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www.fishbowldc.com 12/14/2008 During a press conference in Iraq, an Iraqi reporter throws both shoes at President Bush.
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Is this one of those strange Middle Eastern customs?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
So President Bush is in Iraq today, and during a press conference he was apparently assaulted by a reporter who threw his shoes at the President.
Something tells me that the Secret Service might have responded a wee bit more “assertively” had that happened with an American reporter here in the USA.
P.S. I’m not as big of a smart-aleck as some of my co-contributors, so I’m opening this one up for shoe jokes. ...
Both barrels
ColbyCosh.com —
OK, so I finally watched the shoe video:
Nothing in the prior headlines emphasized sufficiently, for my money, that this dude gets off a second shot. He actually has time to take off his other shoe and throw it, missing Bush's right ear by, oh I don't know, maybe an inch and a half? Is it just me or do some Secret Service asses need to be gnawed light-to-moderately here? Fellas, I know you only expect to really earn those pensions about once every 20 years or so, but as far as I can tell you weren't even the ones who took out Mr. Crocs of Death. Your predecessors moved faster when Bush Sr. ralphed on Emperor ...
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