I thought it was weird when Obama bowed to a Saudi prince. Now he's bowed to Pam Iorio, mayor of Tampa. Terresa Monroe-Hamilton of Noisy Room.net (h/t Larwyn) asks the question pro-Wall Street news sources like MSNBC won't:
"What is Obama going to do, bow to every person in America who is part Asian? How about fist-bumping anyone who is African American? I thought his bowing was reserved for totalitarian dictators and groveling before foreign leaders whatever their stature…"
Larwyn just forwarded some grand remarks about Obama's subservient bow. The blogosphere is where the action is at. The pissant media has been sprayed with pesticide. It's dead.
Don Suber: "Presidential aide to Politico: 'It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah.'...It fooled the Saudis. Politico cited a newspaper columnist in Saudi Arabia, who wrote: 'Obama wished to demonstrate his respect and appreciation of the personality of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz...'”
Gateway Pundit: "Bummer. It looks like the MSM will be forced to report on this now."
Atlas Shrugs: "Please see his left hand hanging in front of his thing."
Just One Minute: "The White House explains that Obama didn't bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. In fact, Obama noticed on the floor a plan to revive the global economy and cure AIDS and bent over to pick it up..."
Ace of Spades: "BTW- The whole Obama is taller thing? No sale. I'm 6"5' (real world, not fakey Internet height). I'm taller than a good 90% or so of people and I've never bowed low enough to check out a guys package while shaking his hand"
Jules Crittenden: "It Wasn’t A Bow...It was a posture malfunction."
Riehl World View: "This has to rank as the dumbest PR move this WH has made. Do they really believe they can control the media narrative so completely that they can say whatever they want and it'll become the ultimate record?"
In recent months I have been blogging about the American republic's failure. Republicanism requires an informed citizenry and a committed culture. America's citizenry is ill-educated and bamboozled by "progressive"-dominated cultural institutions. American schools graduate illiterates who cannot grasp basic political issues, such as the central bank, that 19th century Americans with elementary educations had no trouble grasping. American education emphasizes Marx and Keynes, but ignores Locke and Jefferson.
As a result, medieval patterns appropriate to the Renaissance and before have recrudesced, and Americans have become comfortable with increasingly socialist values. Aristocrats like the Kennedys, the Bushes and the Clintons increasingly dominate politics. The two political parties represent charity and privilege, the two medieval political forces (church or charity and king or privilege). There is no individualist, freedom-based alternative. Thus, the philosophy that guided once-free America is dead and gone. In the view of today's neo-medieval politicians and social theorists, regulaton is preferable to freedom. Group authority and suppression are desirable, freedom is not.
The latest demonstration of America's increasingly medieval mindset and its betrayal of American republicanism is seen in Barack Obama's willingness to literally kowtow and bow to a foreign king. Not surprisingly, the media, which kowtows to Obama just as Obama kowtows to a king, has not covered this story. Obama does not display the spirit of a free American. He does not know what an American is. And the American news media does not know what a free press is.
Take a look at the repugnant video below, courtesy of Newsmax.
I have researched and written about employee benefit issues and in my previous life was a corporate benefits administrator. I am currently associate professor of business at Brooklyn College. I hold a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, an MBA from UCLA and an AB from Sarah Lawrence College. I am working on a project involving public policy. I blog on academic and political topics.
