So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper’s source,
at least one Japanese paper isn’t running the photo out of
embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor
international incident.
The good news for O-bots? It wasn’t unprecedented. Nixon evidently made a modest bow to Hirohito in the early 70s. The bad news?
A senior White House official (read: Axelrod or Emanuel) assured Politico
this morning that no Japanese observers “would say anything other than
that he enhanced both the position and the status of the U.S., relative
to Japan.” Consider that spin exploded, thanks to ABC.