Anything to make GWB look bad is to be played on every media outlet in America. Probably will continue even when he is out of office. I still amazed that the member of the Islamic Shoe Throwing Olympic Team did not take a couple rounds from the Secret Service.
My guess is “Paul” is a Christian Arab, and, as such, probably has a very different “take” on the significance of this incidence.
Oh, I think beating someone with shoes has a bit more cultural significance in the middle east, and in India, and possibly in Asia than it does here. But his point is well taken that that doesn’t mean we LIKE being hit with shoes, or having them launched at us.
My cousin always takes a ‘thong’ to his kids when necessary. He only has to pick one up and they start to behave.
Excellent, excellent editorial!!!
Thank you for finding it.
Meanwhile, in Newark, there's a black guy selling drugs and shooting his competition. Other guys from his gang say "Yeah! Go for it!"
What would the media say if I made a blanket assessment of all black people based on the actions of the miscreant in Newark and his fellow travelers?
We already know what passes for news and reason in the ‘Arab world’, so we know the whole thing sure means more to them than to the people reporting on it. Only, the people reporting on it don’t have the sense to see it for the BS it is...NOT NEWS! I think the MSM would not know ‘news’ if it bit them in the a%$
I’ve been thinking about this and it makes sense. If you don’t have anything to throw at someone the only thing handy are your shoes. The media ran with this angle and we fell for it.
the fact that they are making a hero of a guy for throwing a shoe.. seems hilarious to me.. its kinda ridiculous.. and kinda pathetic..
is that the best they can do for a hero?
I am taking bets as to when Muhammad Shoebootie gets a Nobel Peace Prize and an offer of an Obama cabinet position.
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
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.
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.
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...