Hot Air: Flashback: “NYT scolded Clinton for ‘almost’ bowing to royalty”

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Uppity Woman

nny, how the New York Times just can’t understand why so many no longer trust them to bring them the news. Funny, how the New York Times can’t understand why we don’t all think it’s okay for them to decide what we see and what we don’t see. Funny, how the New York Times is nothing but a collection of manipulating  backdoor politicians who happen to buy ink by the barrel. Funny, how the New York Times is circling the drain.

I  read this at No Quarter.

Hot Air nailed it.  Funny, how the MSM thinks  simply no one in America has a memory–or the ability to access archives.

So far, the media has remained entirely silent on Barack Obama’s deep-waist bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.  They used to defend American protocol a lot more closely, as The Anchoress discovered in doing research on the subject.  The New York Times sharply criticized Bill Clinton for a mere inclination of his shoulders towards Japanese Emperor Akihito in 1994:

“It wasn’t a bow, exactly. But Mr. Clinton came close. He inclined his head and shoulders forward, he pressed his hands together. It lasted no longer than a snapshot, but the image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent President, and the Emperor of Japan.

Canadians still bow to England’s Queen; so do Australians. Americans shake hands. If not to stand eye-to-eye with royalty, what else were 1776 and all that about?  …

Guests invited to a white-tie state dinner at the White House (a Clinton Administration first) were instructed to address the Emperor as “Your Majesty,” not “Your Highness” or, worse, “King.” And in what one Administration aide called “some emperor thing,” an Army general was cautioned that he should not address the Emperor Akihito at all as he escorted him to the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.

But the “thou need not bow” commandment from the State Department’s protocol office maintained a constancy of more than 200 years. Administration officials scurried to insist that the eager-to-please President had not really done “

So how about it New York Times? When are you planning to cover the REAL bow? Nevermind. 

Bill Clinton’s almost-bow. Bad. Barack Obama’s real bow. Didn’t happen.

Hot Air also offers this video, entitled Tale of Two Bows, Starring Barack Obama. A nice reminder of what didn’t happen.


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10 Responses

  1. Betty, on April 6th, 2009 at 6:24 AM Said:

    The New York Times deserves to be closed down. That is not a newspaper giving the people HONEST news..they are protecting someone bend on destroying this country. How sad that they are able to twist the mind of the people.

  2. deadenders, on April 6th, 2009 at 8:01 AM Said:

    Just how many standards can they have. The put barry up on a cow pie pedestal and screw everyone else.

    Hello Mary,
    Obama Seeks Stronger Ties With Muslim Ally Turkey
    President pays tribute to the memory of modern Turkey’s founding father as he reaches out for help to wind down the war in Iraq and bring stability to the Middle East.
    “I’m honored to pay tribute to his name,” Obama said at wreath-laying ceremony during a morning visit to the tomb of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

    Go nuts girl!!

  3. Delle, on April 6th, 2009 at 8:16 AM Said:

    Thank you for posting that video.

    I am truly disgusted at the way the media is ignoring the ‘bow to the king of mecca’.

    Delle

  4. imustprotest, on April 6th, 2009 at 8:47 AM Said:

    The kissing the ring bow was so odd and over the top it was actually shocking. And yet from the MSM, *crickets*.

  5. Karol, on April 6th, 2009 at 9:12 AM Said:

    Canada and Australia are still in the Commonwealth; the United States has never been. But I didn’t know we had joined a subservient alliance that would require such groveling with Saudi Arabia in the last decade!

    I’m certainly glad we didn’t elect this fool to represent the U.S. I’d rather the world know that we allowed our election to be stolen than that we would be stupid enough to actually permit a mysterious individual with multiple names to take charge of our country.

    Here’s hoping that Lincoln’s ghost does walk Our White House and gives the “president” a lecture on the duties he took on when he took that oath of office “to protect and serve the Constitution of the United States” – not Saudi kings.

  6. JSF, on April 6th, 2009 at 9:47 AM Said:

    How about Bush 2 kneeling for the Pope at his funeral? This did not offend many, but as a Protestant, I found it offensive.

  7. deadenders, on April 6th, 2009 at 9:48 AM Said:

    JSF. As an American I find both W. and O. offensive. And someone kneeling to pray is far different than bowing in subservience.

  8. Mrs. Bucket, on April 6th, 2009 at 11:22 AM Said:

    See here for the bow of O.

    http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/

  9. Irlandese, on April 6th, 2009 at 3:33 PM Said:

    Thanks for that link back to the NYT back in ‘94. Oh how things have changed. I tried using the NYT’s own search engine to look up anything on Barry bowing to the Saudi king—nuttin. What a surprise. Not.

  10. foxyladi14, on April 6th, 2009 at 4:22 PM Said:

    kneeling in prayer is not bowing.

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