Samantha Power tweet on Daniel Pearl that is quite odd (1 Viewer)

[tom22406]

U.N. Ambassador for the US throws out this tweet yesterday

Samantha Power ‏@AmbassadorPower

Daniel Pearl's story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence.

She got blasted for saying this so what do you think her point is here?

 

[tom22406]

Article giving more detail into the backlash she is getting

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/amb-power-puts-huge-foot-in-mouth-with-cycle-of-violence-comment/2014/02/24/0/

 

[SacramentoBob]

Has she explained it?

 

[tom22406]

Has she explained it?

Nothing as of yet that I can find.

 

[tom22406]

And now she just throws up a few correction tweets

Samantha Power ‏@AmbassadorPower

Correction: @DanielPearlFNDN’s work is a reminder that individual accountability + reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence.

Samantha Power ‏@AmbassadorPower

As I said last night, the men who murdered Daniel Pearl did so because "he was an American, and most of all, because he was a Jew."

 

[McGarnicle]

She left out "a". Should be:

Daniel Pearl's story is a reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence.

 

[NCCommish]

Seems very poorly worded at best. Not really sure what she was going for but she blew it completely.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Well, it's not like her job requires her to communicate ideas clearly and with sensitivity to others' points of view or anything like that. Lets cut her some slack.

 

[dickey moe]

Maybe Sunstein wrote it.

 

[tom22406]

Well, it's not like her job requires her to communicate ideas clearly and with sensitivity to others' points of view or anything like that.

 

[drunken slob]

Smart Power

Our country should be proud

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Just another reason why pro athletes, music and movie stars and politicians shouldn't be controlling their own twitter & FB accounts.

 

[Joe Summer]

Her tweet is a reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence.

 

[Rick James]

I remember thinking I could handle watching that video. Ugh. Huge mistake.