althouse.blogspot.com - 12/15/2008
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Do we have to talk about this ? Which angle? 1. Why can't the Secret Service fully protect the President? Shouldn't this threat have been anticipated? 2. Shoes are considered a terrible insult in the Iraqi culture blah blah blah....
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news.bbc.co.uk - 12/14/2008
abcnews.go.com - 12/15/2008
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President George W. Bush spoke with ABC News'
Martha Raddatz Sunday following an incident in which an...
Iraqi reporter threw two shoes at the president. Bush told Raddatz he wasn't insulted by the shoe-throwing, and that stranger things have happened ...
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Bush 'Not Insulted' by Thrown Shoes
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BDS defined, in a shoe-throwing
The Anchoress —
Lots of talk, of course, about the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq. The point has been made, enough, I think, that this Iraqi reporter would never have been free enough to throw his shoes under Saddam.
In reading some of the forums, this commenter at Ann Althouse made a spot-on analysis that actually can be broadened.
Harsh Pencil wrote:
The reporter knows deep down that he can throw his shoe at Bush only because of Bush and it shames him. He can’t forgive Bush for that.
Yes. ...
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