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Bush Dodges Shoes Thrown by Iraqi Journalist
Talking Points Memo —
OMG SHOEZ!
Shakesville —
During a surprise visit to Baghad today, an Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi from Al-Baghdadia television network shouted, "This is the end," and threw a pair of shoes at President Bush. "White House press secretary Dana Perino suffered an eye injury (a black eye from a microphone) in the news conference melee." (AP Story ...
Troubling Thought
Talking Points Memo —
Like most of us, if I'm honest with myself, I really only know how Secret Service protection works from the movies or how, going on my own common sense, I figure it works. The folks who protect the president are professionals. So I want to be extremely tentative and cautious about second-guessing their work from a bit of news video that leaves many key details unanswered.
But watching the video of the Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at President Bush, I could not help but notice that it took an uncomfortably long period of time for anyone to get to the assailant and, even more, much longer than I would have ...
Flying Shoe Thread
Political Animal —
Flying Shoe Thread As you have probably heard, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at president Bush. Here's the video (via TPM ): McClatchy : "As Bush finished remarks that hailed the security progress that led to a U.S.-Iraq agreement that sets a three-year timetable for an American withdrawal, an Iraqi television journalist leapt from his seat, pulled off his shoes and threw them at the president. Striking someone with a shoe is a grave insult in Islam. "This is a goodbye kiss, you dog," the journalist, Muntathar al Zaidi, 29, shouted. Bush ducked the first shoe. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, standing to Bush's left, tried to swat down the second. ...
Shoes Disrespected
Jesus' General —
Flying Shoe Thread
Obsidian Wings —
by hilzoy
As you have probably heard, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at president Bush. Here's the video (via TPM):
McClatchy:
"As Bush finished remarks that hailed the security progress that led to a U.S.-Iraq agreement that sets a three-year timetable ...
Two Shoes for George W. Bush
Politics Daily —
Filed under: President Bush, Iraq, Scandal, Viral VideoAfter watching this weekend's startling video of President George W. Bush ducking two shoes being hurled at his head by an Iraqi journalist in Baghdad, you may be asking yourself, why is that guy so pissed? Well, more news over the weekend may provide some insight. Via the AP: A detailed official history of the U.S. effort to reconstruct Iraq after Saddam Hussein's overthrow in 2003 blamed its failings on "blinkered and disjointed" prewar planning, a deadly insurgency and wasteful ...
WMD - Wingtips of Mass Destruction
The Reaction —
By Mustang Bobby An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush during a press conference on Sunday. No one was seriously injured, although White House Press Secretary Dana Perino got a black eye from a microphone during the scuffle. In Iraq, throwing your shoe at someone is the equivalent of giving them the finger. To his credit, the president joked about it ("All I can report is that it was a size 10"), but I guess the Secret Service can now add footwear to their list of things they'll jump in front of for the ...
Greeting the liberator in Iraq
At-Largely —
An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at the President of the United States, the liberator and freedom marcher (see video below). I for one don't support any form of violence, but I can see how someone could just lose it when faced with lie after lie. I would have walked out. But that is me. Perhaps the shoe throwing symbolizes something in that culture. I don't know. In any case, m y guess is that the journalist is on his way to Gitmo now: ...
Jonah Goldberg, seeker of the obvious
Martini Revolution —
Today’s Pantload spoor, in the once-venerated LATimes:
The ‘ought’ decade
What did it all mean, if anything?
Does anyone know what we’re supposed to call this decade? Is it the 2000s? The twenty-ohs? We’re coming up on the last year of it and I still have no idea. Personally, I always liked the “oughts,” as in, “back in ought-six, I ate a brick of cheddar cheese in one sitting.”
This is pretty easy: This decade means that if a bunch of neoconservative assholes elect and prop a wholly incompetent President for two terms, and ...
Bush shoethrower gets 3 yrs in prison
The Swamp —
by Frank James
Those were some pretty costly shoes Iraqi journalist Muntada al-Zeidi threw at President George W. Bush late last year.
I don't know what they cost al-Zeidi to purchase but they're going to cost him three years of his life, his sentence for tossing the shoes at Bush last December at a press conference during the then American president's farewell visit to Iraq.
The Associated Press reports:
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign ...
