Bush re show thrower: "The journalist was looking for notoriety"

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/16/bush.crowley.interview/index.html



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"I didn't have much time to reflect on anything, I was ducking and dodging," Bush said.

The journalist was "looking for notoriety," Bush said, adding that authorities shouldn't "overact" in their treatment of him.

"First of all, it's got to be one of the most weird moments of my presidency," he said. "Here I am, getting ready to answer questions from a free press in a democratic Iraq, and a guy stands up and throws his shoe. And it was bizarre, and it was an interesting way for a person to express himself."

He added, "I'm not angry with the system. I believe that a free society is emerging, and a free society is necessary for our own security and peace."

[marylanddem]

1. She looks like she's considering whether to eat him or not.

[d_b]

6. salt and pepper

nom nom nom

[bdamomma]

2. he can't reflect on anything he has no soul!!

[peace frog]

3. Right, the thrower had no deeply felt personal reasons

to hurl his shoes and denounce you other than for *notoriety*. Uh huh. Dickweed.

[malaise]

4. Poor Bush - he invaded and occupied a country

and all he was was infamy, two shoes and a permanent label - war criminal. Fuck him.

[marylanddem]

5. I wanted to throw something at the TV set

when I heard one of those CNN idiots talking about how the journalist had embarrassed the "profession" - the mainstream American media are nothing more than collaborators.

[gratuitous]

7. I disagree, Mr. President

I think he was looking to plant a size 10 right between your beady eyes in partial payback for all the suffering and misery you, your policies, and your boot-licking military and mercenaries have perpetrated on his country.

[Johonny]

8. looking for notoriety

Ah yes because who wouldn't want to be known as the guy put to death for throwing a shoe at Bush.