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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gibby on December 14, 2008, 04:27:11 PM
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Looks like someone doesn't believe in Kid Texas to the degree they're throwing shoes at the guy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7782422.stm
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It was his sole purpose for being at the press conference.
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Fourth viewing now. Not getting less funny.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JNlxgs6qm2M/SUVlePJ-BYI/AAAAAAAACPc/mgpqyLLBi3o/s400/bush+shoe+1.jpg)
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It was his sole purpose for being at the press conference.
The security guards quickly shooed him off for questioning. He was quite a sneaker to get in there; the screeners must have been some bunch of loafers.
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Well, Bush is a real shoo-in for a target, especially in Iraq; though it is an unushoeal weapon.
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I was hoping to hear the shoeman say "Don't tase me, bro" in Arabic (http://www.instantrimshot.com/) amidst the post-toss chaos. It will be interesting to see if Helen Thomas can top this.
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To his credit, that was a heel of a dope dodge. Bush has jukes, who knew?
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Well, Bush is a real shoo-in for a target, especially in Iraq; though it is an unushoeal weapon.
Heel get over it.
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To his credit, that was a heel of a dope dodge. Bush has jukes, who knew?
Bush has been ducking the press for years.
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But will the incidents stop? Shoes-as-weaponry have been an emerging theme since the days of Richard Reid. Even the fashion world embraced the trend with Madonna's Chanel guns:
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/madonna-chanel-gun-shoes.jpg)
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To his credit, that was a heel of a dope dodge. Bush has jukes, who knew?
Bush has been ducking the press for years.
The guy should have gotten the boot four years ago.
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The security guard forcibly ejecting him said, "I just Adidas I was told".
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wat the hell
u guys are all batman villains now?
I guess Bush is a shoe-in 4 worst president evar
*yeech*
puns are the lowest common denominator
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Way to ruin the Converseation, TE.
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wat the hell
u guys are all batman villains now?
I guess Bush is a shoe-in 4 worst president evar
*yeech*
puns are the lowest common denominator
Are you off the weights, TE? Your mind-discipline (well, spelling) seems to have wandered somewhat.
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Now in .gif form!
(http://i36.tinypic.com/2uyod3k.gif)
wheeeeeee!
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The best part is after the first guy throws both shoes and they stop, get their bearings, say a few words, and another shoe flies at him from a different angle.
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I will give Bush this, and I don't give him much.....he seems to be enjoying it
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Maybe he has a foot fetish!
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"First the shoe bomber and now this... when will footwear stop hating ~freedom~? :("
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Maybe he has a foot fetish!
His favorite bands are Ride and My Bloody Valentine.
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I will give Bush this, and I don't give him much.....he seems to be enjoying it
He's a complete bastard
but he handled the situation well
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Maybe he has a foot fetish!
His favorite bands are Ride and My Bloody Valentine.
Shoegazing? more like "shoe's grazing - the side of his head!"
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Whereas Nixon was the prez known for saying "Sock It To Me!", WELL, NOW, BUSH, HERE, YOU COULD IMAGINE...
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I am enjoying watching Maliki's weak-ass attempt to catch the second shoe.
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wat the hell
puns are the lowest common denominator the highest manner of discourse. A godlike form of communication.
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How about that Bushian smirk following the second shoe dodge? Part of me is going to miss that.
A vile, rotten, diseased part.
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Dude should have brought some more shoes along.
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All in all, I personally feel that this thread should be added to the "Things that Inspire You" thread.
Also, I kinda wish the guy had screamed in Arabic, "We will bury you" or something reminiscent of Khrushchev.
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Whereas Nixon was the prez known for saying "Sock It To Me!", WELL, NOW, BUSH, HERE, YOU COULD IMAGINE...
Whuh shoe talkin bout?
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a bush in the hand is worth shoe in the.. ???. Ah forget it.
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when i get shoes thrown at me it never makes the news
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I just spent three minutes trying to think of an aglet pun to no avail. Time to move on (with shoes).
EDIT: "AG! Let me throw more shoes at that guy?" No...
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A classic Bush response when asked about the shoe incident.
It went something like...
"Hey, I don't know what that guys' beef is."
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I just spent three minutes trying to think of an aglet pun to no avail. Time to move on (with shoes).
EDIT: "AG! Let me throw more shoes at that guy?" No...
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but if you slow the footage down, you'll see that he was actually wearing/throwing Puma Discs.
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Also, I kinda wish the guy had screamed in Arabic, "We will bury you" or something reminiscent of Khrushchev.
He said, "This Is A Farewell Kiss, You Dog," which is what I'm naming my 00's-nostalgia disco-punk revival band in 15 years when I learn how to play an instrument.
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Also, I kinda wish the guy had screamed in Arabic, "We will bury you" or something reminiscent of Khrushchev.
He said, "This Is A Farewell Kiss, You Dog," which is what I'm naming my 00's-nostalgia disco-punk revival band in 15 years when I learn how to play an instrument.
I thought it was one of Spike's favorite doo wop tunes.
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Leave it to the media to allow this to happen when all the major satirists are on Christmas vacation.
Jon Stewart must be kicking himself. Yet another example of everything closing so gentile boys and girls can celebrate baby Jesus--so selfish.
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Hmm, your 00's-nostalgia disco-punk revival band is missing something JG...
"This Is A Farewell Kiss, You Dog, Yeah!"
Ah, yes, much better now.
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Jon Stewart must be kicking himself.
Ha!
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I will give Bush this, and I don't give him much.....he seems to be enjoying it
I was more than a little alarmed at the fact that if you watch closely, he starts to crack a smile before the first shoe even hits the ground. How did he know it wasn’t a bomb? Typical frat guy – playing to the crowd when he should be worried about not dying.
Seriously, though, how funny would it have been if he'd gotten beaned right square in the face?*
*Answer: very, very funny.
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Yeah Pat K, that is clearly the most disturbing thing about this. It's a reminder of how his flippance is one of the biggest indignities this country and people like those in Iraq have had to deal with. A President can have his people make the appropriate decisions for him, all we really want is someone who can approach grave matters with the appropriate demeanor for pete's sake. The world wants to be humored with something other than a shit eating grin that can't be wiped away. I mean c'mon, at least pretend like you care.
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He's smiling because it was an inside job. If you replay the tape, you'll notice what a bare-bones, scripted and vetted group of journalists this is, typical of the Bush Administration; this shoe-thrower was a plant in order to create chaos under which Bush can push through eleventh hour bills and laws that will tie up all future attempts to regulate big business and enforce environmental standards. Naomi Klein calls it the SOCK DOCTRINE.
ha ha
heh
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(http://s.buzzfeed.com/raw/bush-shoe-throw/bush-shoe-throw-06.gif)
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That is fantastic, Cutout.
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the smirk annoys me, but even worse is his snarky quip, "If you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw."
undoubtedly, he threw in a couple "heh heh heh" chuckles at the end. what a jerk.
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When is someone starting the effort and or website to send Bush or the Whitehouse thousands of shoes?
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When is someone starting the effort and or website to send Bush or the Whitehouse thousands of shoes?
Too much effort at this point ... we should send them all to Crawford Ranch, or wherever he's retiring too. Just cover every inch of the Crawford Ranch with shoes. Let's see if he can ride his stupid Segway through that shit.
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Let's see if he can ride his stupid Segway through that shit.
Old news, but still reminded me......
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pFv8CAniYQ[/youtube]
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When is someone starting the effort and or website to send Bush or the Whitehouse thousands of shoes?
It's not exactly an orchestrated effort, but I read this (http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2008/12/because-we-wont-have-him-to-kick-around_15.html) yesterday.
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Let's see if he can ride his stupid Segway through that shit.
Old news, but still reminded me......
That is the first time I have seen this and I now don't know how I ever lived with out. Precious.
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The shoe-throwing incident reminded me of that video of Kelsey Grammer falling off the stage into an orchestra pit that Tom gleefully highlighted some time ago. Well deserved, and great theater. The thrown shoes were comeuppance, however trivial and symbolic.
And then there's Bush's own narrative, the one going on inside his head, as the piece that Martin cited states:
"In an interview with ABC News, when Bush was saying, 'One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand,' he was challenged by Martha Raddatz with the fact that al-Qaeda wasn't in Iraq until after the United States invaded. Bush responded, 'Yeah, that's right. So what?' Someone should be there every day of Bush's life to throw shoes at him." And so he responds with his trademark smirk and makes jovial comments about the incident.
He's still leaving office with the country he's led for the last eight years in terrible shape, two wars going on with no end in sight, his own party in tatters, and an economy that's in worse shape than anytime in the last 30, or more likely, the last 80 years. Historians are debating about whether his presidency ranks as the worst in history or merely among the worst five-or-so presidencies in American history. No amount of spinning or self-deluded denial can really improve that. Bush can try to have the last laugh, but his poor performance as chief executive have guaranteed that his presidency ends in a pathetic whimper. Thrown shoes -- so what? The worst humiliation is the one he has created for himself and the consequences he must now endure.
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my favorite line thus far was in an article i read yesterday in which he stated, more or less, that his only regret was not finding WMDs in Iraq- no thanks to the bogus information he got from his own people.
way to admit you crashed the party on your way out the door, you buzz kill. or perhaps more like, "welcome to the party!" because the rest of us already knew the state of WMD affairs.
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We could get pissed at the guy for being a douche and a liar, but he's such a consummate fuck-up at this point, undeserving of sympathy, that it wouldn't be worth it.
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I'll echo what others have said: sure his presidency has been a total nightmare, but I don't have any problem with how he handled this.
I'm also tired of everyone reminding me how, "in the Muslim world", throwing a shoe at someone is considered a grave insult. Where exactly is that not considered an insult?
"No man, you don't get it. Over THERE if you throw a shoe at a head of state, it's REALLY uncool."
I get it! I'm just saying it seems unnecessarily divisive to hammer home that point over and over again. It conjures up an image of a "they" who are nothing at all like "us". I dunno, maybe I'm over-analyzing, but something about the coverage of the incident gives me the willies.
At any rate, the game is pretty cute - http://flash.vg.no/grafikk/2008/bush/kast_sko.html (http://flash.vg.no/grafikk/2008/bush/kast_sko.html)
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What pisses me off about this whole affair is that I had to admire Bush's ducking skills.
Well, that and the fact that the poor bastard who threw the shoes is in a lot of trouble.
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I'm also tired of everyone reminding me how, "in the Muslim world", throwing a shoe at someone is considered a grave insult. Where exactly is that not considered an insult?
"No man, you don't get it. Over THERE if you throw a shoe at a head of state, it's REALLY uncool."
I get it! I'm just saying it seems unnecessarily divisive to hammer home that point over and over again. It conjures up an image of a "they" who are nothing at all like "us". I dunno, maybe I'm over-analyzing, but something about the coverage of the incident gives me the willies.
Great point!
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Right, like in the non-Muslim world throwing a shoe at arguably the most powerful person on Earth and calling them a "Dog" is no big deal.
See, in the MUSLIM world when you physically assault someone and call them a dog, it's an insult.
Although my read of this coverage, at least on the BBC, was that they were attempting to use that half-invented shoe-throwing factoid to validate this action as a semi-legitimate political action.
The only thing that bothers me about this is that everyone's gonna get excited about this shoe-throwing business and they're going to forget to put Bush on trial for war crimes.
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I don't think anyone other than Bush and his supporters would find this incident offensive, regardless of religion. It was a perfectly reasonable human reaction as far I am concerned.
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I think Slate's Explainer podcast (http://www.slate.com/id/2205937/) the other day was illuminating: shoe-throwing in Iraq is not just a big-time insult there, but actually a pretty common way to express dissatisfaction with people/situations. They cited a number of examples of other incidents in Iraq in the last couple of years.
That said, of course it would be an insult to do the same thing here. That part of the media coverage is pretty stupid.
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Some high school boys threw snow balls at me on my way to work today.
I'm not even guilt of war crimes!
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At any rate, the game is pretty cute - http://flash.vg.no/grafikk/2008/bush/kast_sko.html (http://flash.vg.no/grafikk/2008/bush/kast_sko.html)
Variation on the same idea: http://play.sockandawe.com/
Is "shit au" some kind of Nordic variation of "Shit outta luck"?
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/davebucket68/shitau.jpg)
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Why is the guy shirtless?
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Some high school boys threw snow balls at me on my way to work today.
I'm not even guilt of war crimes!
Now you sound just like Cheney.
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In any case, I believe snow balls thrown by youths of that age at ladies of yours constitute a love letter.