Shoe Thrown At Bush Shoe Thrower
A small diversion while we await the speech, from Agence France Presse:
Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi was in Paris to promote his campaign for the “victims of the US occupation in Iraq” when a fellow Iraqi critic turned the tables on him, shouting: “Here’s another shoe for you.”
The thickset man with an Iraqi accent made a brief speech in Arabic during the question and answer session, defending US policy and accusing Zaidi of “working for dictatorship in Iraq,” before throwing his shoe.
The missile was thrown hard at Zaidi’s head, but he managed to dodge it and it bounced harmlessly off a curtain erected behind the speakers by the event’s hosts, the Foreign Press Welcome Centre in Paris.
Zaidi’s brother grappled with and slapped the man, whom witnesses later described as an asylum-seeker they know only as “Khayat”, before venue staff and bystanders separated them and the aggressor was hustled away.
“When I used this method, it was against the occupation. I did not use it against a compatriot,” Zaidi complained. “I always knew the occupier and his lackeys would stop at nothing to get to me.”
Via NPR’s Two-Way News Blog, “It was inevitable.”
2 Responses to “Shoe Thrown At Bush Shoe Thrower”
I would like to put a shoe up where the sun don't shine with this guy.
I ass-ume you mean to place the shoe delicately up the man's arse who threw it. Ah, but who's arse?
There is no comparison here………….the original shoe thrower was thrown in jail and tortured for his percieved patriotic act, and became a celebrated hero among the people.
Let us hope the news will follow up to check on the second shoe thrower: A: follow up to expose this imitation shoe thrower to be a plant B. follow up to demonstrate the courage of this man who after this event was hauled off by the police and imprisoned and tortured for one year for his behavior. C: follow up to see the degree to which the second shoe thrower was celebrated by the people. D: Check to see if the man was paid by the people he unknowingly/knowingly represents.
Then we can compare the acts as being uncannily similar– if not, we are comparing oranges to eye balls, “well they're round, anywho….”