Did you hear about the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush? Here’s the video of the incident:
The journalist, Muntazer al-Zaidi, is the “talk of Iraq.” He’s also my nominee for Time’s Person of the Year.
Meanwhile, Detroit’s automakers are still waiting for assistance from the federal government. Maybe they should throw some shoes at someone?
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How involved was President-elect Barack Obama in the Blagojevich scandal? He “dispatched” his chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel to talk up Obama’s favorite candidates—but Emanuel didn’t talk directly to Blagojevich, sources say. (Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee is trying realllly hard to connect Obama to the scandal.)
And speaking of Blagojevich:
That shoe-throwing story made my day yesterday. In Iraqi, the guy yelled, “Here is your goodbye kiss, you dog!”
I suppose that would be Arabic, by the way. Not “Iraqi”. ; D
You know, the fact that a journalist in Iraq can stand up and throw shoes at Bush and not get executed on the spot is actually a bit of proof that we have liberated Iraq. I hate Bush more than anything but if he weren’t such a complete, incompetent idiot, he could honestly point to a number of things in Iraq (most notably, that the Iraqi parliament had to respond to the people to come up with a security agreement, and that a member of the Iraqi press known to be opposed to Bush would be allowed in to a press conference and would be able to throw his shoes at Bush without immediate retribution) and claim that Iraq has achieved some freedom and that we have been victorious, and he could use this as a way to quickly withdraw troops.
That, in no way, excuses the way we’ve brutalized Iraqi civilians, and in no way excuses Bush for all of his atrocities.
This journalist is my new hero.
-MG