Bush Shoe-Toss Immortalized in Games, Animations

[04SCTLS]

I thought this was pretty hilarious :lol: :burnout:
Especially the one where they guy throws a cat at Bush.
A fitting ending to his presidency LOL

Hope the pics and gifs don't get X'd so I posted the link.
There's also a couple more funny flash player videos that didn't copy.

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http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/12/bush-shoe-toss.html

By Lewis Wallace December 16, 2008 | 2:49:00 PMCategories: Current Affairs, Games, Video, Viral



The Iraqi journalist who tossed his shoes at President George W. Bush missed the commander in chief, but he scored a direct hit on the web zeitgeist.
The incident, in which reporter Muntadar al-Zeidi flung his footwear at Bush during a Baghdad press conference Sunday, has turned into a fast-moving internet meme, spawning dozens of games and video mashups.

In the Sock and Awe browser game (screenshot above), players toss shoes at the bobbing-and-weaving president. The Flying Babush and Bush's Boot Camp games offer similar action.
Comedic video cut-ups like b3ta.com user printmeister have already filtered the great presidential shoe-toss of 2009 through the lens of The Matrix (embedded, right).
See more animated shoe-toss GIFs inspired by World of Warcraft, perpetually meme-compliant cats and other pop culture favorites after the jump.
Documentary footage of al-Zeidi's infamous shoe-toss has proven popular online as well, with various clips showing the incident in raw form and slow motion quickly racking up millions of views.
Meanwhile, al-Zeidi, a journalist based in Cairo, Egypt, is well on his way to becoming the international hero of Bush haters. A Facebook group dedicated to al-Zaidi — who capped his shoe-toss with the soon-to-be-immortal words, "This is your farewell kiss, you dog!" — already shows hundreds of fans.
"Great job!" wrote Facebook user Khan Zada on the fan page. "The real hero. God bless you mate."
Bush, who likened al-Zaidi's actions to flipping the bird at an irritating motorist, "harbors no hard feelings about the incident," said White House press secretary Dana Perino. The journalist's punishment, if any, will be left to Iraqi authorities, according to the White House.
Bush's Boot Camp game

Bush's vs. Attack of the Shoes game

Bush Reacts to Shoe Thrower
By Headzup

More Animated GIF Mashups
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Cats
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The Three Stooges
By NoNewbs.com user Jen

 

[04SCTLS]

Bush's legacy?

 

[fossten]

Maliki standing there like an idiot...

 

[04SCTLS]

Ya he seems surprised and frozen.
At least Bush was sports like and smiling while ducking.

Maybe he practiced ducking in case this kind of thing happened.

 

[fossten]

Ya he seems surprised and frozen.
At least Bush was sports like and smiling while ducking.

Maybe he practiced ducking in case this kind of thing happened.

Dude. The guy is a rancher. He's probably got good reflexes. I'm sure you'd just stand there and let both shoes hit you in the face.

 

[Calabrio]

Bush is in extremely good physical condition, especially for a guy his age. Earlier in his Presidency, resting pulse was 43 beats a minute and he was running 3 miles, four times a week.

..this is another good one.

 

[04SCTLS]

reflexes. I'm sure you'd just stand there and let both shoes hit you in the face.
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A little presumptuous of you.
Perhaps the thought of shoes hitting me in the face makes you smile. :I LOL!
I would have ducked too.

That reporter Muntadar al-Zeidi threw the shoes too high.

Bush's legacy will be for historians to determine in 20 years or more.
It remains to be seen if the poorly planned bloody costly
divisive Iraq war which followed 10 years of sanctions after Desert Storm will succeed in scattering and marginalizing the Saudi Bin Laden inspired terrorists and reviving Iraq into a strong friendly nation.
If yes, he will be rehabilitated as having guts and forsight but if no then historians (IMO) will say that 9/11 gave neocons in the Bush administration the excuse they were looking for to convince gullible simple guy Bush to attack Iraq so they could impiment (to disasterous consequence) Pax Americana plans that had been around since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Obviously the Iraqi people are the one's who have suffered the most for the last 15 years.

Now from the cartoonists:

 

[04SCTLS]

Oh and one cartoon with a different view.

 

[MonsterMark]

Glad you saved the only one that mattered for last.

 

[fossten]

Note that no real Iraqis have thrown shoes at Bush. Just a journalist.

 

[cammerfe]

It remains to be seen what the result to the 'journalist' will be. On the other hand, if someone would have thrown shoes at Saddam, they'd have arranged for him to die over about a two month period---just a little at a time.

Gee, it seems that we have done some good after all.
KS

 

[foxpaws]

"Bush hasn't dodged anything like that since, well, the Vietnam War." David Letterman

 

[Calabrio]

"Bush hasn't dodged anything like that since, well, the Vietnam War." David Letterman

Bush flew fighter jets in the F-102 in the ANG.
Letterman was born in 1947, just nine months after President Bush was born. I guess he keeps his military service private?

 

[04SCTLS]

Note that no real Iraqis have thrown shoes at Bush. Just a journalist.

Are they like Palin's "real" americans? and the MSM here is
Muntadar al-Zeidi?

I suppose people in journalism want to "make a difference"

The whole thing seems like a novelty incident, can't recall the last time something like this happened though Karl Rove did get pelted with garbage at a student speaking engagement.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/04/karl-rove-gets-ambushed-by-american.html

Bush is well protected by the secret service and a "regular" Iraqi person has little chance of coming close to him.
Everyone in that room was checked over for weapons and shoes can only cause minimal non lethal damage unless they're Richard Ried shoes.
I don't know the extent of glee over this in the middle east as all the news is filtered through the prizm of the american MSM but I would guess in shell shocked Iraq the extent is wide.
Then al Zeidi apologizes, no doubt to try to minimize his punishment.

 

[04SCTLS]

Glad you saved the only one that mattered for last.

I thought you and fossten would appreciate this one Monster.
This incident is a naturally born funny , so easy to lampoon and cartoonize.
The last cartoon is more thoughtful though obviously not as funny as the easy shot.

 

[04SCTLS]

Magical History Tour
George W. Bush's last-ditch attempt to burnish his legacy.

By Christopher BeamPosted Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008, at 6:31 PM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2207062/

President Bush

Introspection has never been President Bush's strong suit. "I really do not feel comfortable in the role of analyzing myself," he told Robert Draper in 2007. "I'll try. But I don't spend a lot of time."
As his second term wanes, however, Bush is getting in touch with his inner president. At an event Thursday hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, Bush promised to "share some thoughts about the presidency—you could call it 'reflections by a guy who's headed out of town.' " He has also revisited the ups and downs of his own presidency this month in interviews with ABC and CNN and in speeches at the U.S. Army War College, Texas A&M, and West Point. If journalism is the first rough draft of history, Bush is marking it up with a big red pen.
The tour is going well so far, give or take a shoe. At the Baghdad press conference, he was able to hail the new status of forces agreement between the United States and Iraq as the twilight of the old era and the dawning of a new one. At the U.S. Army War College, he actually listed his foreign-policy accomplishments, including "a vastly upgraded network of homeland defenses," "a revamped intelligence community," and "a strong coalition of more than 90 nations—composing almost half the world—who have committed to combating terror." At West Point, he told a seamless story about how 9/11 led us to invade Afghanistan and then, logically, Iraq. "[W]e offered Saddam Hussein a final chance to peacefully resolve the issue," Bush said. "And when he refused, we acted with a coalition of nations to protect our people—and liberated 25 million Iraqis." Why wait for the memoir? It's all here.


By now, the broad strokes of the Bush legacy refurbishment plan are clear. It rests on three planks:

1) Bush's presidency never deviated from its core principle of promoting freedom.​

2) Mistakes were made, but only in unwavering service to this principle.​

3) Bush succeeded in making the United States safer.​

For Bush, the last point is the most important. A talking point he raises often is the absence of domestic terrorist attacks since 9/11. It's a wobbly leg to stand on. Who's to say what al-Qaida's planning schedule looked like? After all, more than eight years elapsed between Feb. 26, 1993, the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and 9/11. For doubters, Bush provides a short list of foiled plots: "an attempt to bomb fuel tanks at JFK Airport, a plot to blow up airliners bound for the East Coast, a scheme to attack a shopping mall in the Chicago area, and a plan to destroy the tallest skyscraper in Los Angeles."
You can see why Bush is focusing his legacy-polishing on Iraq and security. In those cases, the countervailing evidence is harder to dredge up. Unlike, say, the economy. You can't throw a shoe these days without hitting a piece of horrific economic news, which, fairly or not, will inevitably be part of Bush's legacy. Still, Bush tried to put a happy face on the numbers: "It's hard to argue against 52 uninterrupted months of job growth," Bush said at AEI.Indeed, it is. But there is the small matter of what happened after that,
Bush is also finally admitting some mistakes—something he had trouble doing a few years back. They're relatively minor. "I came in wanting to change the tone of Washington," he said, "and frankly I didn't do a very good job of it." Of course, he's not the culprit. "I have never used my position as president to personally denigrate somebody," he said. The AEI conversation was a polite event, so Katrina, weapons of mass destruction, Abu Ghraib, the Valerie Plame affair, and the U.S. attorney firings never came up.
Bush also offered tips to the incoming president. Make sure information gets to the Oval Office in a timely manner. Let everyone air their views and debate one another, so you've heard all points of view before making a decision. Keep government interference in the market to a minimum. Everyone was too polite to mention that, even according to some fellow conservatives, his administration was marked by poor information flow, little dissent, and government overreach.
The real irony of Bush's rehabilitation project, though, is that he's taken it up even as he insists that only history can judge him. "You can't possibly figure out the history of the Bush presidency," he told Draper. "Until I'm dead." Maybe he feels like a little legacy-burnishing in his last month in office can't hurt. And maybe there's no contradiction between defending one's actions and acknowledging that they will ultimately be judged by history.
In the here and now, however, this insistence on waiting for the verdict of history has one practical—and, to Bush, appealing—effect: It allows decision-makers to deflect legitimate criticism. If you believe a president's decisions are best judged by long-term outcomes, then by all means let history handle his legacy. But if you think presidents should be judged by their ability to weigh available evidence, ask the right questions, and make intelligent choices based on what they know, then—well, there's no time for judging like the present. Future historians, as well as lame-duck presidents, are free to conclude that you were mistaken.

 

[fossten]

I thought you and fossten would appreciate this one Monster.
This incident is a naturally born funny , so easy to lampoon and cartoonize.
The last cartoon is more thoughtful though obviously not as funny as the easy shot.

Making fun of Bush is so last term. It's getting old. Yeah, we get it, he's an easy target. Big whoop. It's tiresome.

 

[04SCTLS]

Ya
the bad joke Bush presidency is almost over.

 

[foxpaws]

Making fun of Bush is so last term. It's getting old. Yeah, we get it, he's an easy target. Big whoop. It's tiresome.

But, you guys have held onto Clinton for 8 years... come on...

 

[Calabrio]

But, you guys have held onto Clinton for 8 years... come on...

Let's hope for all of our sake, we're all not sitting back in 2010 pining for the good old stable and safe days of 2008. I don't have that kind of confidence in Obama though.