Blink and You’ll Miss The Greatest Outrage Ever Perpetrated by a Sitting President!

This silliness is what the nutter monkeys are poo-flinging about today (love the music!):

Here’s how it looked in real-time [via—ha ha!—that hot Islamophobic mess Atlas Shrugs]:

Shocking! The whole world is laughing at us! Because of our idiot countrymen who are upset about this tomfoolery.

TS summed it up well here:

For every hour wingnuts spend bitching about how Obama is bowing to a foreign leader, that’s one less hour they’re not making up lies about health care reform.

Small price to pay, no?

MORE: The top video asked people to leave comments on YouTube. Here are just a few of them...

VoxLibertari (4 minutes ago)
Obama loves blowjobs. HillaryNutCracker? can tell you more about it.

BourneAccident (19 minutes ago)
What’s next for Obama…? Is he going to start giving blowjobs to other? world leaders…?

haveu4gotten (1 hour ago)
Wait til he gets to China the bow will include a blow job. We are so screwed if we don’t get him the hell out of the white house.

IdanDVR (1 hour ago)
this pussybama makes america looks like a submissive nation of fags.
get him out of the white house before its too late

NCMan28025 (1 hour ago)
Submissive-in-chief or? pussy-in-chief?

DumpHarryReidNevada (1 hour ago)
Kim Jong IL could use a tongue wipe shoe polish from Obama,I am sure Obama is more than willing to do that for him in the name of peace.

KillaCommieForMommie (2 hours ago)
My father was in the Navy during the Korean war. He told me it was quite common for other ships to lower their flags as they neared US ships out of respect for America. This pinko poorchmonkey has sent that all flying out the freaken window! I hate that cocksucker!!!!!

TheRoachPit (2 hours ago)
I agree this is an emperor and people bow down to eachother all over the place here in Japan… its not like the Saudi embarrassment

I just wonder why he didnt have any bow for the Queen of England? Maybe because she i white

TheRoachPit (2 hours ago)
Another thing is that Obama does seem to go way out of his way to show that he’s so cosmopolitan lolol but in doing so everyone can tell its rehearsed and just more Obama crap. So tiring to watch this performing monkey. Anyway Japan lost the war and got two A-bombs up their ass - they got owned

DumpHarryReidNevada (2 hours ago)
Do they have Organ grinders in Japan?
Because Obama would make a great performing monkey tethered to one of those boxes.

DumpHarryReidNevada (2 hours ago)
How cute Emporer Akihito got to see Americas trained Monkey perform live.
Did they throw any peanuts or did Obama do the tricks on his own?

Conan568 (3 hours ago)
That’s right Barry, take a bow.
Take a bow and leave the political stage before you ruin your adopted country.
No proof of birthplace.
Oops, too late, he’s already put things into motion that will do just that.

Filmore87458 (2 hours ago)
Speaking of “No proof of birthplace,” it’s ironic to think that Nidal Malik Hasan is more qualified than Barack Hussein Obama to be President of the United States. . . . Just a thought.

DivinityBleu (3 hours ago)
Heh, you should photoshop that and turn obama around facing away from the emperor with a jar of vaseline sitting on Obamas ass…it would be a more accurate depiction.

jcwarhawk (2 hours ago)
In my Facebook reposting of this, that’s exactly what I said. Why doesn’t he just turn around, pull his pants down, and spread ‘em. It’d be the same gesture!

BrainDeadRepublican (3 hours ago)
Obama was just following his progressive beliefs. EVERY progressive believes the stereotype that Japanese are short and you have to bend over to shake their hand. Just ask Barbara Boxer about progressive racial stereotyping.

I’ve never been prouder to be an American.

UPDATE: Okay, one more because Rumproast is allegedly a humor blog…

longlivetheUSA (40 minutes ago)
Typical stupid ass mother fucking liberal!!! Liberals do this type of thing even when they go and eat out at a Chinese restaurant, they bow to servers and the servers look at them like their fucking morons because liberals think that their so worldly. [...]

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I can’t wait to see how the left spins this

Spin? You’re a fucking moron, how’s that for spin?

Comment by Tom65 on 11/14/09 at 03:45 PM

Barack Obama is the coolest thing in a suit since Buckaroo Banzai, and it makes the wingers crazy that all they ever get for leaders are old geezers and hilljacks who think the proper response to “Konichiwa” is “You betcha!”

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 11/14/09 at 03:50 PM

Nah, they’ve got him bang to rights.

Cultural sensitivities be damned, it’s obviously ridiculous and demeaning for an American president to kowtow to foreign dignitaries. But at least there were no tongues this time.

Comment by YAFB on 11/14/09 at 03:55 PM

They’re just jealous because they can’t even bend over at the waist, even if there is a bag of Cheetos on the floor.

Comment by Loneoak on 11/14/09 at 04:03 PM

YAFB, imagine if Obama had done something really beyond the pale—like give a foreign dignitary a backrub.

Comment by Oblomova on 11/14/09 at 04:03 PM

Oblomova, I’d be SHOCKED. SHOCKED, I tell you. Especially if that foreign dignitary was a leading figure in the government of a country with which both the US and UK had fought a couple of long and bloody wars.

Comment by YAFB on 11/14/09 at 04:17 PM

Not that it’s surprising or new, but the entire right wing of America is now officially the guy at the end of the bar saying “You think you’re BETTER than me?”

I don’t know if I should be horrified or amused.

Comment by Oblomova on 11/14/09 at 04:32 PM

God, how it pains me to agree with the hypocritical wingnuts even the slightest bit. But I have to admit that I HATE it when our head of state—Bush, Obama or anyone—indulges in this royalist bullshit. Bowing to some divine-right ruler, ceremonial or otherwise, is just plain wrong behavior from the leader of a democratic nation.

Comment by Judas Peckerwood on 11/14/09 at 05:10 PM

But it works both ways, Judas. When foreign leaders—even emperors—visit the US, they have to observe our customs and shake hands the American democratic way—in a plaid sports coat with a joy-buzzer.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 11/14/09 at 05:24 PM

I assume that the Obama advisors know what the protocol is. I assume that the Japanese appreciated the gesture. Beyond that, who gives a flying fujiama what the Republicans think?

Comment by donnah on 11/14/09 at 05:39 PM

To me, it’s a bit like going through the motions at a Catholic funeral or wedding. I’m not Catholic anymore, but somebody else’s solemn or happy ceremony is not the place for me to take that stand and sit with my arms folded during the Mass. Besides, some weeks, all that standing and sitting is the only exercise I get. Since I don’t believe, I don’t feel like I’m in peril of going to hell for faking it. And if there is a divine being, I would hope my attempts at being polite for the sake of others would mean something in that Golden Rule way.

Comment by Oblomova on 11/14/09 at 05:42 PM

Those ‘winger reactions kinda explains why we’re having so much trouble getting into the Asian markets, don’t it?

Comment by gwangung on 11/14/09 at 07:14 PM

That traitorous Citizen of the World! Probably studied Japanese customs and calibrated his bow accordingly. Why didn’t he just throw up on the guy? Now that’s American!

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 11/14/09 at 07:19 PM

For crying out loud, he’s in Japan—they bow fifty times a day. I lived in Japan for years and had to get out of the habit when I came back to the US. But heaven forbid that our president actually respect the local customs. No, he should’ve given the emperor a nice shoulder massage and then a noogie.

Comment by icruise on 11/14/09 at 08:43 PM

My god, wingnuts are so threatened by him.

Is it because he’s the negation of everything they believe?

Comment by Break The Terror (Evan) on 11/14/09 at 09:54 PM

Stupid wingers. This is why the outside world view Americans as if we live in a bubble (which clearly we do).

They know nothing about Asian customs which bowing is a very big custom that all Asian countries do. Also it’s respectful to bow to an Emperor.

It’s also funny how they complained that the Obamas didn’t bow or curtsy to the Queen of England, but yet when it’s another type of royalty they go bat crazy for them doing it.

Comment by jane on 11/15/09 at 02:26 AM

Jane: that’s because our royalty is extraspeshul and wonderful ~~and white~~.

icruise: I used to live in Germany, and they shake hands a hell of a lot more than anyone in the UK does -like daily, even if you’ve met the person twenty times that week already- and that was a hard habit to break.

Comment by Mike on 11/15/09 at 07:32 AM

Wingnut blogger Thomas Lifson chose to break free from the pack, preoccupied as they were with excruciating “bow” puns and declaring themselves unlikely to be satisfied unless Obama’d dropped his pants and taken a dump on the rug there and then—and then they’d probably been critical of the texture, formation, and delivery.

As with the vast number of hitherto unrevealed RW protocol experts who sprang up during the visit to HM the Queen earlier in the year, Lifson claims to be an expert in Japanese bowing protocol. His gripes are that Obama botched the bow (combining the bow with a handshake is supposedly a no-no) and provoked an international incident whereby the emperor did not reciprocate:

Another fundamental precept of the ordinary bow: it must be reciprocated. To do otherwise is a grave insult. Yet, we see in this short video clip that the Emperor did not even nod his head.

Unfortunately, Lifson runs away at the keyboard and lets slip:

To be honest, I am not sure the Emperor is ever supposed to bow back to anyone. He is, after all, according to Shinto, a god.

Which somewhat undercuts his point. He also links to a bowing etiquette site which says:

Shaking hands is uncommon among the Japanese, but again, exceptions are made for foreigners.

Since Obama chose to bow, it’s not unreasonable to see this as a compromise East/West greeting (and as usual, I think Obama has to compensate for his height—a mere nod would have left the emperor staring up at him and looking silly—bowing correctly from the waist looks so much more impressive when you’re over six feet).

I’m not enough of a mindreader to say for sure this consideration ran through the emperor’s mind, but had he reciprocated by bowing during the handshake/bow, the height differential means there’s every danger that the imperial head would have come into abrupt contact with the presidential nuts, which would have been worth a few more days’ fulminating, I’m sure (and been an instant YouTube hit of vast proportions).

I don’t really give a stuff about all this synthetic frothing, of course, but if we can stoke this fuss higher, as ts points out, it’ll keep the feckers out of mischief for a bit longer.

Comment by YAFB on 11/15/09 at 08:39 AM

EVEN WHEN OBAMA BOWS, HE IS MAGNIFICENT AND MAGISTERIAL!

EVEN IN HUMILITY, HE RULES!

I LOVE OUR HIP NEW BLACK PRESIDENT, WHO MADE AN ELDERLY JAPANESE FIGUREHEAD AND HIS WIFE FEEL MOMENTARILY AT HOME IN A WORLD THAT HAS MOVED ON.

I ALSO LOVE CAPITAL LETTERS, WHICH ARE EASIER FOR WINGNUTS TO READ.

John McCain would have bent over, farted and called the emperor “Mr. Tojo.”

Sarah Palin would have thanked him on behalf of All Real Americans for “Gamera, who is a friend to all children, even the unborn.”

Fuck “Real America” and “We the People.” I’m weary of their constant patriotic bedwetting and jingoistic indignation. We don’t need FEMA camps; we need a time machine so we can send them all back to 1840.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 11/15/09 at 10:20 AM

Nice find Mrs Polly!!

From Comments section:

“This incident coined a new slang word in Japan….Bushuru!

(to vomit in public in an extremely embarrassing manner)

Don’t know if it’s still in use in Japan but it would be funny if it is.”

Comment by Manamongst Hussein on 11/15/09 at 10:59 AM

Also, it’s silly when the RW says he belittling himself to the Emperor, ordinary Japanese bow everyday, to them it’s like a handshake. That would be like Obama extending his hand to a dignitary to shake and they just leave him hanging. Trust me they would have complained if he didn’t bow, they’re just that desperate. Since RW bloggers don’t write about policy or ideas, what the hell do we think they have to write about? Hell it took Jonah 4 years to pull his fascism theories out of his ass.

Comment by Manamongst Hussein on 11/15/09 at 11:06 AM

This incident coined a new slang word in Japan….Bushuru!

Thank God Bush aimed low, otherwise the new term could have been “Bushkkake.”

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 11/15/09 at 11:20 AM

@ YAFB

When I was taking conversational Japanese, my prof informed us that as gaijin we’re expected to fuck up bowing protocol, and the best idea is to just bow constantly. All the time. Immediately afterward she informed me I bow like a girl.

And yes, the Japanese Emperor is not supposed to bow for anyone. It comes with being that whole “sovereign head of state.” He didn’t even bow for MacArthur if I’m not mistaken.