My question is this:How did the Secret Service allow the guy time to get a 2nd shoe thrown?He should have been dead by the time the first shoe reached the podium.
I noticed the slow security reaction as well. Bush’s agent was sitting away from the podium and waited until the second shoe was thrown before he jumped into the picture at which time you can hear Bush say, “I’m alright” Its a good thing it was only a pair of shoes.
He should be thankful it was President Bush, because had this been a Saddam-like dictator, he would be shot dead right on the spot, and his whole family would be tortured and killed as well had this been a few years ago.
“Gretchen on F&F was laughing it off, thinking it was no big deal.”
She makes it difficult for me to even watch the show. I don’t know why they don’t use Alisyn Camerota who used to do the news on the weekly F&F and is now one of the hosts on the weekend show. She’s beautiful, professional, funny and smart. Gretchen is so irritating and overbearing and talks way too much and has no idea what she’s taking about.
Boy, the world is just completely upside-down. Iraq has a free press. They have free speech. They vote for their leaders. Heck, that journalist can get elected himself one day and completely cut off ties with the US if he so chooses. It’s a democracy!!!
What exactly on this earth was that journalist protesting by throwing a shoe at the man who removed his tormentor?
It’s not just him. It’s so much of the Arab world and all the lefties in the US and Europe, too. In my book, they are all a bunch of freakin’ whiners.
Yes, things have gone poorly at times. Yes, regretful things have occurred. But, GW has finally given that poop-hole part of the world a chance to join the modern world. This is something ‘Band-Aid,’ Hands Across America,’a ‘Bono concert’ or —pick your useless liberal endeavor— never even came close to accomplishing.
People like that journalist (and the liberal left) better be careful or they may get what they are wishing for.....a new Iraqi dictatorship.
I’m personally ‘this close’ to telling all of the whiners to go pound sand....every last ungrateful, unsophisticated, and worthless last one of them. I certain;y won’t feel bad when they are getting imprisoned for complaining about their government.
At the very least, the lefties and the Arabs, in general, owe all of us an explanation as to why they don’t want human rights to exist in Iraq. The trouble is, they can’t. They can only throw shoes and whip up the emotions of the ignorant.
“Gretchen on F&F was laughing it off, thinking it was no big deal.”
What’s even more outrageous is that Bush himself said essentially the same thing. A man tried to physically assault the POTUS (and damn near succeeded) and the President excuses it? WTF? It shows how far we have fallen when the President can be attacked without people being outraged. 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.
To a kitten maybe. Not a grown man.