Not a mention on CNN.com or MSNBC.com about President Obama greeting Emperor Hirohito....

[Politics_Guy25]

So, WHY are we talking about a right wing smear job on this website when there is not a mention on the websites of the corporate media about this?? I thought we were left-wing?

[namahage]

1. Probably because Hirohito's been dead for 20 years. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Now THAT would be a story.

[bergie321]

3. So....

Obama is bowing down to corpses now???

[IndianaGreen]

13. and Hirohito was a war criminal to boot!

Truman wanted Hirohito tried alongside all the other Japanese war criminals, but Republican hero McArthur kept the emperor on the throne in order to facilitate US occupation of Japan.

[boppers]

4. Uhm, Hirohito's bow was much lower.

By about six feet.

[MrModerate]

5. Perhaps CNN and MSNBC are trying to escape the Piffle Effect caused by . . .

coming too close to Fux News' orbit. As in "if there's no story, don't report it."

[JTFrog]

6. self-delete

*edit - good to see mods are cleaning most of them up this morning. :thumbsup:

[NoPasaran]

7. Weekend at Hirohito's!

[Bonobo]

12. LOL

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Nobody but political junkies gives a shit

This is the usual nonsense from people (on both sides) who need to get a life.

[Thrill]

9. Mentioning that would solidify them as not being real news networks

.

[Clio the Leo]

10. Yep, only Fox and DU.....

I watch CNN and Fox more on the weekends because there's less MSNBC coverage. The only news station I saw it covered on was Fox, and it wasn't even a lead story.

Typical weekend boredome-induced DU poutrage.

[timeforpeace]

11. Hirohito? Anyway, maybe they're embarrassed for him or the office.

[otohara]

14. I'd Like to See Any One of Them Go To Japan

and not bow - or take off the shoes when you enter a house.

When I got back to the states, I was still bowing.

[Thrill]

15. Go look at the front page of YAHOO

Sad country we live in.

'Outrage in Washington over Obama's Japan bow' Is the title

So much outrage that they can only find Bill Kristol and Bill Bennett to comment. The AP has become so right wing and pathetic

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091116/pl_afp/japanusdiplomacyasiaobama

[old mark]

16. Isn't Hirohito Obama's middle name? nt