What’s Wrong With This Picture?
The short answer to What’s wrong with this picture? is nothing.
You may have seen another photo of Nancy Pelosi in a scarf, aptly described by Mahablog:
The jolly folks at Little Green Footballs have gone batshit bleeping crazy because Nancy Pelosi wore a headscarf to visit a mosque in Syria. “Pelosi in a hijab!” they shriek.
It’s kind of like a werewolf movie. When LGF’ers see a picture of Nancy Pelosi, fur grows all over their body. They start baying at the moon: “Dhimmi! Dhimmi! A-wawawoo!”
The picture in question (not the one above, the one you can find on Drudge) was taken at a mosque. It’s true that if you want to visit a mosque, you have to wear a scarf if you’re a woman. If you’re a man your legs have to be covered. No one can wear shoes. Sorry kids, that’s the rules. While the LGF’ers see this as bowing and scraping to the enemy, most of the non-furry among us would see this as respecting the local customs.
I’m sure in their imagination, the LGF’er (or Malkinian, or Instapounder, same diff) wouldn’t put up with these constraints. They’d take out the mosque guards with one flex of their bulging pectorals, then leap through an open window, probably doing a double back flip. Then, once inside the mosque they’d convert all the infidels to Episcopoleanism by a blink of their massive eyebrow. The women, out of gratitude for being freed from the hijab, bite their upper lips and clench their hands, trying to stench the flow of raw, unbridled (and now sanctified in the eyes of the church) passion…
Okay, enough winger porn. The point is that the above photo, showing Pelosi meeting with Assad, is how a state visit should look. No one trying to give anyone a backrub (like Bush and Merkel), or dressed casually for a formal occasion (like Cheney at Auschwitz), or otherwise giving the middle finger to one foreign power or another.
