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Fox Nation on Obama:  "Our Most Embarassing President?"

November 17, 2009 9:50 am ET by Media Matters staff

From The Fox Nation, accessed on November 17:

Previously:

Limbaugh joins attack of Obama's bow: "Obama envies these monarchs" and "wants to be bowed to someday"

Echoing a right-wing blog, Doocy repeatedly claimed Obama's bow was unprecedented

On Fox & Friends, Rove decides that Obama's bow was "inappropriate" and evidence of a "world-wide apology tour"

Discussing "bow-gate," Fox & Friends wonders if it's "a reflexive thing" for Obama to apologize to world leaders

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    • Author by Major Tom (November 17, 2009 9:56 am ET)
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      ...Flag pins, bows, Michelle's belts, teleprompters, sercret communists... Does the right have one legitimate critic of Obama? Or is all this petty nonsense from petty people?
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      • Author by pilotshark (November 17, 2009 10:00 am ET)
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        Its all petty nonsense, I mean bush 1 throwing up or bush two choking on a pretzel and falling off a segway. but guess doing the proper greeting is a embarrassment.

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        • Author by raine315 (November 17, 2009 10:35 am ET)
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          Oh dont forget the fake turkey fiasco over in Iraq with the troops
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          • Author by Major Tom (November 17, 2009 10:43 am ET)
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            or the real tukey being slaughtered and drained of blood, on camera, behind Palin... That was the least brilliant photo op I have ever seen.
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          • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 17, 2009 11:29 am ET)
               
            Oh dont forget the fake turkey fiasco over in Iraq with the troops
            That was a real turkey carrying the fake turkey, though.
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      • Author by rkcomments (November 17, 2009 12:13 pm ET)
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        Bush's effigies were burnt wherever in the world he travelled and Fox calls Obama embarassing? LOL!!!
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    • Author by MeanMrSpicyMustard (November 17, 2009 10:05 am ET)
         
      ...what's there to be embarrassed about? Oh no, he showed respect to a foreign leader! I'd much rather he tell them they were either with us or against us. That's much less embarrassing.
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    • Author by raine315 (November 17, 2009 10:10 am ET)
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      So in Wingnut World President Obama's bow is more embarassing than stained blue dresses and Watergate
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      • Author by goesto11 (November 17, 2009 10:15 am ET)
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        More embarrassing than starting a war with Iraq with no justification, then being caught lying about it, and then ignoring the fact that you've been caught lying about it?

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    • Author by bilbo_dies (November 17, 2009 10:13 am ET)
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      Hey, remember that we are "AMERICANS", we bow to no one.

      If it wasn't for the EXCEPTIONALISM of "AMERICANS" where would the world be now?






      <sarcasm>
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    • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (November 17, 2009 10:17 am ET)
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      "Obama envies these monarchs."

      Rush, there was only one president who envied them. This one. Not Obama.

      "World wide apology tour."

      The United States is the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll.

      It climbed from seventh place last year, ahead of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan which completed the top five nations in the Nation Brand Index (NBI).

      "What's really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States for 2009," said Simon Anholt, the founder of NBI, which measured the global image of 50 countries each year.

      He believes that during the previous administration of George W. Bush the United States suffered in the world ranking with its unpopular foreign policies but since Obama was elected, and despite the recent economic turmoil, the country's status has risen globally.

      "There is no other explanation," Anholt said in an interview, referring to the impact of Obama.

      Seems obvious to me that Obama has it right, and Rove, et. al. have it wrong.
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      • Author by RedChocobo (November 17, 2009 1:10 pm ET)
           
        I agree, I don't understand why the cons think that other countries liking us is a bad thing. Aren't countries more likely to support us if they like us? Aren't they more likely to provide favorable trade agreements if they like us? We don't need to be this big, bad daddy state that runs around policing the world.
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    • Author by goesto11 (November 17, 2009 10:21 am ET)
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      More embarrassing than landing on an aircraft carrier in a pilot costume with a Mission Accomplished banner hanging behind?
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      • Author by raine315 (November 17, 2009 10:28 am ET)
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        More embarrassing than this:

        [http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/V/b/1/bush_groping_merkel.jpg]
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        • Author by pete592 (November 17, 2009 11:41 am ET)
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          [http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/bush-china-locked-door400.jpg]
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          • Author by Tbone Slickens (November 17, 2009 12:43 pm ET)
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            You meant this embarrassing...
            [http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/V/q/2/obama-checking-out-butt.jpg]

            Propeller Beanie Barry Gaffes

            Headache Barry
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            • Author by DellDolly (November 17, 2009 2:02 pm ET)
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              Yeah, already been debunked. He was preparing to help the woman in the print skirt step down, as he had realized how big a step it was.

              Now, the French President? He was a-lookin'. But not President Obama. If you see the video, it's clear. This is a deceptive photo, taken out of context, much like your side often takes comments out of context.
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            • Author by pilotshark (November 17, 2009 5:06 pm ET)
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              LOL>>>> no i would not call this a embarrassment as if he was looking its a nice look>>>> but i rather be embarrassed cause of him looking at a nice azzz then the last prez doing the lip lock swap spit with the king of the terrorist that hit us.
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            • Author by pilotshark (November 17, 2009 5:06 pm ET)
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              LOL>>>> no i would not call this a embarrassment as if he was looking its a nice look>>>> but i rather be embarrassed cause of him looking at a nice azzz then the last prez doing the lip lock swap spit with the king of the terrorist that hit us.
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            • Author by pete592 (November 17, 2009 7:43 pm ET)
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              [http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n158/codename_009/BushKissingSaudiPrince.jpg]
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            • Author by pete592 (November 17, 2009 7:44 pm ET)
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              [http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a81/kos102/2009/Rogues/nixon-bowing.jpg]
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    • Author by Max Credits (November 17, 2009 10:24 am ET)
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      If GWB received even a small fraction of the scrutiny that Obama gets, thousands of US troops would still be alive today.
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    • Author by New Frontier (November 17, 2009 10:36 am ET)
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      I would have thought FOX's audience would expect a black person to bow before pretty much everyone.
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      • Author by goesto11 (November 17, 2009 10:46 am ET)
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        Not at all -- Fox viewers expect a black person to bow to WHITE people, not Asian people.

        You see, Fox viewers have a very stratified view of race.
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      • Author by TX (November 17, 2009 11:57 am ET)
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        I am a Fox viewer -- and would not expect ANY U.S. PRESIDENT to bow to anyone.
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        • Author by congero6189599 (November 17, 2009 12:17 pm ET)
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          I know it makes us appear weak with our 25,000 nuclear warheads.
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          • Author by New Frontier (November 17, 2009 3:01 pm ET)
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            FOX viewers' manhoods shrivel unless the President shows up in a flight suit, codpiece and on an aircraft carrier and gives the rest of the world the finger.
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        • Author by RedChocobo (November 17, 2009 1:14 pm ET)
             
          So it's wrong for our leader to show respect for the leaders of other countries?
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    • Author by MickD (November 17, 2009 10:56 am ET)
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      Wow, they have a sensitive embarrassment gene. And it must have been turned off from Jan. 2001-2008.
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 17, 2009 11:26 am ET)
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        I can understand Fox's embarrassment. I mean, look at the guy;

        He's relatively young, BFF with an unrepentant terrorist, went to a church with a preacher who videotapes his sermons saying things that are scary and hard to understand for old white racists. He's black, for Jeebus sake !

        And Fox, with the help of most of am radio and a lot of mainstream media, spent a good year using all of their power trying to keep him from being elected president. They even ran a veteran/POW and a spokesmodel designed to do nothing but rile up the far right fringe against him, and they still failed. That is an astounding level of being out-of-touch and incompetent on the part of Fox.

        That's gotta be f***in embarrassing.
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        • Author by MickD (November 17, 2009 12:17 pm ET)
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          Especially in their role as king maker after essentially bringing down Clinton in his years. They got a little puffed up and didn't think it would ever end (think of Herr Karl's brag of a permanent Repub majority). Yeah, it's embarrassing to have that happen. So back to throwing Seannie and Glennie and sometimes Billo/Lou at the admin and making up scenarios. Cylon, cylon.
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    • Author by wzwriter (November 17, 2009 12:10 pm ET)
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      The biggest embarrassment would be George W. Bush. He's such an embarrassment that I have never used the word "president" along with his name, because that's a term of respect and I have no respect whatsoever for that alcoholic, coke-snorting, deserter/war criminal.
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    • Author by paul8616 (November 17, 2009 5:09 pm ET)
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      Yah, that's about a zillion times more embarrassing than when Bush declared a crusade against Islam.

      And man.. Those photos of Prime Minister Merkel's 'back rub' aren't just embarrassing, they're creepy. Bush looks like a zombie.
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