President Bush dodges shoes thrown by an angry man

[Kokop]

Well if you attack a president of any country then expect to get physically disciplined. What did he expect?

He go nailed, right there. Uncut video listen towards the 2m30, They took him apart right there.

Well I guess if I through a shoe at Zuma the same would happen.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=6599

After 3 min just the rest of the press conference

 

[USZA]

Shoe-thrower faces up to 7yrs

And the beat goes on . . .

Baghdad - The Iraqi journalist who became a star in the Arab world when he hurled his shoes at visiting US President George W Bush and called him a dog, appeared before a judge on Wednesday, his brother said.

Durgham al-Zaidi said he and another brother were told by the investigating judge that 29-year-old Muntazar al-Zaidi "had cooperated well," but gave no details.

Under Iraqi law, Zaidi faces up to seven years in jail for "offending the head of a foreign state".

Source

IMO, he should get a medal

 

[mercurial]

7 years for offending? They're more concerned that he offended George? What about the actual act of throwing shoes at him? Is that not more serious?

 

[AirWolf]

He go nailed, right there. Uncut video listen towards the 2m30, They took him apart right there.

Well I guess if I through a shoe at Zuma the same would happen.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=6599

After 3 min just the rest of the press conference

Uh, no. You would be necklaced by a kangaroo court on the spot.

 

[Ady]

I loved this. Gonna start collecting some old shoes for JZ

 

[quiksilver]

I heard some guy has promised his 20 yr old daughter to the shoe-thrower.

 

[d0b33]

I loved this. Gonna start collecting some old shoes for JZ

The shoe thrower had enough decency to buy a new pair.

 

[AirWolf]

The shoe thrower had enough decency to buy a new pair.

Is it still an insult if it is a new pair?

 

[Xarog]

Well if you attack a president of any country then expect to get physically disciplined. What did he expect?

Oh, I don't know, maybe some due process, a trial... you know, that weird thing people usually refer to as "justice"?

 

[daveza]

I think he should be charged with poor aim.

 

[MeNeZ]

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=8640&cat=500

New weapon going to be used by terrorists...

 

[d0b33]

Why do all western media claim that throwing a shoe at someone is highly offensive in Arab or Islamic culture? It's offensive in any culture FFS!

Trying to paint people as being different from the rest of us...

 

[daveza]

It's not the throwing that is offensive, but the showing of the underside of the shoe.

 

[d0b33]

It's not the throwing that is offensive, but the showing of the underside of the shoe.

That's more courtesy than being offensive, I think it goes back 1000 years to any region where you'd be walking in donkey **** the whole day.

 

[daveza]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeing

Shoeing, throwing shoes, showing the sole of one's shoe or using shoes to insult are forms of protest primarily associated with the Arab world.[1][2] Explanations vary; The Times of India wrote that Arab societies have cultural prejudices against the foot because it is the lowest part of the body[3]; whereas Matthew Cassel of The Electronic Intifada questioned whether it is an Arab cultural phenomenon at all.[4] Posters of George W. Bush's face have long appeared through the Middle East with shoes attached to them, and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is known as Kundara, meaning "shoe".[2] Shoeing received recent attention after Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at U.S. President George Bush in a December 2008 press conference in Baghdad, Iraq

 

[d0b33]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeing

This part I agree with...

whereas Matthew Cassel of The Electronic Intifada questioned whether it is an Arab cultural phenomenon at all.