As reported by Agence France Presse:
Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi was in Paris to promote his campaign for the "victims of the US occupation in Iraq" when a fellow Iraqi critic turned the tables on him, shouting: "Here's another shoe for you."
The thickset man with an Iraqi accent made a brief speech in Arabic during the question and answer session, defending US policy and accusing Zaidi of "working for dictatorship in Iraq," before throwing his shoe.
The missile was thrown hard at Zaidi's head, but he managed to dodge it and it bounced harmlessly off a curtain erected behind the speakers by the event's hosts, the Foreign Press Welcome Centre in Paris.
Zaidi's brother grappled with and slapped the man, whom witnesses later described as an asylum-seeker they know only as "Khayat", before venue staff and bystanders separated them and the aggressor was hustled away.
"When I used this method, it was against the occupation. I did not use it against a compatriot," Zaidi complained. "I always knew the occupier and his lackeys would stop at nothing to get to me."
16 comments:
Now the shoe is on the other foot...bwhhahhhhaaa
Too bad he missed. Cause mookie never saw it coming in time.
These guys are worse aims than the shitheads are here in Chicago. I wish someone would teach them to hit what they aim for.
i thought bush derangement syndrome only affected those that lived in the states. reference the "I always knew the occupier and his lackeys would stop at nothing to get me" blast. perhaps msnbc will offer him a spot of his own, before or after overbite or tingly's show.
Bunni - too funny.
Kid - agreed, any aim at all and he'd have had a full black eye.
Jim - it's not IED's or bomb-belts after all, which is all they understand...
j summ - I caught that BDR reference too, which is why I included it in my post. Unreal isn't it?
The only thing that would have made it better is if the guy had stepped in dog doo, had a better aim and actually hit Zaidi in the face. Then he would literally be a "sh*thead".
TCL - I'll take figuratively and be happy, but I agree that to make it literal would have been most hilarious!
You know what they say.
Live by the shoe...
Die by the shoe.
I'd throw a boot up in his...well, you know.
"What goes around comes around, fool."
-Mr T
A thing of beauty ... it was especially hilarious seeing how mad he got.
Opus - somebody who is not so Democrat party politically correct might get this guy a Nike or Adidas contract, I think..
Gene - I'll buy you that boot.
And Mr. T was no fool...
Snarky B... that's what I call irony.
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