Friday, April 10, 2009

Why is CNN wasting everyone's time with the 'Obama bow'?

Transcripts:

BLITZER: But I want to move on to some controversy involving the president when he was in Europe last week.

He met with the king of Saudi Arabia. We got a picture there. I think we also have some video as well. He appears to bow when he met with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. And the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs had this exchange with our Dan Lothian over at the White House briefing earlier.
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DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: It does appear that the president actually bowed to King Abdullah. Did he bow or didn't he?

GIBBS: I think he bent over with both to shake -- with both hands to shake his hands. So I don't...
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