pajamasmedia.com - 12/15/2008
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As the world knows now, a particularly juvenile Iraqi journalist threw a shoe at George Bush in Baghdad Sunday. Bush characteristically made light of the situation. If there’s one thing many can agree on about the president, it’s that he doesn’t take insults too ...
abcnews.go.com - 12/15/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
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
thinkprogress.org - 12/15/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Yesterday, after an Iraqi journalist used “ [t]wo
of the worst insults in Islam ” against him,...
an unfazed President Bush sat down with ABC’s Martha Raddatz for an exit interview in Iraq. When Raddatz asked Bush about his legacy, ...
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Bush On Al Qaeda Not Existing In Iraq Before Invasion: ...
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I Can't Quit You, Codpiece.
INSTAPUTZ —
Roger Simon is a dumbass. If there’s one thing many can agree on about [President Bush], it’s that he doesn’t take insults too personally... Word? There's some support for the dynastic reading that George W. Bush intended to invade Iraq from the outset of his presidency to avenge his father. "After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time," Bush declared at a political fund-raiser in Houston in September 2002. Considerable doubt has since arisen around the incident Bush was referring ...
collective shoe throwing
Classical Values —
... them) strike me not only juvenile but ineffective. They just guarantee further such behavior. Throwing shoes of course, was merely an extreme form. Especially in the figurative sense, there will be many more. While Obama may get a temporary break (largely because most of his conservatives critics fear looking like racists), I think over-the-top political behavior feeds on itself. Each "side" makes the other feel justified in retaliatory shoe-throwing, and it will only get worse. Roger L. Simon is more optimistic than I am, and he sees hope in the shoe-throwing incident. ...
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Now You, Too, Can Throw Shoes at Bush
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Its just not the way
washingtonbureau.typepad.com 12/15/2008 — Like any event happens in Iraq, the incident of throwing shoes at the President Bush became the main topic of all the nation. When I arrived the office, the useless discussion was already started. Some of our guys started making...
Following up on the flying shoes
newshoggers.com 12/16/2008 — By BJ
As noted by, well, virtually everyone, Bush was the target of a pair of Iraqi shoes over the weekend. I do find it somewhat fitting that the incident has pretty much overshadowed whatever propaganda gains he was hoping to make on his ...
Shoes, Bush.
althouse.blogspot.com 12/15/2008 — 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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Bush is a Criminal
boomantribune.com 12/20/2008 — Dan Eggen reports: It was bad enough for President Bush to have shoes tossed at his head during his farewell journey to Baghdad. Now comes a new poll in which Americans call Bush all sorts of names -- some of them a lot worse than "dog." In a poll ...
Iraqi journalist hurls shoes at 'dog' Bush
breitbart.com 12/14/2008 — An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at his Baghdad office on Sunday. As the two leaders met in Nuri al-Maliki's private office, a ...
Bush Admits Al Qaeda Wasn't In Iraq Before Invasion: "So What?"
crooksandliars.com 12/16/2008 — Un-fricking-believable. Bush, talking to ABC's Martha Raddatz, does a Cheney on the lies leading up to the Iraq invasion and the messy misadventure of the occupation: BUSH: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This ...
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