The Iraqi journalist who was jailed after nearly pegging President George W. Bush with his shoes in December will be freed next month. The three-month early release of international hero Muntader al-Zaidi is “a victory for the free and honorable Iraqi media,†according to the shoe throwing journalist’s lawyer. |NYP|
He might be considered one of the most unpopular presidents in world history, but George W. Bush’s image can still move artwork, especially when it’s of him nearly getting pegged in the head with a shoe by Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi. This oil painting depicting the infamous shoe tossing incident recently sold on eBay for $321.42 after 26 bids.
International hero and shoe tossing Iraqi journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, has spawned quite a following. After throwing both his shoes at President Bush during a recent press conference—the ultimate sign of disrespect in the Arab culture—he’s become a cause celebre with activists and politicians demanding his release. Prominent Arab-American journalist and comedian Ray Hanania is supporting the young man’s action by encouraging people to mail their shoes directly to President Bush. Although he does suggest you write “Shoe Protest” so as not to totally freak out the Secret Service.
John McCain is doing his best to distance himself from George Bush, but not even that snippy comeback to Barack Obama in the third debate is helping the candidate fully disassociate himself from the president in the wake of a crumbling economy. People can’t help but to equate Republicans with the past 8 years of rampant madness and even the creative class is keeping that association alive by adopting popular anti-Bush offensives—such as sticking little flags in dog crap—and using them for McCain. The scary part is that he’s not even in office yet, but it’s still relevant. See the whole collection of flags from Venice Beach, which is apparently the tiny dog shit capital of the world.
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Here’s a new twist on an old arcade classic: Bush Invaders. Although we’ve witnessed countless perversions of the Space Invader’s theme, images of the president’s head with crossbones (an esoteric nod to his secret society membership?) intermixed alongside descending aliens is certainly an interesting use of politics and 8-bit graphics. It was created by this guy from Chicago, who painted the stenciled images in the bathroom of his condo, but only temporarily, “Thought i’d snap a few pics of my handiwork before we re-paint the room and rent the place out.” After all, despite his dismally low ratings as one of the worst leaders in US history, zapping a sitting president from the sky with a ray gun is still frowned upon, even by Chicagoans. Click below for well placed close-ups of the stenciled masterpiece.
One of the most entertaining tidbits to be divulged from former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book, What Happened, describes an incident in 1999 on the campaign trail when the press was hounding then-Governor George Bush about his cocaine usage back in the day. After McClellan warned Bush that “the media won’t let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,” the admitted alcoholic allegedly responded, “You know, the truth is I honestly don’t remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don’t remember.” The president’s drug amnesia specifically worried McClellan, writing, “I remember thinking to myself, How can that be? How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine? It didn’t make a lot of sense.” He was later convinced that this denial set the stage for Bush’s modus operandi: “I think he meant what he said in that conversation about cocaine. It’s the first time when I felt I was witnessing Bush convincing himself to believe something that probably was not true, and that, deep down, he knew was not true. And his reason for doing so is fairly obvious — political convenience…” |AJC|
Kanye may hate his fans, but he loves his fixed gear bike from Brooklyn Machine Works. Looks like he even got custom bar ends done—a play on that now infamous off script TV moment that shook Mike Meyers soul to the core. It’s not black people that George Bush doesn’t care about, it’s “track people.” |BBC Blog|
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Although the White House flatly denies it, after looking at the video and scrutinizing some of the high res photos, it certainly looks like someone might have pulled off President Bush’s watch. Whether or not there was an actual pick pocket at work or just a overly zealous Albanian well wishers that got a little too aggressive, one thing’s for sure, one minute you see the watch, the next you see the president’s wrist white tan lines.
Theft mystery over George Bush’s vanishing timepiece |Daily Mail|
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