Category: Saudi Arabia
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 18, 2009 in Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, G20, Japan, President Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 204 Comments
* Bumped up *
Remember back in April when Obama traveled to the G-20 and bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia? If not, here it is:
Actually, that doesn’t look as much like a bow as it does a genuflect. Not, true, says Obama’s Spokes Weasel, Robert Gibbs. Oh, no - it is [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Apr 13, 2009 in Current Affairs, G20, President Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia | 63 Comments
I don’t know the names of the two women in this video, so I don’t know their resumes, but if they are journalists they need to turn over their credentials right now. They have lost ALL credibility, and should never be taken seriously, or given a platform in the news, again. Ever.
Red head: “I think [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 11, 2009 in G20, President Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia | 124 Comments
Think we’re done with this story?!?! Huh, PBO? Think again! Embedded video from CNN Video
Writes Ed Morrissey for Hot Air, “The White House miscalculated on its “no-bow” response. CNN spends a couple of minutes calling them on it. … CNN compares the bow to Saudi King Abdullah and the correct protocol of a head nod [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Apr 9, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Saudi Arabia | 87 Comments
Yes, I know, I keep writing about this, but the more I see and read about it, the more my panties get in a twist.
Robert Gibbs was asked about the bow by a CNN reporter and Gibbs LIED. And the thing about it is he knew it was such a idiotic sounding lie, he [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Apr 8, 2009 in Barack Obama, G20, Saudi Arabia | 111 Comments
I have heard and seen a lot of spin the past couple of years, but this has got to be the mother load of all spin. Can they actually be serious? *It wasn’t a bow, it was a double handshake for a short guy.* (I’m paraphrasing.)
Did they not see the video? It wasn’t even a [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Apr 4, 2009 in Barack Obama, Khalid al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia | 40 Comments
And everybody is asking why? He didn’t bow to Queen Elizabeth. Presidents and other heads of state don’t bow to royalty. But Obama bowed so low, when he met King Abdullah, he seemed to almost fall over. (and no, he wasn’t picking something up off the floor.)
Now everyone in the blogosphere is trying to figure [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Feb 7, 2009 in ACORN, Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Campaign promises, Chicago politics, DNC idiocy, Daily Show, Democrats, Economic Stimulus, FISA, George Bush, Guantanamo, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Joe Biden, Media, Media Bias, Muslim, Saudi Arabia, Vice President | 41 Comments
Earlier in the week, one of my aunts sent me a piece by Victor Davis Hanson, The Impending Obama Meltdown (SusanUnPC also included this article in her excellent piece, “Is Barack Obama On The Precipice Of Becoming Jimmy Carter?“). I don’t want to be premature, but maybe, just maybe, there are some journalists coming [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jan 27, 2009 in Backtrack Obama, CNN, Flip Flopping, George Mitchell, Iran, Media Handling of Story, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, World News | 45 Comments
Here’s part of CNN’s AC360 coverage of — and commentary on — Obama’s interview with al-Arabiya last night (we have the full two-part interview below). Huffington Post has the full text. I find the panel’s comments about the probable reaction by Al Qaeda to be interesting, if just a tad over-the-moon adulatory, heh:
From the [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jan 26, 2009 in Current Affairs, Gaza, George Mitchell, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 137 Comments
VIDEO OF INTERVIEW in White House:
Obama’s first interview as president
(Al-Arabiya TV exclusive)
Hisham Melhem (our bureau chief here in the DC office)conducted this exclusive interview with president Barack Obama.
(I like what he says at the beginning of part 2, about the “bankrupt” ideas of Al Qaeda.)
Jake Tapper has the lead print story on-line, and CNN’s Anderson [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 12, 2008 in Afghanistan, Current Affairs, Misogyny, Saudi Arabia | 39 Comments
Dear lord.
I hope you saw Reverend Amy’s story many hours ago in which she recalled the great speech that C.J. gave to the press corps on “West Wing”: ““Those Women” * OPEN THREAD.”
By SusanUnPC on Sep 15, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Bush/Cheney, CIA, Counterterrorism, Iran, Saudi Arabia | 20 Comments
Imagine the climate adjustment required for that solitary Icelandic soldier stationed in Iraq. The member of the “Icelandic Crisis Response Unit” (Iceland doesn’t have a “formally constituted military”) is actually a media representative in Baghdad, but Bush used him to bolster his B.S. claim of a coalition of 36 countries in Iraq.
Thank you to everyone [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 28, 2007 in Current Affairs, Foreign Aid, Israel, Saudi Arabia | 36 Comments
UPDATE below: “US accuses Saudis of telling lies about Iraq,” The Guardian
NYT:
WASHINGTON, July 27 — The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jul 21, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, Homeland Security, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia | 30 Comments
by
Larry C Johnson
Someone is not telling the truth and it is incumbent on Congress to get to the bottom of this nonsense.
Until recently George Bush insisted that there was steady progress in decimating Al Qaeda:
1 May 2003 the President claimed:
From Pakistan to the Philippines to the Horn of Africa, we are hunting down al Qaeda [...]
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