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12/15/08 - (1)
A Lame Duck Ducks
Sunday, during George Bush's surprise visit to Iraq, At a news conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, A correspondent for Al-Baghdadia TV, Muntadar al-Zeidi,
Hurled one of his shoes, at the president, yelling, contemptuously, "This is a gift from the Iraqis! This is the farewell kiss, you dog!" He just missed hitting the American people's beleaguered emissary.
And if this highest insult for Middle Easterners weren't sufficient, Al-Zeidi ripped off his other shoe and let it fly, shouting, "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq!"
"You're beneath me, you scumbag piece of shit!" this gesture implies. Bush, with his signature capacity for making light of everything, Had a completely different read on the shoe attack,
Which he disclosed, at the conference, with obtuse humor Lost on those gathered — "It was a size ten" — And on board Air Force One, en route to Afghanistan, to rally the troops —
"I didn't know what the guy said, but I saw his sole," A groaner-pun allusion to his misguided assessment of Vladimir Putin. Nor did the stand-up comedy end there.
Bush continued the jocular banter, by reminding the reporters Of his expertise in "ducking" their knotty questions, To which someone from CBS Radio said, "So you aren't a lame duck."
Philosophizing on what he called a "bizarre moment," Bush suggested it would be wrong to see this incident As symbolic of the entire country's sentiments...though it was.
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