The Other Shoe Was…Thrown!
Written by: Tom Sawyer
You know we have to look at and talk about this video. From what I understand, throwing a shoe is the ultimate sign of disrespect in Iraq, but it is still somewhat funny to me. I’m trying to think what action, if any exists, that would be equal to this for Americans. My first thought is to say giving someone the finger or saying, “Yo Momma” would be similar but those can be waived off depending on the context.
When I think about it I have to wonder if Iraq is just a more respectful country than ours. See, to consider something so disrespectful wouldn’t there have to be a baseline of respect to begin with? We may not have that baseline of respect to even consider something this disrespectful. You can get flipped off a million times a day, but what is there in our country that is just the ultimate display of disrespect?
I can’t think of anything.
Tags: bush, disrespect, iraq, shoe, thrown
December 16th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Although I think Bush was (and still is) horrible as President of the USA, I think throwing shoes at him is totally wrong. But I must say, for a man of his age, he ducked pretty well:–) I also liked that he was able to joke about it.
December 16th, 2008 at 8:24 am
I saw this on Sunday and all I could think about was the 1st Austin Powers movie where the henchman Random Task throws a shoe to “take people out”. That’s where the line “Who throws a shoe” comes from and I still chuckle to this point. The guys an idiot and has bad aim good thing it was a grendade or something.
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