Posted on 12/15/2008 2:33:44 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
It's times like this that make me wonder whether I inhabit a universe different from that occupied by the MSM. This morning, discussing Pres. Bush's reaction to the flying shoe incident, I wrote:
Short of going full Ninja hero and snatching the shoes in mid-air, it's hard to see how Pres. Bush could have been any cooler in his handling of the Hush Puppy Hurler.
But on MSNBC this afternoon, host Tamron Hall claimed that in discussing the matter with the press, the president looked "unnerved" and embarrassed. Here's a clip of Pres. Bush discussing the incident with ABC's Martha Raddatz just after it happened. Does this look like an "unnerved" man to you?
View Hall video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
One of Tamron or me is nuts ping to Today show list.
...some reporter starting throwing shoes at a press conference. How was Bush (or anyone else) supposed to react?
And when can we expect this shoe tosser to get a show on MSNBC?
can wait to see this ***** get pied, we’ll see how she reacts
Really. Somebody throw shoes in her face, let’s see if she looks “unnerved”.
Has there been any update to what happened to this “journalist”?
hahah you said “Tosser”
In all seriousness, the criminal justice system in Iraq should prosecute the guy for simple assault, assess the usual penalty (a fine or time already served in jail), and let him go.
Then, they should point out that while political dissent is now tolerated and even expected in post-Saddam Iraq, this wasn't an appropriate way to express it.
He didn’t look the least bit unnerved by this a-hole with a bad arm. He actually grinned and smiled and spoke quite calmly about the bad toss. Who or what is a Tamron?
>Who or what is a Tamron?
A talking tampon, but then that’s insulting to the tampon.
What do you expect from DNCTV?
She admits attending Rev Wrights’ church of hate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg
Please to ingnore MSNBC. They are a joke. Ignore them maybe they will go away.
My tagline says it all ;-)
Secondly that the perp got off a second shoe.
I'm not privy to the methodology of the secret service protection and it's layered protection plans, but this was a HUGE failure. What if it had been a knife, small hand grenade, a sharp weapon with poison or powdered/liquid dispersal sack.
Unbelievable.
Now for these little pussies on the MSM. I am just going to laugh my a@@ off when the first lunatic decides to go monkey on them. Crying, whining, deploring the "state of conduct" in "society".
We can only hope to live long enough for karma to take a big bad bite out of the anchors that were spewing this cr#p.
Could you imagine one of those little posers, standing there reading the prompter or in front of an audience and some jumps up and screams and throws something at them...ahahahahahahahaha.... bring the change of depends diapers for them as they piddle on themselves..... classic.
It must have been a different video that I saw. GWB seemed calm and was smiling about the whole thing on the video I saw.
That was about a 65 mph shoe ball that our President ducked. I thought he had excellent reflexes. He read the the laces on the shoes as they approached, and the size as they went by.
Honestly, that was a cool performance by George W. Bush.
A shoe? It could have been a hand grenade. I think the secret service should have shot the person committing the assault dead on the spot and asked questions later. I’m ashamed they let him get away with tossing a second shoe. If shoes aren’t potential deadly weapons, why do they make you remove them at airports?
Bush even shrugged this off, joked and took questions. The real story here is that there is such a thing as an Iraqi Journalist.
Most of these news droids would not even have the sense to duck!
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