This
report from Hot Air, in case you missed it over the weekend:
The President sent Eric Holder. I know he was
there because he was doing all of the Sunday shows from Paris. Then cable news
ground to a halt for one of the more impressive shots you will ever see; one of
the biggest collections of world leaders to be found anywhere, and they were
outside in the cold and the rain, locking arms and marching in unity with the
people of France as they stood up to Islamic terrorism. Above is just one of
the many media shots which captured the rather historic moment.
But wait… isn’t somebody missing from this
picture? In what is possibly one of the worst games of Where’s Waldo in
history, the
fine folks at Weasel Zippers notice that Eric Holder doesn’t seem to
be on the scene.
There’s a photo at the link of Holder with some of
the leaders standing on the steps of a building for a photo op, but he
was otherwise busy for the actual rally.
Attorney General Eric Holder is in Paris this week to attend a meeting on fighting terrorism, but did not participate in a march with world leaders Sunday to honor the 17 people killed last week in France.
More than 40 world leaders marched arm in arm
through Paris to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor the
victims of the three days of terrorist attacks.
Swinging back to WZ for the full list, here are
the world leaders who actually showed up and walked the walk.
Left to right: Greek Prime Minister Antonis
Samaras, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, British Prime Minister David
Cameron, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, European Union foreign
policy chief Federica Mogherini, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, European Commission
President Jean-Claude Juncker, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, French President Francois Hollande,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Union President Donald Tusk,
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Jordan’s Queen Rania, Jordan’s King
Abdullah II, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenkoand other guests...
Oh, man. We didn’t even manage to qualify for … and
other guests.
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Also in this report is a Tweet from Dana French:
CNN just reported Eric Holder did not attend because he was attending high level meetings. With whom? Everyone was at rally.
