Who Throws A Shoe?
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
The brave Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, famous for throwing his shoes at W’s head has been sentenced to jail for three years. A bit harsh really, unless it’s because he missed.
I’m feeling genuinely torn about this. I’ve thrown softer objects at the television or radio whenever I heard ol’ Dubya open his mouth. He was a terrible embarrassment to all Americans on a global scale. He made it significantly harder for any American to be respected overseas and repeatedly answered pressing interview questions with an “i don’t care” shrug, as though he’d simply inherited a bad world and didn’t care to change it much. (more…)