas, gah!!
don’t get me wrong they can have their day,
just don’t take OTHERS DAY AWAY, duh!!
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bg commented:
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StrangernFiction @ 5:03 pm #74
thank you & you’re welcome..
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pst314 commented:
“captured the world’s imagination” sounds about right for a man who spent so many years in the anti-Semitic Rev Wright’s church of hate and fascism.
Militant Conservative commented:
Damn bg your intellectually brutal, must be why I love you. It is hard to fight logic and evidence. hat tip and good job. powder is dry.
bg commented:
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ps re: bg #87
Christians to Pray as White House Observes Ramadan
[“Since assuming office in January, President Obama has not only regularly passed up opportunities to affirm and celebrate America’s
Judeo Christian heritage, but at times, he’s appeared to go out of his
way to suggest the opposite is true,” said Shirley Dobson, chairman of
the National Day of Prayer Task Force.
“In light of these recent events, the president’s decision to carry on the tradition of hosting a White House dinner to celebrate the Muslim holy season of Ramadan is curious. Our disappointment, however, is not with the President’s decision to host such a celebration. Quite the contrary.
It’s simply unfortunate that he didn’t choose to extend the same level of courtesy and recognition this past May to the millions of supporters and organizers of the National Day of Prayer.”
The Rev. Johnny Hunter, an African-American pro-life leader who was arrested on the National Day of Prayer while praying outside the White House, said that by hosting the Ramadan observance President Obama
“is distinctly placing Islam above Christianity.”
"He's stated before the entire world that we're not a Christian nation," added the founder of L.E.A.R.N. Inc. "By him turning his back on Christians on a day when we're to pray to God, then turn around and make such a flamboyant move toward Islam, it tells me that it's not America that's not Christian, it's the president that's not Christian."]
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bg commented:
James Peterson @ 5:36 pm #82
oh i’m with you..
unfortunately for US, Obama believes he is our “savior”..
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’ …
Father Obama, Mother Gaia
not only that, but the NOI believes he’s the Messiah, and the MSM considers him to be some sort of god (who obviously has the power
to send tingles up Chris Matthews leg, uhg)..
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Joanne commented:
I never watched the video, because I knew it would be a nightmare I would never be able to get out of my head. It wasn’t anyone’s imagination, it was everyone’s reality, and it would be nice if Obama was capable of feeling empathy for another human being.
Joanne commented:
America is under seige from within, and a Muslim is at the helm. Why send planes into towers, when you can just put a Muslim in the office of POTUS and take over from within.
Steve commented:
Our President is truly and idiot!
bg commented:
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ht Jasser via AIFD
Concerns about the mosque and
Cultural Center at Ground Zero
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CapedConservative commented:
I think he was speaking (for himself) a great truth. Radical Muslims beheaded Pearl and released the video seeking to use the free press to get the disgusting video aired. To radical Muslims (otherwise known as Worshipers of the Pedophile), the value of the free press of which Obama speaks is real. Why, I’d bet he even had popcorn while watching.
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Radegunda commented:
Elly #86, that’s a crucial point. Daniel Pearl was not executed because he was a journalist, but because he was a Jew.
Did Obummer acknowledge that basic fact? If not, he was (once again) being dishonest. It’s probably very hard for him to admit in public that Muslims kill Jews just because they are Jews, although he’s probably well aware that they do.
And to the apologists: “captured the world’s imagination” is still a bizarre turn of phrase, even in context. Any Republican who said that would be pilloried (by you, probably) as insensitive and/or illiterate.
bg commented:
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Daniel Pearl Foundation
Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin
yes it’s a great honor, and Daniel Pearl more than
deserves to be memorialized in such a manner..
however, Obama not only jumping on the bandwagon to take credit for all of the great work that’s been done in his name, but once again (more or less) driving
his words up a one way Islamist street was, to say the very least, disrespectful..
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bg commented:
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Militant Conservative @6:39 pm #90
oh my, i’m laughing, but still floored..
thank you..
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Lostin Lifesways commented:
So there’s no main stream media bias, but imagine the wall-to-wall coverage if Pres. Bush had said that…
bg commented:
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Lostin Lifesways @ 8:18 pm #101
eh, not to worry, i’m sure he’ll eventually find
a way to blame Bush for him saying it.. /sarc/
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Omstrat commented:
This clown has GOT TO GO . Street garbage from day one and still street garbage like his wife.
I hope you folks realize that an enemy of the united states is actually the president. Obama will go down in history as the single biggest mistake America ever made. He is trying to crash the system in the wake of a Marxist takeover. With 3 more years left he may just do it unless people wake up. He is a Muslim sympathizer and a Marxist American hater.
Patti commented:
Ice water flows through those veins. I am left without words to express how inappropriate and unfeeling I believe the President’s comments were.
It is a rather surreal world we are living in right now
David commented:
It certainly captured my imagination. I have never been more than a few feet from a loaded gun ever since I had the misfortune of seeing that video. I never want to see it again.
Costa commented:
Dear Daniel Pearl’s family,
Please know that most of the American people still think of you from time to time and we are sorry for your loss. We are sickened to our very soul about Daniel’s murder.
Also know this, most of the American people are wishing obummer would STHU! We are angry that the one called a president is not a President but one sick, mentally ill, usurper with no soul.
God Bless the Pearl family and America, bless us with an end to this madness!
Elly commented:
Radegunda #98 – one listens to the words that Obama came up with and has to wonder what went through Mrs. Pearl’s thoughts.
What would have been appropriate is for Obummer to denounce the murderous acts, to pledge to bring the perpetrators to justice and then to acknowledge the fanatical, violent theology that serves to unite these highly motivated, dangerous, islamacists.
If this CIC is not willing to be transparent and completely honest about the enemy we face, as westerners, Christians and protectors of freedom – then it’s high time we start some loud dialogue without him.
I still find his statements absurd and offensive and very, very telling – as usual.
I would love to see every city put on a forum where the public and religous representatives can come together with the muslims in that area and ask questions… like:
What’s the difference between the Islam you practice and those of terrorists? Why are they violent and you are not? Do you approve of westerns, those Jewish, Christian and likewise? What does the Quran say about your dedication? Which muslim is right, which is wrong for how they demonstrate their faith? Do you denounce the jihadists, the terrorists? Do you pledge to uphold the freedoms you enjoy here, including the freedom of religion for non-muslims? Do you want sharia law enacted here in the US?
Once we get these types of questions, and the answers out in the open – then we can (as communities and individuals) identify exactly where we are at and where we are headed. I wonder if this kind of transparency is exactly what Obummer is trying to keep under lid.
Andreas K. commented:
Well, from a certain point of view he’s actually right.
The world could finally imagine what would happen to us should the islamo-fascists win.
Other than that… Obama, GTFO out of the WH and the US. Move to Iran or some other moosel sh*thole.
As for Daniel Pearl, it wasn’t the first video I’ve seen. But it certainly strengthened my position. Let me explain shortly: the first video I saw was the beheading of the one Japanese they had captured. He was tied up, kneeling, they forced him on the ground, three guys were pinning him down while the fourth was sawing his head off with a knife. During the whole “procedure” they were chanting “allahu ackbar.”
The only thing I managed to think after seeing it was: “We have to kill them, all of them, until either all moosels are dead, or they finally reform their death cult and become peaceful.”
Hate me, but this is how it is. This is what it will come down to. Them or us. 1 billion moosels vs 5 billion Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, and the rest. Them or us.
That’s the… inconvenient truth.
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
Obama off-script…
scary to think what ‘actually’ goes on between those ears.
joe commented:
What the President actually said:
“All around the world there are enormously courageous journalists and bloggers who, at great risk to themselves, are trying to shine a light on the critical issues that the people of their country face; who are the frontlines against tyranny and oppression. 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.”
Nice fair and balanced reporting. What an immense and utter douche.
LibsAreCommies commented:
This unpresidential, classless ghetto gangsta gotsta go, “By any means necessary”…
bg commented:
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Andreas K. @ 4:13 am #109
good post, understand where you’re
coming from, just don’t agree with:
[Well, from a certain point
of view he’s actually right.]
one would have to ignore the “beheaded” in the room.. so pray tell
what point that would be, i mean.. “CAPTURED THE WORLD’S IMAGINATION” is freakin’ DISNEY WORLD speak for (fitb) sake..
hell-O..
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bg commented:
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Famously Secular France Now Finances Mosques
found that researching for another post & thought it quite relevant to the following:
re: bg #96
Ground Zero Mosque
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bg commented:
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via Act! for America
please sign the petition..
We Oppose the Mosque at “Ground Zero”
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bg commented:
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hey GP..
what’s up with that No Gravatar interference??
is that my Gravatar now??
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Gisele commented:
He is an idiot that says idiotic things.
Greg commented:
What’s sick is your obviously delusional interpretation and the rabid rantings of your clearly deranged minions. Good grief. Hoft.
bg commented:
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Greg @ 11:48 am #120
oh really.. then post your evidence where
your fingers meet the blog (so to speak)..
as opinions (no matter how ad hominem inverted) facts do not make..
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bg commented:
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re: bg #118
all gone now..
thanks!!
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debrarae commented:
Oh Geez ……Daniel Peal was BUTCHERED because he was a American, and because he was a JEW…..
Nice of BO to leave THAT out of it.
But then BO ‘loves’ the JEWS the way the ISLAMISTS do!
AuntieMadder commented:
Sen. Fuller Bull- D
May 18th, 2010 | 2:18 pm | #16
I wish he was standing next to me so that he could capture my regurgitation.
LOL!
AuntieMadder commented:
Lostin Lifesways
May 18th, 2010 | 8:18 pm | #101
So there’s no main stream media bias, but imagine the wall-to-wall coverage if Pres. Bush had said that…
No sh!t! The lefturds at PuffHo and DKos would be frothing at the mouth as they post thousands of venemous comments to the just as venemous editorials written by each and every mouth-frothing writer at those two libtarded blog-rags on the topic of that statement.
sally commented:
you realize daniel pearl’s young son was standing right next to the president, don’t you? you’d like him to go into detail about what happened to his father? really?????
Chisum commented:
Sally,
I suspect that Daniel Pearl’s son knows the truth about why his father was murdered.
You’re not very good as an Obama apologist.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/pearl-249812-daniel-obama.html
Only sane person here. commented:
Oh my god what a collection of morons you people are. A 17 second clip taken out of context.
Daniel Pearl WAS A JOURNALIST. He was writing a story when he was kidnapped and executed. THIS (Daniel Pearl’s investigative journalism) is the free press to which Obama was praising.
You idiots think he was praising an execution as free press? Duuhh You all must be Republicans.