Malkin’s Saudi Wingnuttery

Posted on 04/03/2009 at 5:27 pm by Bob Cesca

As Dave Weigel points out, Michelle Malkin is making a stink about President Obama bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia at the G20. And yet, according to Malkin, Mrs. Obama “touching” the Queen was a huge gaffe.

In other words: Etiquette is important! No it isn’t!

She also calls hypocrisy on everyone who was aghast at those photos of Bush holding hands with King Abdullah:

So I hope all the lefties who tore into Bush over his Saudi prostration will express equal disgust with President HopeAndChange’s literal bowing and scraping to King Abdullah.

Scraping? I’m going to address Malkin directly for a moment: You’re an idiot. The Bushes have a long history of friendship with the Saudi royals, including untold millions in oil deals and investments. Remember that one guy — Bandar Bush? Cigars on the Truman balcony two days after 9/11? See, the image of Bush holding hands with the king of Saudi Arabia has a very, very, very long and twisted shadow. President Obama, on the other hand, has nothing to do with the Saudis — whatsoever! See the difference? Oh wait. I get it. You’re implying that the president is secretly a Muslim. Gotcha. By the way, let me know when you have a breakthrough on the “moon landing was faked” investigation.

Oh, and I try not to hold bloggers accountable for the comments on their site, but the following comment on Malkin’s Saudi post caught my attention. You know, because of the flagrant wingnut racism:

Basically we’re slumming it. In 6 short months America has gone from Texas Oil Baron to ‘white trash with money’ or rather ‘ghetto fabulous’.

Its like ‘Showtime at the Apollo’ has gone global – only no one is brave enough to pull him off the stage.

Malkin readers: Classy!

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  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Michelle Malking being born was a huge gaffe.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    By the way, mourning Malkin’s birth is very classy compared to what Im really thinking.

  • gypsy

    WOW! did i really see more than ONE post mentioning the kennedy assassination?! and what does this mean?! i’m sure it’s racist but i don’t get it….”How does a Saudi King hold his liquor? Answer: By the ears!”

  • slouchmonkey

    I’d like to see Ms. Michelle greet the Saudi King. Would her big words prompt big action? Or, would she just fuck it up?I’m sure nobody saw the hearty handshake that took place before or after the bow as is common to us US people.

  • slouchmonkey

    I’m sorry. I just watched the video and they are actually shaking hands, heartily, before bow, during and after. It’s how people greet one another from different cultures; each greets as is the others custom. It’s called fucking courtesy.

  • JeremyB

    Like you said on this site a long time ago, “is it me, or does it read like there’s an unspoken n-word between every line?”

  • Nanotyrannus

    First, Bush was not a Texas Oil Baron, he was a Texas Oil Failure.Second, he had no problem kissing the Saudis, holding hands with the Saudis, or playing with their beheading swords. His every trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was embarrassing. Both him and Cheney prostrated themselves before that 12th Century pit of shittiness on more than one occasion.If anything, the Saudis are right now a little worried that they wont get the preferential treatment they’re use to.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Gosh, next thing you know Obama will say “bonjour” to Sarkozy.Malkin: bringin’ Teh Wacky™ to your intertubes daily!

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    I also heard he bowed toward Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso in February. What a pussy.

  • eve

    Obama may have bowed slightly in greeting the Saudi King.The Bush family has bent over for them for decades.

  • Matt McD.

    What the hell is this supposed to mean:”…only no one is brave enough to pull him off the stage.”He’s the goddamn president. Is she actually goading her readers into making an attempt on his life?

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    I wold love to pull her stupid and ignorant ass off of the world stage. How many you think would actually notice if she just disappeared?If Michelle Malkin falls in the forest and no one is there to hear her does she make a sound? No she writes four thousand words on her blog about how forests have a liberal bias and Obama is bad for the U.S.

  • kansasdem

    So wtf?Barry refuses to hold the hand of some asshole!Google “Bandar Bush”!And who had ties to radical Islam?Must be Obama’s Muslim shit showing!There is so much wrong with this whole idea that it’s ridiculous!Fucking douche bags!

  • Mike from Boston

    “How does a Saudi King hold his liquor? Answer: By the ears!”

    Hmm..to me it sounds like a really really lame fellatio joke. Liquor meaning licker. A licker being something that every Saudi King would be issued.

  • dirk

    Well, I have a lot of mixed feelings about this stuff.On the one hand, I like to honor local customs, and when I’ve been in Korea or Japan (especially), would give a bow to a bow. It’s just showing mutual respect to another’s culture and adapting to local customs.However, I don’t believe in the notion of royalty — the brouhaha over Ms. Obama touching the queen — I don’t have a problem with that. She (queen) is where she is because of her bloodline, and because her ancestors were more successfully bloodthirsty than their competitors. — I won’t go out of my way to disrespect a person like that, but fuck their pomp and glory — I’ll have none of it. Having lived in the UK for a couple years, I’ll call myself qualified to say that the royals should be stripped of most of their assets, and their entitled lives. Nobody is entitled to the billions that they have because of their genome.

  • Lexaburn

    So, I guess when Bush was strutting around talking smack, that was Hee Haw.Like I said, these con-servatives are vermin.