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Michelle Obama Meets Japan's Emperor, Awkwardness Ensues
Last week we noted that even as low-income Americans conspired to ruin what might have otherwise been a perfectly good March UMich Consumer Sentiment print, there were still plenty of signs that some folks are doing ok such as the fact that the President still gets to spend $4 million in taxpayer dollars on jet fuel to go to Honolulu for Christmas. In what looks to be further evidence that the first family won’t be needing to take out a deep subprime loan from Santander Consumer anytime soon, Michelle Obama touched down in Tokyo yesterday in high style. Here’s more from the Huffington Post:
Wearing a lime green printed dress from Kenzo's Fall 2014 collection, it was a great outfit choice considering the luxury brand has strong Japanese roots.
FLOTUS accentuated the Kenzo dress with a metallic gold wide belt that drew attention to her waist and black leather heels, toning down the busy ensemble.
It's pretty clear that green and interesting prints are Mrs. Obama's travel style go-tos, but this full-skirted silhouette that harkens back to the '50s is one of our favorites.
What’s also “pretty clear” is that US diplomats still haven’t quite figured out how to greet Japanese officials and as you can see from the video below, the old “trip-handshake-bow” still doesn’t play particularly well, especially when the height disparity is so great as to be virtually impossible to politely ignore:
More from DailyMail:
The First Lady, dressed in a florid combination of a blazer and skirt, dwarfed the Emperor in her silver stilettos, while he maintained his composure and smiled politely. She then squatted slightly while shaking his hand, seemingly trying to disguise the difference of height between them.
Mrs Obama, who is 5ft 9in tall, also caused embarrassment earlier in the day when she grabbed Akie Abe, wife of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in a hug-and-handshake combination while the Japanese First Lady was trying to bow.
Excessive physical contact is frowned upon in Japan, and strict traditions govern the practice of bowing. Despite intensive etiquette coaching, successive U.S. officials have famously got it wrong.
In 2009, President Barack Obama was was photographed bending to nearly a 90 degree angle when he greeted the Japanese Emperor at the Imperial Palace.
His efforts were widely mocked. The Drudge Report ran a banner headline reading 'Obama bows before Japan’s emperor', and the LA Times ran a story headlined 'How low will he go?'
In another example of over-enthusiastic bowing, the President was pictured bowing to a robot in 2014 while the Japanese people around him remained upright.
In 1994, then-President Bill Clinton went to the other extreme, causing offence by inclining his head and shoulders forward and mysteriously pressing his hands together when he met the Emperor.
...and then there was this, which looks to be the First Lady's own interpretation of the classic "gut-punch-handshake-hug"...
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Tranny-Alert :)
Two snowmen are standing in a field. One says to the other : "Funny, I smell carrots too".
That thang just doesn't look human from any angle.
Is it a surprise that Dudes can't walk in high heels?
Do the moonwalk, Michael, Obamba said....
She looks like Godzilla attacking!
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
You gotta have some balls to act like that!
I dunno. Chewbacca looks sort of sexy in those heels and that dress.
Oeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :) Sexyyyy!
Those Japs know she's a tranny. The whole world knows. Only exceptional Americans are in denial about Michael.
Wookie-no-Nookie her name in Japanese
Doesn't anyone elses WTFC (who the Fuck cares) meter go off with nonsense like this article?
At least she didn't vomit in his lap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo
The Wookie almost crushed the little buggers.
The spiked heels on the size 13’s probably exceeded the PSI load limit of the stone floor.
very squatchy...
Better call in Godzilla on this one...
You can take a Wookie outta the forest...
You can even shave a Wookie and make it wear a flower dress and high heels...
But it's still gonna look like a shaved Wookie in a flower dress and high heels. hahaha
The nice men knocking on your door want to buy you a drink...
Paging William Banzai... Paging William Banzai...Please make a Moochelle vs Gojira image!
look at the size of that fucking dude.....
Wookies Be Trippin'
Geez, after looking at the size of what the Wookie has covered up by that red floral tarp, I wonder if she/he has been down to Texas lately..
Illegal butt shop busted in Dallas...
(You certainly can't bulk up like that with celery stalks and carrot slices.)
I wonder if it has curly pubes.
Wookie tribal custom mandates dreadlocks and piercings with hyena bones down there.
She looks like an NFL linebacker FFS...
What you see is Germany's latest secret weapon. No wonder the emperor is smiling.
Hitler gifted Jews to the USA and as he expected they created wonderful things...
Oh no, they say he's go to go.... /snicker
The funniest thing is her ass..."in a lime green printed dress from Kenzo's Fall 2014 collection, accentuated with a metallic gold wide belt that drew attention to her waist and black leather heels"...has more body mass than the people she's embarrassing herself in front of ;-)
<<< FLOTUS
<<< Her Royal Assness
LMAO
kaiser... That's one of the only things that my brother & myself laugh about from our childhoods...
My MOM's favorite expression........... KISS MY ROYAL ASS!
Wookie, meet Ewoks!
Our FLOTUS....what an awkward beast.
Thank goodness they didn't bring her family on this trip. As grotesque as Michael is, they would have really ni66aad the place up. Yo, maid -- take my coat and bring in the buffet.
imagine that huge ass farting out a ghastly mix of sushi, butter beans, draft beer and a burrito with extra guacamole, both the japanese royals passing out and nato declaring a biological attack and international incident.
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I cannot unthink that hideous idea.
I shall now commit hari kari.
•?•
V-V
<<"FTOTUS"
<<"FLOTUS"
All her dresses are styled to diminish the male proportions of her head and shoulders. You will have a hard time finding an image of her hands showing their extremely male index to ring finger proportions. That's why you see the 'gut punch', If she hugged normally her fingers would have shown in the photo.
Somewhat friendlier than unnecessarily dropping two atom bombs on them...just.
that's a big wookie i thought they were filming the new star wars in england
Chewbacca , hahaha
I'm crying. You guys / posts are classic. Priceless. She / He's dickless.
They shoud surround Chewy & Bukake him.
Hope she doesnt visit fukushima, though
Hope she fucking does.
Looked like Chewbacca met the Ewoks
She looks like the guy 3rd from the left on the evolution chart of man.
I gotta say, that was a fucking laugh riot. Top form my friend
"First Tranny Visits Japan"
:) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/youricarma/Miscellaneous/BiggerDi...
That outfit was drapery just a few hours before that meeting
Michelle doesn't have wardrobe designers, she has upholsterers.
Sheesh ... the Japanese don't go for the hugs & air kisses stuff.
How about a dignified outfit and a little bit of class for a change.
If I identified with the government, I probably would be embarrassed.
Since I don' t identify with the government, I really don't give a fuk.
The japs can handle this. They meet africans all the time. I'm sure they either ignore it or make the same jokes we are.
One more reason I am so proud to be an American these days
No shit. It's great that the American people are so fucking fat assed and stupid that they elected these fucking niggers - twice. I think it's called 'exceptionalism'.
It's why I no longer consider myself an American. I'm an Alabamian.
State Farm " we'll she's a guy so yeah"
Watashi wa stupid ape man in dress
The poor guy probably thought he was on the set of Planet of the Apes IV
He should be thankfull she didn't use him as a tampon.
There was no doubt once she/he/it began throwing handfuls of shit at the Emperor just minutes later........
Heres a banana for your gorirra... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVuFO1cCFE&spfreload=10
Get your hands off me you damn dirty ape.
Monkey with a hand grenade
That spared him a visit to a zoo.
Beyond my ability to comment
Fucking funny tho
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...
Too bad they didn't cap things off with a permanent tour of Fukushima.....
Maybe go bobbing for pearls in those metal containers.
Godzilla vs. Wookie [in theatres near you]
I see godzilla, but no wookie...
errr... or was it the other way around?
I kno... It's tough...
Alien vs Predator, { The Prequel}
Why is she doing this? Why is she in Japan? What purpose does it serve? Will she apply for asylum?
WhatthefuckisgongonhereJesusHFuckingChristoncrutcheswhatisohnevertthefuckmind
Starting to sob uncontrollably.
Who the fuck do I thank for this? Huh? Please, somebody take some responsibiblity for this shit show.
Girls basketball lessons?
"WhatthefuckisgongonhereJesusHFuckingChristoncrutcheswhatisohnevertthefuckmind"
Thanks Knuck!!!
You've solved the riddle of my next username after I inevitably get kicked off of ZH :-)
Im still laughing....at the string of words...was...pretty funny knuckles..
my guess, You miss the days of camelot and Jacqueline O?
For some reason I seem to have missed the second season.
Sorry to be late, I got caught up in a BitStorm...lol.
"Why is she doing this? Why is she in Japan?"
Because, King Obama announced just today that .gov MUST cut its CO2 emmissions by 40% by the year 2025 to save the fucking planet! So what better way to show the complete assbaggery, conceit, arrogance & utter hypocrisy than flying his ole lady half way around the world on a "private jet" with entourage & wardrobe in tow?
Caroline Kennedy, Ambassador to Japan, did have her life threatened.
Well, all I can say is what a guy.
"Send the Wookie and get me Reggie on the line!!!"
I guess thats one way to handle it ;-)
The Wookie went to Japan to have little people walk on it's back and to get a happy ending.
Good questions, Swami.
I'm starting to think the freak show is the whole point.
Making sure the Japanese nation-state will clean-up Tepco's Fukushima mess in the Pacific?
They travel at will, showing up everywhere like a nasty cold,
Too bad it didn't trip, fall, crack its skull, and die.
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
Didn't the Governator say that?
Wow - how to embarrass the whole country in just seconds.
That is true talent at "work"
A Princeton and Harvard University education.
.....Sushi anyone?
Joan Rivers spoke the truth about the Moocher-in-Chief. A week later she was dead.
So this is the Moocher-in -Chief, Head Gardner and Salad Queen's Doppelganger?
She spoke the truth alright. She said Obama was our first gay president and that Michelle was a "tranny" and that everyone knew it.
And yes, one week later, she was dead.
who gives a shit, give me a fucking break
Well, my next door progressive neighbor is outside crying her eyeballs out dancing about a small fire in her celebratory Kwanza immigration garb, praying thanks to Lucifer for the intervention between Moochola and the Japs gifting the planet with everlasting peace, harmony and healthy school lunches. That's who cares! And you should too, because attitudes like yours are politically incorrect. Now kiss the Wookie.
I'll take Horseshit for $1,000, Alex.
knuks,
Where do you come up with this stuff?
You're my hero.
Ive always been cursed with a sort of psychic ability when it comes to others. Is it just me or does she give off the vibes of an angry beeeitch..
And Im not even rascist..
Then you sense not to put your hand in the cage?
Actually, she did this on purpose. It was an interprative dance aimed at expressing US foreign policy to the little Japanese people who can't speak American: rush in, misstep, trip and stumble headlong into a gaffe, all the while appearing larger than life, more style than substance, and always, totally inappropriate.
Is this pans et circuses or is that just a circus tent she's wearing?
This photo was scandalous in postwar Japan, for making Macarthur look bigger than the Emperor...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Macarthur_hirohito2.jpg
Well, Michelle is bigger than Macarthur.
and with a bigger 'pipe!'
Why is it I already KNOW im going to want to UPVOTE every response to this thread?
GOJIRA!!!!
lol!
Is that Gorilla in Japanese?
Gabara...
http://i.imgur.com/OX3g3EC.png
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/5/59/All_Monsters_At...
Hope "he" had time for a nice long dip in the ocean...
I'm posting this here since yours is the only handle I recognize - I have fukin laughed harder on this list of posts FFS - thank god I've been drinking or I would have to start. That mouchelle is such a dude and WTF
Particularly in the warm waters of Fukishima...including a leisurely mudbath on the beach followed by a whole body emery cloth scrub.
Michael, you don't have to fly all the way to Japan to get fucked up Japanese pr0n, just download it dude.
No, blocked in the white house
They think of the chitlins.
LOL
Whoever downvoted you must hate soul food,
and dat's rayscyst.
e, somebody hates the knuks and gets at least 1 reddie on every post. Some "folks" would become paranoid and despondent, thinking that they might have something seriously wrong with them, that somebody hates them so much. As the Swami, I fully understand that. However, that is not my reaction. In fact, I hope Mr Reddit comes by and reads this so he knows that I enjoy being inside his head. Just think. Next time he's sitting on the can taking a nice dump, he'll think of me and get all riled up, emotionally disturbed, simply by virtue of me suggesting that he do so. I'll ruin his crap. Same thing if he's a golfer. Right at the top of his back swing in golf, he'll remember how much I want him to think angrily of me and lose focus, fucking up his shot. Or loosing his car keys, imagine me laughing at him, enraging his ass and causing a very very bad day. Next time he sees a lingerie ad, he'll remember the time that toe headed boy he'd never ever seen before or after looked in his parents bedroom window when they were out for the evening and caught him dressed in his mom's clothes, something that still disturbs him to this date and now wonders if that was me who saw him.
See, now I'm firmly ensconced inside his head.
LOL
Awesome brother, keep it up.
And really, who doesn't like a karate hug.......?
She should come and kiss me. I know she wants to.
She looks and moves like a dude.
Yo, Ming, check out my thing.
It is not a dude. She just has a really long and veiny clitoris.
My favorite by a country mile was Daddy Bush throwing up on the Jap royalty. You just can't top that.
hahahhahahaha, still see it in my minds eye...fucking Japenese cant catch a break...
Bush leans over sotto voce to the interpreter:
"How do you say the dinner was delicious?"
" ************ "
"Ok, got it."
Turns to the Prime Minister:
"HURRRRRRLLL"
Mission Accomplished
...until we sent a tranny to Japan!
We don't know how sexual she is. She can be very sexual and this is normal.
We don't' know how human she is. She can be very family related with all the human touching and the propaganda spin of seduction in simple touch to convince others that she is human, earthy, and simple family folk.
I go along with that.
Of course, most ZHer are concerned with here agenda. Social Agenda and anything that can be illuminated as Communist or Socialist...
WTF. This is just a picture or two that shows a possible chink in the armor of the President and his wife.
We could elect a Jew or a female Jew any year.
So... like an Italian Family maybe they kiss people.
Should we prohibit Presidents and their First Ladies or Men from Kissing French style, Spanish Style, or Italian Style on the Cheek?
Bathhouse Sex or out of Marriage Affairs seem more what we are looking for...
yes but --some should try not to be seen in public---walmarts finest--
suprised she didn't start picking through the japs hair looking for fleas to eat
You fucker.
You owe me a keyboard.
Pleeeeze stop already...
This is tooooo much.
Cracked me up, that. You bastard!
Geez...her butt is bigger than the Emperor.
Kardashian should be worried!
Her butt is bigger than the Empire!
BUT BUT BUT no bubble gum chewing.
Michelle Obama goes to one of the most racist countries on earth on the heels of a series of allies joining the aiib. What could go wrong?
Japanese views on race may be influenced by the antics of this gorilla seen here chimping out on a Tokyo train. It went on to rape and murder a lovely you Irish girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaMxy6FF4Lk
How come a viewer immediately defaults to the offensive showboat being specifically an African American, not from another country?
Even Jane Goodall would be speechless.
oh thought it was this clip http://www.starwars.com/video/yodas-farewell-to-chewbacca
1. How many people are employed by the US State Dept Office of Protocol? What do they do all day? Porno?
2. The Wookie can't help it if he is short.
3. Look at the size of the Wookie's ass. I love it when she preaches about healthy eating.
Jen Psaki arranged the whole thing.
Why does Jen Psaki always insist on wearing " fire engine" RED during her PR. Briefings?
She's not a natural redhead, and it shows... Clash much Jen?
Whoa, bug guy....
You been attending different briefings than me. I never seen her pull up her skirt!
.She has that ,"Little House On The Prairie" with big hooters look?
facepalm
That's being cruel to Michael Landon
Only one way of knowing of she's a natural redhead......
As the song goes: Wookie Got Back
I'll bet it has it's own hairline too.
I'd say they'd be terrified to tell him/her how to behave. "YOU TALKIN' TO ME MUDDAFCKA?'
Him