The Dalai Lama arrived in Memphis, Tennessee yesterday to receive the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum. The $50,000 award was presented to the exiled Tibetan leader for his promotion of human rights and nonviolent protest throughout the world. Shortly after accepting, though, the Dalai Lama then donated the entire amount back to the museum. Nice guy.
However, the big news story to come out of the event – because who cares about the promotion of peace and human rights, right? – came when Memphis Mayor Pro Tem Lowery met the Tibetan leader, and instead of greeting him with a handshake, instead used a terrorist-fist-jab, err, fist-bump to say hi. Woah! Scandalous stuff! But for some reason the Dalai Lama responded with amusement and then practiced the greeting a few more times – close call!
All right, so lets see if I have this straight: the fist-bump is now an accepted form of greeting by frat-boys, Presidents, the Dalai Lama, athletes and anyone under the age of 30, and yet conservative pundits are still trying to label it as a secret-terrorist-handshake? Only in America folks.
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Comments
Luke
September 23rd, 2009 - 2:44:22 PM
haha, i love how the dalai lama just keeps at it - thought he was gonna break his wrist with that last one! classic
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