On the bright side, we found the real shoe bomber. he will probably be greeted with roses here in the States.

Bush looks like a very sad little man today. This is his final humiliation. The United States has fallen very low. We used to be respected. Now we are reviled because all those flowers Cheney promised us have been thrown at the graves of dead Iraqis and Americans. Bush laughed after the show was thrown at him. He still doesnt get it. He and his henchmen spent the last 5 years destroying a country whose culture he didnt know, and after all the bloodshed he still doesnt know. Thats why he laughed. he doesnt know what the value of getting hit by a shoe means. I hope he can take the journalists shoes and display them in his war crimes library

I’d like to thank the reporter in question for having the cajones to do what tens of millions of us wish we could.

Awesome, give that man a Pulitzer.

Also, apparently, to touch someone with the sole of your shoe is a major insult in Iraq

I believe any time a person who is Muslim chucks a shoe at you it’s the equivalent of flinging a rotten egg.

Calling someone a dog is more like “Dirty bastard.”

the asswipes in power for one more short month deserve more than shoes (at minimum they should be dog doo covered shoes) thrown at them.

I’m sure at this very moment the journalist who threw the shoe at Bush is on a CIA-chartered jet, being “extraordinarily rendered” to a black site prison in Egypt, Jordan or Poland, where he will be subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques” like water-boarding, hooding, stress positions, temperature extremes, humiliation and degradation.

The Greatest Shoe on Earth.

The only way this would be funnier is if Chimpy attempted an Austin Powers imitation: “I mean, who throws a shoe? I mean honestly!”

One more headline:

Bush:  Now Appearing on Sole Train

I’d like to thank the reporter in question for having the cajones to do what tens of millions of us wish we could.

Then again, the Iraqis live in a Democracy and they can get away with that kind of thing.  Over here, well… we’re lucky to get Free Speech Zones in the same state when Bush rolls into town.

Clearly, throwing shoes is the traditional Iraqi way of greeting liberators. I’m pretty sure – I’ll have to get back to it at a later point – that the Iraqi word for “flower” is nearly the same as “shoe”. We’d know this if the army hadn’t been forced to fire all their translators for being gay, which I think proves conclusively that throwing shoes at President Bush in Iraq is an unfair attack by Castro liberals on the Church of Latter-Day Saints and Christmas.

Well, if you count “promptly got the shit beaten out of him and then was dragged off to jail” as “freedom,” sure.

Mr. Maliki’s security agents jumped on the man, wrestled him to the floor and hustled him out of the room. They kicked him and beat him until “he was crying like a woman,” said Mohammed Taher, a reporter for Afaq, a television station owned by the Dawa Party, which is led by Mr. Maliki. Mr. Zaidi was then detained on unspecified charges.

Other Iraqi journalists in the front row apologized to Mr. Bush, who was uninjured and tried to brush off the incident by making a joke. “All I can report is it is a size 10,” he said, continuing to take questions and noting the apologies. He also called the incident a sign of democracy, saying, “That’s what people do in a free society, draw attention to themselves,” as the man’s screaming could be heard outside.