Wonkette
Back awhile ago Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi achieved international renown for hurling his loafer at our President at the time, George W. Bush. This was the like the “Kanye West doing something spontaneous at the teenager show” of its time! “George W. Bush is going to torture the shit out of him,” was the conclusion made in what everyone was pretty sure was hyperbolic jest. Anyway, long story short, apparently George W. Bush has been torturing the shit out of Muntader al-Zaidi since December.
This guy—who, by the way, has been nothing but trouble—has a lot of big claims about being whipped with cables and beaten with pipes and forced to endure electric shock. And something about it being cold. Now he’s going on about naming names, etc. etc., except he is pretty much 100% sure he will be killed, or tortured with more cables or electricity or chilly temperatures if he does so. This is probably true! The United States of America has liberated the BEST SCOOP EVER for this Muntader al-Zaidi and he is being just awful about it, really.
Never forget.
Well, they have to torture him — otherwise Iraq would be wracked with terrorist violence.
What?
“YOU LIE!”
That quick reflex duck was the first and only time I was proud of gDub.
That moment would have been so much better if W hadn’t ducked, and if the shoes had been hob-nail boots.
They’re torturing him because he missed.
The hero with a lot of sole.
Headlines a little outa whack on that NYT story: “Irawi shoe thrower…” What’s an “Irawi”?
Jim Demintia: Killer hob-nailed boots full of anthrax?
I hope he goes into the shoe business just to see his ad campaign.
It wasn’t *torture*; more of a character-building, Outward-Boundy-type thing. He should be thanking W!
Whip me with cords, beat me with pipes, whatevs, just keep away from teh genitalz.
Now that he’s out of prison, and the U.S. (theoretically) is getting out of Iraq, al Zaidi should run for office. I know I’d vote for him, if I were Iraqi.
An hyperbolic infinite jest perhaps? Or do you mean geste (or gest)? I consider the shoe throw a beau geste myself.
It proves nothing, we torture everybody.
Hobnail boots with anthrax and multicoloured mirrors.
Bet you Fox/Beck pays to have someone throw a shoe at that dude for a WACKY stunt.
MzNicky: Looks like somebody’s been watching too much Project Runway.
magic titty: FTW!
“BECAUSE HE _MISSED_!!!” RIMSHOT!
Such consistently brilliant, out of the [shoe]box Commenting is what keeps me coming back to Wonkette!
That’s why I say nice shot…nice shot, man.
You know, a well thrown shoe that hits a normal person’s head could do a lot of brain damage. In this case, however, ….
MzNicky: Hobnail boots with anthrax & multicolored mirrors & and those bombs that release thousands of little bomblets that then explode & cut your balls off.
(((audio)))
Help I’m Iraq: The Soaring Sole Revival
Ladies and Gentlemen…meet your newest Wonkette intern.
What’s a little hazing among fiends?
Maus: My guess is their response is more along the line of pointing out that Democrats were outraged at Joe Wilson for his outburst, but thrilled with an Iraqi throwing a shoe at the BAD Preznit.
This guy must be tortured because he is the leader of the Asics of Evil.
Have everybody downloaded the Shoenstein 3-D for your portable video gaming device?
In a perfect version of the afterlife, GWB would duck shoes thrown every 2-3 seconds for all eternity.
MzNicky: “YOU LIE (with your eyes).”
queeraselvis v 2.0: It’s THE BEATLES, you dang kidz! Sheesh!
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Happiness-is-a-Warm-Gun-lyrics-The-Beatles/98016EE12E812CFF48256BC2002124B0
I weep for the future.
And too: Bush did exhibit an uncanny knack for ducking thrown objects. Kinda like he’d been doing it all his life!
Well this will make receiving the Nobel a little more challenging for Mr. al Zaidi. But the revenues from the signature versions of the infamous shoe should be some consolation. Last I had heard, they were sold out of that style in the middle east footware dealers for decades to come.
Well they had to torture him to prevent imminent attacks. Remember the shoe bomber? We can’t just sit around, waiting for the other shoe to drop!
MzNicky: Mother Superior jump the gun!
MzNicky: “They have ears, but they do not listen.”
MzNicky: I think Barbara used to chunk one of her size 12 clogs at him when she’d catch him abusing his manhood to pictures of roadkill.
Ms. Weiner, I worship your subhead. And MzNicky.
skutre: Makes me wonder if Laura throws shoes at him a lot.
In a tragic miscommunication, his actual mission was to throw “a couple of used rubbers.”
Car Ramrod: *golf claps*
norbizness: No, I am still playing the low tech Sock and Awe game.
norbizness: no, i’ve been playing the lo-tech game: http://www.sockandawe.com/