CBS News grudgingly reports on this. They put "Bow" in quotation marks. They post a photograph without the "Bow". Only "conservatives" have a problem with this. And so forth. Everything they could possibly do to soften the blow for Obama, they do.
Posted on 04/09/2009 10:12:31 AM PDT by Plutarch
Did President Obama bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at last week's G-20 meeting?
Conservatives say yes – and some aren't happy about it. The White House, meanwhile, says the president did nothing of the kind.
Ben Smith has the story. As he notes, the president met Abdullah last week in London and appeared to bow to the Saudi leader, prompting outrage from some conservative quarters.
"The President of the United States executed a bow to a monarch so deep that he literally had to take a step back to balance himself," wrote Hot Air.
"No American President should ever make such an obsequious display to any monarch — ever," added the blogger.
(Memeorandum has links to much more reaction here.)
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CBS News grudgingly reports on this. They put "Bow" in quotation marks. They post a photograph without the "Bow". Only "conservatives" have a problem with this. And so forth. Everything they could possibly do to soften the blow for Obama, they do.
ALL the men are looking at what’s happening at their HANDS!! Hw MUST have kissed his ring.
Just like always, the news is not what the Democrat did wrong, but about radical conservaties ‘saying’ he did something wrong.
In the campaign, the media NEVER reported on anything about Obama, only right wing attacks on Obama, and then had Axelrod or some spokesman on to refute.
It is Obama’s Islamic training that caused him to bow...and to say there are 57 US States when there are actually 57 Islamic States.
cBS = propaganda outlet for the left.
For some reason the media is keeping this alive. I guess (like they’re doing with the Cheney interview), they think it’s a way to knock GOP numbers down further if it looks like they’re trashing America’s beloved president.
Isn’t there a video of this somewhere?
Grudgingly is right.
I’m surprised they mentioned it at all.
But Obama’s bowing to him muslim overlord should be the lead story on all the major networks.
That and the fact that Obammie is a usurper hiding his birth certificate.
Obama didn’t bow, and my ass isn’t wide.
And CBS writes, "Conservatives claim he bowed."
I guess that would make my own butt un-hairy, too, huh?!?
White House: You gonna believe us, or your lyin eyes?
CBS reports on the bowing issue and pretends it’s just another partisan matter. Nevermind that there is objective evidence, which they make available to us. Not once do they say whether or not it was a bow, as it obciously was.
I’m wondering, maybe Clinton didn’t actually hug Monica Lewinsky in that famous clip. Maybe Neville Chamberlain never held up the Munich agreement. Maybe the Hindenburg never crashed. Who can say for sure? Not news sources. It isn’t their job to interpret primary evidence. All they ever do is present opposing talking points and leave it at that.
You are the first person other than myself that I have seen mention this.
just more of the Hate Bush syndrome which is still prevalent in the WH and Congress.
I just found the same clip over at YouTube. It’s clear as day. A bow is a bow is a bow.
There are 57 Islamic states? I didn’t know that.
The “my muslim faith” President is the real Manchurian. He is NOT my president!!
What fools the majority of voters are.
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