NO real religious content here, but great fun nonetheless.
We have just learned that shoe tosser Muntader al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who hurled a pair of size 10s at the US’s born-again imbecile of a President, may have inadvertently sparked a trend.
Damn! He missed!
The incident last week gave the Rude Pundit a great idea:
He took out “a raggedy old pair of sneakers”, put them in a Priority Mail shipping box, helpfully provided by the United States Post Office, and shipped them to George W Bush at the White House. He included a note that read:
This is a farewell kiss from the American people, you dog.
When al-Zaidi threw his shoes, he shouted “this is a farewell kiss, you dog”.
RP explains his action thus:
Since throwing objects at the president is generally considered a crime, the Rude Pundit figures sending shoes to Bush is a small, good thing, a gesture of contempt that has context. Sweet Christ, at this point, there should be giant sacks of shoes heading to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20500, like letters to Santa.
He adds:
Someone should be there every day of Bush’s life to throw shoes at him. Hell, someone should market a fuckin’ game that includes a Bush face mounted with velcro with tiny shoes that’ll stick to his puss. Maybe we should come up with other things that should be hurled at the President because that motherfucking monkey has slung his shit at us for eight years.
If you have any rancid old shoes that need discarding, you might consider sending them to Bush via the US embassy in London. The address is 24 Grosvenor Square,
London, W1A 2LQ, United Kingdom.
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December 17th, 2008 at 7:01 am
“We’ll be greeted as liberators” he said. Since when do they throw shoes at liberators?
On another note, he must have been sober that day given how good his reflexes were….
December 17th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Are you sure the target is right for the shoes? After all, Bush will regard the whole thing as a big (if smelly) joke, whereas if they were sent to Imadinnerjacket in Iran or his religious boss, he would feel hugely insulted, under Arab custom.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
There’s a fantastic comment from Mark Steel in the Independent that, since Bush is so shielded from insult and political arguement (since he is rubbish at it and makes the GOP look like incompetants..) that he just sees this man as one lone nut, rather than a voice to hundreds, thousands, nay millions of people who feel the very same way. It’s united the tribes in Iraq! If he had wanted peace in Iraq then all he had to do was stand still in the middle of Bazra and allow a line of people each armed ONLY with shoes (no killing or violence!) and let them play ‘Shoe the President!’. It would have saved thousands of live and millions of dollars AND found a great way to recycle shoes!
December 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I like the idea.
And talking of games, someone managed to make a release a flash game on the internet before the day was over that day.