What's the most important aspect of the "Shoe Throwing Incident"?

[ColbertWatcher]

Poll question: What's the most important aspect of the "Shoe Throwing Incident"?

A. that Dumbya's Secret Service agents were no where to be seen until after both shoes were thrown and other reporters surrounded him

B. that Dumbya sneaked into Iraq again

C. that this administration's complete and utter disregard for any and every culture in the Middle East would convince them that it would be a good idea to go into Iraq at this late date and they actually expected it to go on without a hitch

D. that the GOP-controlled media was able to discuss it all day, without mentioning the possibility that the guy who threw the shoe might have been kidnapped last year^{http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/RYA672388.htm">Reuters}

E. that there's a new animated gif of it

F. All of the above

G. None of the above, I will post my own idea what the most important aspect was in reply

[uppityperson]

1. Here is the article about his release and what happened to him.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19159708.htm
An Iraqi TV journalist who was kidnapped last week in a busy Baghdad neighbourhood said he was released unharmed before dawn on Monday.

Muntazer al-Zaidi, a correspondent for the independent al- Baghdadiya television station, said he spent more than two days blindfolded, barely eating and drinking, after armed men forced him into a car as he walked to work on Friday morning in the bustling Bab al-Sharji area of central Baghdad.
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Zaidi said the kidnappers had beaten him until he lost consciousness. They used his necktie to blindfold him and bound his hands with his shoelaces. He never learned the identity of the kidnappers, who questioned him closely about his work but did not demand a ransom.
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At least 122 journalists and 41 media support staff have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. About 85 percent of those killed were Iraqis. Some Iraqi journalists have been targeted by Sunni Arab militants or by Shi'ite militias. Others have been killed by U.S. forces while reporting.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Thank you for posting this! n/t

[uppityperson]

11. You are welcome. Finding our who he is really pisses me off even more.

mrbush is clueless. I feel very sorry for Muntazer and all who have been directly, and indirectly, impacted by this mess.

[ColbertWatcher]

16. I want to hear the GOP-controlled media mention that tomorrow.

I want them to say that he might be the same guy.

I want to hear them do their jobs just this one fucking time.

[yurbud]

2. G. Someone treated Bush with the respect he deserves

[hlthe2b]

3. That the incident brought out the minority Bush* apologists

among us-- all fired up to try to weigh the Bushies* 8 years of criminality and wanton lethality upon the Iraqi people against a thrown pair of shoes--even going to the extent (on the part of some) to call for this poor tortured Iraqi journalist's lifetime imprisonment for a supposed "felonious violent assault." :eyes: Heaven help us with this kind of moral relativism.

[leftstreet]

6. K&R for your post

It's been disgusting to watch

[SwampG8r]

10. you read minds?

even if he hit georgie in the center of the forehead,both shoes,it doesnt equalize a god damn thing

[hlthe2b]

14. Obviously not (to equalizing) ... It seems you may have missed the point... n/t

entirely

[SwampG8r]

17. i thought your point was

that a pair of thrown shoes cannot equal the damage,by bush,done to america or to the life of the reporter throwing shoes

[hlthe2b]

19. Yes... Seems I misunderstood your post...

:shrug: sorry....

[SwampG8r]

20. i still love you

in a i dont have the slightest idea who you are but what the hell sort of way

no problem

[uppityperson]

4. Other.That mrbush is so clueless he had no idea why a reporter might do this, and he wasn't insulted

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Good point. n/t

[Oak2004]

5. The most important thing was that my eighty-something year old mother

a pretty traditional, somewhat conservative, midwestern woman, called me up and asked me if I had been watching CNN. Did I know, she asked, about what happened to Bush in Iraq?

She loved it. Thought it was great. Laughed even more when I mentioned that people here were talking about mailing old shoes to the White House.

The dour, "but they disrespected the Office of the President" types need to lighten up. Out there in Real America, most people think it's Bush that disrespected the presidency, and that he earned those shoes.

[political_Dem]

9. I'm amazed that there are actually journalists out there who do show their feelings.

It is quite disgusting to have a Fourth Estate in the United States that is comprised of cowering sycophants who do nothing but pay homage to the RNC and their talking points.

What Mr. Zaidi did was show that there are some journalists internationally who will not believe Bush's bull feces no matter how sweet it smells.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Or how much they're paid to say they agree with it. David Gregory, I'm talking to you.

Thank you for your post.

[political_Dem]

24. No problem. :)

Just calling it the way I see it. It's getting to the point that the MSM as it is in America now has to change. There are few journalists here in the states who are even worthy of their profession. The rest are just poseurs.

[Swamp Rat]

12. G - that George W. Bush murdered approximately one million Iraqis, and will likely get away with it

[Jennicut]

13. All of the above and more. It is a fitting end to Mr. Bush's ridiculous Presidency

Has there ever been a more unpopular President in modern times? And where were the Secret Service anyways? They moved a bit slow in my opinion. Perhaps it was on purpose.

[npk]

15. When I first heard that a reporter had thrown a pair of shoes at Bush

I thought that Helen Thomas had finally snapped.

I was actually disappointed when I learned the shoes did not hit Bush right in the kisser. But one should not wish harm on the President I guess, even the appointed ones.

[ColbertWatcher]

18. "I thought that Helen Thomas had finally snapped. " LOL! n/t

[AspenRose]

22. Other

Maybe it'll give us a reprieve from the front page Blago crap for a day or two

[ColbertWatcher]

23. LOL! Well, it has allowed the GOP-controlled media from ignoring the GOP's attacks on the UAW.

I doubt the GOP-controlled media will ever let Blago go.