The MSM have decided that the disgruntled al-Sadr and Che worshipping Iraqi journalist “tossed” his shoes at Bush, “tossing” being the functional equivalent of the softball questions typically lobbed at, for example, President-Elect O! Personally, I think he “wung” them at Bush (“hurled” being a little histrionic, don’t you think?), because I like wing-tips. Of course, he might have “flung” them at Bush, and it’s perfectly possible that our Muslim brethren don fling-tips.
THE young Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W Bush had been incensed by a story he covered about an American soldier who used a copy of the Koran for target practice, according to his family.
Muntathar al-Zaydi, 28, who became an overnight hero in the Arab world, worked as a reporter for the popular al-Baghdadiya satellite TV station.
In May he was sent to report on an incident in Radwaniyah, west of Baghdad, in which Islam’s holy book was found riddled with bullets from an American sniper.
“He talked incessantly about the subject,†recalled his elder brother Uday. It was one of a number of assignments that appear to have radicalised Zaydi during his brief journalistic career.
“The war changed Muntathar’s psyche as a result of the horrific scenes he saw, as well as the cruel tragedies, which led to the scene we all saw at the press conference,†Uday added.
“From the abyss, I toss at thee!”
Comment by Carin on 12/21 @ 7:04 am #
Ok, there are two types of commenters here. Those who BELIEVE an American soldier shot bullets into a Koran and those who don’t. I’m gonna need proof that such happened. I don’t take the word of a tosser.
Comment by JHoward on 12/21 @ 7:10 am #
Poor bastard. I’m sure had the MSM gotten it’s bible shot all to hell, they’d have peed all over Temple O!bama.
Comment by sears poncho on 12/21 @ 7:22 am #
Oh come on, Carin. He’s a journalist, Why would he need proof of such a thing?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/21 @ 7:29 am #
Notice the detail that it was a “sniper”.
What, he was shooting from 1,000 yards, honing his skills?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 12/21 @ 7:34 am #
Cool. So it’s okay for me to show up at an Andres Serrano show and use my steel toes on him.
Are my feet allowed to still be in them? I just want to clarify the rules of engagement here.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/21 @ 7:49 am #
Artistic expression! Maybe the snipers could get a NEA grant.
Comment by Jim in KC on 12/21 @ 8:11 am #
Yep, books with bullet holes: life-changing.
Note to Muntathar: Even if it’s true, dipshit, so what? It’s just a book.
Comment by Carin -buried under 10 inches of "climate change" on 12/21 @ 8:36 am #
Note to Muntathar: Even if it’s true, dipshit, so what? It’s just a book
Sorry, Jim. That only applies to Christianists. Nice try.
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Comment by MarkD on 12/21 @ 10:21 am #
No doubt this is as true as the flushed Koran. It appears he’s qualified, is the Times hiring?
Comment by dre on 12/21 @ 10:49 am #
Uday update
Comment by Sdferr on 12/21 @ 11:12 am #
Muntader is a former Baathist.
Munteder is a Sadrist.
Muntador hates Iran.
Muntider loves Iran.
Montaedoir misses Saddam.
Meinteadeir rejoices Saddam is dead.
Meantidoiear desires forgiveness for his shoe throwing act.
Mointieiouar will never accede to guilt.
Comment by JD on 12/21 @ 11:16 am #
Muntader likes to toss salads.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/21 @ 11:43 am #
That should prove to be a useful skill if he has to spend any significant time in jail.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 12/21 @ 1:11 pm #
THE young Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W Bush had been incensed by a story he covered about an American soldier who used a copy of the Koran for target practice, according to his family.
Then there was that root-cause story about the American Soldiers who found poor Imaad’s Playboy during a raid, causing Imaad to first beat up his Mother, who then had to take poor Imaad to the hospital to get some Valium, or something.
Me, I’ve still never recovered from back when The Big Bad Wolf blew some houses down, so I’m righteously preoccupied with ridding the World of canines and all who serve their unholy cause.
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Comment by mojo on 12/21 @ 10:13 pm #
Looked more like “pegged” to me…
Comment by steveaz on 12/22 @ 1:34 pm #
#7, Jim in KC,
“Note to Muntathar: Even if it’s true, dipshit, so what? It’s just a book.”
The daily images that “switched” the shoe-chucker from a regular, get-along guy to a shoe-flinging punk were definitely not true. In fact, they were purposely amplified and broadcast by global media in a bid to generate the “hate,” and violence that they hope will result in the next filmed IED explosion, sniper attack on US troops, or thrown shoe.
Now, it appears those chickens are coming home to roost, and the Left’s media organs are going to try to disown ‘em.
I’m hopeful that, because of the media’s direct involvement in this embarrassment, Iraq’s parliament can create statutes that hold their media organizations accountable for what they print. If successful, these could be imported to serve as our own republic’s model for reigning-in our own rabidly partisan, unpatriotic press.
Still, I wonder often, how long its going to be before an American passport-holding terrorist shoots up a Crawford, Texas eatery because Bush “stole his savings” (as Sunday’s NYT has no problem suggesting obtusely) or because he “killed the Polar Bears” by not signing the Kyoto Accords, or another dictum absurdum?
Somehow, the people who manufacture and broadcast this propaganda need to be held accountable for its effects. Or, if enforced professional accountability is simply too oppressive for them, they should be kept away from key people and events – cordoned off behind a police-barricade like the public nuisances that they are.