From the Weekly Standard:
Ben Smith appears to be the first reporter to ask the White House why Barack Obama bowed before the King of Saudi Arabia, a violation of more than two centuries of tradition and protocol holding that American presidents never bow before royalty. The answer the White House gave Smith: "It wasn't a bow."Read the full post to find out which liberal blog conceded that Obama bowed and to find out how much attention the bow got from the media.
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If they lie about the littl... (Below threshold)1. Posted by UncleZeb | April 8, 2009 7:18 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
If they lie about the little things......
But this is not little in my book.
1. Posted by UncleZeb | April 8, 2009 7:18 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 19:18
2. Posted by iwogisdead | April 8, 2009 7:43 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
It's the new Newspeak. It's Obamaspeak.
A bow is not a bow. It's a handshake.
2. Posted by iwogisdead | April 8, 2009 7:43 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 19:43
3. Posted by epador | April 8, 2009 8:23 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Well, he didn't get down on his knees yet, at least!
3. Posted by epador | April 8, 2009 8:23 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 20:23
4. Posted by ExSubNuke | April 8, 2009 8:23 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
I'm with igowisdead. It's Orwellian Obamaspeak. Just like we're engaged in an "Overseas Contingency Operation" to prevent further "Man-Caused Disasters."
Here I always thought 1984 was just a hypothetical cautionary tale. Now I see more and more, it's quite literal. Scary, that. Eh?
4. Posted by ExSubNuke | April 8, 2009 8:23 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 20:23
5. Posted by Shawn | April 8, 2009 8:23 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
I could not get the link to work, so I couldn't read the whole article.
But..
The President of the United States should bow in deference to NO other world leader.
It was a show of weakness and atrocious judgement.
Shame..
5. Posted by Shawn | April 8, 2009 8:23 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 20:23
6. Posted by LaMedusa | April 8, 2009 8:26 PM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
It's definitely a bow, but I think it might also be a test to see where America's mind set is right now. Michelle Obama kicked up a lot of dust by hugging the queen of England. This is supposedly something you just don't do. Even the queen looked confused in the video at first. She's ambivalent about being touched by someone "lesser" than her, and receiving the outward warmth Michelle projected. It's funny to see in the photos how much the Obamas tower over her.
The media is also conditioning people to accept the world leaders as kin, and to all accept all world belief systems and religions as one. The ultimate result will be the merging of all religions to the ones the elitists want us to bow down to. It's a very subtle technique that will work with most of the world's population.
6. Posted by LaMedusa | April 8, 2009 8:26 PM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 20:26
7. Posted by David B | April 8, 2009 8:36 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
No, really it wasn't a bow! He was bending to admire the Kings shoes so he could compliment him on his choice in footwear! LOL
What is even more funny is the reaction from the left wing apologists, "He was bending to place something on a chair, that wasn't a bow!"
To bad there was no chair anywhere close.
7. Posted by David B | April 8, 2009 8:36 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 20:36
8. Posted by 914 | April 8, 2009 8:44 PM | Score: 8 (10 votes cast)
Submission Accomplished
8. Posted by 914 | April 8, 2009 8:44 PM |
Score: 8 (10 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 20:44
9. Posted by retired military | April 8, 2009 8:52 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Check out the photo on this page
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023278.php
IT CLEARLY SHOWS OBAMA'S LEFT HAND. So the White House spokesman obviously lied when he said that Obama was using 2 hands to shake the King's Hand.
9. Posted by retired military | April 8, 2009 8:52 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 20:52
10. Posted by _Mike_ | April 8, 2009 8:56 PM | Score: 9 (11 votes cast)
curtsey ?
10. Posted by _Mike_ | April 8, 2009 8:56 PM |
Score: 9 (11 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 20:56
11. Posted by Mac Lorry | April 8, 2009 9:15 PM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
I watched the video retired military linked. There's no doubt Obama bowed. I'm sure that's no big deal to the left wing of the left, but the White House has now been caught in a senseless lie. I guess that's just part of the change you can believe in.
11. Posted by Mac Lorry | April 8, 2009 9:15 PM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on April 8, 2009 21:15
12. Posted by 914 | April 8, 2009 9:29 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
There aint no way to hide your lyin eyes.
12. Posted by 914 | April 8, 2009 9:29 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2009 21:29
13. Posted by davidt | April 8, 2009 9:35 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
It depends on the definition of 'Bow'.
13. Posted by davidt | April 8, 2009 9:35 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2009 21:35
14. Posted by Justrand
| April 8, 2009 9:55 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
We should all be thankful that Obama didn't drop to his knees and, well, REALLY submit!
14. Posted by Justrand
| April 8, 2009 9:55 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2009 21:55
15. Posted by Burt | April 8, 2009 9:57 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
In view of the amount of money probably funneled into the Obama campaign by the Saudi king, I believe it would be ungracious not to acknowledge the debt.
15. Posted by Burt | April 8, 2009 9:57 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2009 21:57
16. Posted by hcddbz | April 8, 2009 10:38 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
How is it that the Smartest Administration with the most talent and true world citizen have not a clue when it comes to langue, protocol and history.
Maybe because these people have never done anything in the real world.
The real issue is they do not even understand the consequences of their actions. They show disrespect to our allies and show contempt for the American People who have elected him.
16. Posted by hcddbz | April 8, 2009 10:38 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2009 22:38
17. Posted by xiphos | April 8, 2009 10:43 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
b.o. is showing contempt to the people that DID NOT vote for him.
17. Posted by xiphos | April 8, 2009 10:43 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2009 22:43
18. Posted by xiphos | April 8, 2009 10:45 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Correction:
b.o. has shown, is showing and will continue showing contempt FOR the people that DID NOT vote for him.
18. Posted by xiphos | April 8, 2009 10:45 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2009 22:45
19. Posted by Thomas Jackson | April 9, 2009 12:14 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
The WH made a mistake. They denied he made a bow, they indicate that the media left out the letter "L".
Bad media.
19. Posted by Thomas Jackson | April 9, 2009 12:14 AM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 00:14
20. Posted by irongrampa | April 9, 2009 12:20 AM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Wasn't a bow.
He tripped on the teleprompter cord.
20. Posted by irongrampa | April 9, 2009 12:20 AM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 00:20
21. Posted by JB | April 9, 2009 2:01 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
"Submission Accomplished"
2010 campaign sticker.
21. Posted by JB | April 9, 2009 2:01 AM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 02:01
22. Posted by mag | April 9, 2009 6:44 AM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Can not respect a man who bows to anyone but God, (well, maybe his wife, too).
No matter what obama does the media will spin it into "something postive" because they know a lot of people are sheep and will believe anything they print or report.
22. Posted by mag | April 9, 2009 6:44 AM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 06:44
23. Posted by Hank | April 9, 2009 8:30 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Incredibly, I'm starting to miss Jimmy Carter.
23. Posted by Hank | April 9, 2009 8:30 AM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 08:30
24. Posted by Falze | April 9, 2009 9:57 AM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Bow...genuflect...curtsey...
whatever, it all amounts to the same thing
meanwhile we have dozens of politicians flying to Cuba to do the same thing to Castro, Clinton's gone to China to do the same thing, The Teleprompted One We Have Been Waiting For rolled over and exposed his belly to Iran, Putin's probably still just laughing himself hoarse with glee that he doesn't have to deal with McCain...
might as well get used to it
24. Posted by Falze | April 9, 2009 9:57 AM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 09:57
25. Posted by Neil B ♪ | April 9, 2009 10:42 AM | Score: -3 (7 votes cast)
Taller people do have to bend down to shake hands, whether with one or two. Maybe so, maybe not and I'd rather it turn out he didn't (for the principle of the thing, not to save him from embarrasment.) In any case, George W Bush walked around holding hands with the same King Abdullah - it became a gay icon for awhile. Nor was GWB known for candor.
25. Posted by Neil B ♪ | April 9, 2009 10:42 AM |
Score: -3 (7 votes cast)
Posted on April 9, 2009 10:42
26. Posted by Wayne | April 9, 2009 11:17 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Claiming it wasn't a bow is ridiculous as is claiming he had to been over that far to shake hands. The Queen of England is much shorter and he didn't been that far over for her.
26. Posted by Wayne | April 9, 2009 11:17 AM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 11:17
27. Posted by Falze | April 9, 2009 1:18 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
So the left's plan is to 1) lie about what President Teleprompter did; and/or 2) make the point that Bush knew more about foreign relations than P.T. and knew that holding hands was a sign of equal respect and followed that route instead of bowing which conveys the sense that one is in a lesser position in, oh, say every culture imaginable? (barring mutual bowing, of course, which we did not see)
Those are your arguments? Lie or admit that Bush had it all over your savior while admitting your own ignorance about foreign customs in order to mock homosexuals? Quality.
27. Posted by Falze | April 9, 2009 1:18 PM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 13:18
28. Posted by Jeff | April 9, 2009 2:01 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Bow to your sensei!
28. Posted by Jeff | April 9, 2009 2:01 PM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 14:01
29. Posted by Neil B ♪ | April 9, 2009 10:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Heh, clever props there. But I just saw the video and studied carefully: Obama is so far from Abdullah when he reaches out, O would have to lean down just to shake hands.
29. Posted by Neil B ♪ | April 9, 2009 10:12 PM |
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Posted on April 9, 2009 22:12
30. Posted by WildWillie | April 10, 2009 10:24 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What was he doing Neil? Rearing up to fart? ww
30. Posted by WildWillie | April 10, 2009 10:24 AM |
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Posted on April 10, 2009 10:24