Go figure, an Iraqi journalist has more balls than ours do…
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At first I thought this was disrespectful of POTUS. Then I reflected on it a bit. You know, if you are going to condone and approve torture, someone might throw a shoe or two at you. It really is a reasonable consequence.
That’s a long fall from “Mission Accomplished.”
Bush has good reflexes. He looked more amused than annoyed. I guess the only way Bush gets to hear anyone critical of him is to go to Iraq.
Dam, GW still has those old moves from his drinking days! Laura Bush has been known to throw shit at GW after a night out drinking in Huston! Can’t wait until next week’s Saturday Night Live!
Hopefully he didn’t get toe jam is his hair!
I quess the reporter who threw the shoes will be an Iraqi national hero!
The journalist will probably end up in prison. I think he should get a medal. Bush will get off scot-free for all the damage and deaths of Iraqis and American troops he is responsible for. Too bad shoes are the only thing he has to deal with.
The Phillies could use that guy on the pitching staff…
“Throwing a shoe at someone is considered the worst possible insult in Iraq, and is meant to show extreme disrespect and hatred towards someone.”
dg,
had similar emotions. But June makes the point I thought of immediately.
I can’t believe I’ve lived to see somebody lob his shoes at the President of the United States. That just about sums up the last eight years. Holy Crap.
When will those shoes go up on EBAY?
& Donovan McNabb, look out..
For Military people, the signing of ‘use of Forces agreement, is important.’ I wonder if the agreement happened to include the use of throwing shoes, or just hand grenades?
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The President-Reject, on his world wide tour of Republican failures.
Rebecca is right though, there is something of a shock seeing someone just throw shoes at an American President. And, if looks to me that the only people reacting to that were the security details. No one gives a damn anymore.
Next up — Name the date and hour (within two) that Delaware Dem gets up his post saying that we should all throw our shoes at Republicans and win a prize! 😉
I was a little concerned about the speed that security responded – the guy threw two shoes.
It’s a sign of the times that the vast majority of Americans are probably not going to be surprised that it happened.
I am actually surprised that something like it hasn’t happened before now.
brian,
he’d have to have press conferences though…so it is surprising if you ask me
So much for objective reporting in that crowd.
Regardless, DG and DV your FIRST instinct was right. If it happened here to ANY world leader, we would all rush to extend conciliatory messages and outreach of tolerance to those who think and act differently than we would choose, and condemn the shoe thrower as a poor example of US hospitality, diplomacy, and decency. The sadder part of this is not his breach of respect for a world leader, but the “black eye” he has now given to journalism, that in some parts of the world will impede good journalism. His throwin’ in the dogs was short-sighted, of the job he was supposed to be there to perform, and denied another reporter opportunity. Sure SNL this week, and America’s Funniest Home Videos next year–but what a loss–the loser who couldn’t keep it in check, and the journalists who are now going to be asked to remove their shoes if they want in. Dope.
Well stated, JC.
oh I get it, he’s a disgrace to journalism because he is biased?
lol, priceless Jc
Bwah ha ha ha ha . . . Joanne made a funny.
No DV, his timing of bias is off.
I agree, if he’d have acted 2 seconds earlier he’d have hit’em
And I have a shoe for you too….maybe I can get Disbelief to deliver.
All due respect JC. If your family had been bombed for no reason by a nit wit standing in front of you, and that nit wit was a jokey frat boy – you’d throw your shoe at him.
Freedom-loving Americans, by nature, should have nothing but contempt for torturers, war criminals, and facists like Bush and his ilk.
I am glad that the shoes missed hitting anybody, but I appreciate the sentiment expressed in throwing them.
Apparently Dana Perino got a black eye from being hit by a microphone during the skirmish to bring the shoe-thrower down. Maybe there is some cosmic accountability.
All due respect Jason-he was there to do a job, not a lob.
That is true, but we are all human and it is his home that has been ground zero for a bunch of our ideological bullshit for the past 7 years. A little anger can get the best of the most professional of us.
As he threw the shoe the Iraqi journalist screamed, “Farewell to the Dog”. All media were screened by Secret Service…suppose they will make everyone take off their shoes at future foreign press conferences.
LOL – Radley Balko’s take (he has it on continuous loop) :
http://www.theagitator.com/2008/12/14/i-could-watch-for-hours/
It’s like a farcical Bushian Zapruder film.
Ya gotta love how Al-Maliki tries to smack away the 2nd shoe missile, like he’s swatting a fly away from Bush’s head.
I read that the journalist said
“This is your kiss goodbye, you dog.”
And when he was being wrestled to the ground, “killer of Iraqis, killer of children.”
come to find out the guy was kidnapped at one point, his photographer was kidnapped and captured, several of his family members were killed
All O’Rielly and Hannity have to show for it is a worn out metal ribbon
I can’t believe I’ve lived to see somebody lob his shoes at the President of the United States. That just about sums up the last eight years. Holy Crap.
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heh, Rebecca says it best.
For as long as Joanne has been reading the Dellies take on Bushie, I am surprised at her surprise that the people here believe that Bushco has destroyed every shred of decency and leadership that America once represented to the rest of the world much less to most of our own citizenry.
I long for the days when a blow job in the Oval Office was our biggest outrage. If only W’s faithfulness to Laura extended to our Constitution.
Does Bush understand his own unpopularity? Does he even understand the harm he has brought to many Iraqis?
The shoe throwing guy had to have known this was coming:
As they dragged him off, he was moaning and screaming as if in pain. Later, a large blood trail could be seen on the carpet where he was dragged out of the room.
“as if” in pain – Good God, the AP picks funny times to be objective.
Ah, JC, ever the apologist for the neo-cons who have screwed the world for the past 8 years. JC – when are you starting the petition drive to get Rummy & Wolfowitz pardons?
what are they going to need pardons for? they’d have to be tried for something…and we all know that is not going to happen
Please God, somebody put this video up as an interactive on YouTube. The whole country needs a catharsis and nailing Bush with a shoe be perfect.
Ford-type pardons – absolve them before they go on trial, ala Nixon.
“This is a farewell kiss, you dog”. Al-Zeidi yelled in Arabic. This is for the widows, orphans and all those killed in Iraq.
Thousands of Iraqis in the streets screaming for their “heros” release. Now they wait for Condi Rice to show up…to shoe her.
While I essential understand and even agree with that journalist’s feelings, I believe a bit of perspective is in order.
If he had thrown those shoes at Saddam Hussein, who certainly deserved them even more than Bush, that guy would by now have been drawn and quartered.
Condi Rice would return fire. I hear she has a lot of shoes.
If he had thrown those shoes at Saddam Hussein, who certainly deserved them even more than Bush, that guy would by now have been drawn and quartered.
Now, he is just being tortured.
He may not have been drawn and quartered, but he has apparently been beaten. Perhaps Letterio would tell us if he thinks that beatings substitute for due process.
“Due process” is so quaint nowadays, don’t ya think?