(2009-04-08) — The White House today again denied that President Barack Obama had submissively bowed last week to Saudi King Abdullah, updating the official version of events to portray it as a “torso flexing move designed to administer a friendly head butt to the Muslim monarch — an amped-up version of the fist-bump he often shares with the First Lady.”
“President Obama, as everyone knows, is a man’s man, and he just wanted to establish who’s the alpha male in the pack,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. “He naturally expected the King to return the head butt, and was surprised to receive just a mild handshake.”
Yesterday, the White House said the president didn’t bow, but merely stooped to make eye contact with the diminutive Arab dictator.
As the video demonstrates, Mr. Obama apparently also wanted to display the crown of his head to the King, and perhaps to examine the hem of the King’s robe up close.
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1 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:00 pm
He didn’t touch the hem…did he? That would be bad…
Funny Scott!
2 RedPepper // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Or perhaps a head fake?
wv=”panderer overall” …
3 da Bunny // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Brilliant, Scott!! Hopefully, the LSM morons will pick up this “explanation” and run with it. It seems plausible enough…
4 da Bunny // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I’m sure King Abdullah will request a do-over, now that he knows what Barry’s intentions truly were…I mean, who wouldn’t want to be honored with a head butt by the Butt-Head, himself.
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5 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:09 pm
All kidding aside, the truth is that, after a night of gin-soaked debauchery and caviar, BHO hurled tiny chunks on the monarch’s $18,000 shoes.
6 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Clue me in please. I bowing not allowed? I truly don’t grasp the issue but then again the whole teleprompter thing goes right over my tiny little head too so I’ll take an explanation of either or both
7 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:16 pm
JL3, i assume at that price that they were his slippers, and probably not his “good” ones either.
8 TIFI » Obama: lightweight, embarrassing // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:57 pm
[...] Scott Ott marvelously explains it was actually a failed head butt attempt! [...]
9 gafisher // Apr 9, 2009 at 1:07 pm
“[Obama] was surprised to receive just a mild handshake.”
People like King Abdullah reserve firm handshakes for those they respect.
[By the way, the "official" excuse states B.O. was stooping to give one of his hokey two-handed handshakes. If the White House protocol office had the tiniest scintilla of a clue they'd have advised him well in advance that in Arab culture the left hand is considered unclean, used for, uh, personal hygeine. In this instance, the excuse is even worse than the truth.]
10 Obama Unbowed « Justbkuz // Apr 9, 2009 at 1:23 pm
[...] April 9, 2009 in Justbkuz I Like It | Tags: Obama, Satire Scrappleface reveals what really happened between the President and the Saudi king: White House: Obama Bow Was Attempted Head Butt [...]
11 U NO HOO // Apr 9, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Bobo Brazil, call the White House.
12 da Bunny // Apr 9, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Maybe it was just a “Sham Bow.”
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/1882/obamashamwowwf5.png
13 U NO HOO // Apr 9, 2009 at 1:36 pm
From Wikipedia and an old man’s memory:
“Brazil’s finishing maneuver, the Coco Butt (which was a headbutt)”
14 da Bunny // Apr 9, 2009 at 2:40 pm
In the midst of Obama’s “Sham Bow,” he turned around and said, “Are you followin’ me Teleprompter guy?”
15 Laughing@You // Apr 9, 2009 at 3:28 pm
“Brilliant, Scott!! Hopefully, the LSM morons will pick up this “explanation” and run with it. It seems plausible enough…”
Hey! Show some respect for the followers of Joseph Smith, will yuh!
Everthink?
16 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
maybe the teleprompter was on the floor
17 Laughing@You // Apr 9, 2009 at 3:31 pm
“… an amped-up version of the fist-bump he often shares with the First Lady.”
Shouldn’t that be, “terrorist fist-bump”?
Everthink?
18 Laughing@You // Apr 9, 2009 at 3:44 pm
He wasn’t bowing! They were ALL looking to see were the president dropped his ticket to ride the bearded lady’s camel.
Everthink?
19 Laughing@You // Apr 9, 2009 at 3:46 pm
where
20 gafisher // Apr 9, 2009 at 4:16 pm
While Obama’s TelePrompTer was being reloaded with responses to the Somali Pirate situation, Senator John Kerry took up the slack by calling for Congressional Hearings. Kerry lamented his own lack of actual military experience but indicated he wished he could personally defend American vessels if he could only get me a huntin’ license.”
21 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Take convicted criminals off of death row, train them to run a ship (Dirty Dozen style) and let them run that ship through the straights until they are hijacked.
Then, with no hesitation whatever we board the ship and kill everyone on board, be they “hostages” or “pirates”.
Problem solved…for good.
22 upnorthlurkin // Apr 9, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Hearings…..yeah, that’ll show ‘em! And if hearings don’t scare them, our limp wristed TinC will have his teleprompter compose a strongly worded uuhh, aahhh, uuummm letter. They’ll surrender, why they’ll prolly kill themselves out of respect!
23 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2009 at 4:41 pm
or hearings…hearings might work. Coming over the wire now, “pirates surrender after hearing about hearings”
24 Fred Sinclair // Apr 9, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Am I the last person in America to learn that there is a newly designed nickel in circulation?
I heard nothing about it, read nothing about it, but today, in my change I found this strange coin. at first I thought it must be a foreign coin, Canadian, British perhaps? But there were the words IN GOD WE TRUST – Liberty – a “P” mint mark – 2005 on one side. The other side; E Pluribus Unum – United States of America – Lewis & Clark*1805*FIVE CENTS – and Ocean in view! O! The joy a scene of a forested bluff beside the ocean.
Did everybody but me already know this?
25 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Fred, at least two of us are out of the loop
26 onlineanalyst // Apr 9, 2009 at 5:06 pm
All that Ackbar has to say is that he is “deeply concerned,” and nations hostile to the US will scurry for cover.
Regardless of the mighty spins and pirouettes (learned from Rahm?) that the WH is putting forth over Ackbar’s bow to the Saudi King, the action has been caught on too many cameras and videos to deny the obvious. The Saudis and the rest of the ME are trumpeting this act of subservience in their news venues.
27 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2009 at 6:18 pm
My RedState informants have informed me that BHO has demanded that his Democrat party henchmen install him as president for all eternity forthwith.
28 Fred Sinclair // Apr 9, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Interestingly enough (and rightly so) every person or persons born before 1895 who chanted their “God is dead” mantra. Is dead; all the while God just keeps on keeping on.
Some people just never learn, until it’s too late, and by then, of course, it’s too late!
It would seem that when the mantra chanters are lying abed and visitors come into the room, introducing themselves as “We’re from Hospice, and we’re here to help.” they would at least garner a clue that Ronald Reagan’s most chilling words “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” have just been trumped.
29 Fred Sinclair // Apr 9, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Receiving this, I recalled a verse from the book of Proverbs: “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” (Prov. 25:25)
Excerpt from “Catholic Vote.org”
What could possibly be next? I sometimes wonder if the world is spinning faster and faster, and in the wrong direction.
So how could we be joyful in this time of uncertainty and darkness? In his letter to the Philippians, Saint Paul seems to be speaking directly to us when he writes: “The Lord is near. There is no need to worry” (4:5-6). This is the same Saint Paul that was beaten repeatedly, stoned, shipwrecked, sleep deprived, and starved. And yet he said: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: Rejoice!”
Our hope is that one of the distinctive characteristics of CatholicVote.org is our joy. Without saying it explicitly all the time, our aim is to “rejoice” in everything we do. And inspire others, especially people searching for answers, to do the same. We are called to be people of hope. Instead of thinking about how dark our world has become, what if we considered what a privilege it is to live at this time in history – and creatively tell the world why.
The late Father Richard Neuhaus once wrote: “We have not the right and we have not the reason to despair if we understand that our entire struggle is premised not upon a victory to be achieved, but a victory that has been achieved…far from despair, we have a right and reason to rejoice that we are called to such a time as this, a time of testing, a time of truth.”
Amen!
Unlike the first Christians who witnessed the death of Jesus, we know what comes after Good Friday. Pardon the spoiler, but we have read the book! God wins.
And so our Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter message to you this year is simple: Rejoice. Always.
30 mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 7:33 pm
I still think they should say that Obozo dropped his Blackberry as he reached to shake the king’s hand. Drink some more kool aid and say “that’s right” all you Obamanuts. People with half a brain know it was a genuine bow, must not be playing well in most venues.
31 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 9, 2009 at 8:45 pm
The bowing debacle should be a gentle reminder– never travel to the other side of the globe without a copy of Miss Manners.
That goes for you too Michelle. Never, never, touch the Queen when she is listening to the Rolling Stones on her I-pod. She easily looses her place and gets angry.
Off with her head!
32 camojack // Apr 9, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I think it was more along the lines of a butt kiss.
Metaphorically speaking, of course…
33 mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Camo – are you sure it wasn’t more of a literal one?
lol, good one!
34 egospeak // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Et, re: 108, previous thread.
You are everthinking, but to no apparent end. You mock that republicans, conservatives, ditto heads have been using the term “useful idiots” for so long that we’ve forgotten what it means. That might (note I say might) be true, but even if it is, at least we knew what it meant, which is more than I can say for you.
You seem to think that we believe that they (the three members of the CBC) are useful to republicans. If you weren’t so clueless you would know that they are useful to the communists in Cuba, Raoul and Fidel because they are lending an air of legitimacy to them. They (the 3 members of the CBC) are idiots because they apparently don’t realize it. Hence useful idiots.
Why is it long past time to begin a dialog with Cuba?
According to your thinking, republicans should be embracing the 3 members of the CBC because they certainly have been exposed as useful idiots.
As for your China/Republicans question, it’s not an either/or question which is how you phrased it. The question should be: Are the Chinese unknowingly but usefully advancing America’s interests while idiotically thinking that they are advancing their own? Are the republicans doing the same? I don’t know why you chose those two examples but I’ll leave it to people far smarter than me to figure it out.
Finally, it is certainly possible for a newly minted American president to be a useful idiot to our enemies by going around the world constantly denigrating his own country. The country that elected him. Isn’t that the job of our enemies?
Why don’t you try thinking next time.
Regards,
35 mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:18 pm
What was missing from the video footage was Obama saying, “oh look, a quarter!
36 baragirl // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Looked to me like 0bama got so excited he got thrills up his legs and got weak in the knees.Funny how everyone you could see in the picture was either laughing themselves silly or gaping in astonishment and/or horror.
37 mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Some people are just attracted to evil personified, communist dictators eagerly line up to see who can “fill the bill” best. There just isn’t a whole lot going on between the ears of folks like the three members of the CBC, and it shows.
38 mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:31 pm
baragirl – It’s tingling up and down his legs, caught it from a journalist during the campaign season. It is uncontrollable, they say.
39 mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Feelin’ better, Ms RightWing?
40 Libby Gone // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I think Obama spotted an oil stain.
41 mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:51 pm
I think it was the biggest day of his life and almost couldn’t restrain himself from kissing his feet and the ground on which he stood – lots of “Christians” react that way, ya know?
42 mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Way off topic, but I found this info on ghost towns dot com, and found it to be hilarious.
http://www.forgottenoh.com/Utopia/utopia.html
43 onlineanalyst // Apr 9, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Reporters asked Ackbar about the pirate hostage situation, and he responded that his concern during the presser is the housing situation. Definitely no sense of leadership there. No words of concern for the captain or assurances that efforts are being undertaken that he is unable to discuss. What an amateur! (I thought that this idjit was supposed to be able to multi-task.)
But watch this peculiar reaction from Madame Hillary! http://conservativexpress.blogspot.com/2009/04/hillary-clinton-breaks-into-laughter.html
44 gafisher // Apr 9, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Fred Re#24: Oh, you got one of those counterfeit nickels?
Seriously, that series of coins commemorates the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and a very handsome series it is. The US Mint promotes them here. The fact the Mint “plugs” them doesn’t make them traditional plugged nickels, by the way.
45 gafisher // Apr 9, 2009 at 10:17 pm
OLA Re#43, all BO meant was that the TOTUS was still being updated.
A Reuters story here describes North Korea and the pirates as “annoying distractions” for Obama. Nope, not a multi-tasker. Barely even a mono-tasker. Definitely a rookie.
46 Libby Gone // Apr 9, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I normally don’t care for Jon Stewerts comedy or politics, but he had the most hilarious skit on this tonight. To show Obama wasn’t the first they showed Carter reading a bedtime story to a Prince of SA, Eisenhower giving a foot massage and FDR giving a “piggyback”ride!!!!
Then to show he understood Hindu, they super imposed 6 extra arms on BHO.
47 camojack // Apr 10, 2009 at 1:29 am
mindknumbed kid // Apr 9, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Camo – are you sure it wasn’t more of a literal one?
lol, good one!
It might have been a literal ring kiss; after all isn’t the Saudi king Mohammed’s living representative an’ all? All of Obama’s claims of being a Christian are negated by his position on the issue of what to do about babies who survive an abortion…IMO.
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