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rock obama wants to china and japan and there's any number of controversies
going on over there and i think we'll start with
the what we know that china
is very paranoid and now i know we'll get some criticism for using that term
but they are paranoid about people saying the wrong thing to the press
and we've seen in documentaries on people try to start on photographers
from the from the media try to start taking pictures
you'll have guys come over with umbrellas who were dressed in
plainclothes but they're obviously government officials that will just
block the cameras from anything they're trying to shoot
something similar happened
before or after a press conference the brock obama gave
c_n_n_'s ed henry was talking to some students
and at some point
he asked the question outnumber exactly what the question was to a young
young lady there
and it was a very basic
question what do you think about barack obama's visit here what you think about
what he said or what would you like to see him say something like that
and instantly
a government official from china jumps in intel's that henry we're done with
this she's not going to answer that
this hat at this rate please visas have to spend if asking question this is not
what we're done here walk out this way
you have to think originally might might have thought was if they're so concerned
having the right perception
from other countries you think that they would know that it looks really bad to
be censoring
so heavily what people can say right but i i think that the reality is they just
don't care
there are there find they know that they looked at when they when they very
clearly censor what people are allowed to tell the media but they don't care
they would rather that
that having people talk to the media that issues that they think would be
sensitive ur early would be concerning right i think they're only worried about
maintaining control
uses and they know that it looked at that in the u_s_ it looks bad
when you censor free speech
in such a clear
strict
authoritarian way
right well
apparently they don't care to smart enough to realize that
that this might have to realize that the thing i'm assuming that they're smart
enough to realize that it looks bad and not care
maybe they're not that smart that maybe they don't think that censorship like
that looks bad in the u_s_ and other countries i don't know
and i think that it would be typing kit worse to be so clearly censoring where
people can say then for one or two people to maybe talk to c_n_n_'s that
henry about something you'd rather than not talk about you know where we could
talk all day about
how china's turning into a
nineteen eighty four
well it just seems skated issues risky to me and and yet the internet stuff in
the control of the internet is concerning for sure
pendiente supposedly the moving away not towards that direction
so i know that agree with you that they're going towards nineteen eighty
four
that are now you hear is pretty bad
will continue to follow it in japan on the other hand barack obama is the one
who's been criticized for balance of the japanese emperor
he's gotten criticism or unfair for barrington low that will not only that
for banning it all from stanford bowing to low for mothers this criticism from
republicans this criticism for liberals
there's criticism from some who say he dialed the wrong way like you said and
it wasn't an accident he didn't just decide
pay i'll shake hands and al bala it's obviously every detail i think is
planned very carefully by the white house may tell him in advance this is
how each person is supposed to be addressed and created
and it's all very carefully print plant
but this turns out the right and left for both kind of wrong
about this bowing incident the right says that it's unprecedented that it's
never happened before
but president never balance to the japanese emperor
it turns out
that richard nixon
a republican president actually did dow slowdown
it wasn't as exaggerated as brock obama's
but that only mittens for whatever reason
barack obama messed up the dow richard nixon did it right it means he was even
more concerned about showing the proper kind of respect for the japanese emperor
i think
uh... allot of conservatives also insisting that this is part of the
apologist u_s_a_ does everything wrong attitude
that many republicans have been critical of lately
it was nineteen seventy one when richard nixon bowed to the japanese emperor
and referred to him
as your imperial
majesty
nobody said that he was being an apologist i assume based on that i think
we have a little bit of a skewed perception of barack obama's actions
when you say
well
if you've got it all there would be people on the far right saying that
it's it was a mistake the one thing that's true is that the obama bowel
vastly
over exaggerated he made like a weird pretty it was pretty deep it was very
devoted a forty five degree angle he made a weird kind like a forward lurch
as well
and for whatever reason richard nixon was able to get the balcony actually
mister he must've really cared about how to properly
era straps are presidents are grown over the tape on their way her brought in a
little bit *** cheney called the ballot sign of weakness no surprise there he
told politico dot com in this is a quote
there is no reason for an american president to bow to anyone
our friends and allies don't expect it and our enemies see if there's a sign
of weakness
i really don't know that down into the japanese emperor
who by the way
not a figurehead right he's not the leader of japan
he is a compatible to a president anyway so time into policy issues and the
balance he seems to silly
uh... yet i don't know i don't think that this is that big a deal the left
has been saying that this is a sign of cultural understanding
to do the dow
i think that they're wrong as well it has nothing to do with all of cultural
understanding and that will allow the criticism
of the laughs reaction has been
cultural understanding that has nothing to do with it newly we shake hands
they val so this was broke
you know just kind of uh... well but it's not really because it's not easy is
it down to every door there's a simple schorr respect for that he might have
taken a little too far he's not going to everybody you need to japan though right
and and so that's part of the issue why did you choose to go to to bow to him i
don't find a concert in it all
by the way this to me isn't nearly as bad as when george w_ bush speaking a
faux pas and cultural cultural decisions and in terms of how you greet people
this is almost as bad as when george w_ bush abruptly german chancellor is back
in july merkel
actually set of massage in her shoulders in a really weird way she didn't like
that
and by the way what about holding hands with the saudi arabian royal family you
remember that when he was holding hands and walking all around
yeah if anything
given their policies and what they condone any of those are
in many sense is much closer to actual political leaders than the japanese
emperor
than we know about quality in jet gender equality in saudi arabia if anything
george bush holding hands
with the with the royal family to me is more concerning than a brock obama vowed
to egg
kind of
figurehead or like you said just a kind of a non-policy position in japan
and so maybe i was world circling footage of from of rock obama bowing to
uh... a salary
member of a saudi royal family also had a similar way and it's ok so george bush
held hands and barack obama ballina similar way and it cut come on now i
don't know
but it's it's the some level these are politicians and they have to be
polite to a certain degree do they need to be dialing i don't know if you need
to be holding hands like george w_ bush
right i think it's understood that if arafat handshake you know business
conference worry come from the russian do just fine
anywhere for the president might go and this parts of the world or handshaking
is not accommodating right
but i can think of any off and but that there are some right our thanks r
many come to mind nano knocked up my arm and ill try to look into that between
between now and then actually i know that there's some places
we're shaking hands would almost be considered a weird thing
or could very well be a