Though Bush deserves our insults, he deserves a jail cell much, much more.

Muthathar al Zaidi

The only journalist hero in the whole long W presidency.

Go Zaidi!!!!!

He’s a journalist too ~ they don’t make ’em like that here, that’s for sure.

Did you notice none of the Secret Service agents “took the shoe” (even the second one) for Bush?

This story was part of the list of stories at the top of the hour on BBC News at 4 pm eastern.

Dana Perino gets a black guy in the scuffle. Good for her.

It looks like they were all backstage, enjoying the Belly dancing …

Dam, Bush duck it! :(

Wish I could throw my shoes at that asshole.

What was his name?

black guy? I thought it was a black eye?

Seriously!

Long John Dong?

Journalists here are supposed to appear neutral; instead they sucked up to the president, Rove and Libby for eight years and are a disgrace to their profession for failing to scrutinize this failed presidency. (One just got promoted to host of MTP; how’s that for poetic injustice?)
I am not sure how journalists are supposed to appear in the Arab world, but I know a lot of folks there AND here who are applauding al Zaidi and his two shoes right about now.

Wouldn’t it be funny if all American citizens who are disgusted with Bush should send in one dirty, smelly shoe to the White House as a parting gift.

Long Dong Silver

That’s an insult to dogs.

*spew* … Freudian slip

Put on your Sailin Shoes

I’ll volunteer 2 …

Don’t be surprised if we hear of arrests of people trying to throw shoes over the fence at the WH.

This is precious…! Bwhahaha…! ;-)

Well, al Jazeera English TV is far superior to anything you can get here, and by now is probably better than its BBC model.
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Here’s Gregory with MC Rove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdvHwtRdg_I

more likely, they won’t report it.

he,he,he. I thought the same. They’d probly assign a whole squad of CIA to track each shoe down! then, GITMO!

He should wake up each day from now til Jan 20 to see that front fence hung the whole length with old shoes.

Or pelt his departing motorcade with old shoes; you remember the eggs on his inaugural day?

This guy has now done more to oppose Bush than the Democrats.

I think al Zaidi is a shoe in for best journalist of the year.

1,856 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Teedy Partridge and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

As I said earlier on another thread, we gotta leave it to the Iraqis ta throw things at the Chimpenfeuhrer when he’s left Iraq in better shape’n the USA…what the fuck??!!!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, LET’S START THROWIN THE KITCHEN SINK AT THE BASTRADS!!

Got a heads-up/translation request from Siun I make it that this is what he said:

First Shoe:

This is the gift from the Irakis this is the farewell kiss you dog.

Second Shoe:

This is from the widows, the orphans and those killed in Irak

Hope this helps.

Erdla

I can’t think that she jumped into the scrum to take on the guy. Iwonder if someone else slugged her just because she was the Presidents’ lap dog.

I wonder if the shoes were from NunnBush?

Thank you very much.

Thanks, Erdla!

This lack of respect to our president is an outrage, an out… BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Thank you and quite apt, IMO !

About as ineffectual as the other shoe bomber

Isn’t there a famous saying that goes with this? Something like

“Shoe me once, shame on — shame on you. Shoe me twice, you’re out of shoes.”

Can’t wait for the WH press spin on the event.
Due to the high esteem with which GWB is held in Iraq, the local press were taking their shoes off to honor him. This is a long held way of bestowing respect.

I showed the soles of my shoes to the Presidential and Vice-Presidential motorcades every time I saw them from the moment it was clear they were intent on going to war with Iraq, regardless of the lack of cause.

I’m heartened to see resistance isn’t futile after all. =

And Bush answered…”So what if a guy throws a shoe at me..”…of course, that is after they tackled the journalist and dragged him off to God knows what “enhanced” fate…

Shoe W.

shoe talking to me?

Don’t shoe be lookin’ at me!

Thank you, Erdia. I hope the newsman is OK, after all, it’s free speech, and protected.
I might make it a point to travel to DC on Jan 19 and put all the shoes i have on the spikes on the fence, soles facing in.

and, as Bush says, Democracy has won!

That sounds like a shoe-in.

Maybe a shoe pin would be an idea…or a shoe sole pin.

Here are some artsy shoes to throw,
http://www.clpstudio.com/

300,000,000 We the People shoes on the tops of fences would sure send a message. Fun site.

Here’s some KoolShoos.
http://www.koolshoos.com/

in the cont’d decline of a once great paper: LATimes online front page still has no mention of the shoe toss in their President Bush goes to Iraq story. they’ve added a video link below the story titled “Journalist Throws Shoe At Bush” that’s just 30 seconds of AP footage with no story, no explanation.

thanks sam zell!

Mutha Shoe Pitcher should suffer the same penalty as a Blackwater Government Contractor who fires on civilians.

I’m surprised al Zaidi didn’t yell, “Take this you, you soleless bastard!”

You mean these?
http://www.zazzle.com/we+the+people+shoes

I nominate these shoes…guess who?????

http://www.nancarrow-webdesk.c…..4702_t.jpg

Love the ones with “We, the People,” but i’d want them back.

I prefer her stilleto boots.

Sit-Ins are so ’70s – sure, let’s do shoe-ins!

Has anyone but me ever thought Firedog Lake is actually a spinoff of Firesign Theater? Shoes for Industry

There is also this historical shoe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uywIYQEHZLs

Fire sign right here. Hello, Raven.
(didn’t mean apparent diss last we spoke, too long a story for an excuse)

O M G – you mean bushco isn’t beloved by the iraqis??? quel surprise!!!!
hahahahahahahaha.. now he’s MY man of the year!!

When the shoe flies, the maggot war criminal ducks.

No recollection, life’s too short.

They were expecting flowers and candy to be thrown…oh well, I guess that’s finally settled.

I’m glad the newsman brought up the widows and children to Bush – i bet he has no idea.

Yeah..heh…like..zing peeeyongbong..and zing peeyewwangyzing…he didn’t miss a lick and then immediately flags off his SS guy, since I guess he knows the guy who threw the shoes will get it 7 fold.

Out of the fog and into the smog

Anything to do with the soles of your feet is an insult in Arab culture. You might remember that Iyad Allawi got chased out of Najaf by a shoe throwing mob.

The confrontation in Najaf began as Mr. Allawi, a Shiite who heads a secular coalition of Sunni and Shiite leaders, arrived at the gold-domed Imam Ali mosque, said Maj. Muhammad Ali, chief of the government’s antiterrorism bureau in Najaf. A crowd hostile to Mr. Allawi gathered outside as he disappeared into the shrine, Major Ali said.

As Mr. Allawi left, the mob threw stones, dirt and shoes at his entourage, and his guards fired their assault rifles into the air to disperse the crowd, police officials said. Television images showed Mr. Allawi’s entourage sprinting out of the mosque toward waiting cars as bursts of automatic gunfire sounded.

Incidentally according to two a team member and a contact in Najaf both of whom went home barefoot that day the “bursts of gunfire” were from Allawi’s bodyguards and not from the crowd as Allawi subsequently tried to claim.

Quick decision making by the Decider. His keen eye and quick thinking caused his head to avoid that incoming projectile. And he can identify Italy on a map. Bravo.

Note to self. Remember to preview while tired or distracted. That last should read:

ncidentally according to two people who were there (a team member and a contact) in Najaf both of whom went home barefoot that day the “bursts of gunfire” were from Allawi’s bodyguards and not from the crowd as Allawi subsequently tried to claim.

Brilliant! I’d only heard their records.

A slap on this wrist followed by a bonus payment from Blackwater for all the stress?

oh, dear. That sounds ominous -

“Rancho Malerio, if you lived here you be home now.” Something about listening to them while physedlicized burned it permanently into the memory banks

cooooooominnnggg motherrrrrrr

oh, dear. That sounds ominous -

No, preview really isn’t as scary as it sounds.

Keeping Bush happy?

The Best!!!

he missed!
DAMMIT!!!!

i took it to mean that the newsman was shot.

Book Salon is upstairs!
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dr. Riki Ott: Not One Drop

According to Radio reports (Dislaimer I’m repeating what someone else is saying the radio is saying) there was a trail of blood on the floor after he’d been dragged out. Broken nose most likely according to Sabah.

The amazing thing today is that, even though we have had a monumental election throwing the bums out…, the thing that has “touched” him the closest are those two shoes, and it is being shown on the teevee non-stop…

Something like that has never happened, other than the eggs, etc., that were thrown at his motorcade during his so-called inauguration “parade”, which was never shown to the public until Michael Moore showed the footage in his Fahrenheit 9/11 film.

My assumption would be that a person with enough pull to get in that room was fully aware that he would be in deep shit when he did the deed.

LS – have you though? From where I’m sitting what I see is a change of emphasis not of direction. Presumably the new admin will be more competent and less thievish – if that’s a word, but I wouldn’t say that other than presentationally, and at the margins that things will change much.

It might be different domestically. But your domestic politics are your business.

Yes. A brave man but a futile gesture.

There’s no business like shoe business!

We won’t hear it from Katy Couric. According to the first English translation in the video, the man said, “this is the end” or something similarly ominous.

The MSM will not betray Shrub and the GWOT by mentioning the dead innocents – which fosters anti-American sentiment – which recruits more jihadists. The logic is evasive and like cryptonite to the tv liars.

It doesn’t have to be futile if this gets enough coverage worldwide.

I’m sure there is some Arab leader with political capital who could get him off with a gentle slap on the wrist …

You are right, of course.
Enlivening the international scorn on this villain brings Iraq no closer to stability, I am sorry to say.

Maybe we can apply our own “Shock Doctrine,” considering the financial and political fallout, to change more than just the presentation.

I know what you mean, but the small Neocon cabal that has wreaked such havoc will be gone (god willing)….and the new ones in power are not “oil” people, and I think that will make a difference. Also…Kissinger is not behind the Obama group..that could be significant. I believe that the new administration does not harbor the racial prejudices of the neocons, and Obama has a personal stake in that — I am sure that he wants peace. The Neocons didn’t/don’t care about people at all. We will have to see. Domestically, we are in a huge mess, as is the rest of the world with a lot of unknown to come.

Maybe all of us can plead for clemency on his behalf.

It’ll get a fair bit of coverage in Irak. Sabah’s hunch is that he’ll get off lightly to show magnanimity. He also says that the guy will spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder because some Maliki fan or another will decide that he deserves to die for embarrassing Maliki.

I hate to say it but that sounds about right to me.

If they put him in Jail, he’ll be treated like a hero !

OMG I fuckin’ love this guy. If I was gonna have another kid, I’d have to name him al-Zaidi.

Dear White House Press Corps: if you’d thrown shoes at Bush six years ago when he was obviously lying to you about Saddam Hussein, over 4000 American and who knows how many Iraqi’s might still be alive.

Well then, how can this be made into a symbolic gesture for the Arab World and the rest of us ?

God, you dream big, don’t you?

Let our shoes be thrown at his motorcade from every overpass in America. Let our jails fill with hundreds of shoeless patriots willing to sacrifice footwear to tell the world that yes, we are ashamed at what has been done by this administration in our names.

I would guess that he will be a hero to an unbelievable amount of people on this earth…even if “secretly”. I hope they view it as a cultural expression, which is sort of how it is being presented.

Alright then, let’s get some effigies up so people can throw their shoes … starting outside every Big3 plant.

I believe it. Problem is…I hope he is able to do what he wants to do. I’m not at all intimidated by his cabinet choices…other than Rahm Emanuel, who I think should not be anywhere near the WH. Perhaps karma will take care of that.

Shoe-less in honor of al-Zaidi and banging pots and pans in honor of Molly Ivens.

You’re gonna get someone killed with that shit.

I wonder how many shoes will go over the White House fence between now and 1.20.09?

That’s why I suggested throwing shoes at effigies instead … makes the point without ticking off the Secret Service, who I’m sure do not need the aggravation.

I have a pair of sundered sneakers I use during oil changes which will suffice.

Time for me to get some sleep – goodnight.

*poof*

nor the target practice

because it’s 3 a.m. somewhere:

“yo, Bush: call for you on the shoephone. here ya go…”

can.not.resist…
“Missed’im byyy that much.”

Is there any chance that the beating him up was for show and out of sight they shook his hand, patted his back, and drinks all around?

Surely the Iraqi people feel as he does. (and we do).

I want to see Dana Perino’s black eye, and hear an explanation of how she got it.

Oh Lord, don’t get Raven started again …

al-Kaos in Iraq

I told ya we shoulda used the Cones of Silence with Malliki, Chief !

I guess this journalist may have taken a cue from Tina Fey as Palin who said if Alaskans saw any foreigners hangin’ around, they’d say, you know, “Shoe!”

I was mightily impressed with how Bush ducked those shoes. They came pretty fast and were right on target. If he hadn’t ducked, pow!

Well, something slipped and it hit her square in the orb? wink wink

He’s had plenty of practice ducking responsibility don’t ya think?

We talked about this earlier … Dubya’s great reflexes obviously came from a lifetime of dodging responsibility.

Fresca … with a twist of Lime ?

Fresca actually is citrus flavored.

Oh, thanks. I hadn’t read all the comments.

And may I add my own BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!

The thrower sure had great aim! I wonder if we can find out what kind of shoes they are? Great endorsement.

W loves baseball. Heh, heh. I’m truly impressed with his reaction. Poor “Oh Dana”. I don’t even see her there….how did she get whacked in the eye?

Thanks, I don’t usually get that up here … to quote Dana

Now…somebody explain to me in universal law terms…how the heck does Dana get a black eye and the target of the shoe attack ducks and “no problem”…

I just don’t get it.

Bush later recounts the moment: “I looked into his aisle and saw his soles.”

And w says he was not insulted…doesn’t know what the “guy” was upset about….liar.

707 !!!

… been waiting all afternoon for you … worth the wait !

OUtstanding. Had no idea they were on youtubes!! Thanks for sharing!! Man that brings back a lot of Bezerkeley Memories . . *G*

Beaaatt the reaper!

:~)

with football being the favorite sport in Iraq, this guy knows how to wing a shoe or two.

W: This is the First Amendment in action…democracy in Iraq, the ability to express your soles…Freedom has come to IraK (bah me)..Ah am a heero…Neveryoumahnd that Dana has a black Ahyee. Now…watch this drahve.

Hysterical! This Iraqi reporter has balls the size of Texas. George, of course, has balls the size of an amoebas.

The Bush Regime is battered, bruised, and ducking in the end! Not surprising. LOL We need to have a “Muthathar al Zaidi Day of Celebration” here in America next year.

Iraqi bloggers weigh in.

Latest FaBlog: Fait Diver — Loose Shoes

I have shoes I’ll cheerfully donate, especially if the thrower misses by a lot less.

Implications

Why should it take some furriner to show our press how it should have been treating Dubya these past eight years? Of course, that’s not really fair to our media. Iraq is much more of a democracy than we are, so I’m sure this expression of free speech won’t be dealt with very harshly in comparison. An American reporter who did this would be whisked away to Guantanamo, with all the Village elders tutting their approval.

Not that it seems to take much in the way of external sanctions to keep our media in line. The whole country has this strange deference to the awesome majesty of The Presidency. Folks who live in actual monarchies don’t treat actual monarchs with this degree of reverence. Perhaps the Iraqis are disinclined to revere a president based on their recent experience with a certain President-for-Life. Thinking of presidents as criminals would seem to have a salutary effect.

Yet another reason to make sure Dubya is tried, convicted and executed — it will help educate the public to the proper attitude to adopt towards the office.

I am curious as to the motivation of the incident. Was he detained and tortured. Was his family killed? Thats where the real story is. The one we will never hear here in the US.

Thanks Teddy.

What I call this is,

” The Lame Ducking “

Ms. Maddow – are you reading tonight?

Or perhaps a bag of dead rats in honor of the late Hunter Thompson.

I love this idea! Mail in one old smelly sneaker to the White House. Parting gift for President Bush.