corner.nationalreview.com - 12/17/2008
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Earlier this week, I completed my Media Research Center ballot for their worst-of the media 2008. It's always a little bit of a cup of expresso -- outrageous reporting I had since otherwise tried to block out of my memory. Bill Moyers equated using Rev. Wright as an issue against Barack Obama in ...
ourfuture.org - 12/16/2008
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ourfuture.org —
My friends at Fightingliberals.com are recommending people send
their old shoes to the George W. Bush Presidential...
Library. In my humble opinion: no no no no no no no no no no no no no no. Liberals should not make light of or license the physical ...
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Against Shoe Bombing
youtube.com - 12/15/2008
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youtube.com —
CNN's Take on Bush Shoe Incident, with additional
video of Bush talking about it.An Iraqi journalist threw...
two shoes at President George W. Bush at a News Co...
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Bush Shoe Incident in Iraq (video)
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INSTAPUTZ —
K-Lo: I realized last night that Dana Perino has a black eye. In the chaos, a mic apparently fell on her over there. A small thing in the context of war and peace, but...
For National Review’s K-Lo, Shoe Throwing Incident is an Attack on the Troops
Firedoglake —
... In case you hadn't heard, that dastardly Iraqi journalist wasn't just throwing his shoes at Bush. He was throwing them at the troops. ...
"Bad Things Happen"
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
K-Lo: I cringe — like many of us — when I read that the shoe-thrower may have been beaten in prison. For p.r. if nothing else, guys! But another wrong does not make a right — or a desire in me to understand the root cause; forgive me. Bad things happen, all around. And, please, guys, be humane, even in the face of shameful acts. But the fact remains: A journalist committed an outrage and the media here should be outraged, not publishing odes to him. Like, one bad thing is that I happen to wake up with a hangover. Another bad thing is that someone ...
BREAKING: Shoe-Throwing Iraqi TOTAL WEENIE, Not in Fact Butch, Neener
Firedoglake —
... happened to him if he'd thrown the shoes at Maliki without the world media there to record it, or if the gesture were not sufficiently publicized to cause Maliki political agita. At least, that's the relevant question anyone who actually gives a shit about human rights would ask, as opposed to "conservatives," whose reaction upon hearing that al-Zeidi was probably tortured was, more or less, "great"! Or at least, "what the hey, torture happens." Something an ingrate perhaps ought to expect.
For ...
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