Good aim! Also, good reflexes.

13 years ago
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38 Responses:

  1. mysterc says:
    13 years ago at 9:53 pm

    I find it amusing that none of the security detail jumped in front of the shoe for him. They are supposed to take a bullet, but nobody said anything about a size 10 loafer.

    This is a HUGE insult in Iraqi culture.

    And he is grinning like Alfred E Neuman when he dodges the first shoe.
    • ultranurd says:
      13 years ago at 10:01 pm

      I'd guess it was a "clean" room, in the sense that everyone had been checked for weapons, so they wouldn't have someone in bullet-diving position.

      Maybe they'll put the TSA in charge of press conferences?
    • korgmeister says:
      13 years ago at 10:20 pm

      I think by now, Bush is pretty used to being violently unpopular.
    • emmacrew says:
      13 years ago at 10:54 pm

      I remember 20 years ago going to Jordan and they told us to be careful how we sat so as not to point the bottoms of our shoes at anyone, because it was very insulting, so I can imagine how much worse the throwing is.
    • gfish says:
      13 years ago at 9:38 am

      ...in which cultures is having a shoe thrown at you a compliment?
      • inhumandecency says:
        13 years ago at 11:05 am

        Well, in some cultures it's just weird. In mainstream American culture, having shoes thrown at you isn't any more of an insult than having something else of similar weight and heft, whereas presumably in Iraqi culture shoes are the hot thing to throw.
      • vixyish says:
        13 years ago at 12:13 pm

        Alley cat cultures. It's a sign of status.
  2. ultranurd says:
    13 years ago at 9:53 pm

    I had only seen stills, with a very motion-blurred President to indicate how fast he moved, but that is definitely impressive. He even gets his trademark smirk up almost immediately.
  3. twiin says:
    13 years ago at 10:15 pm

  4. fightingwords says:
    13 years ago at 10:22 pm

    I could watch this all damn day.
  5. gths says:
    13 years ago at 10:57 pm

    Someone's been practicing at the coconut shy!
  6. fatcaterpillar says:
    13 years ago at 10:58 pm

    I thought it was the job of the secret service to make sure that the Iraqi journalist was full of lead before the first shoe had even reached the Decider? The guy had plenty of time to reach down and grab his second shoe before anyone around him reacted.
    • fatcaterpillar says:
      13 years ago at 2:32 am

      You know what -- I'm also impressed the W. that he didn't hide after the first shoe. He ducks out of the way, then stands straight back up again. You would've thought that -- considering that he was in Baghdad of all places -- he'd just hit the floor and stay there after he saw the first one coming at him.
    • pikuorguk says:
      13 years ago at 4:33 am

      In other news, all footwear has now been classified as offensive weaponry and must be removed when entering government buildings. Anyone seen fiddling with their laces will be deemed a terror suspect.

      I'm not surprised at his quick reactions, it's a common survival trait of monkeys isn't it?
      • radarski says:
        13 years ago at 5:01 am

        "all footwear has now been classified as offensive weaponry and must be removed when entering government buildings"

        You've not been in a courthouse lately, have you?
  7. mrdeconstructor says:
    13 years ago at 11:03 pm

    We need Georgie to change his hair. STAT!

    ;-)
  8. kalischild says:
    13 years ago at 1:10 am

    Almost like he knew it was bound to happen eventually, and had been waiting for it, on a sub-sub-sub-conscious level.
  9. baconmonkey says:
    13 years ago at 4:09 am

    exhibit B.5
  10. anthonybaxter says:
    13 years ago at 4:18 am

    courtesy of sadlyno comments: "the insurgency is in it's last throws".
  11. netsharc says:
    13 years ago at 4:51 am

    That thrower deserves to be Man of the Year, and a bloody statue! Just too bad he missed. At least he'll go down in history as the first man to ever throw a shoe at the "most powerful man in the world", and Bush, as the president so hated, that someone threw shoes at him.

    I can picture it, just like the Statue of Liberty, but with a shoe in his hands... and Bush ducking and covering at the other end. What a metaphor
  12. tirnanogorbust says:
    13 years ago at 8:46 am

    He mistook Bush for Austin Powers.

    "That really hurt! I'm gonna have a lump there, you idiot! Who throws a shoe? Honestly! You fight like a woman!"
  13. mark242 says:
    13 years ago at 9:28 am

    Two things: one, this is awesome in ways that cannot be described.

    Second, where the hell is the Secret Service? I understand that the room was clean, all the journalists went through multiple layers of security checks, etc etc, but the reaction time (or lack thereof) of the Secret Service makes me worried about the next four years.
    • cattycritic says:
      13 years ago at 11:15 am

      Yeah, almost like they didn't care that the lame-duck President might get a shoe-shiner.

      /lulzislayme
    • kencf0618 says:
      13 years ago at 5:07 pm

      The Secret Service would have been all over the guy like stupid on Britney Spears; I believe that the Iraqi security detail (such as it was) merely got Medieval on the guy's ass.
  14. vixyish says:
    13 years ago at 12:15 pm

    Nice reflexes, tho.
  15. gytterberg says:
    13 years ago at 3:00 pm

    He's always saying how the Iraqi people are a proud, brave and freedom loving people. And now they've proved him right!
  16. hvyhvymonster says:
    13 years ago at 3:44 pm

    I was hoping for at least 1 Perry Farrell joke out of all this.
  17. misterfister666 says:
    13 years ago at 5:14 pm

    Definitely earned his 72 virgins.
  18. nebris says:
    13 years ago at 5:35 am

    This is my shoe.
    There are many like it, but this one is MINE.
    My shoe is my best friend. It is my life.
    I must master it as I must master my life.
    My shoe without me is useless. Without my shoe, I am useless.
    I must wear my shoe true.
    I must walk straighter than my enemy who is trying to outpace me.

    ~M~
  19. httf says:
    13 years ago at 10:57 pm

    http://sockandawe.com/