If Only President Bush Had Been As Good At Being President As He Is At Dodging Shoes
As you no doubt have already heard, President Bush was at a news conference in Baghdad this weekend when an Iraqi journalist named Muntadar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at the President's face. Yikes.
al-Zaidi was escorted from the room by Iraqi security guards, as were two other journalists who praised the shoe-throwing as courageous. Sure. That sounds about right. If you were to tell me about such an incident, my follow-up question to you would be "surely he was escorted from the room by Iraqi security guards, along with anyone who praised him as courageous?" That part all makes sense.
But, is it just me, or is President Bush SICK AT DODGING SHOES? Like, I don't actually think he hired that guy to throw shoes at his face just so that he could show the entire world how gracefully he could dodge them, but the end result is the same. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets some highly lucrative shoe-dodging offers when he leaves office this January. I mean, I would be surprised, because that's not something that exists. There's no such thing as high lucrative shoe-dodging offers. But if there were, he would be getting them. Because of being the master of it. Imagine if he had been able to bring that agility and heightened awareness to the Oval Office? FOUR MORE YEARS.
Now, of course, we wait for the mash-ups.
Posted by Gabe at 9:15 AM in Backlashes, Politics
Tags: George W. Bush | Shoes
I'm calling the next mash-up as a Matrix reference. You know, because that movie only came out NINE YEARS AGO. Argh, I made myself feel old.
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In Iraq throwing shoes is the equivalent of a Westerner's giving someone the finger, or a Shakespearean character's thumb biting... then again, having shoes thrown at you would PROBABLY be taken for disrespect globally.
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In the Arab world, sitting with your legs crossed and showing the sole of your shoe is considered offensive/rude, so throwing your shoes would be more like if the journalist had dropped his trousers and blown a big raspy fart at Bush.
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I love his muted reaction. Like how he was kinda expecting someone to throw a shoe. He barely lifts his hands up. I have now forgiven him for the last 8 years. Join me, America.
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I see someone getting his own Gatorade commercial after he's out of the oval office.
Barrack Obama plays basketball- PffffffT!!!
Check out, our man George W.- He dodges bullet fast shoes flung by irate Iraqi journalist, eat your heart out!
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I see this more as part of a viral ad campaign he'll soon be doing for Payless Shoes "Our prices are so low, we're practically throwing our shoes at you!"
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I love how the prime minister just "kind of" tries to block the shoe from hitting the president. Just enough to say he tried, not enough to be effectual. NIIICCCE.
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Now if W had snatched off one of his own shoes and fired it back at the guy, I might be willing to forgive him a little for being such a dud.
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I very much wish that had happened. That would have ruled the entire world. Especially if Bush's shoe had taken the dude down.
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This doesn't have to do with any protective feeling I have for Bush, but what was up with the Secret Service? TAKE FOREVER!
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Throwing shoes at the President is definitely the best idea that guy's ever had.
He'll be discovered dead in the Secret Gitmo Lair in two hundred years when Obama XIII finally unearths its remains.
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I was watching CNN and they were all like "how could this have happened?"
I know, right? How in the world did that guy get those shoes in there!?
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