Muntadhar al-Zeidi freed early? That is the word coming out of Iraq. He is the George Bush shoe thrower who posed as a journalist at an Iraqi press conference in 2008. You all remember, sure you do. Our nimble president deftly ducked the bullet while Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq looked aghast and liberals everywhere cheered the insult to their country. See the famous shoe throwing video below.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi
The physical laws of the universe state that every action results in an opposite and equal reaction, or something like that if I am remembers physics studies. And so the Bush shoe thrower received a long, long prison sentence in a harsh Iraq jail where nobody complains about water-boarding or wearing panties on their heads. They have other more worthwhile concerns when the punishment fits the crime.
See the original video of the shoe throwing incident at the bottom of this post. Meanwhile you can read more about this scoundrel here and here and here.
And so in jail, at last, equilibrium was reached in the cosmos, a fair result for Muntadhar al-Zeidi the knucklehead who was expected to emerge from Iraqi prison only a frail, drooling shell of the man he once was before. Then the world would let bygones be bygones, liberals would celebrate his parole, and we would look forward to the next anti-American liberal cause du jour.
But a funny thing happened on the way to equilibrium. Muntadhar al-Zeidi freed early! Say it ain’t so. First he insults the President of the United States, and then the Iraqis quietly release the evil doer while the current President Obama is lounging around somewhere on Ted Kennedy’s beach. This would not have happened if Ronald Reagan were still president. No sir.
As a biography, Muntadhar al-Zeidi is an Iraqi “journalist” who worked for Al-Baghdadia TV, sort of the Keith Olbermann news channel of the middle east. He was once abducted and released by terrorists who could no longer stand his company. He was also arrested twice by the US military in Iraq for snooping around where he did not belong. We should have thrown away the key while we had the chance.
But his real claim to fame came on December 14, 2008 during that Baghdad press conference when Muntadhar al-Zeidi threw a shoe at George Bush. After receiving a fair trial that was applauded universally, he received a three year prison sentence of hard labor. Now we hear the story of Muntadhar al-Zeidi freed after only one year. Shall we bomb them again?
This is a Right Pundits open talk thread where you are welcome to speak your peace. Talk about anything you like, but I’m talking about Muntadhar al-Zeidi freed from an Iraqi prison by those meanies over there.
Your thoughts?
Video: Muntadhar al-Zeidi (Bush Shoe Thrower)
August 30th, 2009 at 4:31 am
The shoe throwing was intended for Bush and his friends ONLY , NOT the US or the US citizens in general , Mr. Bush has made a mess in that part of the world and killed many innocent people , he´has a lot of blood on his hands .
August 30th, 2009 at 4:53 am
Would we have thrown someone in jail in America for giving Bush the finger? It was rude and he should have been thrown out of the room, but it was the Iraqui equivalent of giving Bush the finger. We don’t throw people in jail for that. Bush should have protested the punishment as a show of support for Iraqui democracy and free speech. Give me a break.
August 30th, 2009 at 6:26 am
After reading this disjointed silliness, I think I’d like to throw a shoe at you, MCCAIN.
I am wondering if health care reform will make it easier to see a head shrink. Not a witch doctor. A head shrink.
You need one.
That’s my “peace.”
August 30th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Obama is farther to the left than Jimmy Carter. Obama seeks more government controls in every area and wants to stiffle opposition voices. Be afraid, your freedoms are at risk. Fools like Brian and Klo will never realize this until it is too late.
America is dying just as Rome fell. Our country is no longer a Christian nation and we are reaping the seeds of our rebellion against God. Expect things to get worse before they get better.
August 30th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Not the one you chew on Klo-less???
August 30th, 2009 at 7:10 am
obviously its too dangerous to throw shoes in a closed room like that so its an assult, an attempted battery. I think we Americanos don’t realize the amount of collateral damage our messy invasion and occupation created in iraq. No doubt, this reporter covering it would see a lot of it. Many Iraqi’s lost family, friends, and colleagues from the sectarian civil war unleased in addition to the actual invasion. Then the resultant al queda infection which committed many crimes against the iraqi’s as well. You can assume as human beings they have some hard feelings about this. That is what the shoe is about. If Bush were a surgeon, iraq the patient looks a lot like MJ by now with various i.v. holes, scared up skin, tissue crusts, and addictions(to US money) and needs(addictions), lying on an unclean bed for an operating table in his sitting room in his house. Why wouldn’t they be disturbed?
August 30th, 2009 at 7:37 am
To McCain.
I do hope you are not related to Sen.McCain in anyway, shape or form and it was just a freaky mistake.
because your writing gives the impression that “you are just a pea brain fool”, who just does not have the depth to think of anything of substance to write about. Grow up you fool.
August 30th, 2009 at 8:25 am
To all the left who think the shoe thrower was justified, I have a question. How would you react if President Obama got a shoe thrown at him during a town-hall meeting? I’m guessing that wouldn’t go over very well.
August 30th, 2009 at 9:53 am
too bad he missed : (
August 30th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Beautiful! Taking this incident on the other side of the planet and turning it into a diatribe against Liberals (who are Americans, did you know that? Half of America, in fact. Did you know that is how Obama became POTUS? Via Democracy? American Democracy?).
As for Bush, his foreign policy has destroyed two countries, hundreds of thousands of lives, and contributed heavily to the economic crisis, the rest of coming from his domestic policy. That shoe guy resonated with every person that sees Bush for who he was, and can see what he did. You want to sound like an Uber-American, and you kind of do.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Tim, America was never a christian nation. Jeez, brush up on your history, will you? If you go around believing everything your pastor and FOXNEWS tells you, you will end up with mushed brains and saying things like this.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Ryan, the American Rule of Law would push any personal feelings out of the way and objectively deal with the situation. Besides, any such assault from a tea-bagging birther-believing FoxBot would also justify and confirm certain Liberal feelings. Turn off the FOXNEWS, buddy, you are letting people with soft hands and weak unused feet yell into your poor braintank.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:18 am
The physical laws of the universe state that every action results in an opposite and equal reaction, or something like that if I am remembers physics studies.
If I am remembers English studies, McCain can has cheezeburgerz. Meow.
This would not have happened if Ronald Reagan were still president. No sir.
Not only did Reagan forgive Hinkley in 1981, a man who SHOT HIM IN THE CHEST, he sought to do it in person. (source) He also raised taxes and exploded the deficit BTW. It’s just so amusing when you guys try to warp reality to match your political extremist views. You do it from everything from history to religion to science. “I want to believe it soooo bad, I’ll make it true in my MIND!!!” It’s how Ted Kennedy is suddenly transformed from hated villain of the right to the respected “Great Compromiser” who REALLY would have been against a public option if he were just here to negotiate with Orin Hatch… (or didn’t you guys get the memo on that one? That’s your new line.)
The shoe-thrower getting early parole? It’s the Lockerbie bomber being released all over again! Or wait, it’s that liberal Iraqi justice system! They’re liberals there, right? They must be! Oh, my stars!
Puh-lease.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:44 am
If the pea brains on the right, left and middle would only stop listening to their nots and bolts talk radio host’s, take their fried brains away from their cable T.V’s and read a good book at least once a week, stop being mature fools and become mature adults and think for thenselves, then they might all stop talking trash and stop talking about their rights, even the wild, wild West towns had their no gun policies, No guns allowed in the town or in the bars, only fools would fight for the right to carry guns into a bar, and other fools to stick it into a bill which was set out to assist the same fools who fight for there so call rights. A america has a right to bear arms, there was a reason back then to bear arms you pea brains, that reason does not exist today you fools and if so, All Americans, blacks, white.boy, latino, Chinese, not only the White Citizens who believe it is only their rights. I would urge all Americans to go exercise your rights now, “GO AND BUY A GUN IT IS YOUR RIGHT”, STRAP IT ON AND WALK TALL AND PROUD AS YOU WOULD IN THE WILD WEST, YOU FOOLS.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:47 am
That arab journalist should be kept in jail for being a lousy shot and missing that little fashist, war-criminal, scumbag with the shoe.
The author of this article is a typical dumb nationalist God and Guns piece of trailer trash and should get a really good slap in the teeth from my size 12 boot….
August 30th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Well, well, Billy Bigboots ain’t you sumpin’. I live in a part of the country where a prancing, liberal little panty waist like you would be well advised NOT to put your size 12 boot in anybody’s face.
August 30th, 2009 at 11:05 am
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August 30th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I think early release was simply inappropriate. He should have received the Iraq version of capital punishment—for missing!!!
August 30th, 2009 at 11:20 am
To most of you, you make me sad… First of all, it is a disgrace that this man (and I use the term LOOSELY, as he is a coward, and as such a perfect hero for the liberal-types) is being released early. Not only did he commit aggravated assault, but he assaulted THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and for you liberal hippie types, that actually is a big deal since we kind of run EARTH. And Kim, before you go displaying your lack of education all over the internet, it is an insult to show the bottom of your shoe to someone. Throwing your shoe is assault over there just like it is here. And for any of you liberal scum that want to keep saying we destroyed countries over there, maybe you should put down your gay-rights protest signs and unglue your eyes from nbc for a minute and take it from someone who has now spent years in that country. THEY’RE GLAD we were there. The terrorists (you know, those guys for whose rights you are always whining for) were the ones killing innocents, not the Americans. You probably missed that news clip though, between bong hits.
August 30th, 2009 at 11:37 am
“obviously its too dangerous to throw shoes in a closed room like that so its an assult,”
yeah, they hurt less when one hits you in an open room.
stupid
August 30th, 2009 at 11:39 am
what brian ? would a closed room cause the shoe to ricoche ?
then he would be assaulting everyone
August 30th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Wool, your certainly angry, but that doesn’t make you right. The war was not run efficently in the kind of manner that would have cost less lives. bush was advised to go in with sufficient troops to keep the peace being advised early on by the likes of jim baker of the coming sectarian civil war and he rejected that. that decision cost a lot of lives, a lot of lifetime debilitating wounds, a lot of treasury. His decision to farm out the backside of tora bora to an unreliable war lord allowed bin laden to escape, rather than put our own troops in there. So we are still fighting that war too. For bush to think he can just waltz into that part of the world and be treated like some savior by the locals is naive. They know what he did. yes some like it better now, or see a new dawn, the survivors, but they will always remember the loved ones they lost as well. it will be a bitter trade off.
August 30th, 2009 at 11:43 am
well micky imagine if your in someones back yard and your throwing shoes at each other. at least you have a lot of space to move, to find a tree or shed to hide behind. it could be considered some kind of game. but in a closed room, with enhanced velocities, its just not as benign a game.
August 30th, 2009 at 11:44 am
“where a prancing, liberal little panty waist ”
panty waist?!!!
um … you mean brian?
August 30th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Man! The shoe thrower brings out the extremists in full force. It’s a good exmple of what happens when so many folks get all their info from narrow one-sided sources. Our country’s honor cannot be affected by a shoe thrower, and in all fairness the punishment more than fit the “crime.” Meanwhile, we have some other things to think about, so my advice is to broaden our media intake and open our minds.