The Obama Japan Bow – please make it sto…
The Obama Japan Bow – please make it stop!
Looks like the LA Times is slumming it with the teabaggers today – a lengthy article on the Obama bow in Japan. The Baggers have been up in arms about this for the last few days as it is much more politically correct than yelling “The president is black” at the top of their lungs.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/obama-emperor-akihito-japan.html
A truly awful piece of journalism perhaps best summed up by this breathless update:
UPDATES: 12:22 p.m. A brief news video has been added below, showing the greeting in this photograph. Contrary to some claims, the video shows no reciprocal bow by the emperor, who traditionally bows to no one. And we’ve added a file photo from 2007 of Vice President Dick Cheney greeting the Japanese Emperor at the same residence in a different fashion.)
How low will the new American president go for the world’s royalty?
The author, Andrew Malcolm, seems to specialize in this type of drivel.
Here, just for a laugh are a couple of the readers comments attached to the article:
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