That didn't take long...
Yesterday, an angry Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush.
Today there is a game parodying the incident.
As reported by UK newspaper the Telegraph:
Television reporter Muntadar al-Zaidi was tackled to the ground by Secret Service personnel yesterday after he started to throw his shoes at Geroge W Bush during a press conference in Iraq. The footwear missed the president, who ducked just in time, but Mr Zaidi was bundled from the room yelling: "This is a farewell kiss, you dog," at the President...
"If you watch the video clip, the Secret Service don't move to protect the President until the second shoe has been thrown," said Sadi Chishti, managing director of T-Enterprise, the Glasgow-based company behind the computer game. "We're hoping the agents will use this game as a training aid for future footwear attacks on world leaders."
In the game, shoes fly at the President, while the player, apparently a Secret Service agent, is supposed to fire dual-wielded pistols at the footwear. It's all too easy to miss the shoes and hit the President, which was likely a design feature.
Certainly not game-of-the-year material and the parody could have been more artful. The guns add a very blunt and distasteful element.
GP: Over at MTV Multiplayer, Stephen Totilo wonders whether Bush learned his shoe-dodging skills by playing Wii Fit.
I wonder if Bush will dodge the judgment of history so easily.
Comments
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously. That's the lesson you should take f
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously. That's the lesson you should
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously. That's the lesson you
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously. That's the lesson
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously. That's the lessone
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously. That's the
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously. That's
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously.
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Actually, word association is an element of CULTURE, not language.
As I said above, throwing his shoes was a mixture of violence and intense disdain, somewhat like a violent version of one of your retarded tirades.
For anyone who ever plans to travel to the muslim world, never step over someone. Ever. Seriously.
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
wrong. they view dogs to be filthy creatures but they view camels as holy creatures despite their obvious filth. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_animals#Views_regarding_particular_animals
岩「…Where do masochists go when they die?」
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Much like the pompous nature of the shit coming from your own.
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
This is also a great example of cultural differences causing a message to be generally lost.
The guy wanted to insult Bush and, from Bush's perspective, completely failed in his message. I kinda wonder if the guy even realized that such an action has a differnt meaning to an American then an Iraqi
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Too bad the guy didnt realize flipping Bush the bird would have pissed him off more than having a shoe thrown at him. I think everyone thinks it is funny in the US... Most of us wish the guy would have hit him with at least one of the shoes. Of course a background check should have been required to make sure something like this wouldnt happen.
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Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Yes, A quick background check would have fixed this. It would have revealed the intricate plans he had detailed in a previous article.[/sarcasm]
The fact of the matter is that the only background check that would have prevented this would be to disallow ANY Iraqi, Afghani, or hell, any reporter from an arabic culture. Which would probably provoke a barrage of shoes on the Whitehouse. Their job is to sweep for weapons so the president may live, not to sweep for people who will throw shoes to protect his pride.
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
ok, point taken, pretty much all of those people prolly lost someone due to this stupid mess, but doing a live video feed would have guaranteed safety, and I expect that that will happen more often with the technology these days.
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Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
Okay, if this was an action of a distraught man, I kinda sympathise.
But we in the West don't get insulted easilly. We do however tend to overreact when actually being attacked.
Still, a nice dive by Bush.
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
I do think the shoe-throwing was in bad taste and the journalist deserved to be arrested, but they also wanted to give a mental examination according to the news I saw. I don't know how badly shoe-throwing is looked upon in Iraq but you're talking about a globally recognied who has made most of the civilized world mad. Shoe-throwing does not make you insane. I'm sure any Bush-hater would have done the same if they knew they could get away with it.
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
In many Muslim nations, it is considered a grave insult indeed to raise one's foot or shoe above another's head. In Iraq and Somalia, when units flying in Black Hawks and Little Birds flew over more hostile areas, people would take their shoes off and show them to the soldiers who had carelessly let their feet hang over the edge of the door.
This is basically one of the most insulting things you can do in Iraq.
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
I was rather impressed at his reactions there, I'm wondering if he used some kind of Dark-Side speed-dodge power or something ;)
Re: Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident: It's a Game
I lol'ed pretty hard when I saw it on the news, G. W. has some good reflexes. People must throw alot of things at him in the Bush household.
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After reading Flamespeak's post, I wanted to delete mine because it was disrespectful.
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