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Muntazer Al Zaidi Throws Shoes at Bush

Muntazer al-Zaidi, Iraqi Shoe Thrower, Inundated With Offers And Gifts

The Guardian | Martin Chulov in Baghdad and Rory McCarthy in Nablus | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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Next Monday, when the journalist walks out of prison, his 10 raging seconds, which came to define his country's last six miserable years, are set to t...

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Top Ten Alternate Punishments for the Iraqi Shoe Thrower

Warren Holstein | Posted 04.13.2009 | Comedy

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5. Obliged to lend his tootsies, at will, to any charitable Foot Fetish Galas (expected to show up in formal leather choker, spiked armlets and chain-link leash).

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Send America to Rehab

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics

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Eric Margolis

Ironically, while Bush and Cheney were obsessing over al-Qaida, and searching under every rock in Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden, the real danger to America was at home -- on Wall Street.

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Muntadir al-Zaidi and Us

William E. Connolly | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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William E. Connolly

It is a pity that more American journalists have not appreciated the heroism of Muntadir al-Zaidi, the way he spoke for us as well as for them when he threw his shoes at Bush.

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Throw Us Your Shoes (in Pictures)

Bob Ostertag | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

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Bob Ostertag

The world wide eruption of support for shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi continues. Demonstrations throughout the Middle East. All kin...

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Throw My Shoes Too!

Bob Ostertag | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

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Bob Ostertag

In support of Mr. al-Zeidi, I urge you to go to Throw My Shoes Too! and put up a picture of your own.

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Bush Attacked By Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Journalist (VIDEO)

Posted 01.14.2009 | Home

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Here is slow-motion video of Iraqi journalist Muthathar al Zaidi throwing his shoes at President Bush on Sunday during a joint news conference Bush wa...

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Bush's Solecisms in Iraq

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

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Jacob Heilbrunn

Not since Soviet premier Khruschev took off his shoe and pounded it at the United Nations has anyone had the effect that an Iraqi journalist did when he hurled both his shoes at President Bush.

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Iraqi Throws Shoes At Bush During Press Conference (VIDEO)(SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

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UPDATE at 9:40PM - SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO AND SLIDESHOW: Shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, a reporter with Cairo-based network Al Bagh...

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