President Bush has shoes thrown at him at Press Conf inIraq

[mamacags]

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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."
(snip)
"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.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I doubt the sentiment is universal amongst Iraqis:

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[Chris_]

Breaking...

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This is NOT a joke nor a hoax -- some idiot journalist threw his shoes at W.

[asdf2231]

Massive insult in Islamic culture.

And the ****er is lucky to still be drawing air. 

[TexasFred]

And he missed...

I am surprised that the Secret Service didn't ventilate him..

[Mr Mannn]

I'm betting this will translate into a cushy job at Al Jezeera for the shoe throwing idiot.

[CC27]

How come this news person was not beat to pulp?

[Mr Mannn]

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.

[CC27]

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.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

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

[Chris_]

Luckily, the SHOETER was caught.

[Hawkgirl]

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.   

I do hope he gets roughed up a bit.

[Wretched Excess]

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."

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[Wineslob]

Even Iraq has Moonbats.

[crockspot]

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.

[USA4ME]

I see the moonbats over there are as good at hitting their target as the moonbats over here.

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[lastparker]

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.   

[Chris_]

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.

[ReardenSteel]

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*Hat tip to Michelle Malkin

[Schadenfreude]

God help us. The SS should be hanging their heads in shame.

This is just another example of the pussification of the American people.

[Wretched Excess]

God help us. The SS should be hanging their heads in shame.

This is just another example of the pussification of the American people.

 

[Schadenfreude]

 

Yeah, but I say good fricking grief  ..... this is absolutely insane that an American president can be assaulted (and he wasn't actually assaulted save his own reflexes)

[Wretched Excess]

Yeah, but I say good fricking grief  ..... 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.

[Schadenfreude]

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.

[crockspot]

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.