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McClatchy Employees Cheer Iraqi Shoe Tosser as Stock Plunges 99%
newsbusters.org - 12/27/2008
McClatchy Employees Cheer Iraqi Shoe Tosser as Stock Plunges 99%
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Employees of McClatchy publishing in Iraq were in an unually good mood recently. The occasion was the aftermath of the Iraqi journalist who tossed his shoes at President Bush at a press conference in Baghdad as you can see in these quotes from Inside Iraq , a blog for McClatchy journalists ...

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Ace of Spades HQ:  McClatchky Employee Applauds Shoe-Thrower

Gateway Pundit:  Figures... American Reporters Applaud Shoe-Chucker

Dean's World:  Of Soles And Souls

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McClatchky Employee Applauds Shoe-Thrower
Ace of Spades HQ — McClatchky Employee Applauds Shoe-Thrower Nuance: I applauded this act. I don't care that it is rude. Why are we concerned about etiquette when a country was destroyed? Did Bush ever apologize to the Iraqis for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Bush is an occupier, a clown pretending to be a hero, so enclosed in his own little self-certain world he probably was surprised an Iraqi could be that angry. I am not surprised. I am only surprised such a thing did not happen earlier. Newsbusters gleefully notes that McClatchky's stock value has fallen 99% over the past three years.

Figures... American Reporters Applaud Shoe-Chucker
Gateway Pundit — Why is this not surprising? I applauded this act. I don't care that it is rude. Why are we concerned about etiquette when a country was destroyed? Did Bush ever apologize to the Iraqis for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Bush is an occupier, a clown pretending to be a hero, so enclosed in his own little self-certain world he probably was surprised an Iraqi could be that angry. I am not surprised. I am only surprised such a thing did not happen earlier. Bush liberated 60,000,000 Muslim victims from two ...

Of Soles And Souls
Dean's World — This reaction is probably fairly typical among the Western press: The “Shoe heard round the world” was an important symbolic event. I felt his action was appropriate and restrained considering the circumstances. I applauded this act. I don’t care that it is rude. Why are we concerned about etiquette when a country was destroyed? Did Bush ever apologize to the Iraqis for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Bush is an occupier, a clown pretending to be a hero, so enclosed in his own little self-certain world he probably was surprised ...

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