What the man said was "Here's a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, you pig!"
Literally. Can you blame him?
And lookit Bush: "Nyah-nyah ya missed me! HEH!"
Anything that involves the soles of the feet in an Islamic culture is a massive insult. Thus the beating of the toppled Saddam Statue by the shoes of those who toppled it.
But I'm wondering where this noble Iraqi was during the near 25 years that Saddam was engaging in his own illegitimate invasions and ethnic-cleansing the fellow countrymen of this better form of human being. Provided a legitimate Iraqi journalist was allowed unfettered access in a press conference, I'm wondering if Captain Badass here would've felt as emboldened to take his shot. I'd be surprised and impressed.
That said, I did enjoy watching this, as well as feel more than a little embarrassed about this clown still speaking and acting in my name.
I'm quite aware. And yet, the news story doesn't add anything to my post: Iraqis consider Bush to be the worst form of scum and do the most insulting thing they can imagine to him. Americans? They call him "president". Iraqis are, unambiguously and without doubt of any kind, better people than Americans.
Not really, it's just he's played to many shooter games; if he'd aimed for centre-of-mass he probably would've connected, but he went for the fancy-schmancy headshot and made it easier for Dubya to duck.
Sure. And how is that any sillier than "Iraqis are better people than Americans" because some guy threw a shoe at W? Not even factoring in those 25 non-shoe-tossing years.
THAT WOULD ONLY BE FUNNY IF HE DID IT TO SADDAM TOO
INSTEAD, HE SHOULD THANK W FOR ~TOPPLING SADDAM AND BRINGING THE FREEDOM WITHOUT WHICH THAT REPORTER WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY THE ACT OF THROWING HIS SHOES TO BEGIN WITH~
Exactly! You've nailed it brilliantly on the head as usual! No Americans call Bush scum or, God forbid, anything worse! We'd never throw shoes at him because, well, anyone who would even have a dream about throwing a shoe at Bush (which, by the way, is no one, because we all love and adore him) isn't allowed anywhere near him, especially not in his hand-picked press conferences (when he has them!). I'm amazed that we got guy telling Cheney to go fuck himself on video, especially being the terrible and servile people we are. Then again, that was only Cheney, not Bush, who every American unambiguously and without a doubt of any kind shows nothing but overt respect to at all times.
I gotta tell you, I love it when you try to seriously argue your mountain out of a molehill fantasies as though they approach the really real world. They're funny on their face, but when you go on and on with it like it's objective reality, I get tears running down my face from all the gut laughing. =D
Some of us Americans are slightly more inclined to consider a certain Mr. Gore rightfully deserving of the title of President, and Mr. Bush to be, and to have been, deserving of impeachment, and rather a few more things in the interests of justice. I am grateful to the courageous journalist, who must have known he'd be nicked, to have made this one of Bush's last great public moments.
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Date: 2008-12-15 12:37 am (UTC)Cultural context
Date: 2008-12-15 12:47 am (UTC)Missed me! Ha ha ha! Missed me again!
Date: 2008-12-15 12:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 12:54 am (UTC)Re: Cultural context
Date: 2008-12-15 01:04 am (UTC)Literally. Can you blame him?
And lookit Bush: "Nyah-nyah ya missed me! HEH!"
Anything that involves the soles of the feet in an Islamic culture is a massive insult. Thus the beating of the toppled Saddam Statue by the shoes of those who toppled it.
Re: Missed me! Ha ha ha! Missed me again!
Date: 2008-12-15 01:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 01:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 01:18 am (UTC)But I'm wondering where this noble Iraqi was during the near 25 years that Saddam was engaging in his own illegitimate invasions and ethnic-cleansing the fellow countrymen of this better form of human being. Provided a legitimate Iraqi journalist was allowed unfettered access in a press conference, I'm wondering if Captain Badass here would've felt as emboldened to take his shot. I'd be surprised and impressed.
That said, I did enjoy watching this, as well as feel more than a little embarrassed about this clown still speaking and acting in my name.
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Date: 2008-12-15 01:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 01:37 am (UTC)BOOT TO THE HEAD!
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Date: 2008-12-15 01:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 01:45 am (UTC)*laugh*
Date: 2008-12-15 02:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 02:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 02:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 03:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 03:23 am (UTC)-- Steve's not fussy; a hit's a hit in his books.
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Date: 2008-12-15 03:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 03:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 03:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 05:00 am (UTC)INSTEAD, HE SHOULD THANK W FOR ~TOPPLING SADDAM AND BRINGING THE FREEDOM WITHOUT WHICH THAT REPORTER WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY THE ACT OF THROWING HIS SHOES TO BEGIN WITH~
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Date: 2008-12-15 05:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 05:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-15 05:34 am (UTC)I gotta tell you, I love it when you try to seriously argue your mountain out of a molehill fantasies as though they approach the really real world. They're funny on their face, but when you go on and on with it like it's objective reality, I get tears running down my face from all the gut laughing. =D
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Date: 2008-12-15 05:37 am (UTC)