Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush

Not on youtube yet, but highly amusing, although I worry for the guy who did it.

That was a highly insensitive thing to do considering the shoe bomber and all.

holy shit lololololol

did it hit him

they

"Look out! He's gonna shoe-t!"

Was it a shoe-ite muslim journalist?

“It doesn’t bother me,” Bush told reporters. “So what if he threw a shoe at me.” The president said it showed free speech in a democracy.

i bet bush was a little shoe-k up

24 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) — An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at his Baghdad office on Sunday.

As the two leaders met in Nuri al-Maliki's private office, a journalist sitting in the third row jumped up, shouting: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog," and threw his shoes one after the other towards Bush.

fortunately the attack was anticipated by

http://www.extrememortman.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/Maxwell%20Smart%20Get%20Smart.bmp

i wonder how fast he was tackled

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/14/bush-visits-iraq-for-fina_n_150832.html

Bush ducked both throws. Neither leader was hit. In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt; Iraqis whacked a statue of Saddam Hussein with their shoes after U.S. marines toppled it to the ground after the 2003 invasion.

"All I can report," Bush joked of the incident, "is a size 10."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081214/india_nm/india370284

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too bad, if it had hit him maybe bush would know what it feels like to have a sole!!!

(soul!!!)

toe bad, if it had hit him maybe bush would know what it heels like to have a sole!!! you mean

this incident is not all that not funny

whoops didnt mean to put a double not in there....

...not!!!

beyonc'ehumeur

toe bad, if insole foot laces maybe bush stiletto reebok crosstrainer heels like sole boots ha ha ha sandals

Islamic worshippers remove their shoes before entering a mosque. It seems reasonable to assume that shoes have a connotation of uncleanliness and 'pollution'. Which might make this action a rough equivalent of throwing rotten eggs or a dead cat at Bush.

What's not to like?

wait, you're suggesting that this wasn't an act of approval and support?

Flying penis attacking Kasparov was way funnier than this.
In other news, shoe shops in the Middle East are beating the worldwide downturn.

From that middle photo, it's clear that the prime minister is willing to take a shoe for Bush.

wait, islam?

didn't know about islam

"who throws a shoe i mean honestly!"

http://www.destinationhollywood.com/movies/austinpowers/images/austin_08.jpg

have to say bush is quite a good dodger and also how much time the guy had to throw reload and throw again

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7782774.stm

lololol they just showed this on cbs

have to say bush is quite a good dodger and also how much time the guy had to throw reload and throw again

Yeah, his reflexes are amazing. The shoes were thrown right at him and he still dodged both of them. Very impressed!

was it like matrix style

well dozens of Agent Smiths seemed to pour out of that concealed door...

his reflexes are amazing

He is in excellent condition for his age. Unless he starts drinking heavily and coking up again, he seems destined to disgrace our national scene for several more decades.

stand by for a "pelt Dubya with shoes" Flash game in 3... 2... 1...

He is in excellent condition for his age.

Seriously. Didn't one of his med reports come out in the last year or two stating that he's the healthiest guy who's ever been in the oval office? (for at least as far back as the records go)

(and only for the next 30-odd days or so, when the record gets set again)

Dude who tossed is probably a shoe-in @ next election.

nah, they'll give him the boot...

Maybe al-Maliki should only invite well-heeled journalists to his press conferences?

(and only for the next 30-odd days or so, when the record gets set again)

don't know about that.

http://obama-zone.com/images/11.jpg

but how he managed to smuggle a shoe into the room is going to cause a s(c)andal

It socks that Iraq is still plagued with such violences.

the journalist would have thrown sooner, but he was a loafer

At least Bush has a decent memen-toe from this visit tho.

the guy's trainer will certainly be having a word with him later

after such a high profile attempt, there was no way he would have been able to sneaker off

security analysts are hoping that this kind of attack won't become a Patten...

aldo it is hard to prevent

Today's Iraqi media is so terribly insolent, I tellya.

The journalist threw a pair of mules in an attempt to make an ass of the President

The Secret Service are hoping that the President will be able to avoid further spats during his visit...

bravo!

The attacker was hoping that Bush would be sporting enough to give him a slingback

toe bad, if it had hit him maybe bush would know what it heels like to have a sole!!!

future press conferences will only be allowed to be attended by journalist who are instep with the US Administration

They would have actually caught him before he entered the room, but security misunderstood him when he confessed to being "a Mary Jane user"

Any fame the journalist gets from this incident is unlikely to last...

However he was merely looking for a platform for his opinions...

toe bad, if it had hit him maybe bush would know what it heels like to have a sole!!!

dude if those had connected bush would have been fuuuuuuucked up

also, he seemed pretty jovial and sanguine about the whole thing

that's because it means he doesn't have to talk about his presidency for a few hours

great tread

i love how the story is like "in Iraqi culture, it is a sign of contempt to throw one's shoes at another"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fw7iF68JR8k/SDjm69MK2rI/AAAAAAAARfk/APLoyoKZ3pE/s400/the_more_you_know2.jpg

Actually the journalist was one of the four members of Iraq's leading Beatles tribute band...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/RubberSoulUK.jpg/200px-RubberSoulUK.jpg

i see

Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe, baby, I'm in love with you
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now, I'm telling you

Next week the journalist will be appearing on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, where he will perform the soft shoe shuffle.

The man in the crowd with the muticoloured mirrors on his hobnail boots

I am mostly amazed by how Bush smirks between the first shoe and the second. That is impressive. If I were Bush and I were in Iraq and an unidentified object were hurled at me, I would probably be hitting the floor; Bush smirks. Not even like a playing-it-off / I'm cool smirk, but like he's genuinely that amused and confident about his safety. I'm thinking this is why Americans used to want to have a beer with the dude.

^^ there may or may not be a shoe pun hidden deep inside that

Maybe he was happy that even if the shoe hit him, this time it wouldn't be his foot in his mouth.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20081214/i/r3216369036.jpg?x=400&y=253&q=85&sig=f.Pa4Scj2jxi0zuh5QbR7g--

what's happenin on his face here

like is that just shadow on his cheek or a bruise or what

bush reacted exactly how I would react in that situation

(xpost) Neither shoe hit him, so it's not a bruise.
However, I do like that room. You can tell that it's been designed by a practitioner of fung-shoe-ui.
Also, there are rumours that the journalist was a student of Kung Shoe...

...or possibly skilled in Shi-at-shoe massage...

WMD found!

...alternatively, a surgeon attempting to give Bush a boot-ox injection

those ducks weren't lame
bush almost gained some footing
the reporter could have followed up by socking it to him

I'd like to see a rematch - they could go toe-to-toe in a shoe-tout

shoddy reporting

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q102/adamsilver000/2uyod3k.gif

The take down seems odd. Crawl up behind the guy and pull him down by his jacket? Bush seems to be almost laughing after the first one.

obama wouldve caught em

Duck Smirk Duck

Wait, that's not fair: it was Duck Smirk BLOCK/Duck

v, >> + X, < + ^O, v

Duck & Cover (Your Face With A Smirk)

cannot shoehorn an espadrill gag into this thread

obama wouldve caught em

then put on his sunglasses and said "don't tread on me"

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

although that iraqi journalist would have been pumped

I think Bush was about to tell him to "step off", but he was caught on the back foot.

love the sort of non-plussed rxns of all the iraqis. like, yeah, he's throwing shoes, it's something we do \(°°/

If Iraq hosts the Olympic Games, shoe throwing will be made into an event. But instead of Gold, Silver, and Bronze, the medals will be Leather, Suede, and Plastic

I am eagerly awaiting the "throw a shoe at President Bush and WIN A FREE IPOD" banner ads.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28223089#28223089

"you don't understand- throwing my shoes at president george w bush is the name of my dog!"

Personally, I think that this has turned out to be a load of cobblers...

shoe-gest ban

snoball seems to be the custo(s)dian of this thread.

There's no need to be insole-ent...

Either you like this thread or you don't. Stop flip-flopping.

it was only a J-K...

^^^ obscure electronics joke that no-one will probably get...

This would never have happened to Al Gore. Texas should be proud of its favourite son.

shoe fly don't bother him

wish this had happened a few years ago, and that they were higher-caliber shoes.

morbz expect a "visit" later today

That reporter had issues.

morbz is going to get his period?

Better response than "I know they were size 10": Goody! Two shoes.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955

damn, joke lost

uppers [nsfw: music]

Not boots on the ground -- shoes in the air

It's strange how smug Bush was, like he ashoe-med nothing was going to happen to him.

I guess he was just happy he wasn't injured -- otherwise he would have needed time to heel.

it was only a J-K...

oh you'll pay for that one

Now he's in Afghanistan. Maybe someone there can throw some hats at him.

Not quite as good as when a flying penis attacked Gary Kasparov, but close

this ties up bush's presidency nicely. one big lace to the bottom.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_05/baghdad2G_468x622.jpg

those shoes are smoking

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05np9Uc7Hl2M2/340x.jpg

this is the best thing bush has ever done

the ducking was really cool and then him saying "so what if the guy threw a shoe at me?" and then being like "huh?" and shrugging and then practically saying it was a totally justifiable means of expression and as inconsequential as someone shouting or gesturing. love it

"Haha, fuckers. That all you got?"

- story of the last eight years.

at least they took him down before he could throw any more shoes.

You know what they say, if the shoe hits...

the ducking was really cool and then him saying "so what if the guy threw a shoe at me?" and then being like "huh?" and shrugging and then practically saying it was a totally justifiable means of expression and as inconsequential as someone shouting or gesturing. love it

yeah, but ... leave it to bush to equate freedom of expression with throwing shoes at someone (which, as amusing as it was in this instance, is still assault and battery and not "protected speech"). he's denser than ever.

collateral damage:

In the chaos, Dana M. Perino, the White House press secretary, who was visibly distraught, was struck in the eye by a microphone stand.

I think it's hilarious, and the guy is a hero. But is he still alive? Don't you think they took him out back and shot him immediately?

Mr. Maliki’s security agents jumped on the man, wrestled him to the floor and hustled him out of the room. They kicked him and beat him until “he was crying like a woman”

I'm sure he's still alive, though, if only because it would be bad publicity for him to disappear

Why did they do that? It's not as if he had more shoes where they came from?

They kicked him and beat him until “he was crying like a woman”

So not much then amirite?

http://i38.tinypic.com/juz953.jpg

I have to say I like this photo.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/15/world/15rush.large4c.jpg
Especially the guy on the right.

Making absolutely no attempt to do anything.

Also all the journos at the back thinking - thank fuck we've got something to show for trekking all the way out here.

I think it's funny how Maliki looks even cooler than Bush during the whole incident. His expression never changes, and he just casually tries to catch the second shoe, like it was a child throwing lollipops or something.

apparently to avoid being identified the iraqi journalist used a shoedonym when signing the guestbook.

http://www.soles4souls.org/donate/new_shoes.html

This morning I walked past a charity shop that had a "donate your old shoes" bin and immediately thought of this thread.

This is all a big misunderstanding. He was really just angry at his shoes, and said "it is the farewell kiss you dogs!" as he threw them away. Bush just happened to be in the way, and the guy didn't notice (because it's just bush, right)

maybe his english wasn't very good and he was trying to say "sole-long"

In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt.

Whereas in other cultures, it means you're totally in love with the person?!?!

"Don't you hate pants?!"
http://www.lardlad.com/assets/episodes/season9/5f10-big.jpg

Whereas in other cultures, it means you're totally in love with the person?!?!

have you not heard of sexual heeling?

Whatever his eventual fate, I hope the journalist in question shoe sole boot lace instep fallen arch Dr. Scholl's.

Try pulling yourself up by your bootstraps...

I stole that joke from I think some other thread that developed like this one btw so whoever gave me the giggles on one of these news-event-pun-threads I salute you even if I can't remember who you were

So you were pulling yourself up by someone else's bootstraps?

u stole it from a dude earlier in this thread

Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush

SHOE stole it from a dude earlier in this thread, morelike

oh man now I feel shtoepid

s(t)ole

(stole)

(sole)

can anybody remember which similar thread it was where the guy ended his post with something like "cannibalism necrophilia," that was like an all-time top five LOL

Whereas in other cultures, it means you're totally in love with the person?!?!

― Beehive Reptile (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, December 15, 2008 7:03 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

"he punched me (and it felt like a kiss)"?

o_O

can anybody remember which similar thread it was where the guy ended his post with something like "cannibalism necrophilia," that was like an all-time top five LOL

That was DJ Mencap IIRC, can't remember the thread though.

seriously, though, the media IS overplaying the "the soles of shoes is an insult to Arabs" angle. i think that the shoe-thrower would've been very happy to throw ANYTHING handy at bush (e.g., if the room had been full of vases or books). as bimble said, throwing shoes at another person isn't a display of affection in ANY culture that i am aware of.

Bush should have paraphrased Iggy

Anyone with anymore icecubes, jellybeans, gren ades, eggs they want to throw at the stage? You've paid your money so take your chance. Let's hear it for the singer. I'm the greatest... Thanks for the eggs. What's my bid for a dozen eggs?... Listen I've egged by better than you.. Is it time for a riot girls? RIOT. Let's get a towel for the egg yolk. I don't wanna get caught with yolk in my face, Oooh baby. C'mon mama... Lightbulbs too? Paper cups? My we're getting violent. There's two trying to climb the stage... Well we have to leave. See you guys later...

I don't remember that at all Nick :(

Whenever I listen to Metallic KO (admittedly not that often) I always spend ages wondering if they really got paid five grand for that gig like Iggy claims - it seems an awful lot for a washed-up band in the mid-70s

let's do it you fucking pussies, put your money where your mouth is. prove you've got something between your legs you bad motherfuckers. don't let me come in here and do as i please.

― iggy pipecock, Monday, 15 December 2008 07:20 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

(xpost) I think Iggy said "you're paying five bucks and I'm making ten thousand, so screw ya!", which just sounds like a wild boast to piss off the audience. Which actually is pretty much what everything he said during that gig was anyway. I like the bit where he goes "you can throw all the ice in the world, you can throw you're goddamn cocks, but your girlfriend will still love me!"
Actually, Bush should have said that...

Yeah yr right I think - I'm not too hot on what bands got paid several years before I was born but that pushes it into the overly outlandish I guess

Oh and how could I forget? What Bush really really should have said was:

Thank you to the person who just threw these shoes at my head, you nearly hit me, but you missed again. You'll just have to keep trying! (sound of shoes being kicked away as Bush walks off stage)

I don't remember that at all Nick :(

Oh, maybe not then. And now I'm sitting here thinking that you are now thinking thatI was sitting here thinking that you were there thinking 'cannibalism necrophilia'. Oops!

Demos for the shoe thrower.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7783608.stm

...and his shoes were being held as evidence, said the official...

it's good that all the foot-soldiers are now standing up to fight

here's hoping that they will not be defeeted

going toe to toe

post went with "shoe-icide attack"; daily news with "lame duck"

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/8564/250079it20was20inevitabmx5.gif

big lolz

“Bush, Bush, is a cow, your farewell was by a shoe,” and “The shoe got its goal straightly, but Maliki turned it away.”


http://baghdadbureau.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/iraqis-pick-up-their-shoes-reaction-from-around-the-country/?hp

Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Becomes a Folk Hero

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: December 15, 2008

BAGHDAD — A day after an Iraqi television journalist threw his shoes at President Bush at a news conference in Baghdad on Sunday, his act of defiance toward the American commander-in-chief reverberated throughout Iraq and across the Arab world.

In Sadr City, the sprawling Baghdad suburb that has seen some of the most intense fighting between insurgents and American soldiers since the 2003 invasion, thousands of people marched in his defense. In Syria, he was hailed as a hero. In Libya, he was given an award for courage.

Across much of the Arab world on Monday, the shoe-throwing incident generated front page headlines and continuing television news coverage. A thinly veiled glee could be discerned in much of the reporting, especially in the places where anti-American sentiment runs deepest.

Muntader al-Zaidi, 29, the correspondent for an independent Iraqi television station who threw his black dress shoes at President Bush, remained in Iraqi custody on Monday.

While he has not been formally charged, Iraqi officials said he faces up to seven years in prison for committing an act of aggression against a visiting head of state...

i kinda think the whiffing aspect makes the whole thing a huge fail except EXCEPT if this leads to further shoe throwing at bush

"shoe-icide attack"

^^ THIS IS STUPID AND WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS

DUDE WAS NOT TRYING TO KILL SHOES, FOR ONE

TERRORIST JOKE KINDA RACIST, FOR TWO

WRITTEN BY POST EMPLOYEE, FOR THREE

you sound mad enough to throw a shoe

http://www.hostthenpost.com/uploads/da94842ff16267446ce08e584e261668.gif

i gotta say the motherfucker ducked it pretty well

Shoeicide is painless, nabisco.

xxpost GET OVER HERE

I love it

yeah there's no doubt the prez is fit. remember when he threw out the first pitch of the 2001 world series and it was a perfect strike? dude's cool under presshoe, at least physically

I think the press has been almost shoenanimous in their praise of Bush's physical fitness.

http://carnivore.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/cb/cbcbbee43d8ef7a8738616330c8490353518a456.gif

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1103/bushoesqh8.gif

Okay everyone, I think Slate's John Dickerson has won this with a three-way pun:

"Is a shoe-throwing journalist who tries to undermine authority a sabot auteur or a saboteur?"

http://www.kroma.no/2008/bushgame/

^^^ "Yes You Can!"

the words of the journalist were translated in the Peruvian newspaper as "take your kiss and disappear, piece of dog!"

has a certain ring to it...

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/12/freedoms-wings.html

Of course, if any American tried the same thing, the penalty would be severe, since attacking the imperial manager is a serious felony. Not to worry. American journos, especially those covering the White House, are too well conditioned to ever make an al-Zaidi move. Their job is to kiss and polish the president's shoes, not throw their own.
...Meanwhile, American liberals are enjoying a mighty laugh over the shoe toss. Were the same to happen to Obama, libs would be the first to scream foul, angered by the lack of foreign respect for the Leader of The Free World, especially from ungrateful Iraqis, who don't have the decency to finance their own submission, as Obama repeatedly points out.

This game's better: http://sockandawe.com

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Secret_Service_hit_for_not_reacting_1216.html

i dont think i could ever take a shoe for the president

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2008/12/494x_custom_1229440950894_84044102.jpg

Of course, if any American tried the same thing, the penalty would be severe, since attacking the imperial manager is a serious felony.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bush_s_shoe_attacker_has_broken_arm_12162008.html

This game's better: http://sockandawe.com

It's not loading. Maybe their webserver needs to be rebooted?

lolololol

I like the ad for Birkenstocks at the end of the rawstory article.

http://www.t-enterprise.co.uk/flashgame/playgame.aspx?id=bushbootcamp

http://sendshoestobush.com/

Show the president that you want an
end to the Iraq War.
Send your shoes to George Bush

http://media.fukung.net/images/11152/3b86da09341bae7c68a030b7977190eb.gif

After 8 years of the worst president in the history of the US we have had enough. Send your shoes to President Bush to show what you think of the war mongering administration.
Please send your shoes to:

President George Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500

Please join CODE PINK: Women for Peace, AfterDowningStreet, and Democrats.com this Wednesday, December 17, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at Lafayette Square Park in front of the White House. We will have with us a large supply of shoes labeled with the names of Iraqis who have died in Bush’s war. We encourage you to bring your old shoes as well. Come rally with us in solidarity with the Iraqi people to demand an immediate and complete end to the occupation of Iraq.

this is like a bizarro real-life version of that wag the dog thing

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/at-mta-hearing-another-shoe-almost-dropped/

At M.T.A. Hearing, Another Shoe Almost Dropped
By William Neuman

One transit rider was so infuriated on Wednesday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s decision to slash service and raise fares that he tried to follow the example set by Muntader al-Zaidi, the 29-year-old Iraqi journalist who hurled two shoes at President Bush on Sunday.

The rider, Stephen A. Millies, who identified himself as an Amtrak worker with the Bail Out the People campaign, spoke out against the budget plan, saying it should be “thrown into the garbage plan.” He asked: “Where is Elliot Sander? You made $300,000 last year!”

Saying “this shoe is for you,” Mr. Millies bent over to take off his shoe — apparently in an effort to take off the shoe and, presumably, throw it at Mr. Sander, chief executive of the authority.

Police officers surrounded him and led him away in handcuffs. Mr. Millies, 54, of Jackson Heights, Queens, was later given a summons for disorderly conduct and then released, according to the M.T.A. Police Department.

The shoe was a size 10½ Red Wing, the police said.

Weekly World News, never failing to amuse: "PRESIDENT DODGES ALIEN SHOES"

Extra points for using the word "tuchus" and mentioning how the Secret Service was able to stop the docadecapedal alien reporter after throwing only seven of his "Moon Boots".

don't say bush never ducked the important issues

ishoes

This was the greatest thing to happen in the Bush presidency since the pretzel-choking incident. Unless you count Cheney shooting his friend in the face.

Wow, sentenced and no update?

As Perrin writes, "The one person who took any action against war criminal George W. Bush has been sentenced to three years in prison."

Well, had this happened in the U.S., the American show-thrower would have been waterboarded without protest

shoe-thrower

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2445/bushapcbetter.jpg

also courtesy of ableton forum

Iraqi shoe-thrower Muntadar al-Zaidi is due out of prison next week, nine months since his attack on George W Bush. Which of the following rewards has he NOT been promised?
Young wife
17.01%
Car
8.79%
Gold-saddled horse
15.58%
His own TV show
25.45%
$10m
33.17%

5551 answers so far. It's his own TV show. The journalist has become a hero in the Arab world.

The journalist has become a hero in the Arab world.

yes.

We should have done him an i-pod.

"Throw your foot away", the cure.

Um, that's it.

Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W Bush, what's on your iPod?

"Throw your foot" by The Cure.

Actually, that should be on everybody's i-pod.

― Mark G, Monday, 15 December 2008 10:17 (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ah, right. And also, yes.