Thoughts on Perry's Daniel Pearl Comment.

[trumad]

You ever attempt to debate a winger and quickly realize you are debating someone who gets all their facts from Fox News?

I've faced that many times over the years and I usually end the debate as quick as I can because I know it's a waist of my oxygen.

These people are intellectually lazy when it comes to politics---I call them surface observers of the news... and that is exactly Rick Perry.

I thought I'd never again see a politician as void of deep thought than W. Bush. ---boy I was wrong.

Rick Perry now owns that distinction.

[hlthe2b]

1. I didn't watch that train wreck. What did he say?

[JSnuffy]

2. Rick Perry Faces Backlash Over Daniel Pearl Comment

Rick Perry drew criticism from at least one reporter on Twitter who took issue with the Texas governor’s use of the death of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded in 2002, to prove a point as he defended the Marines who urinated on Taliban corpses.

“Let me tell you what’s despicable, cutting Danny Pearl’s head off,” Perry said in the debate as he chided the Obama administration’s terming of the Marines’ actions as “despicable.”

John Harwood, a former colleague of Pearl’s at the Wall Street Journal, reprimanded Perry via Twitter, sending this tweet: “As someone who was a friend and colleague of Danny Pearl…Perry’s reference to Danny was irrelevant and gross.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/rick-perry-faces-backlash-over-daniel-pearl-comment/

[hlthe2b]

3. thanks... "grotesque" indeed.