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The Spectacle Blog
The press release of the day from everyone's favorite break-into-congressional-hearings-and-scream-to-end-the-war group:
In solidarity with an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush at a Baghdad press conference Sunday, peace activists will gather outside the White House with bags of shoes representing Iraqis and U.S. soldiers who have died since the Bush Administration's illegal invasion of Iraq.
They aim to show support for Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at President Bush while he spoke at the conference on his "surprise" visit to discuss the war. Al-Zaidi is currently being held by Iraqi police and questioned on his actions. The peace activists are calling on the Iraqi government to release al-Zaidi without charges and have set up a fund to support him and his family."
"It's outrageous that al-Zaidi could get two years in prison for insulting George Bush, when Bush is directly responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Iraqis and 4,200 U.S. troops, and 5 million displaced Iraqis," says Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK. "The one who should be in jail is George Bush, and he should be charged with war crimes."
Anti-war activists were rather fond of shoes even before Mr al-Zaidi's act of incredible courage and irregular-object-hurling. Walk by the left-wing cafe Busboys and Poets in Washington and you can still see a massive glass container of baby shoes that Code Pink collected to symbolize all the kids "murdered by the Bush regime" in Iraq. Regular Americans might not share their thrill in an act of pointless violence against an outgoing president. But when's the last time they paid attention to Code Pink?
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jds| 12.15.08 @ 8:22PM
The shoe throwing was a really courageous act by the journalist, who had been reporting on the "war" since we first went into Iraq. He had lost close relatives in the conflict and his act reflects what is surely the deep anger of the Iraquis to the current state of their country.
Woodard Nunis| 12.15.08 @ 11:39PM
Wow start loving wants to equate Code freaking Pink with patriots. What a joke!!! What has Code Pink done that warrants a patriotic label? Perhaps their patriotic duty is showing up at Walter Reed to heckle wounded Soldiers and their families on Friday night during rehab? Or better yet their total disregard for the law with their obstructive behavior at recruiting stations? Yeah that one makes real sense. Let's impede the military's ability to recruit Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen. After all these are the same people that ensure your cherished right of free speech.
Don't forget that right is enshrined in the constitution so spare me anymore BS about the courage exhibited by these "patriots". You want to be a patriot; enlist, strap on some gear and head on over for OIF or OEF. I've been twice and funny I don't recall seeing any of you Code Pink types. You would rather sit over at the coffee house in your Che T-Shirt with your university buddies and praise each others courage from the die in earlier in the day. You are the individual who is disgusting and pathetic. Actions by you and your buddies at Code Pink make our job in the military much more difficult, but that doesn't matter to you, because you feel better. Dissent is great, but out and out disrespect and hatred of your country isn't a sane person's type of patriotism. That isn't any definition of patriotism that I've ever seen or read.
And just in case the shoe thrower warrants your praise think about this one. The guy he threw his shoe at is the very individual who ordered the removal of a dictator that murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people before he was removed by OUR military. If he is so courageous why doesn't he try that stunt with any one of the numerous dictators in the area. Why because he would go into the wood chipper pronto. Much like in the days of Saddam. I really liked the guys Che poster. That says alot about this Baathist lackey. He wants nothing more than to see Saddam return to power. Too bad he has assumed room temperature.
P.S. Medea Benjamin is still trotting out the over a million Iraqis dead mantra which isn't even close to being true, but hey those patriots have so much clarity of thought and purpose the Tories will never understand. She's the same one who will claim the Baathists and Jihadists are the true patriots as they murder their own with bombs, beheading and other lovely death applications.
J.C. Eaton| 12.16.08 @ 12:21AM
Woodard, you can't win with these specimens. On the one hand, they belly-ache like the devil when someone takes up arms on behalf of THEIR nation, then they belly-ache when those same soldiers are wounded by the very enemy they're rooting for and have the audacity to work their guts out to rehabilitate. In short, they don't like us when we put on the uniform and don't like us when we survive. I thank you for your service and remind you that the pusillanimous carbuncles of Code Pink don't deserve you or any of the other warriors that have worn our Nation's uniforms and carried our Nation's colors. Remember Kipling's "Tommy": 'it's Tommy this an' it's Tommy that, and chuck 'im out the brute, but 'tis savior of 'is country when the guns begin to shoot," Code Pink, its sympathizers, and most of the U.S. congress all have a better military than they deserve. Best, Judge E
WendyG| 12.16.08 @ 10:05AM
It's a very sad day, when Americans rejoice over an attack on the President, however benign that attack was. And did they ever rejoice at Huff Post, and the other lefty kook sites.
But such is the ugly nature of Bush Derangement Syndrome. I've always said that these types hate Bush more than they love America.
Whereas, I did not vote for Obama, but I'd be appalled at any similar attack on him. But that's the difference between the two sides.
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