The Shoe-Throwing Revolt Continues
The oddest part of this article might just be the final sentence.
In December last year, an Iraqi television news reporter threw his shoes at Bush and called him a “dog” in Arabic, during a press conference in Baghdad. The act triggered a spate of copycat shoe-hurling incidents across the world.
What an odd little world we live in. Well, us peon’s relative impotence can, we can only resort to throwing shoes.
A shoe was recently hurled at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was in the city of Urmia, an Iranian Web site has reported. The incident in the Iranian city was an apparent imitation of a similar attack on former U.S. president George Bush in Iraq last year. Urmia News, the Iranian site, reported that Ahmadinejad was in a car en route to an election rally when the shoe was thrown. Ahmadinejad was traveling to a local stadium where he was meant to deliver a speech ahead of upcoming presidential elections.
My Favorite detail comes next.
According to the report, a hat was also thrown at the Iranian president before his convoy sped away from the scene.
Let our “leaders” know and understand that they are not only threatened with the possibility of Shoes, but they also might be pelted with Hats as well.
As always, the Shoe-Throwing Revolution will Not Be Televised, but it will be blogged:
The incident was not reported by Iran’s major news outlets. But it has been widely commented upon in the Islamic Republic’s blogosphere, which is viewed as one of the most developed in the world. It is one of the key tools for disseminating information that contradicts the position of the regime. The government controls Iran’s traditional media.