Shoes Thrown at President Bush

[Art Vandelay]

According to this article, he is now in the hospital with a head injury that is supposedly from a rifle butt.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...i-shoe-thrower-beaten-in-custody-1192844.html

 

[Sgt. LED]

Well accroding to the article his own family can't get the story straight.
I'm sure he was beaten but I doubt it was all that bad.

A brother of Muntazer al-Zaidi said the reporter had been taken to the Ibn-Sina military hospital after being hit on the head with a rifle butt. Iraqi security men had also broken his arm. Dargham al-Zaidi said his brother had suffered broken ribs and internal bleeding.

But another brother, Maitham al-Zaidi, later said he had spoken with the shoe thrower on the phone and he had said: "Thank God I am in good health."

 

[MarNav1]

I'm sure they worked him over good in a back room somewhere. Maybe it wasn't a rifle butt, maybe they used his own shoes. Or Bush could throw his shoes back at the guy. The late night stuff was hilarious, they even drug Sarah Palin into it.

 

[Art Vandelay]

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[Monocrom]

Throwing away perfectly good shoes.... Greta would not approve.

 

[tygger]

You're suggesting it's funny to throw shoes at people you don't know because the press has convinced you they're bad people? Who else would you find it funny to throw shoes at; anyone you don't agree with? :ironic:

I'm not suggesting anything. And FWIW, the humor was primarily aimed at the press.

 

[MarNav1]

Throwing away perfectly good shoes.... Greta would not approve.

Yeah I bet she's thrown her's at the monitor a time or two, especially with post's like this.................... :laughing::laughing:

 

[jzmtl]

Throwing away perfectly good shoes.... Greta would not approve.

That gif was right in front of me when I made it, too lazy to find another one.

 

[NA8]

It used to be the pen was mightier than the sword. Are shoes mightier than the pen these days ?

 

[Monocrom]

It used to be the pen was mightier than the sword. Are shoes mightier than the pen these days ?

Maybe a pair of stilleto heels.

 

[TITAN1833]

It used to be the pen was mightier than the sword. Are shoes mightier than the pen these days ?

I would say the pen,after all he will get a lot of jail time to use it :laughing:

That said will he be allowed shoes in jail? hmmm:thinking:

 

[TITAN1833]

In 2003 when Saddam Hussein was overthrown, US Marines knocked down a statue of Saddam. After it fell to the ground, bystanders started pelting it with their shoes and stomping it on the head- a huge sign of disrespect in Arab culture.

The fact that it was happening to Bush is... well... I'll leave it up to you on "why" it happened.:devil:

You maybe correct,but I would like to add!when the Iraq war started,little did Bush or Blair know........:thinking:

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Clearly the guy was a heel.
And now he's lost his sole.

This gives new meaning to the term wingtips

 

[geepondy]

When I first saw that in the news I couldn't help but think of the Nike commercial, was it Spike Lee? but the one where he goes "It's gotta be the shoes!"

 

[Monocrom]

Seems my fellow New Yorkers will latch onto any trend, as long as it's anti-Bush. Who needs substance when you've got symbolism. (Yes, they honestly have nothing better to do). :laughing:

http://www.huliq.com/3302/74553/new-yorkers-copy-iraqi-shoe-throwing-protest

 

[bullfrog]

Seems my fellow New Yorkers will latch onto any trend, as long as it's anti-Bush. Who needs substance when you've got symbolism. (Yes, they honestly have nothing better to do). :laughing:

http://www.huliq.com/3302/74553/new-yorkers-copy-iraqi-shoe-throwing-protest

Read that in the paper this morning - I was laughing my butt off.

Apparently a guy was arrested for throwing his shoe at an MTA spokesman while he was speaking about the fair hikes (which it looks like we are getting :thumbsdow).

Love this city.

 

[BB]

Well now... The shoe is on the other foot:

A spokesman for Iraq's prime minister says the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has asked for a pardon.

Spokesman Yassin Majid says that in a letter sent Thursday to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the journalist described his behavior as "an ugly act" and asked to be pardoned.

Majid says that Muntadhar al-Zeidi in the letter recalls the kindness the prime minister once showed him during an interview in 2005 and asked for al-Maliki to show him kindness once again.

Courage of conviction and all...

-Bill

 

[Art Vandelay]

Well now... The shoe is on the other foot:

Courage of conviction and all...

-Bill

Will he be cleated fairly?

 

[Monocrom]

Apparently a guy was arrested for throwing his shoe at an MTA spokesman while he was speaking about the fair hikes (which it looks like we are getting :thumbsdow).

Love this city.

The guy never even got a chance to reach for his shoe. He was grabbed and ushered out of the meeting. (Most likely by plain-clothed NYPD officers).

His parting statement was more significant than his failed act of symbolism.... He shouted that the head of the MTA made $300,000 last year. Sure is nice to be a fat cat, sitting behind a desk, pushing papers around, making up lies about lack of money, need for higher fares, etc.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Will he be cleated fairly?

That would be overarching.