Lame DUCK!

Dec 14th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: George W. Bush

Matt Yglesias has the best take on the Shoe-Lobber so far, after being reminded by all how insulting this is in Arab cultures:

Is it possible that there’s a region somewhere where throwing shoes is a compliment?

The Iraqi journalist also calls Bush a “dog,” and indeed you can see from these grainy screen caps, Commander Guy does indeed cower like one.

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Nothing wrong with the old man’s reflexes, that’s for sure. Thoreau’s poo-flinging, non-violent scorn probably sums up my sentiments best.

In a better world, the people who orchestrated that war would be unable to walk down a sidewalk without facing a torrent of rotten tomatoes, eggs, and insults. Everywhere they go, decent people should shout curses and wave middle fingers. When walking down the street after a rainstorm, kids should stomp mud puddles in their direction to dirty the clothes of the war pigs. Old World church ladies should make the sign to ward off evil in the presence of George Bush and his fellow war-starters. Dogs should bark as they walk by, and monkeys should fling poo at them when they visit the zoo. None of these things will physically harm them, but it’s the sort of utter rejection from polite society that they deserve. That’s right, even the dogs and monkeys should reject them.

Here’s the video, if — somehow! — you haven’t seen it yet.

VIDEO: Iraqi journalists throws shoes at Bush

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  1. Ara Rubyan December 15th, 2008 8:08 am :

    OK, a couple of things:

    1. Did you see Maliki? Dude doesn’t even flinch — in fact, he reaches out and tips the shoe like he was a linebacker blocking a field goal. Just another day at the office.

    2. Bush apologists will think their man the embodiment of cool (“It was a size 10″), but I found his signature smirk especially annoying. The embodiment of cool? Riiiiiiiight. After wrecking Iraq, and being detested for it, Bush makes a joke about how none of it bothers him at all. Bush isn’t the emodiment of cool, he’s the embodiment of the clueless douchebag.
    3. Speaking of clueless, here he is running what can only be described as a victory lap — about the improvements in security! — and he nearly gets nailed by a shoe. The same type of object that we all have to remove at the airport because an idiot once tried to make one of these things into, you know, a bomb. WTF?
    4. If we’re winning in Iraq, then why does the President of the United States have to sneak into and out of the country?
    5. And another thing — where was the Secret Service?
  2. Ara Rubyan December 15th, 2008 8:20 am :

    Leave it to the Daily News: “Shoe-icide Attack.”

    Heh.

  3. shep December 16th, 2008 3:35 pm :

    “After wrecking Iraq, and being detested for it, Bush makes a joke about how none of it bothers him at all. Bush isn’t the emodiment of cool, he’s the embodiment of the clueless douchebag.”

    Um…psychopath.?! (Seriously).

    Makes his little joke about “looking into his sole” pretty f*cking ironic, just as with Putin but for a different reason.

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