“How low can he go? Symbolic submission implies will to submit”–Washington Times week-late head and sub-head to column on Obama’s bowing to Japanese emperor, 11/21/09
Luckily, I found the contact sheets which demonstrate a wholly other sequence of events. The six photographs show that the deep bow was but the aiding the emperor to his feet after the body slam and nostril spread. The empress displayed a stony silence throughout at the ordeal. The royal palace blamed the emperor’s bizarre, aggressive behavior on a mixture of prescribed pain killers and Schlitz
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Images: (real photos) via huffingtonpost.com
The column is here.