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The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush has been sentenced to three years in jail, and people who think it’s cool to assault the President of the United States are seething and whining. Chief defense attorney Dhia al-Saadi then demanded that the charge be dismissed, saying ...
The Associated Press helpfully informs us that the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush was protesting the war. BAGHDAD – The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush failed to apologize as his trial began Thursday, and instead appealed defiantly to the ...
Here’s an open thread to talk about President Bush’s speech to his welcome home rally in Midland, Texas... UPDATE at 1/20/09 5:04:02 pm: A clip from CNN: [Video]
Say thank you to President Bush for keeping the United States safe, at Mission 1 Accomplished. The folks who built the site are planning to present the comments and logs to George W. Bush’s Presidential Library on September 11, 2011.
Just in: President Bush has commuted the sentences of border patrol agents Ramos and Compean...
George W. says farewell in his last address to the nation as President, beginning at 8 pm Eastern time. Here’s a thread to discuss it...
Now that President Bush is leaving office and Barack Obama is elected, it’s safe for the New York Times to publish articles pointing out that Bush might not really have been like Hitler after all: Bush Has Built Foundation for Improved Health Care. NASHVILLE — Although the number of ...
Q: How do you know when you’ve really made it in the Arab world? A: Father offers daughter to shoe-thrower. CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian man said on Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President ...
Iraq, President Bush, Journalism, Arab World, Women's Rights, Misogyny
Arab journalists are stepping forward to say, “I’m Muntadhar al-Zeidi!” — photographed by Bilal Hussein. (Hat tip: Snapped Shot.)
Now at the website of VG, Norway’s largest newspaper: a cute little Flash game in which readers can throw a shoe at Bush, just like an Iraqi journalist: Kast en sko på Bush her! (Hat tip: Bruce Bawer.)
The Iraqi TV reporter who threw his shoes at George W. Bush yesterday is rather predictably being hailed as a hero by the Arab world. Newspapers across the Arab world printed front-page photos of Bush ducking the flying shoes, and satellite TV stations repeatedly aired the incident, which was ...
A local Iraqi TV reporter enhanced his credibility today by screaming insults and throwing shoes at President Bush. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter called visiting U.S. President George W. Bush a “dog” in Arabic on Sunday and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad. ...
In an interview on Nightline, President Bush says the Bible is “probably not” literally true, and says there is “scientific proof” for evolution. [Video] Biblical literalists are fuming mad. David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network told CNN“s John Roberts on Thursday, ”I think a lot of social conservative ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, President Bush
From LGF reader ‘Get Busy Livin,’ a photo of President Bush speaking at the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial service. Donald Rumsfeld is seated to his left.
LGF, 9/11, Pentagon, Memorial, President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld
You may have seen on the news that President Bush was heckled during his July 4th speech at Monticello by CodePink moonbats doing their usual “spoiled children on crack” routine. Q: How do these lunatics get into these kinds of events? A: They forge press passes, and brag about it ...
LGF, Daily Kos, Monticello, Code Pink, CodePink, BDS, President Bush
The media are almost universally giving it a negative spin, but President Bush’s speech to the World Economic Forum in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheik, with representatives from many Arab nations present, was pretty extraordinary: President Bush Attends World Economic Forum. This section jumped out at me: ...
Mike at the Monkey Tennis Centre follows up on the BBC story that blatantly lied about a speech by President Bush, and their subsequent attempts to cover up and “disappear” any evidence of their perfidy: BBC erases all traces of Bush speech lies; so what have we learned?
LGF, BBC, Media Bias, Islam, Propaganda, BDS, President Bush, Iraq
To cover up their bias, the BBC have quietly changed that dishonest headline we noted yesterday. The original headline was “Bush speech hails Iraq ‘victory’”. Now it reads: Bush says Iraq invasion was right.
LGF, BBC, Media Bias, Islam, Propaganda, BDS, President Bush, Iraq
We’ve seen time and again that the major Western news media are not above staging news, faking photographs and documents, ignoring important stories that don’t fit their agenda, and filing “articles” that are so biased they shouldn’t be accepted as opinion pieces. But there’s at least one news service that ...
LGF, BBC, Media Bias, Islam, Propaganda, BDS, President Bush, Iraq
Sure, Bob Geldof has moonbattish inclinations, that’s a given. But the article he wrote for TIME magazine about his trip to Africa with President Bush aboard Air Force One is a must-read: Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road. (And that’s the first time I’ve said that about a TIME ...
Well, I have to say... as a dancer, President Bush is a pretty good mountain biker. But who can blame him for cutting loose a little? He’s getting a hero’s welcome in Africa.
The terror-enabling Arab satellite channel Al Arabiya is openly hostile to George W. Bush in this interview, and in return he just keeps insisting that Islam is a Religion of Peace™, and denying he is an ‘enemy of Islam’. There’s so much denial on both sides here that it ends ...
One of the most disheartening and disappointing things about the Bush presidency has been his insistence on remaining blind to the agenda of radical Islamists. Diana West is exactly right in this column: Guess Who Came to Iftar for Dinner? I wasn’t going to write about Ramadan in official ...
This is now a tradition for the President of the United States: Bush Hosts Traditional Ramadan Dinner at White House. President Bush welcomed Muslim leaders to the White House Thursday evening for an Iftaar dinner breaking the fast during the holy month of Ramadan. VOA White House Correspondent Scott ...
President Bush met with a select group of milbloggers today, and Infidels Are Cool has a report with links to the participants: Bush meets with bloggers for first time.