Betcha dollars to doughnuts you won’t hear Dan "OMG EEEEK Obama was polite to an Asian dude" Riehl gumming Dick Cheney’s ankle over this.

After all the nonsense emanating from the right-wing bloggers — nonsense slavishly repeated by a corporate media that doesn’t bother to notice that Republican Richard Nixon greeted Chairman Mao with a polite bow without conservative commentators rushing to their fainting couches over it — we find that Liz Cheney, the daughter of their hero, their icon, Dick Cheney, wants us all to bow to China — big time.

Never mind that the alleged "concern" expressed by China, and referenced by Liz Cheney and her partner in sliming, FOX’s Neil Cauvto, is not exactly well sourced. Never mind that, as T.R. Reid notes in The Healing of America, they dropped their extremely successful "barefoot doctors" system in their rush to become capitalists — and so now have the dubious distinction of being the one major industrial nation whose residents have worse access to health care than we do. Never mind that Cheney’s friends at FOX spent a good chunk of yesterday freaking out about "bowing" done for form’s sake, as opposed to the truly submissive grovelling Liz Cheney is now urging on us here in America.

None of that matters. What matters is that once again, FOX tells us that anything, even bowing to China, is OK if a Republican does it.