In Baghdad, Sunday afternoon, during a press conference at a surprise farewell visit between President Bush And Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, a "journalist" from the "religion of peace" threw both shoes at the head of President Bush.
Fortunately, both shoes missed, or to put it more accurately, President Bush's excellent reflexes allowed him to duck out of the way quickly enough.
During the "exchange", President Bush was smirking the entire time, which should send the lefties into a mini-tizzy.
Not bad moves for a 62 year old man, especially given it happened at such close range.
President Bush was heard to have said, "That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me, you may want to know.".
Not sure how to imbed a video link, so here's a link to HotAir for a portion of the video.
Hat tip: HotAir
By Shawn Mallow
Comments (44)
The spirit of Nikita Khrush... (Below threshold)1. Posted by DaveD | December 14, 2008 4:49 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
The spirit of Nikita Khrushchev lives.
1. Posted by DaveD | December 14, 2008 4:49 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 16:49
2. Posted by HughS | December 14, 2008 5:45 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
When President Bush had to contend with these things being thrown at his appearances I can imagine he's developed a good eye.
Not surprising since he did actually own a baseball team once.
2. Posted by HughS | December 14, 2008 5:45 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 17:45
3. Posted by JC | December 14, 2008 5:53 PM | Score: -13 (13 votes cast)
In my day people threw stones at criminals. Maybe shoes with steel caps work just as well :)
JC
http://twitter.com/Jesus_da_Christ
3. Posted by JC | December 14, 2008 5:53 PM |
Score: -13 (13 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 17:53
4. Posted by Bels | December 14, 2008 6:06 PM | Score: -17 (21 votes cast)
Unfortunate that the shoes missed him!
Knowing what he and his dad have done to agitate this region, I only wonder why this came so late!
4. Posted by Bels | December 14, 2008 6:06 PM |
Score: -17 (21 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 18:06
5. Posted by James Cloninger | December 14, 2008 6:09 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Austin Powers: "Honestly, who throws a shoe!?"
5. Posted by James Cloninger | December 14, 2008 6:09 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 18:09
6. Posted by James Cloninger | December 14, 2008 6:10 PM | Score: 7 (11 votes cast)
Seriously, though, I'm sure all of DailyKos and DU are having multiple orgasms at this very moment, and Lee Ward has creamed his jeans.
6. Posted by James Cloninger | December 14, 2008 6:10 PM |
Score: 7 (11 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 18:10
7. Posted by tilde | December 14, 2008 6:22 PM | Score: -10 (18 votes cast)
In your litttle pseudoworld, something that has nothing to do with lefties suddenly has everything to do with lefties.
You need to get a real life.
7. Posted by tilde | December 14, 2008 6:22 PM |
Score: -10 (18 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 18:22
8. Posted by GianiD | December 14, 2008 7:33 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Maybe those shoes had bribes inside, and he wanted W to bring em back to give to Fauxbama for Blago?
8. Posted by GianiD | December 14, 2008 7:33 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 19:33
9. Posted by fDERFLER | December 14, 2008 7:52 PM | Score: 8 (10 votes cast)
W. had good reflexes and ducked the shoes. He also waved back the SS guys coming in to do the body hug thing. (SS must have been apoplectic! "Shoe bombers" and all) The security forces didn't shoot the SOB. Which is a wonder.
HOWEVER, CNN sees the fast-flying shoe bomb as an omen and portent. Interesting that CNN is still officially obsessed with Bush Derangement Sundrome. Jeez..CNN give it a rest. Take a pill or something.
9. Posted by fDERFLER | December 14, 2008 7:52 PM |
Score: 8 (10 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 19:52
10. Posted by Paul Hooson | December 14, 2008 8:04 PM | Score: -6 (12 votes cast)
I wonder if there was a second shoe thrower from a grassy knoll or if there was a conspiracy to throw shoes here. I can't wait to watch the History channel animated re-enactment of this dastardly shoe crime. There needs to be a new Warren Commission investigation called for here I think.
I've always laughed at shoe jokes myself. This event was darn crazy. Only in Iraq.
10. Posted by Paul Hooson | December 14, 2008 8:04 PM |
Score: -6 (12 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 20:04
11. Posted by Dave Noble | December 14, 2008 8:53 PM | Score: -12 (14 votes cast)
Shows the high level of respect the Liberator of Iraq has earned by spending our blood and treasure.
11. Posted by Dave Noble | December 14, 2008 8:53 PM |
Score: -12 (14 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 20:53
12. Posted by irongrampa | December 14, 2008 9:21 PM | Score: 18 (22 votes cast)
Really gonna miss that man.
Never in my life have I seen someone endure with equananimity the level of unjust vitriol as this person has.
Good on you, Mr Bush--SOME of us appreciate you. sir.
12. Posted by irongrampa | December 14, 2008 9:21 PM |
Score: 18 (22 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 21:21
13. Posted by JimT | December 14, 2008 10:30 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Radical jihadists will always hate the liberator of a now free Iraq. Bush was unfased. Good thing he didn't attack, George would of taken him apart...
13. Posted by JimT | December 14, 2008 10:30 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 22:30
14. Posted by Carrytrade | December 14, 2008 11:50 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
I would hate to have been in the room when the President addressed the Secret Service after the incident. The journalist got TWO shoes airborne. Shocked he wasn't taken down while the first was mid-flight. (http://deltahedged.com/)
14. Posted by Carrytrade | December 14, 2008 11:50 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 23:50
15. Posted by G.BUSH WAS AN EVIL MAN AND A HATER WHO CAME FROM ANTI CHRIST NATION TO KILL MILLIONS OF IRAQIS AND O | December 14, 2008 11:50 PM | Score: -13 (19 votes cast)
G.BUSH IS WAS AND ALWAYS BE A EVIL MAD MAN ALONG WITH BIN LADIN WHO WAS A C.I.A AGENT IN 80S
15. Posted by G.BUSH WAS AN EVIL MAN AND A HATER WHO CAME FROM ANTI CHRIST NATION TO KILL MILLIONS OF IRAQIS AND O | December 14, 2008 11:50 PM |
Score: -13 (19 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 23:50
16. Posted by ODA315 | December 14, 2008 11:55 PM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Ahh yes, the freedom to throw shoes at the evil Bush is a wonderful thing. Saddam would have thrown this guy into a wood chipper.
16. Posted by ODA315 | December 14, 2008 11:55 PM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 23:55
17. Posted by Indie | December 14, 2008 11:58 PM | Score: -14 (14 votes cast)
"Man Throws Shoe. World Cheers"
Now we see how Iraqis really feel about their "Liberation".
Guess the journalist was just liberating his shoes.
All out of flowers I guess.
I guess Iraqis love you as much as we do, George.
He's gonna get that the rest of his miserable little, egotistical life. Guess he found the wmd's.
17. Posted by Indie | December 14, 2008 11:58 PM |
Score: -14 (14 votes cast)
Posted on December 14, 2008 23:58
18. Posted by ODA315 | December 15, 2008 12:10 AM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Atta boy Indie, more class from the looney left.
18. Posted by ODA315 | December 15, 2008 12:10 AM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 00:10
19. Posted by Melissa | December 15, 2008 3:00 AM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
And the lefties accuse us of spewing hate and vitriol. tsk tsk.
19. Posted by Melissa | December 15, 2008 3:00 AM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 03:00
20. Posted by Oyster | December 15, 2008 6:11 AM | Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
The shoes were thrown by a journalist? I would consider that a badge of honor.
20. Posted by Oyster | December 15, 2008 6:11 AM |
Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 06:11
21. Posted by Dave Noble | December 15, 2008 6:36 AM | Score: -6 (6 votes cast)
JimT,
Why do you assume the shoe-thrower was a "radical jihadist" and not just an angry Iraqi?
21. Posted by Dave Noble | December 15, 2008 6:36 AM |
Score: -6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 06:36
22. Posted by Dave Noble | December 15, 2008 6:37 AM | Score: -5 (7 votes cast)
Oyster,
Don't delude yourself that partisan websites (liberal or conservative) are the real free press. The blogosphere is a mixed blessing.
Journalists are not the enemy.
22. Posted by Dave Noble | December 15, 2008 6:37 AM |
Score: -5 (7 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 06:37
23. Posted by JLawson | December 15, 2008 7:11 AM | Score: 7 (9 votes cast)
"Journalists are not the enemy."
No - but neither are they allies - they're simply someone looking to promote a certain attitude at the expense of information that doesn't fit the story line they're pitching.
When they start reporting all the news, and start to call themselves 'reporters' again, then they'll morph back into a respectable occupation.
But 'journalists'? No. Anything from a 'journalist' is suspect until you figure out what direction their biases run.
23. Posted by JLawson | December 15, 2008 7:11 AM |
Score: 7 (9 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 07:11
24. Posted by George
| December 15, 2008 7:23 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
The barefoot fascist missed, in one moment summing up tyranny's defeat in Iraq.
24. Posted by George
| December 15, 2008 7:23 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 07:23
25. Posted by WildWillie | December 15, 2008 8:13 AM | Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
The left is so without class. Last I heard, GW was their president also.
GW as always, showed more grace and courage then those around him. Obama would have run from the room. ww
25. Posted by WildWillie | December 15, 2008 8:13 AM |
Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 08:13
26. Posted by btenney | December 15, 2008 9:32 AM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
This stupid fiasco illustrates the Infantile mindset of the whole Muslim society.
We should have taken out Saddam, armed the Shia and let them sort it out themselves.
Despots should be eliminated but Democracy can only be attained by the personal efforts of the depressed. If you can't get together with fellow Countrymen to sort things out, then the World cannot help you
26. Posted by btenney | December 15, 2008 9:32 AM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 09:32
27. Posted by benjamin nyandoro | December 15, 2008 9:34 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
This is just but a clear reflection of a true democracy. who could ever do that to Mugabe of Zimbabwe. That guy could have been shot dead before he even dares throwing his shoes.
That is how he felt he could best express himself, quite unacceptable.
We salute you President G.W.Bush
27. Posted by benjamin nyandoro | December 15, 2008 9:34 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 09:34
28. Posted by Adrian Browne | December 15, 2008 9:37 AM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Journalism isn't dead, it's just in it's last throws.
28. Posted by Adrian Browne | December 15, 2008 9:37 AM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 09:37
29. Posted by lowmal | December 15, 2008 10:17 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"Al-Zaidi's shoe is the most famous shoe in the whole world," said Fawzi Akram, a Turkman lawmaker loyal to anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
WTF is wrong with these poeple?
Just read that statement and tell me if that place is operating in the world of the sane?
Freakin' ignorant savagery.
29. Posted by lowmal | December 15, 2008 10:17 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 10:17
30. Posted by Adrian Browne | December 15, 2008 10:21 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Was the guy a Sunni or a Shoe-ite?
30. Posted by Adrian Browne | December 15, 2008 10:21 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 10:21
31. Posted by Pretzel Logic | December 15, 2008 10:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Bush shouldn't have asked:
"Are you gellin'?"
31. Posted by Pretzel Logic | December 15, 2008 10:46 AM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 10:46
32. Posted by OregonMuse | December 15, 2008 11:33 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Are we sure the shoe-thrower wasn't Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews?
32. Posted by OregonMuse | December 15, 2008 11:33 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 11:33
33. Posted by ODA315 | December 15, 2008 11:50 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Adrian....lololol. Very good.
33. Posted by ODA315 | December 15, 2008 11:50 AM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 11:50
34. Posted by Dave Noble | December 15, 2008 12:51 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
btenney,
"This stupid fiasco illustrates the Infantile mindset of the whole Muslim society."
No, it doesn't. But your comment illustrates that you cannot, or more likely don't want to, distinguish between the bad behavior of some members of a society and the society as a whole.
Do the actions of the Army troops at Mahmudiyah who gang-raped a 14-year old girl and then murdered her family,illustrate the rapist, homicidal mindset of the American military?
Of course not.
There are psychopaths and fools in every society. Further, Iraq is a uniquely dysfunctional society given its history and Saddam Hussein's brutal despotism.
34. Posted by Dave Noble | December 15, 2008 12:51 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 12:51
35. Posted by max | December 15, 2008 12:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yeah, gramps. Bush is so full of equananimity it's oozing out his ears.
35. Posted by max | December 15, 2008 12:52 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 12:52
36. Posted by Piso Mojado | December 15, 2008 1:10 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I'm surprised no secret service agent was willing to take a shoe for President Bush. They all should be given the boot.
36. Posted by Piso Mojado | December 15, 2008 1:10 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 13:10
37. Posted by Brian | December 15, 2008 2:02 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Ahh yes, the freedom to throw shoes at the evil Bush is a wonderful thing.
The guy is being charged with "insulting the Iraqi state". Freedoms like that make it all worthwhile.
37. Posted by Brian | December 15, 2008 2:02 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 14:02
38. Posted by JLawson | December 15, 2008 2:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, what would someone who pied Putin when he visted be charged with? And, conversely, how long would this guy have lasted had he attempted to do the same thing to Saddam or one of his sons?
38. Posted by JLawson | December 15, 2008 2:38 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 14:38
39. Posted by 914 | December 15, 2008 3:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"If the shoes dont hit, the liberator You must aquit."
39. Posted by 914 | December 15, 2008 3:12 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 15:12
40. Posted by Brian | December 15, 2008 3:12 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
So that's what 5 years of war, thousands of dead Americans, and all of the other sacrifices gives us. We installed a pro-Iranian government that has "insulting it" as one of its crimes, but at least it isn't as bad as Saddam or Putin. Good one.
40. Posted by Brian | December 15, 2008 3:12 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 15:12
41. Posted by sunny | December 15, 2008 4:26 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
seriously the factthat he was islamic doesnt effect at all why he threw a sheo, hes just crazy and no one should blame islam the way this article does
41. Posted by sunny | December 15, 2008 4:26 PM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 16:26
42. Posted by Andrew | December 15, 2008 8:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Great pitch! The Phillies should have signed this guy to replace Cole Hamels for what he said about the Mets.
42. Posted by Andrew | December 15, 2008 8:18 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 20:18
43. Posted by OUR WORLD AND HUMANITY AS BEEN HIJECT BY COLD BLOODED KILLERS | December 15, 2008 9:31 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
BUSH BIN LADIN AND OTHER LIKE MINDED KILLERS WILL BRING DEATH AND DISTRUCATION AND POVERTY TO HUMANITY ITS ALL PART OF A NEW WORLD ORDER THE ANTI CHRIST SYSTEM WHICH IS COMMING NEAR YOU SOON THE GOVERMENTS AROUND THE WORLD ARE CHANGING EVERY HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND OTHER LAWS TO TAKE A WAY YOUR RIGHTS AND YOUR FREEDOMS FROM YOU AND TRUN YOU IN TO A SLAVE
43. Posted by OUR WORLD AND HUMANITY AS BEEN HIJECT BY COLD BLOODED KILLERS | December 15, 2008 9:31 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 15, 2008 21:31
44. Posted by Mehdi | December 17, 2008 4:36 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This dog really desereved it!
44. Posted by Mehdi | December 17, 2008 4:36 AM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on December 17, 2008 04:36