Barack Obama Baseball Bat Photograph Sparks Outrage in Turkey
5th August 2012
And the Obamateur strikes again.
The President was pictured in the Oval office speaking to Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the escalating crisis in Syria. In one hand was the telephone and the other a bat signed by legendary ballplayer Hank Aaron.
But the photograph caused dismay from opposition Turkish politicians who have interpreted a more menacing message behind the image.
“The photo reveals from whom our Prime Minister receives orders to rule the country,” Metin Lutfi Baydar, an opposition politician for Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) party, said.
If only … if only….
August 5th, 2012 at 14:00
A commenter (“lizzydripping”) on the The Telegraph site got it exactly right:
“They will be laughing up their sleeves knowing the sensitivity of the West in being afraid of appearing to be insensitive towards islamic peoples.”
August 6th, 2012 at 06:41
If he’d used the bat on the guy, they might have a case…