Greater WIngnuttia is all alarums and excursions because Obama "bowed down" before KIng Abdullah of Saudi Arabia; they've even done the hard research and checked Miss Manners to prove that this portends the immediate imposition of sharia law all throughout the American Heartland. Of course, when you watch the video that Malkin claims proves Obama was kowtowing to the Muslim Monarch, you note that Obama is about a foot taller than Abdullah, and so had to kind of contort himself to get into any sort of position to shake the sheikh's hand. (Ha ha that is a joke, shake the sheikh's hand.) Of course, interpretations will differ; personally I think the Saudi King was deliberately positioning himself in the video so as to show off his tits to the lascivious American chief executive. So much is clear. But watch it yourself. (warning, the language in the clip is not American, so you'll probably want to clamp your hands over your ears so as to keep them properly patriotic.)





The other thing to note is that this is not a state meeting between just the two leaders, it's a freaking informal situation, people milling about confusedly before a group photo is taken. "Protocol" is usually invoked in formal situations, because, like, that's what makes formal situations formal. You know, formal as in the setting of this particular picture:

MORE FUN. In an attempt to prove that Obama is a "tool" because he gave the Queen an iPod, obvious Miss Manners devotee and Fastidious Sniffer of Protocol Curt from Flopping Nutsacks informs us that we were all much better off when the suave, debonaire man of the world George W. Bush was in charge, because his gliffs were just so delightfully classy:

President and Mrs. Bush gave Her Majesty a bronze statuette “High Desert Princess” with a personal inscription on the bottom of the base. It is a replica of the original life size statue that is located in front of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Ft. Worth, Texas.



And, if you unscrew the head off that statuette, it contains gen-u-wine Texas American sippin' whiskey!

AND MORE! Via Steve M. Here is Dick Cheney and the Saudi King.