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

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.