CNN contributor apologizes after citing the wrong terrorist beheading

If you’re going to criticize someone for mourning the dead improperly, at least get your facts straight.

CNN contributor Kayleigh McEnany caused a collective eye-roll this week when she claimed former President Barack Obama went on a golfing junket immediately after the death of Daniel Pearl. It’s not true, of course — Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter was captured and killed in Pakistan by terrorists in 2002. (Obama was a state Senator in Illinois at that time.) She meant to refer to another American who was beheaded, James Foley.