Posted on 04/09/2009 2:09:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
In the brief "Closing Arguments" segment on Wednesday's "Nightline," ABC's Terry Moran credulously repeated the White House contention that Barack Obama didn't bow to the King of Saudi Arabia last week at the G-20 summit. As video of the incident played, Moran narrated, "He sees King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Goes in for the hello. There's a hand shake. Obama bends at the waist. But was it a bow?" [Audio available here.]
He then recited, "The White House called it a lean, pointing out the King's shorter than the President." Inviting people to respond on his Twitter page, Moran wondered, "So, tonight, we ask you, was it a bow and do you care?" A search of @TerryMoran responses on Twitter shows a healthy number of people somewhat incredulous at the host's lack of skepticism. DesigningDi instructed, "Are you blind? Of course he's bowing. Don't play stupid!"
ABC should be given credit for actually showing the video, but the question is, was Moran attempting to dismiss the situation as frivolous and not important or actually investigate its relevance?
A transcript of the brief segment, which aired at 12:04am on April 9, follows:
TERRY MORAN: ["Closing Arguments" logo comes up]: That means it's time for tonight's closing argument. President Barack Obama standing among fellow leaders at the G-20. [Video of the incident.] He sees King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Goes in for the hello. There's a hand shake. Obama bends at the waste. But was it a bow? A breach of presidential protocol when greeting royalty. The White House called it a lean, pointing out the King's shorter than the President. So, tonight, we ask you, was it a bow and do you care? Tell us on the "Nightline" page at ABCNews.com, the "Nightline" Twitter page or at my Twitter page.
—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.
Great photo of obama leaning on the dnace floor!
There’s a video on Youtube which shows Obama’s left hand tucked close to his waist as he bows. He didn’t use the left hand and any suggestion that he did by these WH mouthpieces is a fabrication.
Yes, and make NO mistake....his obvious genuflect was a big F U to the United States of America.
“I did not bow down to that King Lewinsky”
He needs to be censured on the floor of Congress. Today. Americans do not bow to anyone.
>.actually kissed the hand
Do you see any other logical reason for his action.
I don’t.
We’re just lucky that some enterprising video guy caught that whole exchange.
I finally just told a liberal friend of mine last night that I was done discussing it with him. He laughed and I said no, as an athiest you will have your head cut off by the Muslims, while as a Christian I will be allowed to live.
That stunned him into silence for a few seconds and then he said, laughingly again, “Are you serious?”
I told him I’m done doing his research for him and if he wanted to know if Muslims wanted him dead he needed to look it up for himself. I gave him the name “Theo van Gogh” and said goodbye and hung up.
These morons who believe that no one wants to kill them are hopeless. Maybe I’m just having a bad day, but how much blood will have to run in the streets for them to wake up?
Shakespeare said it best:
“What’s in a a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
shorter woman and all that.
Good point!
The left hand is the “don’t have toilet paper but wipe the poo off anyway” hand.
“I sheik your hand...”
Get used to it.
With his defense cuts we will soon be seeing lots of “leans.”
I posted before, his head was also bowed. If it was a lean why wasn’t he looking at the king, but instead at his shoes. I was never much into the Messiah being a mooslim, but that is incredible.
The whole bow or not issue would have quickly gone the way of other Zero gaffes if not for the crack team Zero has surrounding him...arrogance is no substitute for ability..except for maybe a reality show.
Guy got caught, in public, bowing down to kiss the Saudi Arabian king's penis.
There, now I've said it ~ it was MORE THAN A BOW.
Much more interesting motive too.
Too much time on the knees makes the msm addlebrained.
Only if by saying "is a fabrication" you actualy mean to say "is bull5hit"
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