News Tonight on CBS: What is the Meaning of Saudi Bush** hand Holding!

[leftchick]

I shit you not! I just heard Bob Sheiffer promising to explain it to the morans. Of course they will spin this as a "custom" in the Arab world. Hello! The Prince is in the western world. Why doesn't he pick up on a few of our customs? Have We ever had another president even say GHWB do this? It is all RW distraction from the TRUTH. The Truth is the crony/mafia type relationship between the bushistas and the Saudi royals. Has been for generations. :puke:

[catzies]

1. Yeah, Poppy Bush did. Didnja see Fahrenheit 9/11?

Lot of sheiks with lots of Bushes.

[leftchick]

3. re-enforces the bush crime cabal is my take...

I thought poopy must have done it as well but I have not seen the shots. Please don't tell me big dog did as too?

[catzies]

23. Bushes and Saudis go back 40+ years. Doubt that's the same for Clinton

n/t

[Terry in Austin]

2. Holding hands with the prince

Easy -- that's Bush's man-date.

[ComerPerro]

4. I am actually starting to get bothered by all the attention on hand holdin

because, specifically, it is being written off as SOP and the custom.

Networks seem to be overlooking all the other aspects, such as Bush/Saudi connections, oil, and 9/11.

This is the only thing even close to a scandal that seems to be getting legs, and the media seems to be promoting it just to dismiss it as tolerance of other cultures.

[leftchick]

6. exactly!

It was front page on the NY post yesterday and none too flattering. I think this is the media spin of "nothing to see here"! :grr:

[ComerPerro]

8. exactly

and it pisses me off that they are hitting this but ignoring all the others. That way, repubs can say "See, that was the best they could do against Bush"

[Mugweed]

5. It's also a custom

to kill female members of your family to "restore honor". I don't have to accept their customs, just like nobody else has to accept ours.

Not that I mind if Bush is a dick-sucker. Just admit it already, would you?

[MADem]

7. That Prince has picked up PLENTY of western customs

Drinking

Whoring

Gambling

Usury (forbidden, technically, in Islam, instead they charge a service fee)

Graven images

And I'll bet he's got a few fine English suits next to those robes in his closet, as well.

He's surely better educated that chimp, and I'll bet he speaks better english, too!

[leftchick]

14. so true...

I am sure about the English as well. Did you see the photo-ops of him in the Crawford restaurant? omg, they are trying way too hard.

[Richard D]

9. My quesstion is . . .

. . . have any other world leaders outside of the Arabic world walked, in their country, around holding hands with the Saudi leaders where it is not the custom.

[Hand]

10. Calm down, for pete's sake. It's very simple.

The crown prine is leading Chimpy around by the hand because the little dick was too wimpy to have a nose ring put in to be led around on--on a leash, of course, and on all fours; that would have been the Saudi preference. Cripes, must I explain everything?

:evilgrin:

[KC21304]

11. Don't kill the messenger here, but

what I gathered from what some reporter said, this prince is a bit elderly and Bush was helping him up the steps to his ranch so he wouldn't fall. This was just a suggestion as to why the handholding, you understand.

[TNOE]

12. OMG! How pathetic

once again - the dumbed down Amerikans will fall for it.

[Career Prole]

15. I've seen pics of the hand-holding which preceded this visit...

...including some which were taken in D.C.
If shrub is going to run the poor ol' guy up and down that many stairs then maybe we need to squeeze a couple of these into the budget for his Princeness...

[Last Lemming]

13. There is not enough spin in the world

that can change the fact that while gas prices are going through the roof, our president is holding hands with a Saudi prince. Now these guys don't make any move without playing it for maximum visual effect so I assume Bush meant for the world to see this. . .but why??? Why would he shoot himself in the foot like this with the American public?

[Career Prole]

16. And all that snuggling didn't help a bit...

See?

[Stephanie]

19. That's right - there are no accidents in Roveville

I was wondering if it was a demonstration for the benefit of the Arab press?

[Last Lemming]

28. That makes sense

but boy, they wanted to make this point so bad that they are willing to alienate every NASCAR daddy in the world?

[Yavin4]

17. It Means They're In Love!! Dammit!!

Come on. They've found their soul mate.

p.s. I heard that e-harmony hooked them up. Go figure.

[Lone Pawn]

24. I know; it's so beautiful

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=bushlove

[leftchick]

18. WHY IS HE NOT COVERING THE MALE PROSTITUTE VISITS?

too late to edit but I find that a much more important subject. This is all duck and cover shit to distract from the real scandal of the jim/jeff visits, who was he visiting and who authorized them?

[Kansas Wyatt]

20. I thought you COULD NOT touch an Arab with one hand...

Something about eating and greeting with one hand, and wiping your ass with the other hand. Suppose to be very offensive.

So which one, Shrub or the Saudi Prince, got shit smeared?

[Disturbed]

22. What the Lame Stream Media will not discuss is..

that while the Pres. and the Bush Junta is cozy with the Saudis all this talk about "spreading freedom and "democracy" is BUSHIT. Saudi Arabia is one of the most repressive, brutal Dictatorships on this planet. Shrub once said that beheadings are brutal and barbaric yet never one word against the Saudis who practice this method of execution often.

[leftchick]

26. oh the Hypocrisy indeed!

Didn't SA behead a woman just last week? Where is the outrage? :grr:

[SpiralHawk]

21. Here's the Official Republican Rule on Hand Holding

Ch. 666, Verse 8 1/2 (uncut)

When in the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford
Do as the Imperial Pig Farmers Do

It's really that simple.

[LdyGuique]

25. You forget -- this was to play all around the Arab world

as much as here. It's understood within the social context of the Arab world what this "liking" means. Also, didja notice that this visit included no wives? Another concession to the social customs of the Arabs. Rice was the one who was out of place in that all-male gaggle.

As for the excuse -- one offers an arm that the other takes to help with stairs and such -- a hand offers no support for leaning when fighting footing issues.

[KC21304]

27. Anyone see Sheiffer tonight ? What did he say ? nt