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So what if he threw a shoe at me?
Posted by Gav Leonard on 15 December 2008 - 5:02pm.
I'm really not sure what amazes me most about this footage; the inefficiency of Bush's bodyguard team, the inane rictus grin on Dubya's face, the unflustered manner in which he brushes off the incident or the fact that it looks incredibly easy to execute the leader of the free world.
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I've got to say
I thought he handled it really well - "it's like someone driving past you and gesturing without all five fingers"
But I was one of the few people who thought he was great on Farenheit 911 "We will beat these evil terrorists....now watch this drive"... love it.
I thought he handled it well too...
Almost like he enjoyed ducking the projectiles. All that baseball finally paid off.
Yes, and "All I can tell you is it was a size 10". . .
was his "Honey, I forgot to duck" moment. Who knows - perhaps the incredible will happen and he'll be rehabilitated as the Republicans' post-Reagan poster boy one of these days.
Unflustered
To have been flustered the bloke would have to have some idea of what is going on around him .
I am not making some cheap shot about him being stupid . This guy simply appears to inhabit a different reality to the rest of the planet . One well seasoned American political commentator { sorry his name evades me } claims that whereas Nixon had both an intelligence and strangely enough moral qualms to understand his actions . GW simply does not understand the fuss and believes with every ounce of his being he will be vindicated .
Heel to the chief
or Thief if you're that wag Thom Yorke
Watching it I thought 'did he not expect the guy to throw the other shoe or was he unaware they come in pairs?' and that its a shame that steel capped DM's aren't all the rage down Bahgdad way.
I thought...
the fact that PM Maliki did the bodyguards job by throwing himself in front of the second 'missile' was an interesting way of saying 'thanks for the job George'!
According to a Muslim comedian
Interviewed on the Today programme this morning, throwing your shoes at somebody is incredibly insulting as, in Muslim society, shoes are seen as dirty.
I'm glad he was called in for his expertise. I'll now know not to serve food from a freshly-walked sandal next time I have any Muslim friends round.
To paraphrase the Simpsons "Comedians, is there nothing they don't know?"
Why the sarcasm?
It's not quite such an obvious point as you seem to imply.
It's not the unremarkable fact that shoes get dirty, it's that they're considered ritually unclean - merely showing the soles of your shoes to someone is considered a most grave insult. Until this incident, you or I would probably have been utterly unaware had a muslim show us this level of disrespect.
Beyond the mere fact that lobbing a shoe at someone's head is potentially going to hurt, there was a much deeper insult intended.
I think my sarcasm
Was mainly aimed at Today needing a comedian to explain a point that could perhaps have been explained by a religious correspondent, an imam or, Heaven fordbid, simply the presenter of Today (see other thread about needless interviews with other journalists).
Jihadi Two Shoes
Jihadi two shoes
How about that shoe flinging incident..they annoyed me on "Today" when they kept saying a bloke threw "a" shoe..he threw BOTH shoes!
He took aim with the first...Bush ducked instinctively,the latent "jock" in him sensing the object in a playful sort of way..He rose with anticipation of another with a smirk on his idiot face..at this point we are all hoping that the guy has got his "eye in " and will hit the fuck, full-square in the face with the second one..but sadly NO..his anger gets the better of his aim,and the second shoe misses by a mile as well.. Bush rose again ,now he's up for it.."is that all you got?.." says that smirk.."only got two feet huh?"....and then he compounds it by not even appearing to realise the extent of the insult..what a COCK... "apparently it was a size ten shoe" ("the hell knows what THAT means" ) ...
Anyone who saw ANY news coverage of the "glorious overthrow of Saddam Hussein" will have seen the Statue "photo-op" .. witnessed the shoe pummeling and realized the significance and level of insult that shoe throwing represents...
Anyway..how the fuck did he miss?...and with hindsight he should have taken both shoes off to start with ,so he would have been quicker with the second shot..( "JFK" skit anyone?)
Cheers
Chris
Dangerous Precedent / President
Expect future presidential press conference to be shoeless affairs in light of this.
Which would be no solution because in my experience a pair of socks in the face can be as harmful as a canister of CS gas.
Great...
...so when I have to take my shoes off at the US security check, I now don't get them back in case I choose to use them as offensive (in ALL sorts of ways) weapons
I'm off to Washington...
with a suitcase full of shoes.
Why?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7785338.stm
The shoes themselves are said to have attracted bids from around the Arab world.
According to unconfirmed newspaper reports, the former coach of the Iraqi national football team, Adnan Hamad, has offered $100,000 (£65,000) for the shoes, while a Saudi citizen has apparently offered $10m (£6.5m).
The daughter of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Aicha, said her charity would honour the reporter with a medal of courage, saying his action was a "victory for human rights".