BDS, Iraqi journalist edition
An unhinged Iraqi journalist fulfills the dream of every MSNBC anchor and NYTimes editorial columnist by throwing his shoes at President Bush during an impromptu news conference in Baghdad.
Thankfully, President Bush was not hurt.
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Snort. Patterico writes: “I think I heard that Iraqi journalist scream ‘Don’t tase me, bro!’ as he got swarmed.”
Reader David: “Dear Michelle, It is amazing – with all the hoopla about the Secret Service – that a civilian Iraqi reporter, in Baghdad yet, could complete TWO violent shoe-tosses at President Bush without any molesting from his protective detail. In fact the only person who actually confronted, and in some sense “tripped-up,” the “protestor” was a fellow journalist. The Secret Service was no where to be seen. It appears from the video clip of the incident that they poured-out from a back door many moments after the shoe attack was finished. If this reporter form Cairo had had a gun, Bush would have been dead and probably from many bullet wounds. The man had a virtual eternity to manage his attack. The Secret Service was a disgrace! Argh! Are you as hopping mad as I?”
Hmmmm. Via reader Duane:
Kidnapped Iraqi reporter freed, says no ransom paid
19 Nov 2007 13:33:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (Reuters) – An Iraqi TV journalist who was kidnapped last week in a busy Baghdad neighbourhood said he was released unharmed before dawn on Monday.Muntazer al-Zaidi, a correspondent for the independent al- Baghdadiya television station, said he spent more than two days blindfolded, barely eating and drinking, after armed men forced him into a car as he walked to work on Friday morning in the bustling Bab al-Sharji area of central Baghdad.
“My release is a miracle. I couldn’t believe I was still alive,” Zaidi, 28, told Reuters by telephone.
Zaidi said the kidnappers had beaten him until he lost consciousness. They used his necktie to blindfold him and bound his hands with his shoelaces.He never learned the identity of the kidnappers, who questioned him closely about his work but did not demand a ransom.
The captors later told Zaidi he would be released, throwing him on to a dark street, still blindfolded, around 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Monday. He was then picked up by his brother.
At least 122 journalists and 41 media support staff have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. About 85 percent of those killed were Iraqis.
Some Iraqi journalists have been targeted by Sunni Arab militants or by Shi’ite militias. Others have been killed by U.S. forces while reporting. (Reporting by Waleed Ibrahim; Writing by Missy Ryan; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
Iraqi journalist hurls shoes at ‘dog’ Bush
Dec 14 02:36 PM US/EasternAn Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at his Baghdad office on Sunday.
As the two leaders met in Nuri al-Maliki’s private office, a journalist sitting in the third row jumped up, shouting: “It is the farewell kiss, you dog,” and threw his shoes one after the other towards Bush.Maliki made a protective gesture towards the US president, who ducked and was not hit.
The journalist, Muntazer al-Zaidi from Al-Baghdadia channel which broadcasts from Cairo, was frogmarched from the room by security staff, an AFP journalist said.
Predictable gloating in the left-wing blogo-cesspool.
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Flashback: An unhinged moonbat threw a shoe at Richard Perle in 2005 during a speech in Portland.
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Uh…any chance of proving any of this?
On December 14th, 2008 at 9:07 pm, lgm said:
How does one man throwing shoes show this, pray tell? I’d hardly call that a representative sampling of the Iraqi population.
I have some shoes that could slay a man. Some already have.
Don’t mess with the Zohan.
At least GWB had something to duck!
LGM, Be glad Bush is such so foolishly PC that he didn’t personally plow this overeducated reporter with lead himself…The smirk on Bush’s face was endearing even if only from a RINO..
Vikisoup.. I do remember that James Bond flick, “From Russia With Love” that had a nasty Soviet woman with nasty shoes aimed at 007…
Of course not. Typical moonbat playbook, denounce the other side as being in a “fantasy” when questioning the safety of the President when himself actually making up stuff that he doesn’t have a prayer of proving true because deep down inside even he knows Iraq is far more free now by leaps and bounds than they ever were under that murderous dictator Saddam. Which is why he is a deranged moonbat.
I’d love to see what would have happened if someone had thrown a shoe at Saddam Hussein at a press conference. I’m sure he would have just ducked and laughed about a size 10 shoe /sarc
I think George should get this guy for part time press secretary, imagine how he’d handle Helen Thomas.
Cold shower – STAT!
lgm is a fuzzy math teacher so one is a majority.
Oh, lgm, you an Idiot – plain simple fact. Your comments have bordered on the deranged side today. Seek help – please.
Sheesh. Just the thought of….handling….Helen Thomas…..
I wouldn’t care if it was GWB, or BHO (for now…) who was shoe attacked, I would have exercised my God-given status as an American male to beat the living s@!t out of the guy.
My 2 cents.
Secret Service – all time egg on face over that one. Pres. Bush? Manly cool, IMO. And a nice duck, too.
Oh, this guy is all upset at Bush and for his poliies and the War and all the rest…
But let’s look at this incident had it occurred a mere 6 years ago, before the American removal of the tyrant and despot who would have been making a speech from the same location.
I think it would behoove all the anti-Bush idiots as well as anyone who applauded or laughed at this freak to just think for one second what would have been the fate of said reporter then?
Would he even have been so “brave” to have attacked Hussein? Would he have been treated similarly following this attack on the man who deposed the tyrant had it actually been made on the Tyrant?
This Obama supporter, and yes, I will use that term, should be sitting where ever it is he is sitting right now and be thinking about the fact that had this been 6 years ago and he had done a similar thing to the Despot that Bush has deposed, he would not be “sitting” anywhere, but instead, were he to still be alive at this moment, he would more than likely be in a room somewhere in Baghdad with his wrists trussed up behind him, hanging from the ceiling being “Put to the Question”.
And al the BDS’ers should realize that as well, that 6 years ago, this attack would NEVER have taken place out of fear of reprisals against the person, his family, and his family’s family.
Thank you President Bush. For all your faults, especially reccently, you at least did not back down from those that had been backed down from for the 8 years previous to your inauguration.
I think the even bigger blunder from the Secret Service is the fact that the missed that this guy was just released by the insurgency unharmed. Once again the blogoshpere doing the job others wont do.
Wonder if the guy yelled “Allah-shoe Akhbar” before he threw the shoes?
This about explains it all – if lgm is typical liberal then we now know that liberals can’t tell the difference between soldiers and statesmen.
This finally explains the Democrat designed disasters in Vietnam, Somolia, and Bosnia.
Good night folks! Try the veal!
Tell the frogmarched that the Yankees are looking for pitcher talent. Maybe the President will put in a good word.
Once again LGM shows his ignorance of the truth. LGM when will you learn that the MSM is not telling the whole story about Iraq. When will you learn it is much better to talk to troops that have been there. I cant count the number of times that I was personally thanked by the Iraqi people in 2004 when I was here with the military and it is still going on today. Just look at this story on my blog about a very major gesture on the part of local Iraq’s to some of the troops stationed in their community!
One guy throwing shoes, and the liberals want to show “how pathetically wrong Bush was about Iraq”. Well, there is someone out there who would really like to throw something a little more powerful at Obama…somewhere. So, based on that assumption, it shows “how pathetically wrong Obama is about the economy”. I person is used as the majority, in their minds. Forget the millions of others. Lincoln, Jackson, Reagan, Kennedy, FDR, etc.. were all shot at. I guess they were pathetically wrong too. 1 person from Cairo is proof, to them. Boy, it just shows how “pathetically wrong” they are, and how desperate they are in defending their flawed logic.
So apparently killing Saddam and his monkey sons does not please these iraqi jerks? This reporter would rather have them back in power with their rape rooms and their tyrannical behavior as they sat on gold plated toilet seats?
Ungrateful a$$hole.
Bush will get no credit. Hussein jr. (i.e., obama) will get all the credit. What’s happened to this world? I can’t watch anymore.
So the little troll thinks that one freak throwing his shoes is the same as 25 million people?
I can’t stand Obama, think it is the biggest joks and mistake that could ever have been perpetrated on this planet and feel that lgm should be forever romoved from the Internet and only allowed out of his mom’s basement to go to church.
What does THAT mean?
This morning, I heard a CNN reporter gleefully report that “throwing a shoe is one of the worst insults in Arab culture” and he brought on an alleged expert in ME culture to second that opinion.
oh is that what they call it??? no logic in it…obviously they missed that class in college…or slept through it…
Chances are this idiot is not happy with freedom for the masses, and this is his own way of showing it. After all, he is a journalist, and above the commoner.
Future CNN anchor at the Bagdad bureau
The reporter should send a thank you note to the President. His waving off his Secret Service detail probably saved that idiot’s life.
Never bring shoes to a gunfight.
If you ever saw video of the assasination attempts of Presidents Ford or Reagan it is amazing how much firpower appears from inside those suitcoats.
But when obama gets in, the shoe arsenels of the world will be boxed, the shoe shinning will be free and the sneakers will play in the fields with the comabt boots…. utopia!!!
President Bush must be counting the days when he can retire from the lunacy of government “service”. God bless him and his wife, they’re good people.
Unless he pardons himself, there will be a huge push for investigations and a liberal kangaroo court. Court on it.
Technically the man is not a “journalist” but and editorial commentator.
On December 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pm, chapoutier said:
I am reminded of the 2002 Subway Series between my beloved Mets and the vile Yankees.
This of course was Clemens first trip to Shea Stadium since the Piazza beaning and World Series bat throwing incident in 2000.
Shawn Estes, the Met’s pitcher had one job and one job only that night. Intentionally hit Clemens when he came up to bat. You would only get one shot at this. This one mediocre pitcher’s only shot at Mets glory.
He freaking missed. Roger Clemens. Not exactly a small target.
Yet anoither Chappy post… full of
sound and furyrelativism and liberal stupidity, signifying nothing! Truly yet anothertale told by an idiotSeriously, i read somewhere that aside from oil, the middle east (except isreal) exports less than finland. Stop buying thier oil and let them work on killing each other off. Oil and death seem to be all they are good at.
Absolutely – and you continue to illustrate that fact. Daily.
Kids? These are not “kids” – they are MEN with more balls than 99% of the pansies of the left. Like lgm.
On the Today show this morning, there were several commenters about this, one of whom was a man named, “Ghazi”, a fellow journalist in Iraq who was seated a couple chairs down from the shoeicide bomber. When Meredith asked for their comments, he went first and, much to her disappointment, said that the other journalists all went up to the President afterward to apologize and inform him that this one man does not represent the views of other journalists in Iraq and was an afront to their sense of hospitality toward the President. Oh, this did not please Meredith or particularly Chuck Todd, who proclaimed this to be a national indictment of Bush and his policies in Iraq. To no avail, Ghazi stood his ground that this was a kook who acted alone.
Stupid MSM….they will never learn.
Agreeing with you, to be sure.
Vickisoup are you married? If not, would you marry me…wink wink lol.
Throwing a shoe or banging it against someone or a statue is a common Iraqi (maybe all Arabs) show of distain; many, many more Iraqis did it to the toppled statue of Saddam. This guy is a small shoe in a large shoe store. I agree, though, the guy should be on his way to a detention center, but I’m sure he will play his journalist card.
I haven’t yet read the thread, so maybe someone has posted about this, but …
Consider the irony surrounding the consequences of what this jack-wipe did and what they would have done had he done the same thing to Saddam Hussein.
And I’ll bet he’s still bitter.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
(would have BEEN)
The preview button is your friend …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
If one madman throwing a shoe at Bush demonstrates that the Iraqi people oppose Bush, would one snowball thrown at Obama’s motorcade during the inauguration show the election was rigged? Or would that be a really stupid comment? Talk amongst yourselves.
It looks like the Iraqi journalists are learning how to be fair and unbiased just like their American counterparts. The next step is to learn how to throw their shoes metaphorically instead of physically, like Helen Thomas and crew.
What struck me was how cool Bush was when he spotted the shoe-thrower winding up. He ducked just enough to let the shoe fly by and didn’t even duck when he saw the second shoe miss. I recognize an experienced dodgeball player when I see one. I put it to you, fellow Americans, does this incident not make the case that dodgeball in our schools is a vital component of our national defense?
I’m not so shocked that the Secret Service did not block this attack. By the time the journalists got into the same room as Bush, they have been searched up the keester for weapons. There’s very little chance an assailant will be able to smuggle a gun or knife into the same room as the president unless he has help from a very professional intelligence service.
I don’t see the need for the Secret Service to retool for a shoe-borne attack. I’m just happy the Bushster got a chuckle on his way out. He’ll probably bronze those shoes and put them in his office at the ranch in Crawford.
Interesting how you say this right after you brought attention to the vile hate coming from the shoe-chucking Islamofascist that you are defending.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
No strawman here.
What you’re being criticized for is the hypocrisy of demanding that your opponents meet a standard that you aren’t willing to demand of people from your own side.
That’s indefensible.
When we criticize your people for doing stupid things, we’re doing it because your people are doing stupid things that need to be criticized, plain and simple.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
That reporter was only reminding President Bush that he should have taken his shoes off after going through the magnetometer.
Looks like George Bush is as popular in Iraq as he is in America.
High-ranking legislative officials? I think that’s putting it rather nicely, given the only name I ever got from the list of people he had done that with was YASSER ARAFAT – hardly a high-ranking anything of note. Calling the man a terrorist would be a compliment.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
On December 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am, Flyoverman said:
The reporter should send a thank you note to the President. His waving off his Secret Service detail probably saved that idiot’s life.
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Excellent point. Throwing shoes at a man surrounded by armed guards trained to act at the slightest hint of trouble? Not so bright.
Never bring a shoe to a gunfight.
I thought the President did a pretty decent job dodging both shoes.
It’s amazing how those responsible for making Iraq a better place in the process, are held in contempt instead of praise for enabling an environment where this shoe-tossing idiot won’t be disemboweled and left on his family’s doorstep.
Too bad George didn’t kick his ass.
President Bush showed remarkable calm and statesmanship during this idiotic shoe-throwing incident. Leave it to LGM and the MSM to make hate the issue and ONCE AGAIN try to show our President as being stupid. Loved the dodge and shoe size comment….voted for him twice and would do it again if he were eligible.
As for “I love my country” #134. Puhleeze..stop believing the left’s polls and MSM reporters. Speaking of dumb people – you’re probably also a shoe thrower.
This is what should worry Barry Obama the most. Up till now, the Secret Service has done its job in preserving Bush’s life at a time when he is so loathed.
DAN708 – Okay, loathed by? More spillage from leftists who actually believe what they read in the press.
Sounds like the voice of reason for me. I was going down the ‘road of negativity’ until I read your post. Thanks…
So, they want this alleged reporter free because he has freedom of speech.
This is not a freedom of speech issue. At the moment this idiot took a violent action of aggression, he ceased to be a reporter and became an assailant. A criminal.
What is it with these panzie journalist that will sue if you even touch their camera when it is six inches from your face preventing you from seeing where you are going. They claim that is freedom of the press, bullcrap. Now they claim violent attacks on people they disagree with are freedom of speech. What is next, trampling someone to death at Walmart is a right of assembly?
MSM, no facts, no truth, no justice, no integrity, and now they want the right to assault people they disagree with. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
If there was ever an incident that said, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED this is it. That reporter would have been a stain on the wall at Abu Graib had he done that before 2003. The fact that he felt safe enough to do it manifests how free Iraq has become.
I remember in 1992 we had been air dropping humanitarian rations to the Kurds in Northern Iraq there was a news report that the Kurds were complaining about the MRE’s they were receiving. The Air Force general in charge was elated. He said, “When we start to get complaints about the MRE’s, we know we are getting them enough to eat.”
I do not condone an assault on anyone, especially the President, but that reporter and all the BDS affilicted out there need to understand that the man he threw the shoe at is the one who deserves the credit for his ability to throw and shoe and survive the incident. Irony!
“If you can dodge a shoe, then you can dodge a ball.”
- Patches O’Houllihan
I could be wrong, but I think he shouted “Armani Akhbar”
The sensable shoe jihad?
oymoron, sonofdy.
nothing sensible about jihad
happy2behere: We are dealing with people who think straping a bomb onto a new born is a cool idea. Sensable left the building a LLOOONNNGGGGG time ago.
Chuck-a boot?
Winged tips?
Was he a black belt in Flung Shu?
Okay, okay… I’ll stop.
The Yankees need to hire this guy. Their pitchers couldn’t hit Bush in 2 tries either.
Your first clue that it wouldn’t go well was his name Muntazer “Wild Thing” al-Zaidi.
Bush called off his security detail, wouldn’t let them get him, and avoided a free-for-all!
The p.o.s. Terrournalist has a picture of CHE in his home, right next to his own pic in the living room.
Leave him in jail.
Chin Music
The President’s reflexes were good!
Do the CNN reporter and ME “expert” believe that throwing a shoe at someone in the Western world is NOT a sign of disrespect?
I think a POINTY TOED TEXAS COWBOY BOOT UP HIS A** about a foot would have been an appropriate response. No vaseline either. A well deserved welcome to Texas, Al Sadr reporter moment.
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John Bibb
… he/she wouldn’t have made it past the initial security check points.
The only way to avoid stuff like this is to put up a wall between the podium and the audience, and that just looks bad all the way around.