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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He kissed his ring an/or his hand as well
Keep you eye on the ball, we got a 3 Card Monte going again.
Correction: CBS "News" grudgingly reports...
Plus if you look at the video frame by frame , it looks like he is kissing his ring. He bends over and pulls the hand up to his face.Notice the King and the other guy are looking at the kings hand
Obie's silence on the Somali pirates has sent a signal to terrorists that a paper tiger once again inhabits the White House.
That’s not clear to me. The king’s arm seems like it’s down too low for where Obama’s head would be. The ring kiss is iffy, and I wouldn’t pursue that. But the bow is obvious and undeniable.
It matters not a jot what the White House says...
.....The entire population of Islam saw a fellow muslim bow to his King.
Treasonous behavior!
History will view ALL this as the greatest conspiracy against America, only if the US survives.
>Conservatives say yes – and some aren’t happy about it. The White House, meanwhile, says the president did nothing of the kind.
The White House, meanwhile, is outright lying.
I cannot believe that they would lie so transparently. Hubris. Hubris.
That’s IT! Uncle Miltie. That’s what I was trying to catch on the video. 0’s right leg is pushed backwards. Since when is it necessary to put one foot further back in order to just bow one’s head. HE BOWED FROM THE WAIST.
CBS trying to inject a little doubt into an incident where there are plenty of tapes. Best of luck with that one.
You're kidding, right? This CBS News blog entry and an article in the Chicago Sun-Times represents the sum total of all US MSM reporting on the "Bow". Everything else is blogs, non-liberal media like Fox and Washington Times, and the foreign media.
No, I’m not kidding. Last night it was CNN and MSNBC. Anderson Cooper went on and on.
I heard Gingrich on Hannity radio yesterday say Bush bowed.
The Bow! was first derided as a two handed handshake!!! Not!
In slow motion the left hand of Obama is seen clearly following the “BOW” moving deliberately up to clasp the Kings hand within his hands, not double handshake first!!!
Deep Bow, to the King of the Muslim 57 Nation Holiest sites
It was on FR a lot.
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