Posted on 12/16/2008 10:11:35 AM PST by ConservativeColumns
Elsewhere in the world, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of adulation.
The media is doing everything they can to get BLAGO off the front page. The shoe thrower becomes the victim of torture in US prison which leads to grand jury to find out what Bush knew and when.
BADDA BING Blagogate is off front page.
This is SOP for the media elite
my Mom used to throw shoes at me.. and nobody ever called her a hero for that.. lol
My mother threw a shoe at me once.....Once!
Bush’s legacy is that there is such a thing as “journalism” in Iraq, and it is possible to dissent and live to tell it.
That is Bush’s gift and America’s gift to the Iraqi people. Don’t thank us, its ok, its just who we are and what we do.
The left will need something for misdirection from the problems they will inevitably incur from day one.
A new terror attack on America or Americans? Look at the Bush criminal conspiracy.
Iran won't play nice and lies to O? Bush war crimes alienated Islam.
The economy continues its collapse? Look at how alienated foreign economies. (ignoring his adhering to liberal economic policies)
Well, I sure hope that the legacy of this episode is that the journalist is treated like any other individual attempting assault — no more, no less. It sounds like he’s been rather roughed up — broken arm, broken ribs. That, however, could be from his resisting arrest (which should be tacked on for good measure).
From the looks (up close and personal) of the Secret Service and their Iraqi counterpart, a flying tackle and impact could certainly crack a few ribs on a spindly little guy. What I can’t understand is why after the first shoe was launched, the President didn’t receive the same treatment — tackled and down on the floor — before the second was let loose. That’s my question for his security team.
Paul Ibrahim is a ChiCom-loving idiot and a coward. He makes an interesting point one in a while (by mistake) but the man has few morals.
My Indian co-worker told me that it’s not a big thing, it is common in Asian cultures, and was surprised when I told him it is not (common or understood) in the Western culture.
That is Bush’s gift and America’s gift to the Iraqi people. Don’t thank us, its ok, its just who we are and what we do.
Yes. Long after MSNBC stops showing the video, Iraq will be free and the rest of Mideast will look to it as an example. IMHO - History will declare that millions of Iraqi people holding aloft a "Purple finger" trumps one nut throwing two shoes.
Do they consider homicide bombers the “supreme insult?”
I think we should take this to its logical extreme on FR. “I point my shoes at you, take that!” LOL what a tempest in a teapot. One Baathist guy goes nuts and the media takes off like it’s a repudiation of the Iraq war by the entire country. Stupid media.
Well heck... he’s a Conservative. That means he’s not really an Arab.
It’s the same rationale the use for Blacks. Any Black man or woman who confesses to being a Conservative is not really Black.
Or women... any woman Conservative is not really a woman.
(sigh)
And so it goes...
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