Yet they're strangely silent in the face of Obama's ugly hectoring.
See if this description (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)) doesn't fit Obama's boorish and insulting behavior to a T:
Ugly American is a pejorative term used to refer to perceptions of loud, arrogant, demeaning, thoughtless, ignorant, and ethnocentric behavior of American citizens mainly abroad, but also at home.
Or they are saying, "You Go, Girl!"