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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: mamacags on December 14, 2008, 04:20:31 PM
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmt2_wyDKJI[/youtube]
Welcome to Baghdad. An Iraqi reporter set off pandemonium Sunday by hurling two shoes at President Bush during a news conference that was the centerpiece of his secret goodbye visit.
Bush was cool under fire and prevented an even bigger incident by waving off his lead Secret Service agent, who was prepared to extract him from the room.
Video shows the president's lead agent rushing to the podium, but the president immediately and subtly motions to him that it's OK. The agent backs off.
The president successfully ducked both throws. Photos show him with his head down near the top of the podium. The embarrassing incident marred a visit meant to show off the improved conditions since the troop "surge" dramatically reduced casualties to U.S. troops.
"This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell kiss, you dog," the journalist shouted (in Arabic), Steven Lee Myers of The New York Times reported in a pool report to the White House press corps.
Myers reported that the man threw the second shoe and added: "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
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"All I can report is it is a size 10," Bush quipped.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16566.html
It is good to know that America doesn't in fact have the biggest idiots in this world.
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I doubt the sentiment is universal amongst Iraqis:
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Breaking...
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This is NOT a joke nor a hoax -- some idiot journalist threw his shoes at W.
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Massive insult in Islamic culture.
And the ****er is lucky to still be drawing air.
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And he missed...
I am surprised that the Secret Service didn't ventilate him..
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I'm betting this will translate into a cushy job at Al Jezeera for the shoe throwing idiot.
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How come this news person was not beat to pulp?
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How come this news person was not beat to pulp?
because he is a moose-limb. Being ill-manners is a virtue in that world.
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because he is a moose-limb. Being ill-manners is a virtue in that world.
Very true. I liked the way Bush responded to the attack. Obama would have cried and bitched.
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One astute blogger notes:
Apparently the man and his family were arrested, his wife raped in front of him and then the entire family was thrown screaming into a wood chipper. Oh sorry, that's what would have happened if this brave Iraqi patriot had tried this during Saddam's reign.
No one likes to have their country invaded and patrolled by a foreign military, even if it's for a their own long term good but maybe this guy should think about why he suddenly is so courageous and who made that possible.
Meantime, no doubt many on the left are cheering this asshat. The world turned upside down my friends.
UPDATE: Gee, I wonder why this part was left out of the earlier reports:
Some Iraqi journalists stood up to apologise.
The White House said Bush ducked to avoid the first shoe, while the second narrowly missed the president.
Bush said: "Thanks for apologising on behalf of the Iraqi people. It doesn't bother me. If you want the facts, it was a size 10 shoe that he threw".
Playing down the incident, the president later added: "I don't know what the guy's cause is... I didn't feel the least bit threatened by it."
This is the the second classiest way for Bush to have handled it. The classiest way? Bush pulls a dagger out of his waistband and flings directly into the guy's heart and shoe chucker is dead before he hits the ground (which incidentally is exactly how Dick Cheney would have handled it).
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/279688.php
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Luckily, the SHOETER was caught.
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I don't even have words for this, no snappy sarcasm, no comical comment, no hate-filled speech...This is completely bizzare....even for the religion of peace. :mental:
I do hope he gets roughed up a bit.
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I know we all saw this coming; the MSM is making a hero out of him. GWB has pretty goof reflexes, by the way. the second
shoe was high and outside, but he deftly dodged that first one.
Iraqi shoe-throwing reporter becomes the talk of Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in a supreme insult has suddenly become the talk of Iraq, hailed by marchers as a national hero but blasted by the government as a barbarian.
The little-known Shi'ite reporter, said to have harbored anger against Bush for the thousands of Iraqis who died after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, had previously made headlines only once, when he was briefly kidnapped by unknown gunmen in 2007.
TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi remained in detention on Monday, accused by the Iraqi government of a "barbaric act." He would be sent for trial on charges of insulting the Iraqi state, said the prime minister's media advisor, Yasin Majeed.
His employer, independent al-Baghdadiya television, demanded his release and demonstrators rallied for him in Baghdad's Sadr City, in the southern Shi'ite stronghold of Basra and in the holy city of Najaf, where some threw shoes at a U.S. convoy.
"Thanks be to God, Muntazer's act fills Iraqi hearts with pride," his brother, Udai al-Zaidi, told Reuters Television.
"I'm sure many Iraqis want to do what Muntazer did. Muntazer used to say all the orphans whose fathers were killed are because of Bush."
More (http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4BE28Q20081215)
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Even Iraq has Moonbats.
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If they come at you with their fist, use a baton.
If they come at you with a knife, use a gun.
If the throw a shoe at you, lob back a hand grenade.
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I see the moonbats over there are as good at hitting their target as the moonbats over here.
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Iraqi shoe-throwing reporter becomes the talk of Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in a supreme insult has suddenly become the talk of Iraq, hailed by marchers as a national hero but blasted by the government as a barbarian.
The little-known Shi'ite reporter, said to have harbored anger against Bush for the thousands of Iraqis who died after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, had previously made headlines only once, when he was briefly kidnapped by unknown gunmen in 2007.
TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi remained in detention on Monday, accused by the Iraqi government of a "barbaric act." He would be sent for trial on charges of insulting the Iraqi state, said the prime minister's media advisor, Yasin Majeed.
Muntazer al-Zaidi ???
Don't ....never mind. :-)
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If they come at you with their fist, use a baton.
If they come at you with a knife, use a gun.
If the throw a shoe at you, lob back a hand grenade.
That's the Chicago way.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D5oKEVqQJg[/youtube]
*Hat tip to Michelle Malkin
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God help us. The SS should be hanging their heads in shame.
This is just another example of the pussification of the American people.
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God help us. The SS should be hanging their heads in shame.
This is just another example of the pussification of the American people.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/jen72484/Family/lucy11.jpg)
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Yeah, but I say good fricking grief :censored:..... this is absolutely insane that an American president can be assaulted (and he wasn't actually assaulted save his own reflexes)
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Yeah, but I say good fricking grief :censored:..... this is absolutely insane that an American president can be assaulted (and he wasn't actually assaulted save his own reflexes)
I can almost understand getting the first show away, but I don't see how he managed to avoid contracting high speed lead poisoning well before he even got the second shoe off.
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I can almost understand getting the first show away, but I don't see how he managed to avoid contracting high speed lead poisoning well before he even got the second shoe off.
He should have never been able to fully take off his first shoe without a swarm of SS agents taking notice.
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If you watch the tape carefully, you can see that the lead SS agent is about to wade into the audience and beat the guy to a bloody pulp, but W gives him a very subtle tap to the tummy and an even more subtle gesture, calling him off. A very well trained SS agent I would say.
It would be very bad press for the SS to blow away a journalist hucking a non-lethal object like a shoe. Better to let the Iraqi security guys bloody their knuckles.
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I'm looking forward to Duh Fuhrer's ministry, when such protests would be complete non-issues, never reported, and the idiot reporter would be disappeared, beaten to the brink of death, and then forced to watch his family fed into a wood chipper in front of him.
Happy days are here again! :cheersmate: :bday: :cheersmate:
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If you watch the tape carefully, you can see that the lead SS agent is about to wade into the audience and beat the guy to a bloody pulp, but W gives him a very subtle tap to the tummy and an even more subtle gesture, calling him off. A very well trained SS agent I would say.
Negative, he was trying to extract the President from the room, before the President waved him off.
The other bozo SS agents just stood in awe...as did the others...before they pounced.
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I suppose the SS could have relaxed a bit, confident that there were no weapons in the room. but it did seem to take a bit for them to get into the action. interesting that the MSM managed to work the "hero angle" about the shoe thrower into the story in the 5th 'graph. :whatever:
Bush shoe incident caught Secret Service flatfooted
WASHINGTON — Although the Secret Service put everyone who attended President George W. Bush's Baghdad news conference through several layers of security Sunday, the agency appeared to be caught off guard when an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the president.
"We'll be our own harshest critic regarding this incident" Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said Monday, "and we'll make any appropriate changes to security."
Donovan said, however, that agents on the scene knew that everyone in attendance had been screened for weapons and that they appeared to have taken the "appropriate level of action." No shots were fired as Bush's Secret Service detail joined Iraqi police in taking the shoe thrower into custody.
The arrested man, Muntathar al Zaidi, a 29-year-old employee of Cairo, Egypt-based Baghdadiya Television, remained in Iraqi custody Monday. Officials in Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's office refused to comment on his condition or on whether he'd be criminally charged.
Throngs of Iraqi Shiite Muslims marched Monday in Sadr City, a sprawling Baghdad slum, hailing Zaidi as a hero and holding up shoes as they demanded his release.
More (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/57882.html)
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I suppose the SS could have relaxed a bit, confident that there were no weapons in the room. but it did seem to take a bit for them to get into the action. interesting that the MSM managed to work the "hero angle" about the shoe thrower into the story in the 5th 'graph. :whatever:
the nbc news didn't even wait til the 5th paragraph... they started the story talking about the mobs in sadr city
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it was just a matter of time before the :censored: ing flash game (http://www.kroma.no/2008/bushgame/) appeared.
it was the comments that raised my eyebrows; several of them are in arabic :whatever:, and the comments that are written in english are unintelligible. :-)
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As a precaution, "The One" will demand that all reporters be required to go barefooted when they are in "His Presence". :fuelfire:
(comparison to Moses & the burning bush intended). :innocent:
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BAGHDAD — The journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush was handed over to the Iraqi military, an Iraqi official said, as hundreds took to the streets Tuesday for a second day demanding his release.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi suffered a broken arm and ribs after being struck by Iraqi security agents, his brother told AFP on Tuesday.
Durgham Zaidi was unable to say whether his brother had sustained the injuries while being overpowered during Sunday's protest against Bush's visit or while in custody later.
Al-Zeidi was turned over by the prime minister's security guards to face further investigation by the military command in charge of enforcing security in Baghdad, the official told The Associated Press.
"He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm," Durgham told AFP. "He is being held by forces under the command of Muaffaq al-Rubaie," Iraq's national security adviser.
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467504,00.html)
So much for him being a "hero" to everyone. :rotf:
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BAGHDAD — The journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush was handed over to the Iraqi military, an Iraqi official said, as hundreds took to the streets Tuesday for a second day demanding his release.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi suffered a broken arm and ribs after being struck by Iraqi security agents, his brother told AFP on Tuesday.
Durgham Zaidi was unable to say whether his brother had sustained the injuries while being overpowered during Sunday's protest against Bush's visit or while in custody later.
Al-Zeidi was turned over by the prime minister's security guards to face further investigation by the military command in charge of enforcing security in Baghdad, the official told The Associated Press.
"He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm," Durgham told AFP. "He is being held by forces under the command of Muaffaq al-Rubaie," Iraq's national security adviser.
Notice it said HUNDREDS. :whatever:
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Interesting (or not really) that the local D.C. news channels all edited out the part about the apology.
Good reflexes though! Loving baseball paid off for Bush I guess.
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As a precaution, "The One" will demand that all reporters be required to go barefooted when they are in "His Presence". :fuelfire:
(comparison to Moses & the burning bush intended). :innocent:
I about crapped (not literally) when I saw the commercial for a new Dolce & Cabbana cologne....It's called "THE ONE". :whatever: I must be so uncool, I never heard of it until today. (I've heard of Dolce & Cabbana before....don't want you to think I'm THAT uncool)
(http://www.slapiton.tv/acatalog/dg_one_men.jpg)
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Not familiar with it either, what kind of scent is it? Floral? Its name makes no sense to me, how can anything that mass produced be called "the One"? It would be "One of the Ones".
About that nutjob that threw his shoes, now his brother is running around telling sympathetic fellow loons that the shoe-thrower was beaten up by the authorities. He would have been shot after torture if he thrown anything at Hussein back in the day. Liberals are like little kids, childish antics are fine when they do them, they would be crying rivers and screaming racism if someone had done something similar to their "One".
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Not familiar with it either, what kind of scent is it? Floral? Its name makes no sense to me, how can anything that mass produced be called "the One"? It would be "One of the Ones".
About that nutjob that threw his shoes, now his brother is running around telling sympathetic fellow loons that the shoe-thrower was beaten up by the authorities. He would have been shot after torture if he thrown anything at Hussein back in the day. Liberals are like little kids, childish antics are fine when they do them, they would be crying rivers and screaming racism if someone had done something similar to their "One".
I like how he is pissed at Bush for "starting" the war but doesn't think that there is no way in hell he would be able t o do what he did if Saddam was still there. Also their call for "freedom of speech", it isn't freedom of speech if you THROW something at someone. He could have written what ever he wanted about Bush or said what ever he wanted to Bush's face but he THREW something at him. The DU'ers would $hit a brick of someone (it doesn't matter WHO) threw something at "The One".
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Interesting (or not really) that the local D.C. news channels all edited out the part about the apology.
Good reflexes though! Loving baseball paid off for Bush I guess.
Saw that too. So much for intregity in reporting.
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Perhaps neither Obama nor Dolce & Cabbana are "The One" after all... (see "W" in bullet time) :-)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/woncothesane/bushshoegif.gif)
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An update DUmmies would love:
Baydan has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company sold each year since the model was introduced in 1999. The company plans to employ 100 more staff to meet demand, he said.
“Model 271†is exported to markets including Iraq, Iran, Syria and Egypt. Customers in Iraq ordered 120,000 pairs this week and some Iraqis offered to set up distribution companies for the shoe, Baydan said.
Baydan has received a request for 4,000 pairs from a company called Davidson, based in Maryland. He declined to provide further details.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=auI050ptHyPg&refer=europe
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An update DUmmies would love:
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Once again President Bush is helping to stimulate the global economy.
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Perhaps neither Obama nor Dolce & Cabbana are "The One" after all... (see "W" in bullet time) :-)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/woncothesane/bushshoegif.gif)
H5. That's great.