7 Comments

1. 

   acilius

    /  January 20, 2009

   That’s terrific! I almost watched Bush’s final press conference in hopes that the entire press corps would close with a mass shoe-throwing.

2. 

   cymast

    /  January 20, 2009

   Soitenly! This sums up Bush Jr.’s last 8 years on so many levels.

3. 

   acilius

    /  January 20, 2009

   Somewhere online I saw a parody of Rene Magritte’s famous painting of the man in the bowler with the green apple obscuring his face. The parody showed GWB in a bowler with a shoe obscuring his face. Of course I can’t find it anymore.

4. 

   cymast

    /  January 21, 2009

   I searched and found something else.

   http://monerohernandez.blogspot.com/2008/12/retrato-oficial-de-george-w-bush.html

5. 

   acilius

    /  January 21, 2009

   That’s funny, too. Gosh, I wish I’d kept that Magritte thing- Bush is instantly recognizable even though the green shoe obscures his face almost as completely as the green apple obscures the man’s face in Magritte’s painting.

6. 

   cymast

    /  January 21, 2009

   Got any more clues on how to find it?

7. 

   cymast

    /  January 21, 2009

   The thing I find the second most interesting about the video (the first being the shoe whizzing through the air) is how casual Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears, almost like he expected the event. He didn’t even flinch. But then his post-shoe statements were all about being offended.