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Egyptian Reporter Throws Shoes At Dubya.

  • 15-12-2008 12:23am
    #1
    kaiser sauze
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    I suppose I should not find this funny, but I did snigger.

    CrooksandLiars has more.

    I'm surprised at how slow the SS seemed to be in reacting to this. I'm glad that no harm came to him, much as I despise him.


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  • #2
    kaiser sauze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭kaiser sauze


    If a mod can sort out the YT embedding above and delete this post, I'd appreciate it.


  • #3
    BlackWizard
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    bushshoeeo8.jpg

    I found it quite funny. Love how he is so calm and collected after it. Almost like he is used to it. Any childs hero. :D


  • #4
    bnt
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    3111997293_bfba14d18d.jpg

    (Today's Laugh-Out-Loud Cats from Hobotopia)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #5
    cornbb
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    http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/15/iraq-shoe-tosser-guy.html

    :)

    I thought it was a funny and apt way for an Arab guy to vent his frustration. It just made Bush look pathetic, as usual.


  • #6
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Here are some more GIFs and a film :)


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  • #7
    kaiser sauze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭kaiser sauze


    I received instructions via PM on how to change the post, but I'm no longer able to edit it myself, in any case.

    Bush certainly has good reactions!


  • #8
    hottstuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭hottstuff


    Well he has dodged a bullet for many years now, shoes would be a piece of cake.
    Have to say , i admire his humour , that's a cracking smile he gives just after the first shoe.:D


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
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    yeah, it seemed like he thought he was playing a game or something..ah bless him..


  • #10
    Kazaap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭Kazaap


    I was amazed at his reactions, he was abit like a boxer. The reporter seems like abit of a looney to me though. He handed a note to a friend before he went in saying something like 'its glorious to die a martyer'. So his glorious act was.......throwing his shoes at someone. right ok :P


  • #11
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Just as an update, the reporter is filing for asylum in Switzerland.
    Apparently he "can no longer work as a journalist without suffering horrible pressure." I don't think this is usually grounds for granting asylum, but anyway.

    I'm guessing that none of the Arab countries want him?

    NTM


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