I swear my hand never touched Nixon's during this episode:

SidAndFinancy

I'm curious--does Bill ever acknowledge he was wrong when presented with irrefutable evidence, or does he simply ignore it and move on?

Also: The Independence War America fought was against the French. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from Austria, We won the Vietnam War.

You can't take this pompous twat serious? Can you?

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Nixon was a whore. Mao worked his ass over and he never even got a REACH AROUND.

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This country is too fixated on symbolism and not substance. Who gives a fuck about handshakes? National hero Charles Lindbergh shook hands with Herman von Goering in 1936. I don't know for sure, but when the bombs started dropping I'm pretty sure he lined up on our side.

There is an anti-American dictatorship forming in Venezuela. Shaking Chavez's hand is not going to make it less Anti-American or more Democratic. Snubbing him is not going to do a damn thing either. In this case, the President opted not to make himself look like an idiot by running away from some banana republic jackass. No offense to Venezuelan ex-pats intended, but the people down there need to get their house in order.

I don't want two decades of tax and spend, regulate everything government, but that is what we will have if conservatives keep coming up with idiotic criticisms like this.

ChillbearLatrigue

I'm inclined to let them have their phony outrage as long as it discredits them for another decade or so.

Mediahohoho

Notice how Nixon is drawing Chairman Mao towards himself, pulling him in and taking control of the hand shake.

Richard Nixon - 1

Chairman Mao - 0

Since "Only Nixon can go to China," is a Vulcan proverb, then you think someone with really green blood like O'Reilly would have the courtesy to find out what happened when he did.

Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux

Only Nixon could go to China. Old Vulcan proverb.

Bill-O is so knowledgeable about everything that he simply makes up his own truth...and it is true. Just ask him.

The entire time they were in Mao's presence, Nixon and Kissinger had these huge boners. Apparatchiks who rise to the top of very similar machines have a natural affinity.

This is one of the iconic photos of the last 50 years. Is O'Reilly just pretending not to know this?
I know he's a gasbag but I didn't think he was stupid.

phlox✔

Nixon was trying to atone for his thugs breaking into the Watergate hq of the DNC, is what he was doing in China in the first place.

Tremonius

O'Rightly's head is now swollen to the point where if he says history happened a certain way, then obvs everyone else has to rewrite history to fit his gaffe rather than have him say he was wrong about something. And his lemming viewers will cheer him on as he does it.

His wrongness has become tiresome.

unclevanya

I can't say I'm surprised. In fact, I was sort of expecting it to happen again.

Bill is using enhanced history techniques.

The president was trying to visibly embrace Chinese leaders to atone for a previous snub against them by John Foster Dulles, who had refused En-lai's hand in Geneva in 1954.

Wow, that's pretty interesting. Is there a source on this?

skahammer