Shoe thrower 'beaten in custody'

BBC News (U.K.) ^ | December 16, 2008

[Callahan]

If this guy had thrown a shoe at Saddam he would have been beaten to a pulp, then revived and had his eyelids cut off so he could watch his family raped and murdered in front of him, just before they started feeding him feet first to a wood chipper. Any bruises this joker has are from the initial beat down.

[skully]

Oh well... if the shoe fits...

[Mr. Jeeves]

And WTF is wrong with the Secret Service? Have they been weakened by affirmative action or were they just caught playing with themselves? Those guys need to work on their reaction times.

They were probably ordered to stay in the back room so as not to insult Iraqi security forces, who in the interest of international harmony we are required to presume can handle any threat to the President.

[PasorBob]

I wonder what the previous leader of Iraq would have done with someone who threw a shoe at one of his guests? OK, I don't really wonder since I know he would have disappeared forever.

His whole village would be gone

[dbacks]

That will be happening to conservatives under Obamma. Just wait and see.

[martinidon]

The MSM is more interested in this guys treatment than they were in how Saddam, Iran and other ROP thugs treat people.

[Allegra]

Wow. There is so much blatant BS in this article, I don't know where to begin.

It's gotten to where the media just makes things up, cites vague "reports" and "unnamed sources" and hope enough people are stupid enough to take what they spew at face value.

[WOBBLY BOB]

if he lives, he gets to be governor of Illinois.