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Fait Diver : Loose Shoes
David E's Fablog —
by David E | (Visited 49 times) shoe 1 shoe 2 The facts are not in dispute. So take it away Fred! the great divide This entry was posted on Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 7:09 pm and is filed under David E . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. To use the trackback, simply right-click the “trackback” link, then select “copy shortcut”, or“copy link location”, or“copy link address”, depending on your browser, and then paste that link into the appropriate post on your blog. A trackback will automatically appear on Fablog. ...
Leftwing Blogosphere Cheers Iraqi Shoe Thrower
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
The shoes had hardly left the hand of the Iraqi who tossed them at President Bush during the Baghdad press conference yesterday when the leftwing blogosphere began cheering him as some sort of hero. The incredible success of the Surge in Iraq has been very frustrating for the left. Along with Joe Biden they claimed that the Surge could never work. Problem was that it worked. That is why they have been so silent recently on the topic of the Iraq. The complete turnaround there has been much too embarrassing for them to mention Iraq very much...until now. The shoes tossed by that Iraqi journalist let loose a river of pent up ...
Finally, Weapons of Mass Distraction Were Found in Iraq
BlondeSense —
Ronald Reagan who was a master of ducking, would be very proud of how Bush ducked the swirling shoes...
I wonder if he's going to decree cement shoes for all correspondents at News Conferences.
We're Making A List
Classical Values —
We're Making A List I have been trying to decide if the introduction to the next story should be the Mikado's List Song or Santa Clause Is Coming To Town. So I've decided to do them both. Think of it as low culture and lower culture. Popular entertainments for the times. You will note the song from the Mikado has been updated for modern times. I'm looking forward to next year's version updated to include Chicago Politics. There is an opening for a writer there. Well now to the heart of the matter. A.J. Strata ...
The Artful Dodger
The Poor Man Institute —
Nous sommes tout Muntadar al-Zaidi.
Judged as a display of alertness and ninja prowess, the President’s dodge is, indeed, impressive. But George W. Bush has spent most of his life fucking things up horribly, and then escaping any consequences for his incompetence and indifference. This is who he is. What you have seen is ...
Daily Digest: The "Obama Internet" Moment?
techPresident —
The "Obama Internet" Moment?: The New York Times editorial board is urging President-elect Obama to embrace the idea that restoring the U.S.'s rightful place at the vanguard of the Internet could be a centerpiece of his presidential legacy. Obama is unlikely to disagree with the premise, but this quote from Free Press's Ben Scott -- "This is the Eisenhower Interstate highway moment for the Internet" -- gets at a point of contention in conservative and libertarian circles, where the idea that the Internet should be akin to the federally-funded, municipally-run interstate system is far from a ...
Barry Michael Cooper: Kenneth Coles & Grassy Knolls: The Sole Assasination of a Bush Legacy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
FINDING OBAMICA, VOL I.
"Shoe program, nigga! Twenty-three hour lockdown!"
Denzel Washington as Det. Alonzo Harris in the
2001 Warner Bros. film, Training Day .
I'm sorry. I was laughing. I was lol last week, when that shoe came flying at George Walker Bush in Iraq. This was the pith of his "People-All-Over-The-World-Join-Hands-Form-A-Love-Train-Magical-Mystery-Create-The-Legacy-Tour". The President's Exit: stage right. With the guilt-free grin of a man truly weightless in the zero-gravity of his seared conscience, the The-Fantast-Known-As-Bush-43 screened the sequel to his cinema de l'absurde, Mission ...
Let the real countdown begin
Firedoglake —
Twenty more days...
...of Bush.
From the beginning:
To the (near end):
Happy New Year, the year Bush goes home.
Another World Leader Gets a Shoe to the Head
The Latest on Air America —
Forget about dudes wearing pink dresses, leave those cream pies at home...if you want to be the cool kid at your protest party, all you need is your own two shoes. Following the new trend, a very vocal audience member threw a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at a talk today in Cambridge, England. The sneaker missed the Premier, who was there giving a talk on globalization, and was not hurt. According to Reuters, the unidentified student was dragged out by security guards while blowing a whistle and shouting, "How can the university prostitute itself with this dictator? How can you listen to the lies he is telling? Stand up and protest." No word yet on which ...
Iraqi shoe-thrower's trial postponed
News —
Iraqi shoe-thrower's trial postponed Muntazer al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist better known as the shoe-thrower, went on trial today in Baghdad's Green Zone for… well, don't say you don't remember: Al-Zeidi, whose footwear attack on President Bush inspired a bronze shoe monument and a lot of blogosphere chatter, faces up to 15 years behind bars on charges of assaulting a foreign leader. More from Al-Jazeera : "Al-Zeidi was handcuffed and surrounded by a pack of security guards as he was brought to Iraq's Central Criminal Court in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. Family members waiting for him inside the courthouse ululated wildly as he was brought in and draped an ...
World-Famous Shoe-Thrower to See His Sentence Reduced
Interesting Times —
Muntadhar al-Zaidi can surely consider himself as Iraq's most celebrated journalist, even though he has been kept under custody since a fateful day, Dec. 14, 2008. Today, he can also consider himself as one of the luckiest, as his sentence for insulting a foreign leader has been reduced and will end on Sept. 15. Back in ...
