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    The Shoe Bomber Returns (aka The George Bush Shoe Throwing Video) + 10

    By Mortimus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 3:28pm | Humor & Satire

     


    1. Honestly the most impressed I've ever been with Bush

    2. You heard it here first: Obama's toast in Presidential dodgeball


    3. "Mr. President I'd take a bullet for you...a shoe?...not so much"

    4. "That really hurt! I'm gonna have a lump there, you idiot! Who
    throws a shoe? Honestly! You fight like a woman!"


    5. Take a whiff of the quickest draw in the Middle East


    6. "No I didn't mean to do that - It's a nervous tick I swear:

    7. 'Joe the Shoe-Throwing Reporter'

    8. "I told you keeping a radar gun here was a bad idea"

    9. "Mr. President, we're under attack by Bostonian"

    10. "Haha, we got you. You've been IRAQ'D"

    Bidding for these shoes starts on Ebay tomorrow

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    Comments

    So, the secret service will jump in front of a bullet, but they'll let give a guy enough time to launch both shoes? I have a feeling the A team has been transferred to Chicago.

    by Orlando on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 8:14pm

    Agreed, but in their defense I don't think there is much honor is taking a shoe for the President


    by Mortimus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 8:27pm

    I really like the way he brushes aside the secret service agent who comes running up there.  I have to admit, that was pretty cool.  He was in control.


    by Prophet on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 8:56pm

    Is it just me, or is it really, really sad that Josh Marshall would comment: "I was genuinely impressed by the president's quick ducking response?"

    Really, has this president lowered the bar that far? It's not like he hasn't had eight years to practise his ducking and dodging.

    CNN featured favorable comments about how unfazed he was by the incident. At least that was counterbalanced by recognition that being shoed and called a dog is about as low as an individual can fall in Arab esteem.

    I hope the reporter doesn't get Abu Ghraibed for this (after all, Bush wasn't even hit). But he may get off lightly; I'm sure lots of Iraqis now consider him a hero.


    by acanuck on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 9:05pm

    Shoe ducking should be incorporated into the Presidential vetting process. Perhaps instead of a town hall debate, random Americans could be selected to hurl shoes, fruit, pies, underwear, and recalled Chinese food products at the candidates. Obama would have served McCain for sure, but my money would have been on Palin in the VP ducking contest.

    Rules: no sharp objects, excrement, babies, or body parts


    by Michael Wolraich on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 9:14pm

    I have to say, I thought the same thing, especially after the second viewing.  All I could think was, "Damn, nice dodge."


    by DF on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:13pm

    After eight years, our standards have gotten awfully low.


    by Orlando on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:32pm

    Just to back up the last sentence in my comment above:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/world/middleeast/16shoe.html?ref=middleeast


    by acanuck on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 2:49pm

    Unbelievably, this craziness happened in Iraq -- surprising since I have a lot of friends who've waited a long time to see W. get the boot on American soil. I thought the Prime Minister was heroic in going for the block. Meanwhile, the Cy Young wannabe was later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo. Fascinating -- the hurler was a member of the media. Do you suppose Bush will give Al-Zeidi a nickname -- "Shoeless Muntadar" perhaps? Sorry, I couldn't resist.


    by The Zaftig Redhead on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 9:24pm

    I'm actually pulling for the hurler to have some tame deformity, only because I selfishly prefer the name: "Three-Fingered Zeidi." Still, it's safe to say the odds are pretty healthy that the Yankees end up throwing $20 million at him by the end of the week for middle-relief help.


    by Mortimus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 9:32pm

    I agree, Mort-dog. This clip has been the most impressed i've been with Bush as well. Seriously. I only wish the man had explored his shoe-dodging talents more thoroughly before deciding to become the worst president in U.S. history.

    And nice Austin Powers reference.


    by Deadman on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 3:05am

    You all can have your derisive laughs, but this event was far from harmless. I've just read that in the commotion, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino was struck in the eye with a microphone. Her condition is reported to be "visibly distraught." My sympathies go out to her and her family, and I wish her a speedy recovery.

    And to you heartless dagbloggers, remember: It's all fun and derision until the press secretary takes a microphone in the eye.


    by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 10:36am

    And then it's hilarious.....


    by Mortimus on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 10:58am

    When I see the words "visibly distraught" it conjures up an image of somebody cyring their eyes out, totally unhinged. I seriously doubt this was the case.

    She was probably upset by getting hit in the eye and shaken by the security breach. I think we can imagine what would be a normal reaction to that. If the press secretary was a guy, I don't think the New York Times would have described him as "visibly distraught." It would have been "visibly shaken" or "visibly upset". The only one in the room who was likely "visibly distraught" was the guy who threw the shoe.

     


    by Orlando on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:38pm

    Judging by the video, he was certainly audibly distraught. Did you catch this snippet from the article?

    They kicked him and beat him until “he was crying like a woman,” said Mohammed Taher, a reporter for Afaq, a television station owned by the Dawa Party, which is led by Mr. Maliki.


    by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:47pm

    No, I missed that quote. But it just further makes my point and irritates me.


    by Orlando on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 2:05pm

    G. W. Bush, greeted as a liberator.


    by ZuS (not verified) on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 10:00am