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Nice dodge on the first shoe, President George! What the hell? And ha ha, Dana Perino got a black eye from a black microphone who later carved “I” — for Iraq! — into her butt cheek, because of Obama. [YouTube]
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Bush is fearless.
Did they give him his shoes back?
Ever see a man say goodbye to a shoe before?
The shoes have been taken to a secret lab in Iraq to test for anthrax. If it is found, it will be replicated by the CIA and our WMDs will finally be found
Well, this is certainly a step down from the shoe-bomber. Next come the spit balls.
Would that US journalists had the ball sacs to do this.
Maliki saving Bush once again.
IED - Improvised Ecco Device
From HuffPo
“In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt. Iraqis whacked a statue of Saddam Hussein with their shoes after U.S. marines toppled it to the ground after the 2003 invasion.”
In my culture throwing a shoe is a come-on.
is anybody else grudgingly impressed by his reaction speed/ducking time?
goodluck/badluck: You’re right. I have to hand it to Bush. The guy’s pretty coordinated. Of course if this were Barry he’d probably catch both shoes, shine them, hand them back to the guy, and ask him what his issues were over tea.
And who says Iraqis don’t have a sense of humor?!
Now see, they shoulda let Greta Van Susteren loan him her spike heels. There coulda been bloodage. She coulda found somebody in that pack o’ wolves who threw dice in Aruba at THAT CASINO ….
Borat: The guy has issues over tea? WTF? Is there NOTHING these people won’t do to undermine our attempts to civilize them?
Borat: I disagree. I think Barry would have caught the shoe. Then swished a three-pointer from the corner.
“There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on.”
Now, if George had a real Texas sense of humor, he’d have said “Hey, no problem. Size sevens.”
That was a pretty good dodge by Bush. HA HA, get it? DODGE???
goodluck/badluck:
Yes, in this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7782422.stm he actually has a “bring it, bitch” look on his face after the first shoe. I imagine the stupidity makes him brave (as long as he doesn’t actually have to fight in a war) and nimble as a cat.
Did you catch the smirk on his face after the first show missed? I think he was having a flashback to his Skull and Bones hazing.
I hope Barry gives that reporter a Congressional Medal of Freedom (hey, he’s done more to earn it than George Tenet)
goodluck/badluck: Yeah, I noticed that too; say what you will about him, at least he’s in good shape (I’d like to think that Barry would have grabbed the shoe in mid-flight and chucked it back at the reporter)
Couldn’t Al Baghdad have sent someone with better aim?
Amateurs.
What is it with them people and shoes?
Ya just know W wanted throw back something, just like in school or a cabinet meeting.
Borat: rambone: jagorev:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQTp5BL5MMU&feature=related
From an even better angle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D5oKEVqQJg
Pulitzer for the shoe-thrower.
I’m looking forward to the Secret Service making every reporter who meets with Dubya take off his shoes now.
Jeff Gannon wouldn’t have missed.
Joe the shoe thrower
anyone fine some pixxx of Perino getting wacked or black eye, or at least wearing sunglasses afterwards? (with or without carved ‘I’ is fine)
Borat: Yup, that was my first thought. And you can hear the Iraqi dude, between blows during his beatdown, saying “missed him by that much.”
Borat: In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt.
Nonsense. They’re just welcoming him as a liberator.
Dodging that first shoe is, sadly, the most impressive act of W’s presidency.
[re=198269]DangerousLiberal[/re
I thought he said’” don’t taz me bro”
All foreign media will now appear barefoot before Bush; White House press corps can wear Crocs. This totally vindicates our strategy of taking the fight to the terrorists—-we can’t have them Arabs chucking shoes at us here on American soil.
Time for another reservation at Gitmo.
Are you saying “booooo” or “Booo-ush?”
Prescient quotes from the Iraqi Information Minister (http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/)
“The midget Bush and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.”
Of US troops: “They are most welcome. We will butcher them.” “We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.”
“The shock has backfired on them. They are shocked because of what they have seen. No one received them with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets. Now, the game has been exposed. Awe will backfire on them. This is the boa snake. We will extend it further and cut it the appropriate way.”
rambone: Wow — Dubya’s response is both smarmy and clueless. “It’s one way to gain attention.” Probably those families getting murdered are all doing it for attention too.
That guy couldn’t hit a massive, obvious failure with two shoes. And the reporter’s aim wasn’t very good either.
The shoes were the first part of an elaborate strip tease, part of a local mating ritual. Bush and al Zaidi would have been required under tribal law to consummate their Iraqi gay wedding if the shoes had not missed… (okay, so that was kinda weak, no way to work teh buttsecks into it, moving on)
Did anybody else get the impression Bush has practice at dodging thrown objects? Maybe Laura’s frozen smile hides the soul of a serial object thrower.
WIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats the type of thanks he can expect for years to come.
How awesome!! I of cousrse would have thrown my panties at him in support of gay marriage! Oh wait, this isn’t a Republican Rock Out Concert……..nevermind!
Borat: Keep in mind it was reversed “I”.
Palin-Plumber2012: yes, once.
The Iraqi version of Dick Cheney it would seem.
Were they Bruno Magli’s? Oh. Wait. OJ’s in jail. Nevermind.
…this is so fukkin awesome! Get use to it shit bag, its just the fukkin beginning!!! I think I just found my new screen saver!
I believe they were Nunn Bush brand.
…in my culture hitting someone with a shoe is a sign of affection!
Cinderella?
Could it be this guy was just pissed cause David Gregory got the MTP gig? From the rear, it really looks like Chuck Todd.
Wow, that guy has a pretty decent arm. Wonder if this was his way of trying out for the Texas Rangers?
at the same time Palin’s church is set on fire.
coincidence?
we’ve either wore the terrorists out or they’re just getting lazy.
It was quite a dodge; it’s probably the best thing Bush has done his entire presidency.
I like how this report explains what throwing a shoe means. An American journalist would have thrown a pie.
Who throws a shoe?
“That is a farewell kiss, you dog”. Best phrase to come out of Iraq since ‘the mother of all battles’.
Somewhere Kruschev is nodding approvingly as his political footwear movement has finally taken off.
I hope freedom loving Americans everywhere will greet W with a rain of shoes wherever he goes.
I think the Terror Threat Level has now escalated to Red (Threat Immediate) and shoes are now banned in the USA (in case the industry is not already bankrupt).
Incidently Bushes stock portfolio is now in 50% Duct Tape and 50% Slippers.
Palin’s church caught on fire–or did a witch exorcist spontaneously combust? who knows? I think Iraqis throw shoes more than we do. I just took off my Docs and chuckled them at a “W” cutout and didn’t come close. Then I put them back on and put the boot in proper, Glesga style.
DoktorZoom: Yes, in new Hobo America, shoes are cheap. Let us all throw them frequently. It is part of the merging of our 2 great cultures since we share the same overlord.
I want to know in which culture throwing shoes at someone is a sign of respect?
The obvious result of this is that people will be forced to remove their shoes now before press conferences. I wonder how they’re going to work that. Or maybe for the rest of his life, W will travel from place to place in a plexiglass Pope-mobile. For on-stage appearances like that one, perhaps a plexiglass Pope-mo-segway.
If George hadn’t ducked, and the shoe was a Birkenstock…
SayItWithWookies: Ignorance makes getting through life much easier. Blind ignorance, doubly so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqXDbAwvBhY
I’m astonished that not one secret service agent would take a shoe for the president!
If only everyone in the room threw their shoes…meh. I hope Mr. Muntadar al-Zaidi made it out alive. Helen Thomas, you still have a few more weeks.
What better way to say “Thanks, Gee Dub!” than a meaty Vibram waffle to the noggin?
quoth teh Raven: Imelda Marcos’ Philippines?
Comedy gold!
quoth teh Raven: Good point. When will these Iraqis learn that the proper way to show disrespect for a speaker is to hit them in the face with a cream pie at close range?
I’m surprised that the Secret Service didn’t have the guy tazed before he could throw the second shoe. Would’ve been more impressive to see Secret Service agents jumping in the path of the flying wingtips.
chauncey: When has the Iraqi Information Minister ever been wrong?
And Tony Blair and Gordon Brown haven’t been hit with shoes only because “[Britain] is not worth an old shoe.” At least we were worth one old shoe!
Bagglio Ordonez: Yeah, even the secret service is sick of Bush. They totally let the shoe guy run out of ammunition before they stepped in.
I’d like to contribute to this guy’s defense fund. Anybody have an address?
pity, but in iraq throwing knives at someone is a sign of great respect.
[sigh]
It’s not like the life of a president is easy.
I don’t think you can throw anything at anybody until you walk a mile in their shoes. I mean, even if the the shoe was on the other foot I couldn’t see myself overreacting like that reporter did.
next time I hope someone throws a chair.
Ive watched it so many times I have it memorized. But I still keep hoping that one of these times one of those shoes pegs him.
You know, if that guy gets to go to prison forever at least he got to do something that I bet over 85% of people in the world would like to do.
“Throw at shoe at me once, shame, shame on you… Throw a, throw a shoe at me, twice,,,, You can’t, you can’t, He just wanted some attention…
Bush has expressed interest in “replenishing the old coffers” after leaving the White House. I think I now know the most efficient way for him to do this. He needs to hook up with a barnstorming carnival and let people pay a buck to dunk throw a ball at a target which if hit will dunk his punk ass in a tub of cold water. He’ll reap billions.
Guess Bush got a little sunday football action after all!
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/
Borat:
In my culture, a thrown shoe means that your horse probably lost the race.
OMG, that video. It seemed like everyone was a bit surprised by the whole thing. The Secret Service didn’t exactly leap into action there initially, did they?
Hi Jim
Re: Wonkette ‘Man of the Year’
Do we even need to call for nominations this year? Let’s just name Muntazer Al-Zaidi by acclamation!
What say you, Wonketteers?
gidgetbananas: Ditto. That guy is my new hero, may he rest in peace. More balls than any western “reporter” EVER!
I will gladly donate my steel-toed stompers to the next (dead) hero.
Heck that Iraqi journalist is just a normal guy. He bombards the president one shoe at a time just like everybody else.
That makes this even funnier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D5oKEVqQJg. Who throws a shoe? Honestly.
Btw, if this is what it takes to wake up the hung-over Wonkette eds on a regular weekend, the next 3 day weekend will require that the shoe carry a shaped charge with it.
George’s duck was pretty impressive. Judging by his reaction, that’s not the first time he’s dodged a thrown shoe. Wasn’t it D.L. Hughley that did a bit about his mother throwing her shoes at him? Maybe Barbara subscribed to the “mad black woman” school of parental discipline.
Next time, this dude does the throwing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwvg019vhpQ
A shoe?!? I mean really, who throws a shoe?
Shoe dodging. That’ll look good on his resume.
Terry: Agreed and I hope the Secret Service is a little more attentive with Barry
If he gets his shoes back I hope he puts them on eBay. I’ll bid.
Serolf Divad: If Al-Zaidi had learned to keep his throws down he would have hit him with the second one. He needs coaching on the finer points of shoe throwing.
bitchincamaro: Absafuckinglootly.
Terry: If this had happened in the US the shoe-chucker would have been instantly buried under about 20 gigantic SS officers.
I haven’t watched this much Bush family video since George Sr. threw up in the Japanese Prime Minister’s lap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIwLJtqoxBs
How old is Bush? Like 62 or something? I figure that gives us 20 years to perfect our aim. Keep duckin’, dubs.
The worst part of this is that I wonder if it was staged. I just have a sick feeling the GOP is going to do what it can to make Iraq go even further to Hell prior to January 10th.
This is bad news. Bush will have to reestablish his manhood by taking out a couple of Iraqi wedding parties.
The best part to me is how al-Maliki does not flinch. He just watches calmly, with sort of an amused expression.
My Headline: The Lame Duck ducked!
Did anyone look inside the show? Maybe it was filled with candy and flowers.
azw88: How about?: Lame Duck Muthafucka!
Dana Perino got popped in the eye by a microphone in the melee that ensued… No, she was the target all along, the shoe-throwing was a distraction to set it all up. The press has been looking for a chance to poke her for a long time now.
So…he has to bend over and take a slip-on/sandal off to reload. Why didn’t he have both shoes ready? Was it that spontaneous? Shoe throwing has little of the elegance of a pump-action shotgun.
The Yankees just signed Al-Zaidi to a 5-year, $100 million dollar contract. Keep your head up Varitek.
VenjaminJenkman: I don’t see what George Bush has done wrong, he’s destroying a bunch of people who shouldn’t be in the 1st place. I say the Iraqis are just here to take up space on this planet. They’re not doing anything to benifit us. George Bush is doing a great job where he is. I hope he sends a nuke to Iraq and just wipe that country out of the map. The only thing the Iraqis know how to do is terrorize countries, they’re all terrorists.Ok, I’m going to say it, I think George Bush is good. He’s one of the greatest president ever.. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! he attack Iraq and many Iraqis died.. so what? I hope he bombs Iraq again, I seriously don’t give a crap if the Iraqis die, I hope bush kills them all, bomb the hell out of Iraq. serioulsy I think the Iraqis are nothing but terrorist and George Bush is doing the world a favour by bombing them and killing them. they just like to bomb the hell out of each other, so the Americans attacking Iraq doesn’t really make that much of a difference, they’re just speeding up the process. So I solute George Bush
I have come here to chew bubblegum and throw shoes…and I’m all out of bubblegum.
“I only do what American peoples tell me, I give George Bush the boot. Is not good custom??”
Apparently, dude was not gellin’ like Magellan.
Bush has looked so pathetic over the last few months that I’m starting to feel sorry for him
Except not really
That comment — “all I can report is it is a size 10″ — is why so many people wanted to have a drink with the Sharp’s drinking Bush. Such good bar-room repartee possibilities. Much better than a competent hand at the tiller of state, like Gore.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a shoe………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXP9yoc4VY
Borat:
They probably have their second teamers on Dubya already and those guys were off checking usajobs.com instead of looking for flying shoes.
Clatta Verata Nic-shoe.
Except Bush’s Army of the Dead makes me sad.
Just think, if he had successfully dodged a thrown hand grenade, that cocky look on his face would have been the last image we would have had of him. Seriously, if I were as popular as Bush is (in Iraq, mind you!), I’d have dove for cover after that first shoe.
The man doesn’t have the sense that Allah gave a mule.
We are all shoe throwing Iraqi journalists
It seems that King George has experience dodging shoes. I’m sure kookey-eyed Laura pitched quite a few Easy Spirit pumps his way.
Ann Coulter would have thrown her thong — but she never wears thongs, and she’s not a journalist.
Where is the freaking secret service? They can’t get in front of the president before a tired old journalist has time to throw a shoe (or two?!) how will they take a bullet for him?
This is why they no longer allow Keith Olbermann in the White House Press Room.
The House of Flying Hushpuppies.
Hey, Dubya — this is why one doesn’t just fly-in, uninvited and unannounced. Ya gotta at least call first.
I didn’t see Dana Perino in the video. Was she under the podium? Was it really a microphone that poked her in the eye?
We should be able to get answers from a room full of journalists.
Mad About Shoe.
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i152/racerxxl/Arf/bshshoe.jpg
Though I don’t think he’s got quite that trim a waist…
tynansanger: This guy was the Helen Thomas of his country.
Maybe the Secret Service just got word that they won’t be getting bonuses this year, because the phrase “NOT PRESSED” comes to mind re: their reaction.
azw88: How many shoes does it take to make a lame duck duck?
Love how Al-Maliki tries so half-assedly to block the second shoe!
Muntazer al-Zaidi was about five inches away from being history’s greatest hero. Though in his defense, it was a surprise visit by Bush, so he didn’t have long to practice.
As usually, only Hannity gets it right: http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=1203621&page=7
Chukka loafer at a loafer and you will get the boot, just as a lame duck standing on a platform may duck a platform shoe, but he can’t duck a mule. He’ll just stand there and flip-flop, flip-flop as though he was clogged and had absolutely no sole. Ugg.
Bush dodges shoes, Perino gets a black eye, Coulter breaks her jaw, Tubes goes to jail, Hopey wins, McThuselah goes down in flames…is there any way for us to live 2008 all over again, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day? Anyhow, I’m not surprised he dodged the shoe, because they’re much narrower than frying pans.
Srsly, lay off the Secret Service. Dubya was covered in body armor Desenex.
George always loved a little rough housing…
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2008/12/bush-to-shoe-bomber-bring-it-on.html
AngryBlakGuy: Me too! Are you from texas?
Our President has just been exposed as a Shaolin master in hiding. His reflexes just saved him from and image that would have buried the last remnants of his dignity in pant-soaking laughter forever.
The spin is in. Reporter upgraded to “protestor”.
stopmebeforeitypeagain: The answer is throw’n in the wind.
Bush looks like he dodges shoes being thrown at him all the time!
This is so fucking funny I almost peed my pants watching the video. But seriously, this moment more than any other, seeing Dubya dodging a fucking shoe headed for his face, is the most telling testimony of the meaning of his presidency. This moment summarizes George W. Bush’s time in office. I have to go watch the thing again. It’s fucking hilarious!
HA, Check this out, hilarious! http://www.shortershelflife.com/
The kids are getting quick these days!!
If the shoe was thrown at Hopey he would’ve quietly said “No,” stopped it mid-air in end-of-Matrix Neo-style, then just slightly turned his head & watched the shoe drop to the floor.
Then he’d put one hand behind his back & awaited the shoe thrower’s inevitable assault, while all of America whispered to themselves “He’s the one.”
This is also how Hopey will stop the coming new Great Depression.
Captain Swing: Absolutely. Al-Zaidi is my hero. I think we should start naming stuff after him, like High Schools and such.
This is what $70K at Columbia School of Journalism pays for these days: “To Muslims, throwing a shoe at a person is an insult.” In my non-muslim family, throwing a shoe is also an insult, and sometimes payback for when you come home all drunk and messed up with lipstick on your ass cheek.
Luke Warm: Probably at Abu Ghraib, being buggered by dogs on film, for Bush’s evening pleasure.
Zhu Bajie
V572625694: Most filipinos wore rubber flip-flops back then.
Zhu Bajie
Dubya has now continued his surprise tour of nations where he’s not welcome — he’s now in the relative safety of Afghanistan, where most of the citizens don’t have shoes.
that move looked too practiced. I wonder how many of Pickle’s shoes he has ducked that same way?
Absolutely. Surprised with his baseball background he didn’t catch it and throw to first.
Gopherit: That is exactly what I though. This man is too big of a failure at everything ever to summon those ducking skills out of nowhere. His reflexes have been finely honed.
There are times of retrospect, and in this drunken pile of retrospect one must point out the obvious and do his OR HERS bestest at destroying anything that may amount to reality. That is why you people exist. You are not here to create a Firestorm, you are here to diffuse it. Sure there have been many stupid comments on this post, as this one is not an exeption. This is why we must declare WAR ON COMMENTS. WAR. TOTAL, UTTER DEVESTATION. It is one thing to sit back and enjoy the ride, but another to actively destroy the internet all-together.
Granted, I enjoyed the experiment with “assfucking” comments and the occasional “Paultard Public Assassination,” but times have changed. Now is the time for the ultimate in stufffs. THE ALLEGORY OF TEH CAVE. SO COMMENTERS. IF YOU HAVE HOPE FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM, YOU WILL COMMENT ON THIS WAR ON COMMNENTING. It may be the last chance you have. Soon Nick Denton will own all of you in slave shackles, and you will answer to various gods who are not the real maker, “Al Gore.” I hate to push Bush’s “show incident” aside, but there are more important fish to fry. We are talking about the existance of mankind here. Drink a bottle of Maker’s Mark and TELL ME I IS WRONGSS.
Down with comments! DOWN. WITH. COMMENTS.
Do you people know that your shit will disappear in one day, as mine has so many times in the past? WITHOUT EGGSPLANATIONS? WHERE DO THE COMMENT THINGZ GO? WHERE? Ask your Maker, or drink Maker’s Mark *creater of fine bourbon since long before the holocaust.
Oh and when he comes back I would absolutely love to throw a shoe at him.
I don’t think enough has been said about the lame secret service reaction…the one guy on guard doesn’t come bounding in from stage left looking totally clueless until well after the second shoe drops. Meanwhile the unshoed reporter gets tackled by his fellows like he’s got a third one stashed inside his pants.
(sidenote: a shoe inside one’s pants is a symbol of fertile masculinity in the middle east)
As you well know, smarty pants, Sunday was just a taste of what the hobgoblins have prepared for Inauguration Day. People are going to be throwing so much wet garbage at Dubya that attendees might need raincoats.
I did research on the subject.
http://mojopo.blogspot.com/2008/12/throw-stuff-at-bush-january-20th.html
I guess they DON’T have homosectuals in Iraq. No gay man *I* know would waste a pair of perfectly good shoes. On Bush, no less.
sezme: Disagree. After all the time we’ve waited for this Reign of Error to end, do we *really* want a “President Cheney”, even for a minute? I say keep your shoes on until this gang of polecats slinks outta D.C. under the crushing weight of their own powerfully-suppressed guilt and shame, while the world welcomes That One to the White House…
trai_dep: Maybe they were Payless. My gay posse would only throw grocery store flip flops, because - goodness - that’s a terrific insult.
So I looked up the word for homo in Arabic and it looks like this:
لوطي, مشته المماثل
tinkleberry: Sally, that is a good point. I’m wondering of journalists are going to have to attend pressers barefoot now. In which case, that would be a tremendous mistake because then people with have to throw bodily fluids when they are upset. Or bodily solids, for that matter. But really - who was asleep at the wheel and how they did they allow two shoes to be thrown? I expect a better performance for the Obama administration or else. Also, congratulations to that journalist. His aim was off, but I admire his determination.
God I hope some reporter in Afghanistan heaves a fucking goat corpse at him.
mmm… i’d donate money to bail that guy out.
/slow clap…
What does this guy have against dogs?
Actually, it is all a big misunderstanding. Bush tried to say “greetings” in the local Arabic tongue, but he actually said “We will never open a Wal-Mart in this crazy shithole, ever.”
He stepped in dogshit and decided the shoes were a lost cause. GWBush ain’t worth an unshat shoe.
After throwing his Shoes the BASTURD could be herd crying like a Baby, thoes Shoes cost him a years Salary and was the only pair he had ha/ha.
For some reason, The Google made the Campbell Brown picture start to take over my screen. Couldn’t we at least have the one of her in the wet t-shirt? Or if we are to be even more impressed by her journalistic talents, couldn’t CNN arrange for a photo of her (in a wet t-shirt) throwing a thong at George Bush — or Larry King?
GAK! Campbell Brown is eating my computer too!
Make it stop!
Sorry CNN, but you can’t make an uber-WASP appealing to Obamerica ™.
Aghhhhhhhhhhhh
We can’t even scroll down to make the face go away anymore? Campbell, stop following me!
If Cambell Brown staring me in the eyes and talking to me enriches Wonkette, I support it.
I would also support the American Apparel models there too. Then I can can get my snark and semi-p0rn in the same place.
Borat: The only problem is I have a burned out pixel on her cheek and it gives her a mole. Which is cute.
He didn’t throw shoes, he liberated his feet! Also, everyone knows Al Bagdidiyah television is in the tank for Obama, this is no surprise.
Also, great job making this the focus of the story and not talking about the implications of this “Security Pact” on our continued presence in the Arab world that so inflames terrorists, news media!
Could ANYONE not be proud of throwing a shoe a Bush? If only he’d had more feet.
David Gregory was seen muttering “You can do that? Why’d nobody tell me?”
Due to my sincere respect for the office of the President of the United States, I am very upset by this. I mean, everyone in that whole Goddamned room had shoes on, and only one guy tried to throw his? What was wrong with everyone else? I expect more from them.
Too bad he missed.
G I A N T C A M P B E L L B R O W N ! ! !
Do. Not. Want.
Maybe I’m biased, but that giant CAMPBELLBROWN is bullshit.
*throws shoes at monitor*
I’m having my tonsils out today. 32 years late, but what the hell. During my recuperation, I will play this video over and over. I’m quite sure it will speed the healing process.
SayItWithWookies: And then Bush can make fun of their holey socks.
sanantonerose: My husband had his out late in life- the percocet will help.
I find that if you adjust the comment box properly, campbell’s smirk goes away.
What’s with the big time ads, editors? Did Jim and Sara object to living in frig boxes now that winter has come?
Those were good throws. Too bad Bush’s nervous system, unimpeded by the need to process signals through a frontal lobe, is so speedy. But seriously, this Iraqi needs to be brought to the attention of the Steinbrenners.
How often does that mad ape get shit thrown at him anyway? He dodged that first one like one verry experienced mofo.
Booo! Obnoxious Campbell Brown Ad.
These ads are getting out of control. I’ve already been minimizing my windows so I don’t have the distraction of the blinky-flashy ads throwing off my concentration while I read and provide you all with the fantastic Larry McAwful quality of post you’ve all come to expect.
Besides being an unwelcome distraction, ads make it difficult to read and post on this site while I’m goldbricking at work. The new Campbell Brown ad is impossible to cover up by minimizing the window. This sucks. I might have to find other sites to surf at work or, failing that, do actual work. I do not like this development.
OK, so this is late commentary…but the proper way to “solute” the President, at least where I come from, is with used condoms….shoes are so Soviet retro… plus, the real story is the guy practicing in his hotel room the night before - did anybody get any sleep?…”this is GOODBYE..(whack), no, this IS goodbye (whack)…how about, THIS is goodbye…(whack)”, and finally, we can stop worrying about restocking Guatanamo now, it’ll become a shoe store full of copycats…
I think it would be a super idea if everyone either took or mailed an old pair of shoes to bush in the WH. Show him the love, people…
I never thought that looking at Campbell Brown’s face would make me ill, but it’s happening. Hey, Wonkette, we all need money, but really, can’t you give her bright-eyed, white-bread, prep-skank, perkiness a rest?
BTW, is “No Bias. No Bull.” supposed to distinguish her from:
> Typical CNN journalists?
> Fox pretend-journalist?
> Television journalists in general?
> All journalists?
> All barefoot journalists?
> Murphy Brown?
The comments on the YouTube video are the usual wasteland- only 22% of the retards in this country who still approve of the job Bush is doing, and they’re all on YouTube, constantly, expressing their desire to smash the faces of those who have failed to be appropriately grateful for over five years of kidnapping, torture, and death. Can we please just dynamite along the Mason-Dixon line?
DeLand DeLakes: those ignoramuses don’t JUST live south of the Mason-Dixon line. Why such unimaginative solutions? Why not something like the holy ghost wiping out every last remaining Bush supporter with a massive genital rash that eventually takes over their entire body and kills them? Then that would leave all the good Southern Dems alive to continue the good fight.
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badmuthagoose: According to our Wonkette editors, all Southern Democrats are dead. But I agree: a creeping crud of death would be most desirable, especially if it comes in the form of a noxious green cloud a’ la the angel of death in _The Ten Commandments_.
Larry McAwful: Hey! I adjusted my adblock settings just so I could have Campbell’s soft brown eyes staring lovingly at me as I sit here in my basement, cheeto-stained fingers typing frantically. She’s the only human contact I have for 12-14 hours a day. Don’t take my woman away!!!1!!!
And to shortsx3: Better Nick Denton than Nick Nolte. Have you considered thorazine for the weekends?
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated! Love, A proud Southern Democrat (Ok my parents were from New Jersey)
I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who didn’t have a shitstain Preznit who completely abrogated The Constitution.
I’d like to see that carved “I” on Dana Perino’s butt cheek…
azw88: The Lame ducked.
Bearbloke: Woah, keep yer shoes on there, pacifista. Who said anything about killing him. Just beaning bush would have been enough. A life-long scar would have been perfect.
I guess they don’t let you respond to blatant trolls. Maybe it’s better this way.
Purple Tide: Dear hopelessly confused sucker of Satan’s cock,
YOU DISTURBED HATEMONGERING FUCK! THE DARK PRINCE HAS HIS HAND FIRMLY INSERTED INTO YOUR ANUS AND IS USING YOU AS A PUPPET TO SPREAD HIS FEAR AND ODIUM. DO THE UNIVERSE A FAVOR AND END YOUR MISERABLE, DISTORTED EXISTENCE BEFORE YOUR INIQUITY SEEPS INTO AN UNSPOILED MIND. YOU ARE A FUNDAMENTALLY CORRUPT VEHICLE OF HATE AND YOU ARE BEYOND REDEMPTION. YOU ROTTEN, UNEDUCATED, DISGUSTINGLY TAINTED GRATIFIER OF ALL THAT IS IMPURE.
You think it is funny that Dana Perino almost sustains a serious eye injury (one inch and she could have been blinded). You are pathetic - I hope that worse happens to you, you deserve it. Though your behavior is probably the result of jealosy — she’s more successful, smarter and prettier. In fact superior in every way.
MrNeutral: …superior in every way to Campbell Brown?!? How dare you insult the Great Smiling One! Heathen!
nosnikreplliw: totoro: Totoro, I have no reply to your comment, but I give you the award for my favorite Wonkette screen name. Now please ask the cat bus to come remove the giant Campbell Brown head.
Can’t believe how many losers are on this board. A Sadam-loving Baath Party supporting lunatic throws shoes at our President, and you make fun of him? I guess you weren’t the ones who lost lives during 911 or tortured by Sadam. You thankless morons. The reason this country is going down-hill is because of all you biased-media brain-washed heads are popping up every corner. Glad Bush doesn’t give a flying f**k about what the shoe-thrower thinks, nor does he care what you imbeciles call him.
Here’s a humorous ditty regarding said shoe throwing incident - it seemed pretty funny to me at the time I have to admit!
http://www.macjams.com/song/48608
Lyrics below (and chords if you are musically inclined):
Throw Your Shoes
© 2008 Neil Porter
If you see him in a crowded mall
If you see him on the street
If you see him at a restaurant
Take your shoes right off your feet
When you see him in a traffic jam
There’s no need to be discreet
Just keep the bastard in your sights
And liberate your feet
Throw your shoes
You know you want to
Throw ‘em straight and throw ‘em hard
Throw your shoes
There ain’t no trophies, gongs or prizes
But it’ll make you feel
A whole lot better
Lose your footwear
Launch it like a missile
For every helpless child and woman
Buried in Iraq
One for each dead soldier
And a thousand for Katrina
The rest for selling out the world
I’ll see you out the back!
Hard to figure how you ever got there
The “leader of the free world” they say
I don’t believe just what you did there
To the free world!
Some dancin’ shoes for Freddie Mac
Something cute for Fannie Mae
A sneaker for democracy
And a boot to see you on your way
No more shoes?
You can find another missile
Toss it, lob it, hurl it, pitch it
Tell him how you feel
Throw your shoes
You know you want to
Throw ‘em straight and throw ‘em hard
Throw your shoes
There ain’t no trophies, gongs or prizes
But it’ll make you feel
A whole lot better
Chords:
Verse/Chorus/Intro/Outro:
| A | E | G | D |
Bridge:
| B | C | B | C | B | C | A