The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.
“It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Washington Times called the alleged bow a “shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate” and said it violated centuries of American tradition of not deferring to royalty. The Weekly Standard, meanwhile, noted that American protocol apparently rules out bowing, or at least it reportedly did on the occasion of a Clinton “near-bow” to the emperor of Japan.
This isn’t a bow?
Oh, I get it:
Bowing is Shaking Hands. Taxing and Spending is Investing. Wealth Redistribution is a Tax Cut. Change means more of the same. Hope means bigger government. Fiscal responsibility means unsustainable deficits. Christian means Muslim.
Repeat the lie long enough until it becomes a fact.
I could go on. And on. And on.
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