POL: Enraged reporter hurls his shoes at President Bush
Charlene
Matthew Kruk
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
What a waste of a good pair of shoes.
islan...@aol.com
> What a waste of a good pair of shoes.
What would you do with them, after you had sex with them that is?
Charlene
> "Charlene" <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
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> What a waste of a good pair of shoes.
The shoe-thrower's words have been translated as, "Here's your
farewell kiss, dog".
I don't condone his actions but that's a catchy quotation that'll make
it to the history books.
wd44
Hyfler/Rosner
"Terry del Fuego" <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:12:58 -0800 (PST), Charlene
> <charlene...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> Gotta give Bush credit for taking it calmly.
Ditto for the secret service. Very calm, indeed. Too
calm.
Bermuda999
> "Terry del Fuego" <t_del_fu...@hotmail.com> wrote in messagenews:ff2bk4drkirpa33qg...@4ax.com...
> > Gotta give Bush credit for taking it calmly.
> Ditto for the secret service. �Very calm, indeed. � Too
> calm.
Hey - give them credit.
If the guy had a third shoe, they might have gotten there in time to
deflect it.
Certainly by his fourth shoe.
Kris Baker
> "Terry del Fuego" <t_del_fu...@hotmail.com> wrote in messagenews:ff2bk4drkirpa33qg...@4ax.com...
>
> > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:12:58 -0800 (PST), Charlene
> > <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> > Gotta give Bush credit for taking it calmly.
>
> Ditto for the secret service. Very calm, indeed. Too
> calm.
That's what we thought, too. If there had been
something heavy inside one of the shoes, it could
have led to injury or worse.
Bush is far from my favorite, but he IS my
President...and we don't need anything happening
to him.
Kris
Charlene
You'd think that in Iraq of all places the Secret Service wouldn't be
hiding behind a door, waiting for the, um, shoe to drop.
wd44
danny burstein
>>
>> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DmjdXwLQrRJ8
>>
>> What a waste of a good pair of shoes.
In Iraq, slapping your shoe against someone is supposedly
a Major Insult. Hence we had that fabricated scene during
the "fall of Baghdad" where that statue of Sadaam was pulled
down and a kid ran up to it and hit the face with his shoes.
>The shoe-thrower's words have been translated as, "Here's your
>farewell kiss, dog".
>I don't condone his actions but that's a catchy quotation that'll make
>it to the history books.
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Charlene
> In Iraq, slapping your shoe against someone is supposedly
> a Major Insult. Hence we had that fabricated scene during
> the "fall of Baghdad" where that statue of Sadaam was pulled
> down and a kid ran up to it and hit the face with his shoes.
The BBC is reporting that as he threw the second shoe he yelled, "This
is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq."
Even showing the sole of your shoe to someone is a major sign of
contempt, let alone throwing it.
wd44
Brad Ferguson
<89061207-3b6f-4f39...@n10g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Charlene <charlene...@gmail.com> wrote:
At least this time the conspiracy nuts won't be able to say there was
anything but a sole assassin.
Matthew Kruk
news:141220082007158648%thir...@frXOXed.net...
Yep a real soul man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2mzeyGZ8Y
marcus
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:12:58 -0800 (PST), Charlene
>
> <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> Gotta give Bush credit for taking it calmly.
No brain...No pain.
Loki
Only a heel would come up with that.
Loki
Driving a small car to compensate for my oversized genetalia.
Jim Beaver
"Charlene" <charlene...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
Where was the freaking Secret Service during this? The guy throws the
shoes, and Bush stands there, with no one rushing to cover him or scurry him
away, for apparently the entire aftermath. I'm reminded of the guys
covering Reagan and shoving him into the car. Granted, shoes aren't
gunshots, but any time something of a physical threat occurs, I would have
thought they'd have yanked the P's body right up out of his shoes (ahem) to
get him out of the way of possibly escalating problems. From this clip, it
seems to show Secret Service people just sort of standing there looking at
events transpiring, not actively intervening.
Just because this clown has dishonored his office doesn't mean I want him in
harm's way. He's the president of my country, which means he's my
president. At least for a few more days.
Jim Beaver
marcus
> "Charlene" <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote in message
He was never my president, and he will never be.
He is still a smarmy frat-boy miscreant who will never "get it".
Brian
<charlene...@gmail.com> wrote:
>The BBC is reporting that as he threw the second shoe he yelled, "This
>is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq."
He should have thrown them against the terrorists and those who
supported Saddam.
Bob Feigel
<charlene...@gmail.com> magnanimously proffered:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
>wd44
Osma Bin Khrushchev or Nikita Bin Laden?
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>
>[Default] On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:12:58 -0800 (PST), Charlene
><charlene...@gmail.com> magnanimously proffered:
>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>>
>>wd44
>
>Osma Bin Khrushchev or Nikita Bin Laden?
Actually, it would have been Nikita Bin Sergei....r
--
"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!"
"You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!"
The Kentucky Wizard
consultations with my Joint Chiefs of Staff, being briefed by members of my
Cabinet and many telephone conversations with various World Leaders, I have
come to the following conclusions:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> wd44
Yeah, I saw it earlier today. How could someone so out of touch with reality
be that quick to react?
Not the shoe thrower, I mean the president.
--
Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you
with experience.
© The Wiz ®
«¤»¥«¤»¥«¤»
The Kentucky Wizard
of my Cabinet and many telephone conversations with various World Leaders, I
have come to the following conclusions:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:12:58 -0800 (PST), Charlene
> <charlene...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> Gotta give Bush credit for taking it calmly.
There's one second, if you look real quick, where it appears that Bush
actually waved off one or more of the Secret Service guys who seemed to try
to get him away from the area. You pretty much have to keep focused on him
the entire time to see it. I know it happened, because I laughed harder each
time I replayed it.
Loki
<KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote:
>Upon receiving news that Charlene had made the remarks below, and after
>consultations with my Joint Chiefs of Staff, being briefed by members of my
>Cabinet and many telephone conversations with various World Leaders, I have
>come to the following conclusions:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>>
>> wd44
>
>Yeah, I saw it earlier today. How could someone so out of touch with reality
>be that quick to react?
>
>Not the shoe thrower, I mean the president.
He was confused because no one threw socks first. Also, he was unsure
as to how they knew his size.
Loki
"I think we are welcomed. But it was not a
peaceful welcome."
宥eorge W. Bush, defending Vice President
Dick Cheney's pre-war assertion that the United
States would be welcomed in Iraq as liberators,
NBC Nightly News interview, Dec. 12, 2005
Charlene
Hence their policy of not allowing quadrupeds at press conferences.
wd44
Jane Margaret Laight
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
there is a rumor going around that the Steinbrenner brothers are
trying to find this guy's agent to offer him a contract to play center
field for the Yankees--appears that he'd be a shoe-in, wouldn't you
say?
JML
buy me some peanuts & cracker jack
Scott Brady
example, is he actually licensed to practice journalism? And what is
his tax status?
An unsuspecting citizen asks Obama a tough question on the campaign
trail and is immediately subjected to a state-assisted anal probe on
the part of the media. A president is physically assaulted and his
assailant is lionized.
But there's no media bias.
Loki
Obama and McCain were both asked lots of tough questions. And had
Obama tried to make one of the questioners the centerpiece of his
campaign, the media would have dug just as deeply into his or her
history.
If "Joe" the "plumber" has an issue with anyone, it ought to be
McCain.
Loki
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
宥eorge W. Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown,
who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over
his job performance, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005
R H Draney
>
>I want to know more about this so-called Iraqi "journalist." For
>example, is he actually licensed to practice journalism? And what is
>his tax status?
They got licenses for that?...sheesh, what's next, state-certified
plate-spinners?...r
Rainbow77
wrote on 12/15/08 11:43 AM:
> Scott Brady filted:
>>
>> I want to know more about this so-called Iraqi "journalist." For
>> example, is he actually licensed to practice journalism? And what is
>> his tax status?
>
> They got licenses for that?...sheesh, what's next, state-certified
> plate-spinners?...r
>
Journalists do not have to be licensed. Any hack can be a journalist
instantly by being hired by someone.
Tax status? Journalists are not televangelists. They pay taxes like
everone else.
PyrateJohn
~~~
IRAQ HAD SHOES ALL ALONG, CLAIMS VINDICATED BUSH
Saddam built a super-shoe to attack Israel
PRESIDENT Bush last night claimed his decision to invade Iraq had been
vindicated after US troops uncovered an arsenal of shoes on the
outskirts of Fallujah.
More than 400 lethal shoes including sandals, pumps, desert boots and
a solitary brogue were revealed as Mr Bush paid a final visit to Iraq
to see if there was anything left.
A White House spokesman immediately dismissed claims the US invasion
had been based on Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpile of chemical and
biological weapons, adding: "No we didn't, we said shoes.
"We did and if you heard weapons of mass destruction, that's your
problem. You might want to try using a cotton bud."
The spokesman added: "We believe that many of these shoes would have
been built in China with Russian laces, French-made heels and odour-
absorbing insoles purchased through back channels via the west African
state of Niger."
Prime minister Gordon Brown backed Mr Bush insisting many of Iraq's
shoes were slip-ons that could activated in less than 45 minutes.
But France denied supplying Iraq with shoe components insisting its
only exports to Saddam's regime had been a 1994 shipment of
humanitarian espadrilles.
Meanwhile the Kremlin said most of Iraq's shoes had actually been
bought from ex-US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld when he worked for
Hush Puppies in the early 1980s.
~~~
--PirateJohn--
And the new blog at http://pyratejohn.blogspot.com
Scott Brady
wrote:
> in article gi650j01...@drn.newsguy.com, R H Draney at dadoc...@spamcop.net
Apparently satire is lost on you. But the question remains: can we
expect his media brethren to dig up any damaging information--relevant
or not--about the shoe thrower's background?
Rainbow77
ba662922-1128-4cfd...@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com, Scott
Brady at sbra...@hotmail.com wrote on 12/15/08 12:28 PM:
I know. Being a journalist, believe me, I got a laugh out of it. I was
trying to think if I've been missing something financially and how I could
evolve into a dollar-for-a-holler journalist. :-)
Thanks for my laugh of the day!
Charlene
Isn't "journalist" bad enough?
wd44
Rainbow77
Charlene at charlene...@gmail.com wrote on 12/15/08 2:14 PM:
Ain't so bad. We lie and spin just often enough to keep the free food and
trips coming. And being a journalist a turn-on to hot babes.
Rainbow77
>
for them to rub elbows with big shots.
Brian
<emilt...@marathon.org> wrote:
>Lifelong practice at dodging issues?
So Obama should be a real whiz in a similar circumstance?
Jim Beaver
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:23:47 +0000, Emil Tiades
> <emilt...@marathon.org> wrote:
>
>
>>Lifelong practice at dodging issues?
Did you catch Bush Sunday saying to troops in Afghanistan, "There's nowhere
on earth I'd rather be than with the people of America's military"? Funny,
he didn't feel that way in '68.
Jim Beaver
islan...@aol.com
>
> I "Joe" the "plumber"
> Loki
You fascination with this guy is odd.
Kris Baker
> On Dec 14, 5:16 pm, Kris Baker <ParallelCoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > > "Terry del Fuego" <t_del_fu...@hotmail.com> wrote in messagenews:ff2bk4drkirpa33qg...@4ax.com...
>
> > > > <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> > > > Gotta give Bush credit for taking it calmly.
>
> > > Ditto for the secret service. Very calm, indeed. Too
> > > calm.
>
> > something heavy inside one of the shoes, it could
> > have led to injury or worse.
>
> > Bush is far from my favorite, but he IS my
> > President...and we don't need anything happening
> > to him.
>
> You'd think that in Iraq of all places the Secret Service wouldn't be
> hiding behind a door, waiting for the, um, shoe to drop.
>
They have sole responsibility, but looked like heels.
Kris
Kris Baker
> In article
> <89061207-3b6f-4f39-8ade-65865b315...@n10g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> anything but a sole assassin.-
Ya think? They'll look for a rubbery knoll, a hidden
shoeman, Jack Ruby Slippers.......
Kris
Kris Baker
>
> Just because this clown has dishonored his office
> doesn't mean I want him in harm's way. He's the
> president of my country, which means he's my
> president. At least for a few more days.
>
> Jim Beaver
Absolutely. And we don't need a martyr, either.
Kris
Kris Baker
> On Dec 14, 9:16 pm, "Jim Beaver" <jumble...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Charlene" <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:15b31ef1-acec-4c0c...@h16g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
>
> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> > Where was the freaking Secret Service during this? The guy throws the
> > shoes, and Bush stands there, with no one rushing to cover him or scurry him
> > away, for apparently the entire aftermath. I'm reminded of the guys
> > covering Reagan and shoving him into the car. Granted, shoes aren't
> > gunshots, but any time something of a physical threat occurs, I would have
> > thought they'd have yanked the P's body right up out of his shoes (ahem) to
> > get him out of the way of possibly escalating problems. From this clip, it
> > seems to show Secret Service people just sort of standing there looking at
> > events transpiring, not actively intervening.
>
> > Just because this clown has dishonored his office doesn't mean I want him in
> > harm's way. He's the president of my country, which means he's my
> > president. At least for a few more days.
>
> > Jim Beaver
>
>
> He is still a smarmy frat-boy miscreant who will never "get it".-
True, but....you can't dismiss him, and demand respect
for the President you respect, from those who don't
share your politics.
I hold my nose, and support my President...and know
that it's not for long.
Kris
Kris
Loki
>On Dec 15, 11:13?am, Loki <cubby77...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I "Joe" the "plumber"
>
>> Loki
>
>
>You fascination with this guy is odd.
Ask Scott about him. He brought him up. I was only responding to his
inaccurate assessment of the situation.
Loki
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're
going to have a draft."
宥eorge W. Bush, second presidential debate,
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
marcus
> But the question remains: can we
> expect his media brethren to dig up any damaging information--relevant
> or not--about the shoe thrower's background?-
Gee, let's see now...hmmm...let's say you live in a country pre-
emptively invaded by a more powerful country, and over the course of
five years, thousands of your countryman are maimed and killed,
buildings destroyed, the environment crippled, and your country is in
misery because of that invasion. The leader of the invaders comes to
visit...and you are not happy to see the person who ordered the
destruction of your homeland.
I dunno, but that might possibly be in the "shoe thrower's background".
marcus
his corporate buddies. He is a traitor to the United States, and
along with Cheney should be locked in a prison for the rest of their
natural (or unnatural) lives.
Matthew Kruk
news:8921b593-0870-4c40...@f3g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...
---
Disagree. That would be too kind for them.
kleppers...@yahoo.com
wrote:
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> > wd44
>
> Yeah, I saw it earlier today. How could someone so out of touch with reality
> be that quick to react?
>
> Not the shoe thrower, I mean the president.
>
kleppers...@yahoo.com
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My thoughts are:
The shoe thrower has a great arm. Surely there is a NFL team that
ought to give him a look if they are needing a qarterback.
If he had tried thowing a shoe Saddam he would have been given a quick
trial, taken outside and shot, or taken up to the roof, if high
enough, and pushed off. Or perhaps there would be a wood chipper
nearby - Saddam really liked them.
But now the shoe thrower is a hero in Iraq, in the Huffington Post,
and in the Daily Kos. Who says democracy ain't great!
Bush was floating like a butterfly - ducking and dodging flying shoes
like Mohammed Ali slipping punches in the ring. Or maybe, if you
prefer, like one of those taunting guys in the dunking machine at the
carnival. Either way he showed great cool.
On another subject did anybody see SNL skit this weekend mocking Gov.
Patterson's blindness?. I read he was in a rage about it. Maybe an
Ex-President Bush will offer to counsel those democrats who are
traumatized by being mocked, ridiculed, and disrespected during the
next 4 -8 years.
R H Draney
>
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>"R H Draney" <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
>news:gi650...@drn.newsguy.com...
>> Scott Brady filted:
>>>
>>>I want to know more about this so-called Iraqi "journalist." For
>>>example, is he actually licensed to practice journalism? And what is
>>>his tax status?
>>
>> They got licenses for that?...sheesh, what's next, state-certified
>> plate-spinners?...r
>
Not since Ed Sullivan went off the air, sadly....
Maybe I should have mentioned mimes....r
--
"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!"
"You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!"
Alan Hope
>And being a journalist a turn-on to hot babes.
If being a journalist is such a hateful profession, how come all the
drones in cubicles dream of being one?
As I sit at home in pyjamas on a Tuesday morning, or as I'm getting
free tickets for any show in town, I'll try to remember to feel sorry
for all the poor saps who look down on me, who now wish they hadn't
tried so hard in school.
Brian
<Paralle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>True, but....you can't dismiss him, and demand respect
>for the President you respect, from those who don't
>share your politics.
>I hold my nose, and support my President...and know
>that it's not for long.
>
>Kris
>
>Kris
There used to be a time that almost all Americans, even those who
didn't like whoever was president at the time, would have been upset
by this.
I'm not a big Obama supporter but I would be upset if this happened to
him.
Brian
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>
>"Matthew Kruk" <ove...@rainbow.com> wrote in message
>news:g5F1l.131$sM.82@edtnps83...
> Yeah, and even if you gave him the death sentence ("Nuremburg
>trial" first for him) for all his murders in Iraq of the men, widows, and
>little children, by a lethal injection of drugs would also be too good and
>too kind to him.
>
And liberals have the gall to complain about right wing hatred.
Brian
<jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>Did you catch Bush Sunday saying to troops in Afghanistan, "There's nowhere
>on earth I'd rather be than with the people of America's military"? Funny,
>he didn't feel that way in '68.
>
>Jim Beaver
What is Obama record of military service?
And I notice you didn't respond to my point about obama ducking
issues.
Magnus
> "Charlene" <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:15b31ef1-acec-4c0c...@h16g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
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> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
If I had been Bush, I'd have caught those shoes--or tried to--and
thrown them back at the bum. As it was, Bush ducked pretty well. I
wonder if he has any boxing ring experience.
magnus
Jane Margaret Laight
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> "Jane Margaret Laight" <jml27...@yahoo.com> wrote in messagenews:bc55448f-6f8d-4e30...@t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> On Dec 14, 3:12 pm, Charlene <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> >there is a rumor going around that the Steinbrenner brothers
>
> George has living brothers?
>
> >are
> >trying to find this guy's agent to offer him a contract to play center
> >field for the Yankees--appears that he'd be a shoe-in, wouldn't you
> >say?
>
> He's only a heel, not a kind baseball soul.
>
> >JML
> >buy me some peanuts & cracker jack
>
> ...I don't care if you *never* come back! <g>
George has sons, Hal and Hank. They pretty much run the show these
days.
Magnus
> On Dec 14, 2:19 pm, "Matthew Kruk" <over...@rainbow.com> wrote:
>
> > "Charlene" <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:15b31ef1-acec-4c0c...@h16g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
>
> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8
>
> > What a waste of a good pair of shoes.
>
> farewell kiss, dog".
>
> I don't condone his actions but that's a catchy quotation that'll make
> it to the history books.
>
> wd44
Sounds like a corny line from some 1930's swashbuckler.
magnus