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This is the recappers' comment thread for tonight's Hour of Spin. Post your analysis of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann right here. Be an Olbermann Watch blogger--without all the muss and fuss. Comments are open!
Right click and save this date: April 9, 2009.....Keith Olbermann is miffed at the Obama administration. Not only are they keeping the Bush-era wiretapping program, they are expanding it. Keith did not get red-faced and scream, "FASCIST!!!!" at the camera but calling Obama "dead wrong on this" is very un-Keith-like, who has formatted his show lately of 30 minutes of "I love Obama!" and 30 minutes of "I hate O'Reilly!"
very un-Keith-like?
Not unless you believe him to be a FRAUD......like most sane, honest, even-headed persons like myself.
KO was covering Obama's trip to Iraq in which Obermoron stated, "...where the president awarded the Metal of Valor to 10 troops..." This struck a nerve with me because I remembered in October '07 President Bush posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Lt. Michael P. Murphy. The President gave the award to Lt. Murphy's parents at the White House. Not one time did MSNBC ever mention the ceremony or even show a clip. It's was so disgusting that Olberdork's third rate "program" would not mention the story of Lt. Murphy, who was the first to receive the Medal of Honor award for service in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. His hatred for President Bush led him to not cover the story when every single news program made it a top news story. What a joke. What hypocrisy. If this doesn't tell you something about this man's character....nothing will.
MSNBC is just one big mess, the wrost bunch of so called "journalist" ever assembled under one news division.
Just a bunch of people trying to act "smart" and really come off looking stupid!
Im going to skip KO and go to his gal pal Madcow. She is the official cheerleader of MSNBC, its like she is looking for any and I MEAN any evidence that the the econ is getting better its just really silly.
We now have angry ED, which is just about the stupidest show, all the changing camera angles, they were going to fast today I think at one point "Ed" was getting dizzy and several times lost where the camera was at..such such..ameature hour.
We have Robin ( shuster) trying to prove to Batman that he is worthey of his own show.
And then we have KO, the wana-be-leader of this motley crue of wana-a-be journalist.
Is this some kind of cosmic joke god is playing on us?
Where is Dan "I rather make UP the news" Rather and Uncle Walter " I hate America" Cronkite when you need them!
MSNBC is truley the Bad New Bears of Cable News, nah the BNB were actually loveable underdogs, these people are more like....the crazy people that try out for those bachelor shows, and not the one on ABC the really trashey "rip-offs" you get on MTV and VHI! Classless and Vile!
Ok my rant is over!
MSNBC is just one big mess, the wrost bunch of so called "journalist" ever assembled under one news division.
Just a bunch of people trying to act "smart" and really come off looking stupid!
Im going to skip KO and go to his gal pal Madcow. She is the official cheerleader of MSNBC, its like she is looking for any and I MEAN any evidence that the the econ is getting better its just really silly.
We now have angry ED, which is just about the stupidest show, all the changing camera angles, they were going to fast today I think at one point "Ed" was getting dizzy and several times lost where the camera was at..such such..ameature hour.
We have Robin ( shuster) trying to prove to Batman that he is worthey of his own show.
And then we have KO, the wana-be-leader of this motley crue of wana-a-be journalist.
Is this some kind of cosmic joke god is playing on us?
Where is Dan "I rather make UP the news" Rather and Uncle Walter " I hate America" Cronkite when you need them!
MSNBC is truley the Bad New Bears of Cable News, nah the BNB were actually loveable underdogs, these people are more like....the crazy people that try out for those bachelor shows, and not the one on ABC the really trashey "rip-offs" you get on MTV and VHI! Classless and Vile!
Ok my rant is over!
Were there any O'Reilly or Fox attacks tonight?
I don't think O'Reilly's name was mentioned tonight. Fat Ass went after his next favorite target: Glen Beck. The deplorable hack blamed Beck for the three police deaths at the hand of some nutjob. Keith attacks Bernie Goldberg the same way every chance he gets. I think BillO might be losing a bit of ground to Keiths new enemy, Glen Beck. Will Beck refrain from responding in kind? He's went after the motherless bastard in the past.
I don't think he'll go after him now that he's at FNC, Dan, at least not directly.
Krazy Keith, Chris, Madcow, and Ed
That's an ugly and crowded bed
Four hours of whining
And liberal opining
From (MS)NBC's inbred
Mike C.,
You're probably right. However, on the radio he mocks the hell out of him by name. It's a riot listening to Beck go Shakespearean as he imitates Olby's "Special Comments".
Another masterpiece, Katy.
The "crowded bed" image made me wince and turn my eyes away.
I'll have to give him a try than on the radio, Count.
I had never heard or seen Beck until recently and he sometimes reminds me of Jim Carey with the many facial expressions and voice changes.
He probably would do a great job on the radio.
Beck was good today, he brought up the hilarity that he's responsible for the 3 dead policemen, but never mentioned any names, just the left-wing nutjobs in general.
In fact Beck was good yesterday as well. The story of the Navy Seal who's dog was senselessly killed by a bunch of punks hits you to the heart.
I think that's why I like Beck and why his ratings are monstrous. He isn't afraid to show his feelings and be passionate about things that really matter outside of politics. He's really about values and preserving them.
But then again what does he know, he didn't even finish college let alone go to Kornell. lol
There is a link on NewsBusters that is currently in the OlbyFlood.
http://tinyurl.com/cc3suk
It refers to Monday night's show. Apparently, there *was* Another O'Reilly Attack. Blue blog source: Media Matters. http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903300043?show=1
In the process of this attack, Jane Fonda Olbermann defended Gonzalo Boye, the radical left attorney in Spain. Text of Brad Wilmouth's NB post below:
Olbermann Defends Former Left-Wing Terrorist, Compares to George Washington
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann seemed to rationalize the actions of the Chile-based Marxist terror group MIR, as he compared one of the group’s followers who helped kidnap a Spanish businessman, and who is currently attempting to have Bush administration members indicted in a Spanish court on war crimes charges, to George Washington.
In response to FNC’s Bill O’Reilly, who last week pointed out that Gonzalo Boye, the attorney in Spain who is trying to have Bush administration members prosecuted on war crimes charges, himself spent eight years in a Spanish prison for assisting the MIR, Olbermann suggested that the attorney’s involvement with the Chilean terrorist group was justified because the group's aim was to topple former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
But Olbermann did not mention that the crime Boye was convicted of involved the 1988 kidnapping of Spanish businessman Emiliano Revilla, who was abducted outside his Madrid home and held eight months for ransom in a collaborated effort between the Chile-based MIR and the Spain-based ETA, both of which are left-wing terror groups. Olbermann responded to O’Reilly’s complaint that it was a "big omission" for a New York Times article not to mention Boye’s history by rationalizing Boye’s terrorist history. Olbermann: "Well, no, not as big an omission as forgetting to mention that the man whom Mr. Boye's collaboration with terrorists targeted was the sadistic Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. This is like Bill-O [Ding!] calling George Washington a terrorist."
In the March 31, 2009, National Review Online article, "Spain's 'Universal Jurisdiction' Power Play," Andrew McCarthy summarized Boye's terrorist history, which also includes trying to work with Hamas to bring war crimes charges against the Israeli government:
*[Gonzalo Boye] obtained his law degree in a Spanish prison. According to reports in the Spanish press, Boye, a Chilean, was a member of the terrorist Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) when, in collusion with the ETA, Spain's Marxist-Leninist Basque terrorist outfit, he participated in the abduction of a Spanish businessman, Emiliano Revilla.
For 249 days in 1988, from Revilla's seizure at gunpoint until his family paid the multi-million-dollar ransom, the social-justice activists of MIR and ETA stashed their hostage in a cell that, as Revilla has recounted, measured 2 meters long, 1 meter wide, and 1.8 meters high. ... Boye was ultimately prosecuted and sentenced to ten years in prison, during which time he obtained his law degree from something called the National University of Distance Education.*
McCarthy continued:
*More recently, Boye has worked with Palestinian "human rights activists" to bring suit -- in Spain, of course -- against Israel's former defense minister, and six others in his chain of command, for 2002 military operations against terrorists in Gaza -- which, in the Madrid lawyer's considered opinion, were "disproportionate." And Haaretz reports that Boye was back in Gaza earlier this year, consulting with Hamas in anticipation of bringing war-crimes charges against Israel for its defensive operations in a war necessitated by the thousands of missiles Hamas fired at Israeli civilians.*
During the Monday, April 6, Countdown, Olbermann attacked O’Reilly during the show’s "Worst Person" segment:
*During his threatened one-man boycott of Spain over the efforts of the attorney Gonzalo Boye to indict six members of the Bush administration for war crimes, Bill-O [Ding!] said, (Ted Baxter voice): "the New York Times reported Boye's beef but did not report this: Boye served almost eight years in a Spanish prison for collaborating with terrorists. He was sentenced in 1996. Now, that seemed to be a mighty big omission by the New York Times, does it not?"
Well, no, not as big an omission as forgetting to mention that the man whom Mr. Boye's collaboration with terrorists targeted was the sadistic Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. This is like Bill-O [Ding!] calling George Washington a terrorist.*
Olbermann is well known for coming to the defense of detained terror suspects against what he deems harsh treatment by the Bush administration, once even suggesting Osama bin Laden’s driver was a "victim" of the Bush administration "urinating on the Constitution."
On the Friday, January 23, Countdown show, Olbermann suggested that an al-Qaeda leader behind a bombing in Yemen may have been an innocent man when he was first jailed at Gitmo, and then became a terrorist leader as a result of his imprisonment. The Countdown host plugged the story before a commercial break: "But perhaps the real question is: Since we never tried him, never found him guilty, and the Bush administration set him free, what if he wasn’t a terrorist in the first place, but we turned him into one by sending him to Gitmo?"
During the January 23 show's "Still Bushed!" segment, the MSNBC host elaborated on his counterintuitive theory:
*Shihri said he had gone to Afghanistan to do relief work, and his trip to Iran, that was to buy carpets for his family’s furniture store in Riyad. So the ultimate question here is not: Doesn’t this prove we can never ever ever never close Gitmo? But rather, if he really was traveling tourists of terrorism and not a guy buying rugs, why did the Bush people let him go? Or, why was he never put on trial? Or, why did the permanent solution to terrorism the Bushies claim Gitmo was fail so utterly here? And, perhaps worst of all, if Shihri was once just a guy trying to get a deal on some carpets, which is suggested by the fact that Bush’s people let him go, did his detention at Gitmo in fact turn him into a terrorist? Did we perhaps create in Said al-Shihri his reason for hating us?*
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That demarcation marks the end of Wilmouth's post. I'll take it from here. This feels like ancient history at this point, but here is last Monday's Talking Points Memo transcript... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511814,00.html
...and video: http://tinyurl.com/dh8u32
*A Spanish court has begun steps to open a criminal investigation against some members of the Bush administration for alleged crimes involving the War on Terror. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Justice Department lawyer John Yoo are three of the Americans being targeted.
Now we're used to this kind of stuff in the far left here in the USA, but the Spanish action raises the bar. And Spain must be held accountable for that. The action is being driven by a man named Gonzalo Boye, a radical left lawyer in Madrid.
On Sunday, [Oralmann's quote starts here:] The New York Times reported Boye's beef, but did not report this. Boye served almost eight years in a Spanish prison for collaborating with terrorists. He was sentenced in 1996. Now that seemed to be a mighty big omission by The New York Times, does it not? [Oralmann's quote ends here.]
We called the Spanish ambassador in Washington, Jorge Dezcallar to appear with us this evening. The ambassador says he cannot comment, which of course is loco — of course, he can comment.
So here's the deal, Spain: If this action goes forward, you'll be insulting America, implying we are the problem in the terror war. You're also diverting attention away from the true evil: Islamic fundamentalist killers who have attacked your own country.
Finally, unless this action is condemned by Spanish or Prime Minister Zapatero, then I am not going to that country. And I'm not optimistic that Zapatero will do the right thing. He's a socialist. And Spain has not been a big supporter of the USA. In fact, once Zapatero took over from Prime Minister Asnar, a good guy, that country began imposing tougher sanctions on Iran for example and is Iran's third biggest trading partner. Isn't that nice?
Spain also has been soft on Hamas and Hezbollah. And while it's true Spain has 800 troops in Afghanistan, is part of the NATO force, it has rejected President Obama's calls to send more troops, preferring to let the USA do most of the fighting.
Are you getting the picture here?
A few years back, The Factor called for boycott of France because the corrupt President Jacques Chirac was doing back-door deals with Saddam Hussein. When President Sarkozy was elected, we lifted the boycott because he's a terror warrior and doesn't hate the USA.
So for now, the Spanish prime minister needs to step up and stop the madness. And the ambassador in D.C. needs to get out from under his desk.
And that's The Memo.*
Bill had to issue a correction in last Tuesday's T-Points: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512026,00.html
*... Iran continues to be dangerous. And countries like Russia, Japan and China, which provide resources to the vicious Iranian government, need to be called out. By the way, we made a mistake yesterday. Spain does trade with Iran, but it's not in the top tier. And we apologize for the research error. ...*
Speaking of Monday, April 6, here are the ratings:
http://tinyurl.com/dhpgbn
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
O’Reilly Factor —3,513,000 viewers (783,000) (1,311,000)
Campbell Brown—786,000 viewers (184,000) (301,000)
Countdown w/Keith Olbermann —1,309,000 viewers (429,000) (642,000)
CNBC Reports – 126,000 viewers (a scratch w/33,000) (a scratch w/43,000)
Nancy Grace –1,111,000 viewers (469,000) (637,000)
As you can see, at 8PM, Keithy came in a distant second in total viewers, a distant second in the 35-64 demo, and third in the 25-54 demo.
Two hours later:
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On the Record w/Greta—1,959,000 viewers (451,000) (823,000)
Anderson Cooper—1,321,000 viewers (327,000) (496,000)
Countdown w/Keith Olbermann —685,000 viewers (222,000) (325,000)
On the Money – a scratch w/69,000 viewers, (a scratch w/30,000) (a scratch w/38,000)
Nancy Grace –677,000 viewers (252,000) (403,000)
At 10PM, Keith Vendettamann came in third place in total viewers, fourth in the 35-64 demo, and fourth in the 25-54 demo.
Honorable mention:
6PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special report w/Bret Baier – 2,125,000 viewers (471,000) (1,005,000)
Situation Room—1,147,000 viewers (307,000) (507,000)
Ed Show —725,000 viewers (247,000) (343,000)
Mad Money—251,000 viewers (82,000) (143,000)
Prime News—309,000 viewers (123,000) (169,000)
Sir Ed Schultz came in third in all three categories listed. Welcome to the big time, Ed.
Stuart Scott just made a Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles reference during the 10PM PT SportsCenter's Top 10 [plays of the day].
"Pittsburgh killer inspired by Beck", reads the description for story #2 on the Countdown website. But KO says to Beck that "maybe he's not your fault. I hope not." Confusing, I know.
Then he suggests that the next killer *will* be his fault, because he's "personally...encouraging Americans to shoot other Americans" (OlbyLieTM). Actually, he's not. Olbermann just wants you to think that, so he went ahead and mischaracterized the letter Beck read on air to suggest that the woman writing it bought the gun for the purpose of an armed insurrection. This is extremely misleading (and false), because KO used *Beck's* verbiage of "take your country back" and linked it to what the woman wrote. What Olbermann omitted was the part afterward where Beck and his guest put the woman's letter into context:
BECK: ...But tell me, I am seeing more and more women coming out of the woodwork really, really concerned. And I found that odd for the longest while, and I think -- I don't know -- I think there's maybe something going on with women, that maternal instinct where they're feeling like they got to protect the family a little bit and take care of their kids. Are you seeing anything like that, with membership or anything?
LAPIERRE: Well, we're all seeing one of the greatest freedom movements in the world right now. It's women, men, people all over this country, in one of the worst economies of our lifetime, going out and buying firearms. They are saying -- I will protect my family, I will protect my neighborhood, and I will stand up for my rights. And that's happening everywhere.
Buying a firearm for self-protection? Alert the FBI!
"You remember March 19, right?", Keith taunts. Actually, it wouldn't matter anyway, because the show took place on March *18* (LexisNexis). Snarky, but sloppy. Yet another indication that he rips and reads.
Just one last thing. Olbermann rebukes Beck for something that hasn't happened. KO ripping Beck for the hypothetical consequences of his inflammatory rhetoric is pretty easy to do, because you can pretty much take it as far as you want. I could just as easily scold Olbermann for make-believe scenarios that result from the anti-Republican hate that he spews night after night. In either case, should either commentator be held responsible? KO doesn't think so:
"None of us at any end of the political spectrum can be responsible for what the ultimately hateful or the deranged wrongly infer from our work." --Keith Olbermann, Countdown, Feb. 12, 2009.
You know, except Glenn Beck. Watch out, Glenn. Keith Olbermann is "hateful", "deranged", and has just *wrongly inferred from your work* that you want to see Americans shooting each other.
John-O,
I don't think Beck has to worry about a pissant that even the majority of Democrats think is a joke.
Oh, I know. Keith may be crazy, but I'm not saying he's disgruntled-postal-worker crazy. I was just making a point more than anything else. I think the "Watch out, Glenn" part I wrote could be taken the wrong way.
More hypocrisy from the left...Where was Keith Olbermann's Nazi reference last night on COUNTDOWN regarding Obama's decision to try to protect those serving our nation from the lawsuits from the radical left?
When George Bush did the same thing, Keith Olbermann said the following.....
"This is no longer just a farce in which protecting telecoms is dressed up as protecting us from terrorists conference cells. Now it begins to look like the bureaucrats of the Third Reich, trying to protect the Krupp family, the industrial giants, re-writing the laws of Germany for their benefit.
"There is not a choice of protecting the telecoms from prosecution or protecting the people from terrorism, Sir. This is a choice of protecting the telecoms from prosecution or pretending to protect the people from terrorists. Sorry, Mr. Bush, the eavesdropping provisions of FISA have obviously had no impact on counter-terrorism, and there is no current or perceived terrorist threat the thwarting of which could hinge on an email or phone call that is going through Room 641 of AT&T in San Francisco."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ_kK8OOp4M
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And let us not forget the pass Olbermann gave on candidate Obama for supporting the FISA bill and how Jonathan Alter came on to excuse the actions of then Senator Obama.....
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/26/olbermann/
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Oh well, Olbermann and Alter wrong?....What a surprise. Will there be a SPECIAL COMMENT to show just how dangerous President Obama is to our civil liberties?.....Will he "catch hell," from the chief church of SNOBamessiah cheerleader?......
"But anybody who got as hot about this as I did would prefer to see a President Obama prosecuting the telecoms criminally, instead of seeing a Senator Obama engender more "soft on terror" crap by casting a token vote in favor of civil litigation that isn't going to pass since so many other Democrats caved anyway. . . . If it isn't the Senator's game plan, he'll catch hell from me about it later."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/26/222646/124/440/542648
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I'll be waiting with baited breath for the SPECIAL COMMENT, complete with Nazi and Orwell's 1984 references, use of the terms, "fascism," and/or "unconstitutional," as well as the demand.......
"RESIGN!"
It must sting when a recovering alcoholic and drug fiend with zero college education who's had a show on Fox News for three months gets better ratings than you.
It's kind of like a baseball card collector with a wannabe Ivy League degree pretending to be a journalist getting better ratings than you...wait, we wouldn't know anything about that.
Memo to Olbermann, if blaming gun massacres on commentators from the "other" network is all you have left then I think it's time for calling it a day.
Like I said yesterday, back to business as usual.
And then, a few hours later, it's the guy with degrees from Marist College, Boston University, *and* Harvard University that gets better ratings than Keith. Tee-hee.
Olbermann ponders: "..So much hatred, so little time in an hour. O'Reilly, Beck, O'Reilly, Beck, FNC,...What's a girl to do?????"
Well that's the problem with KO now. With Bush gone he's nothing more than a Fox News Watch program for the most part. It's like this website only targeted at FNC/Republicans and it's on TV.
Oh and he get's paid millions for doing it. But then again he did goto college...
I just finished watching the #5 story last night and the contrast to how Olbermann "reported" (I use the term loosely) on Obama as compared Bush is stark.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#30096316
Sure, Olbermann was critical, BUT, note how he allows, even gives the excuse himself, of the "bureaucracy" being the villian here that has the Obama administration in a difficult position....Even Fineman, in the end, suggests President Obama is at least shutting down "the dark side" like torture and GITMO, so this immunity on wiretapping is something acceptable despite his campaigning against it.
I noted the lack of suggestion of fascism or parallels to Nazis, but the attempt to couch Obama's actions here as at least softened by his stand against torture is laughable. Then Fineman even tries to put it on the congressional Republicans....nice.
All I have to say is that the left's ruling class, which has total power here....Obama, Pelosi and Reid, could easily bring forth investigations and prosecutions for war crimes, torture or unconstitutional activity on the part of Bush, Cheney and those in the administration.....They do not need Republicans to do it....so if laws were broken....why not?
Why not?.....Because there were no crimes and Olbermann and his ilk cannot bring themselves to the truth that their claims these past several years were false and unsupported. Just like the war, the left's political class has used the nut fringe issues to gain power and now that they have power....no prosecutions, no end of the war in Iraq....no confirmation of the church of SNOBamessiah silly, unfounded fears.
George Bush and Dick Cheney were never impeached, they never resigned, and they will never be implicated let alone prosecuted for torture, or for violations of the constitution nor will they be penalized civilly for illegal domestic eavesdropping.....
They, and the fine men and women who served under them, were wrongly accused by stupid people like Keith Olbermann and Obama's actions show that.
Sorry for the bad news. Flowery words in long-winded speeches via teleprompter and cosmetic measures, like the closing of a POW camp, is all the wacko left and Olbermann are going to get for all of the apoplectic gut wrenching activity these last few years. Oh well....I simply shake my head and say, like I did about Iraq....I told you so.
No Bush administration members in orange jump suits.....
No "truth commitee" reports skewering Darth Cheney.....
And Barack Obama doing the SAME EXACT THINGS in regards to the war on terror and domestic security as George Bush....why....because it is his constitutional duty.
Sorry anti-America leftists.....Vindication for the domestic wiretapping program just like the policy to secure Iraq before US withdrawl (aka the surge).....
VERO POSSUMUS!
Amanda Terkle stirs up Fox News Haters:
Her piece today at Think Progress about the Turkish News Anchor that did his broadcast in BLACKFACE in reply to the visit by Barak Obama.
Some say he did it out of respect, that the Turkish culture would show respect by his (weirdly) wearing blackface. Others say it was an obvious racial insult. Then there are the looney commenters at TP.
Here's a sampling:
Bobwurst Says:
Well, now we know who Brit Hume’s replacement is…
April 8th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
P.D. Says:
Are we sure this station isn’t affiliated with Faux News?
April 8th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
The Republic of Hymenoptera Stupidity Says:
No doubt, Fox has ALREADY made a 7 figure job offer…
Perhaps Glenn Beck will feel obliged to follow suit, huh?
April 8th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/08/turkish-blackface/#comments
A two-fer....a muted mongrel on tonight's church of SNOBamessiah revival hour (COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann) and a "what if President Bush had done this" moment......
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/White_House_No_bow_to_Saudi.html?showall
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I dunno, I think Obama is peeing on someone's head and telling them it's raining.....It looks like a nice bow to me....the king should be honored!
I recall how all the leftists here used to tell us how the Bush family were such good friends with the Saudi royal family....they got Bin Laden's family out of the country after 9/11, were likely knowledgable about the terrorist attack on 9/11 because so many of the hijackers were Sauids, and even could manipulate oil prices (how did that theory work out?)....
I don't recall President Bush bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia though.
President Obama, change is happening!....American Presidents now bow to kings!
VERO POSSUMUS!
cee, your comment reminded me of the incident pictured below. What the Hell was GW thinking? And it's not the King, simply Prince Abdullah:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2073/2496409613_08d918d1f8.jpg
Saw this little tidbit and thought to pass it on...a possible sneak peek into tonight's show:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/08/criticism/
a quote from the article:
"Olbermann tonight will have on as a guest Kevin Bankston of EFF, the lead counsel for the plaintiffs suing Bush officials for illegal spying, which means Olbermann intends to cover this issue again tonight."