United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power on Monday tweeted a bizarre statement about slain journalist Daniel Pearl and “individual accountability” that offended some and confused others.
Her attempts to explain herself only made matters worse.
Power tweeted:
Daniel Pearl's story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence. @DanielPearlFNDN
— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) February 24, 2014
Pearl, then 38 and the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped by jihadists in Pakistan four months after 9/11. Nine days later, on Feb. 1, 2002, Pearl was grusomely beheaded by al-Qaida member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. After being forced to read a prepared statement, his throat was slit and his head sawn off – a scene capture on videotape. The statement said:
My name is Daniel Pearl. I’m a Jewish American from Encino, California, U.S.A. … My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We’ve made numerous family visits to Israel.
Power’s tweet sparked immediate outrage and confusion. The Legislative and Advocacy Committee of Concerned Woman for America tweeted:
@AmbassadorPower @DanielPearlFNDN Samantha Powers comment on Daniel Pearl is so shocking it takes the breath away
— CWA LAC (@CWforA) February 24, 2014
Florida GOP political consultant Rick Wilson took the videotaped Pearl murder to its conclusion:
@AmbassadorPower How, precisely, does on reconcile with medieval savages who traffic in videotaped decapitation porn?
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 24, 2014
Still other Twitter users wondered just how far Power wanted to take her “blame the victim” mindset. Here are a few examples:
“Those 3000 people in the twin towers were just being held accountable for their participation in capitalism.” – Ambassador Power, probably.
— Shaun McDonnell (@McShauno) February 24, 2014
Ambassador Power probably blames Ambassador Stevens for #Benghazi https://t.co/u2nMBsOj6q
— Razor (@hale_razor) February 24, 2014
Another Twitter user summed it up this way:
@AmbassadorPower I watched the Daniel Pearl beheading video and you are either completely ignorant or just evil
— Brad Rehn (@rehnb1) February 24, 2014
Power tried to make things all better with a follow-up tweet — but it was just as ludicrous as the first:
Correction: @DanielPearlFNDN’s work is a reminder that individual accountability + reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence.
— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) February 24, 2014
It left T. Booker Adams, a business writer for The Blaze, just as flummoxed:
@AmbassadorPower I still have no idea what this means. @DanielPearlFNDN
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) February 24, 2014
Perhaps the best explanation was offered in the form of a question by another Twitter user:
@AmbassadorPower do you smoke crack?
— jon player (@jonbassplayer) February 24, 2014
President Obama appointed Power to fill the vacancy left by Susan Rice, who became national security advisor. Power’s appointment was controversial because of anti-Israeli and anti-American comments she’d made in the past.
It sounds like the tigress hasn’t changed her stripes.
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