More on "The One's" Bow

For those who think I may have been too hard on "The One" yesterday with his bowing before supposed royalty, here is this from Camille Paglia, writing on Salon.com:

Obama's staffing problems are blatant -- from that bleating boy of a treasury secretary to what appears to be a total vacuum where a chief of protocol should be. There has been one needless gaffe after another -- from the president's tacky appearance on a late-night comedy show to the kitsch gifts given to the British prime minister, followed by the sweater-clad first lady's over-familiarity with the queen and culminating in the jaw-dropping spectacle of a president of the United States bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia. Why was protest about the latter indignity confined to conservatives? The silence of the major media was a disgrace. But I attribute that embarrassing incident not to Obama's sinister or naive appeasement of the Muslim world but to a simple if costly breakdown in basic command of protocol.

The emphasis added are mine.

One of the people I routinely debate with claims I never read anything but conservative, conspiracy theory slinging, ranting far right sites on the internet. I do read widely on the internet, but that is the only true statement in the above. I subscribe to the Drudge Report because that site brings me the best of the articles appearing on the net, as well as opinions by conservatives such as Jonah Goldberg and Mona Charen, Leftists like Camille Paglia, and a host of people in between, and wire services such as AP and Agence France. Salon.com is a left wing journal, and writers there advocate left wing policies. Even the Left was offended by this gesture. Good for Paglia for pointing this out. The MSM was once again missing in action. As for the conspiracy theory part, if something is proven to be true, and I am highly skeptical of most such, then it needs to come out. This story appears to be true, if saddening.