Compare this: [1]
But among the crowds a little child suddenly gasped out, “But he hasn’t got anything on.”
With this report from Think Progress: [2]
McClatchy identified the man [3] as Iraqi television journalist Muthathar al Zaidi and reports he threw both of his shoes at Bush just after he finished prepared remarks. The New York Times notes that the first shoe “narrowly missed [4]” and the second shoe also missed. “This is a farewell kiss, you dog,” Zaidi shouted.
Think Progress also notes that ” throwing a shoe is “a grave insult in the Arab world.”
After watching President Bush give his presentations to carefully hand-picked partisan audiences for eight years, we now have an image of how normal people react (and should react) when a politician has killed, maimed, abused, displaced and/or provoked tens of millions of people (in Iraq, in the U.S. and throughout the world).
For the record, I am also motivated by the massive damage that George W. Bush and his cronies have done to the American economy.
For me, the emotional outburst by the Iraqi journalist was a brief whiff of sanity. If the corporate media had been doing its job for the past eight years, we would all be throwing our shoes.
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