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ABC Wonders If You Care About Bow; What White House Calls 'a Lean'
News Busters ^ | 04/09/2009 | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 04/09/2009 2:09:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

In the brief "Closing Arguments" segment on Wednesday's "Nightline," ABC's Terry Moran credulously repeated the White House contention that Barack Obama didn't bow to the King of Saudi Arabia last week at the G-20 summit. As video of the incident played, Moran narrated, "He sees King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Goes in for the hello. There's a hand shake. Obama bends at the waist. But was it a bow?" [Audio available here.]

He then recited, "The White House called it a lean, pointing out the King's shorter than the President." Inviting people to respond on his Twitter page, Moran wondered, "So, tonight, we ask you, was it a bow and do you care?" A search of @TerryMoran responses on Twitter shows a healthy number of people somewhat incredulous at the host's lack of skepticism. DesigningDi instructed, "Are you blind? Of course he's bowing. Don't play stupid!"

ABC should be given credit for actually showing the video, but the question is, was Moran attempting to dismiss the situation as frivolous and not important or actually investigate its relevance?

A transcript of the brief segment, which aired at 12:04am on April 9, follows:

TERRY MORAN: ["Closing Arguments" logo comes up]: That means it's time for tonight's closing argument. President Barack Obama standing among fellow leaders at the G-20. [Video of the incident.] He sees King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Goes in for the hello. There's a hand shake. Obama bends at the waste. But was it a bow? A breach of presidential protocol when greeting royalty. The White House called it a lean, pointing out the King's shorter than the President. So, tonight, we ask you, was it a bow and do you care? Tell us on the "Nightline" page at ABCNews.com, the "Nightline" Twitter page or at my Twitter page.

—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcdisneynews; bow; boycottdisney; cheeseeating; collusion; dnctalkingpoints; fakebutaccurate; lapdogmedia; lean; likelystories; lyingliar; obamabow; obamalies; obowma; pravdamedia; revisionisthistory; surrendermonkey
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Obowma

21 posted on 04/09/2009 2:19:28 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Dallas59

Great photo of obama leaning on the dnace floor!


22 posted on 04/09/2009 2:19:42 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: MitchellC

There’s a video on Youtube which shows Obama’s left hand tucked close to his waist as he bows. He didn’t use the left hand and any suggestion that he did by these WH mouthpieces is a fabrication.


23 posted on 04/09/2009 2:20:42 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Responsibility2nd; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; ...
It was a capitulation.
24 posted on 04/09/2009 2:20:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”NYTimes Bill Kell)
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To: jurroppi1

Yes, and make NO mistake....his obvious genuflect was a big F U to the United States of America.


25 posted on 04/09/2009 2:20:56 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“I did not bow down to that King Lewinsky”


26 posted on 04/09/2009 2:21:23 PM PDT by reagandemocrat (the penumbra doctrine is asinine.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

He needs to be censured on the floor of Congress. Today. Americans do not bow to anyone.


27 posted on 04/09/2009 2:22:11 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: manc

>.actually kissed the hand

Do you see any other logical reason for his action.

I don’t.

We’re just lucky that some enterprising video guy caught that whole exchange.


28 posted on 04/09/2009 2:23:08 PM PDT by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I finally just told a liberal friend of mine last night that I was done discussing it with him. He laughed and I said no, as an athiest you will have your head cut off by the Muslims, while as a Christian I will be allowed to live.

That stunned him into silence for a few seconds and then he said, laughingly again, “Are you serious?”

I told him I’m done doing his research for him and if he wanted to know if Muslims wanted him dead he needed to look it up for himself. I gave him the name “Theo van Gogh” and said goodbye and hung up.

These morons who believe that no one wants to kill them are hopeless. Maybe I’m just having a bad day, but how much blood will have to run in the streets for them to wake up?


29 posted on 04/09/2009 2:23:11 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Responsibility2nd

Shakespeare said it best:

“What’s in a a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)


30 posted on 04/09/2009 2:23:28 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: Tallguy
He didn't bow to the Queen of England either nor did he LEAN to shake her hand...

shorter woman and all that.

31 posted on 04/09/2009 2:23:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”NYTimes Bill Kell)
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To: MitchellC

Good point!

The left hand is the “don’t have toilet paper but wipe the poo off anyway” hand.


32 posted on 04/09/2009 2:24:26 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: Tallguy
and any suggestion that he did by these WH mouthpieces is a fabrication lie.
33 posted on 04/09/2009 2:24:54 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: A.A. Cunningham; Revolting cat!

“I sheik your hand...”


34 posted on 04/09/2009 2:25:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”NYTimes Bill Kell)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Get used to it.

With his defense cuts we will soon be seeing lots of “leans.”


35 posted on 04/09/2009 2:25:42 PM PDT by Loud Mime (If Christians cannot unite in battle to save this nation, it will be lost)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I posted before, his head was also bowed. If it was a lean why wasn’t he looking at the king, but instead at his shoes. I was never much into the Messiah being a mooslim, but that is incredible.


36 posted on 04/09/2009 2:26:26 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The whole bow or not issue would have quickly gone the way of other Zero gaffes if not for the crack team Zero has surrounding him...arrogance is no substitute for ability..except for maybe a reality show.


37 posted on 04/09/2009 2:26:46 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
More like President Ford hitting his head in fact ~ but the Democrats started this deal with Nixon, so all is fair in love, war and politics.

Guy got caught, in public, bowing down to kiss the Saudi Arabian king's penis.

There, now I've said it ~ it was MORE THAN A BOW.

Much more interesting motive too.

38 posted on 04/09/2009 2:26:49 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Responsibility2nd

Too much time on the knees makes the msm addlebrained.


39 posted on 04/09/2009 2:29:04 PM PDT by Carley (President Obama Dropped a MOAB on America)
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To: Tallguy
He didn’t use the left hand and any suggestion that he did by these WH mouthpieces is a fabrication.

Only if by saying "is a fabrication" you actualy mean to say "is bull5hit"

40 posted on 04/09/2009 2:29:06 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Clinton was our first black President ... Obama is our first French President.)
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