An Austin Powers moment: “Who throws a shoe?!”
Har. Thanks to Doug TenNapel on Twitter for the reminder. Austin Powers didn’t duck as fast as President Bush, but he was quick with the return insult. Would have been grand to see Bush tell the Iraqi journalist he fought/threw like a girl:
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ROTFLMFAO.
“You fight like a woman.”
Careful, wouldn’t want to offend the throw-my-shoes-at-American-Presidents guy.
Good one, Doug. “Who throws a shoe” is answered with: the same cowards who use women and children as human shields, the same suicidal murderers who bomb public marketplaces and restaurants, and the same islamic nuts who condemn anyone who affronts their religion to death.
When I worked in Saudi Arabia for a few months, I found out that the bottom of the shoe was “unclean”, in contact with the street and whatever was deposited there. I saw people there, when wanting to show their displeasure with other, would take their shoe off and wave the bottom at the other person.
I mention this to indicate that if the Egyptian journalist wanted to show his displeasure so much, perhaps we should withdraw the $1B/year from the Eqyptian budget (military) that keeps his country relatively stable. We could use the cash for the GI Bill for the sevice people who have done so much for so many that so few seem to acknowledge.
See. Now I am angry. I knew I remembered a shoe being thrown in some movie and I was racking my brain trying to think of it.
Now my snark has been preempted.
If I can’t bring the funny, there really isn’t much point of me hanging around, is there?
Ha-ha, the strike out was accidental, but it made it better – guess i’ll stick around awhile.
Can we presume this clown threw his shoes at Saddam as well? Welcome to free speech – even for dopey people.
It’s hardly an example of free speech. It’s assault, in both countries.
FWIW in Arab countries it is even an insult to cross your legs when sitting because it points the sole of your shoe at others.
Well President Bush was QUICK wasn’t he? He has lived around leftards for 8 years and has learned to be light on his feet.
I say the story would have been more interesting if the Secret Service would have dropped him with a bullet to the head but that is just me!
Seems like a lot of work just to display displeasure, all this business of taking off your shoes, throwing them, then going home shoeless, or crossing your legs and hoping the intended “insultee” sees your legs crossed and the exposed bottom of your shoe. It’s like making fire with two sticks. No wonder they’re so bass-ackwards culturally. Just give ‘em the finger like we do. It’s efficient, and the meaning is never mistaken.
Ha! Good memory Dan.
I imagine that arab reporter will now be hired by CNN or the NYT or asked to do a 20 minute segment on 60 Minutes.
The shoe thrower will show up on “The View” in 2 weeks with a special return from Rosie O’Moonbat doing the segment.
A strong sign of CONTEMPT? No, a strong sign of contempt is strapping a bomb to yourself and murdering everyone within 100 feet. Throwing a shoe is a strong sign of an effiminate man who likely has bunions.
“All I can report is it is a size 10,” Bush quipped.”
LOL
Didn’t I this our future is really going to be interesting? I haven’t laughed so much since Dad’ ladder fell out from under him and left him hanging in a tree.
An unnamed wag noted that the President leaned to the left to avoid the shoe.
Insert your own joke here.
Where was this guy’s “bravery” with the previous leadership of Iraq? Hmm?
I would have liked to have seen President Bush catch it, then bounce it off that idiots head!
Oh well.
Maybe Bush should have thrown one of his golf shoes back at him.
Hey…the guy is ‘Odd Job’ from “Goldfinger!”
Backwards idiots aren’t fixed with freedom.
+1
heh
Doesn’t matter where, just another drive-by media assault
I had heard of that some years ago, that Muslims (and ?other? Middle Easterners…sadly, there aren’t many of the “others” left…) consider the bottom of the shoe to be unclean, and that presenting the bottom of one’s shoe to someone when crossing one’s leg is considered as an insult to the other person.
If I am correct, I remember images from TV news several years ago of an Iraqi striking the toppled statue of Saddam Hssein a few times with the bottom of his sandal (?slipper?) as the Iraqis were celebrating the toppling of Hussein’s regime.
If this had happened to Obama I envision this as being the report:
Makes you wonder if this guy was a Sunni Reporter….
A Shoenni reporter, working on a (wing)tip.
If the shoe fits.
Sounds to me like a perfect 10.
I’m just sitting here waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Much of the mohammedan press is hailing the shoe incident. I will be so grateful if and when we can quit that part of the world. Then we can put all our mohammedans in Chicago, extract both Americans from that city and wall it off from the rest of the continent.
Sing Along
Shoe, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoe, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoe, fly, don’t bother me,
For I belong to somebody.
We probably disturbed his hooby of raping the daughters of people who dared to oppose saddam. You can understand his anger.
Much of the mohammedan press can kiss my a$$
The Arab press will grab at anything.
“Thanks be to God, Muntazer’s act fills Iraqi hearts with pride,” his brother, Udai al-Zaidi, told Reuters Television, demanding that the Iraqi government free him.
Drop him off in a hot zone.
Is throwing a shoe for a Arab like a monkey throwing it’s feces?
NOTE TO THE REST OF US:
If genocide occurs in muslim countries, ignore it because its not worth saving them.
Frankly, The ability to ignore this throwback region might be the biggest reason to get our cars off of oil. Let them return to thier goats and desert.
That … was awesome. Except, to carry a thought further, women’s shoes have got to be more dangerous with all the points, heels and on some of them … bangly things.
What a sad, pathetic life it must be to feel offense at the slightest provacation, and to feel hatred at the smallest perceived wrong.
This sounds like the work of Al-Reuters in Iraq
How nice for American libtards to see that there is at least one Iraqi who is just as unhinged and ungrateful for American sacrifice as they are.
I must say, though, good on President Bush for the quick dodge. You don’t have to like him, buy you can’t deny that the man is spry.
As far as “where was the Secret Service detail when this happened?”, they are busy baby sitting the President-Select in Chicago.
Random Task, looks like my husband’s older brother too funny.
I can’t do anything but sit back and laugh at these ignorant bafoons. There is no point in trying to understand what motivates them.
The sole of a shoe is unclean and, thus, an insult to show it to another person? Are.you.freaking.serious? Touching someone with your left hand is an insult because that is the hand you wipe your a$$ with?? Personally, if I were ever to visit a ME country, I’d make a point of wiping with my right hand…
Being left-handed could present me with some problems over there. I’ve lived in 22 different countries and noone has ever threatened to kill me because of it–yet. Better not visit those fools.
Saw this quote here.
ROFLMAO!! Good job, Mr. President!!! And, no, I did not change the spelling!!
That guy better not try it with Rahm-bo. He’s liable to get a stilletto in the back. 6″ heels and (matching Rahm’s purse.)
A Wuss-case scenario…
mj?
Aloha, I’m a bit slow today after our workplace holiday luncheon. Could you explain the reference, please? Thanks.
Oh sorry, mj = mistress justice, late of the post-election meltdown…
Ah yes, it all makes sense now! Thanks for the clarification.
And it does apply, doesn’t it?
Chap said:
If I can’t bring the funny, there really isn’t much point of me hanging around, is there?
right.
This story makes a mention that the guy’s home has a large Che poster. Of course, it also equates being taken hostage by terrorists to being detained while his house was searched by the Marines.
Maybe Barney can bite him in retaliation or maybe Barney and the rest of us have something better in mind that Barney could do to the “journalist”.
Since the “Muslim” world is making such a big deal out of the shoe throwing incident (almost as much as the MSM), may I suggest a simple prophylactic response? At any press conference by any U.S. official, all Muslim attendees must remove their shoes before entering. Since removing one’s shoes before entering a house, room, or mosque is a sign of respect, then the effect is doubled.
sonofdy, my sentiments exactly. why should i care if the hutus are killing the tutsis, the mujahedin are killing the afghans, the israelis are killing the palestinians. as long as they keep the fight in their yard, i could care less. if israel nuked iran tomorrow, oh well, hope the fallout dissipates over the pacific. a nuke war between pakistan and india would be a great start towards peace in the middle east.
This should be taken as an insult to the US and not just President Bush. It won’t be considered such by liberals who have attacked Bush from the beginning of his Presidence. Now of course, let’s all be chums.
The man who did this undoubtedly broke the laws of Iraq and one would wonder where the hell the Secret Service were during this outrage. The reporter should actually thank President Bush since if Saddam had been standing up there, his rear end would have been in a wood chipper by morning.