The President bows to a king and the media look the other way
President Obama bowed deeply before the Saudi King (at 0:57 of this video), an unreciprocated gesture which was inappropriate to say the least. The President correctly refrained from doing so to Queen Elizabeth. (“Heads of state and their wives do not go around bowing and curtsying to each other,” according to JFK’s chief of protocol.) Ed Morrissey’s Tale of Two Bows continues the documentation of this strange and inverted time in America. How very odd indeed.
Unsurprisingly, the elite media continue to have no interest in the story, though they (and others) felt quite differently about Presidential relations with Saudi Arabia and its king just a few short years ago when Bush was President.
Moreover, not that long ago, the New York Times itself once strongly disapproved of a Democratic President’s appearing to bow to an emperor. Alas, in the world of the media’s Obama-worship, it’s just business as usual for the a constitutionally protected industry that, amazingly, still considers itself the sentinel of democracy.
Finally, the Saudi press commented favorably on the Obama bow and attributed it to his Muslim heritage.
April 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Sunday morning links (posted early)…
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April 5th, 2009 at 11:18 am
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April 5th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
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