When Nikita Kruschev pounded his shoe on the negotiating table in the 1960’s the world was outraged at his barbaric behavior. Today a (supposedly unbiased) journalist throws his shoe at a world leader and where is the outrage?
Oh puke! The "greater meaning" is that there are rude, ungrateful people everywhere.
clearly assault charges due. Sue them too!
When Nikita Kruschev pounded his shoe on the negotiating table in the 1960’s the world was outraged at his barbaric behavior. Today a (supposedly unbiased) journalist throws his shoe at a world leader and where is the outrage?
I wouldn’t have had a problem with the SS shooting the guy
Makes me wonder if they patted down these so called reporters before they came in. Could just as easily been a gun or even a SHOE BOMB!!!
Frankly, this really Ps me off. So the jerk wanted to insult the President eh, how about he be sentenced to five years in a pig sty.
Vince
What would happen to this ungrateful, cowardly "journalist" had thrown his shoes at Saddam Hussein?
Here's a hint: Saddam's response would involve lots of torture and firing squads for the "journalist" and his entire family.
Where’s the pictures of the ‘shoe thrower’?
I heard it was either ‘Mad Dog’ Lawerence O’Donnell or Chris Matthews. I want pictures!
Sorry that Dana Perino was hurt in the melee.
President Bush handled the incident in a strong, yet calm manner. Kept it from escalation into a larger confrontation.
The majority of Iraqi’s outside the Bathists are immensely better off now than they were when the butcher was in power
After watching the video of the attack of the shoes, I was and still am shocked by the relative slowness of any response to the attacker. No rushing of the Secret Service, no pouncing by the military folks. Just a very slow response. Apparently, they felt Dana had the situation, and the attacker, under control.
What in the world does “Subby is here for you” mean.
If you can dodge a shoe, you can dodge a ball!
Get in line pal.
the president continued: "First of all, thank you for apologizing on behalf of the Iraqi people
al-Maliki should flatten Sadr city as a token of good will.
The fact that he can throw a shoe an NOT end up in a plastic shredder speaks more to the freedoms Iraqi’s enjoy now more than anything else.
The video of this assault was astounding. That lunatic muslim whipped one shoe and then the second, at a high rate of speed and with very good accuracy. The Prez had very quick reflexes and dodged this sneak attack very well. This was an assault, not just a little incident. I hope the perp gets a real good Chicago Tune-Up and spends years in prison for assaulting our President.
saboteur!
...from the French word (sabot) for clog, or wooden shoe.
..whereby disgruntled workers would throw their clog (sabot) into the machinery in protest, or to damage the machines.
Also sabotage
FWIW