The Telegraph Imitates ThreeSources!

You wait long enough, you see everything. Toby Harnden gives our President props for his handling of flying footwear:

Barack Obama may be the new Mr Cool on the block but you have to give President George W. Bush his due for a supremely self-composed and dignified reaction to the Baghdad shoe thrower.

Not only did he duck two fast-moving and pretty well aimed pieces of footwear but he discreetly waved away his lead Secret Service agent, who was ready to bundle him out of the room. Bush then quipped: "That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me you may want to know."

Then, Harnden picks up a couple of points I thought would be limited to the wingnuts at ThreeSources:

No doubt much will be made of the irony of the Iraqis hitting the downed statue of Saddam Hussein with their shoes when Baghdad fell to US forces on April 9th 2003 and then, five years and eight months later, shoes being hurled at Bush.

But ask yourself this question: How would al-Zaidi have fared if he'd hurled a pair of shoes at Saddam?

Yeah, it's the Telegraph, but we're still talking British press. Then, the website offers the video of Shoeless Joe al-Zaidi juxtaposed with the American military reception I posted.

Merciful Zeus! Hat-tip: Instapundit

Media and Blogging Posted by John Kranz at December 16, 2008 1:12 PM