We all need to respect others
December 16, 2008 (Tuesday)
[Warning: soapbox article]. CNN is calling President Bush the “sole survivor” after the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq. A reporter threw both his shoes at the American president, with the Iraqi prime minister standing by his side. This, they say, is a symbolic act which declares the target is held in lower esteem than the dirt on the sole of the shoe.
Critics in Iraq say the act was “impolite,” but only because the prime minister of Iraq was present.
President Bush shrugged off the incident with humor, observing that the shoe looked like a size 10 to him.
The Letterman Late Show last night dubbed its own dialogue in film of the event, so one could hear the protester say something like, “I am proud of these Rockport shoes I bought over the internet. Here, try them on.”
Reminds me of Nikita Khrushchev at the United Nations General Assembly. To show his disdain for the speaker, he pulled off his high top shoe and put in on the desk before him. Hardly an act of diplomacy.
Some people like to do stuff like this in our own country. As a show of protest, they plaster a person with a pie in the face, or they show their backside by “mooning” in public, or they use obscene sign language on the roadways. All these are disgusting, extremist, arrogant and fanatical acts unworthy of Americans.
As Molly McGee used to say to Fibber McGeee, “’Tain’t funny, McGee.”