Har-de-har-har. Ain't those Fox
"The internet is a-buzz..."? First I hear of it. So Obama is polite. Yes, that has to be hilarious to the Faux News folks.
Video from TPM.
UPDATE: From Paul (A.) in the comments comes the corrective to Obama's "unprecedented bowing" from Media Matters showing and telling of Nixon's bowing - and bowing, and bowing, and bowing to Emperor Hirohito.
It's pure bloviating.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Paul (A.). And, of course, Fox never cares about facts. And who the hell cares anyway?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link.
When I was in Seattle on July 4, 1997, my hosts took me to the fireworks. Naturally I stood to attention for your National Anthem (we do not put hand on heart) . My host's daughter, a university student, remained sitting, I never asked why. For me standing to attention was a matter of respect and courtesy, nothing more, I hold no allegiance to the USA. When these people deride Obama for being courteous, I almost regret it.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Okinawa and I tend to bow when I am with Japanese persons and speaking Japanese.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I wasn't raised by wolves, unlike many estadoünidense.
A Cheney-Palin ticket? OMG, it must be end times in 2012. LOL
ReplyDeleteGeez, I even bow when I am speaking on the phone. I went to register my daughter for junior high yesterday and the vice-principal bowed very deeply. I certainly didn't take it as obsequiousness. Being here, we just bow. President Obama was simply following protocol and the right-wing back home is reading their own twisted agenda into the bow. The bigger story here was that Obama dined in the private residence of the Emperor and Empress without aides- just an interpreter. That sort of private dinner party is NOT the norm for visiting foreign dignitaries. Our president made a great impression. Shoot, I imagine the home-grown wingnuts are upset that Obama actually touched the Imperial person ;)
ReplyDeleteCatherine, thank you for your on-the-scene report. What an honor that Obama was invited to a private dinner with the emperor and his wife.
ReplyDeleteI am so pleased that I no longer am embarrassed when my president travels to other countries.
As Padre Mickey said on his site, some folks were raised by wolves.
I have to watch Countdown later tonight to see what they have to say if anything!
ReplyDeleteOh, and Eisenhower bowed to de Gaulle! Oh the horror!
ReplyDeleteRegarding the floater, so who forgot to flush?
ReplyDeleteMike, sometimes those floaters don't go down easy. Ya hafta flush and flush.
ReplyDeleteOh Mimi, this reminds me of the very best practical joke I ever played. To make a long story short, on a cruise with our lesbian next door neighbors, we heard lots of laughter one afternoon coming from their cabin next door to ours. During cocktail hour they told the story of a floater in their bathroom. So, we decided to give it a name, The Unsinkable Molly Brown. And, of course, there were lots of Molly jokes for the rest of the week.
ReplyDeleteAfter returning home, we realized that we had a number of friends going on cruises, and I also had a number of students going abroad and/or on cruises, one of them a Christian Bookseller Cruise (her mother owned a Christian bookstore).
So ... I persuaded about a dozen people to write postcards to our neighbors with things like, "Floating around the Mediterranean, wish you were here. Love, Molly" It was a bit difficult trying NOT to explain to them what it was all about.
This went on for nearly an entire year before they caught me laughing when one of them was at the mailbox picking up one of the postcards. Up until then they were entirely mystified. They thought one of the ship's crew was stalking them, which is a pretty weird concept, stalking by postcard.
Mike, How old were you when you played this joke? 10? ;-)
ReplyDeleteUm ... yes.
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