Journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi, the new hero in Iraq, much of the Muslim world, and even among many in this country, is facing less than friendly treatment from the Iraqi military and, according to some news reports, the U.S. forces overseeing his custody…
Durgham Zaidi was unable to say whether his brother Muntazer had sustained the injuries while being overpowered during Sunday’s protest against Bush’s visit to Baghdad or while in custody later.
He said he had been told that his brother was being held by Iraqi forces in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in central Baghdad where the US embassy and most government offices are housed.
“He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm,” said Durgham.
And yes, as we noted in our coverage on Sunday, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino did, in fact, receive both a literal and symbolic black eye during the melee following the shoe toss. In what would be dismissed as ridiculous heavy-handed Hollywood symbolism, had it been featured in a movie, Perino actually received a black-eye when she was hit during the fracas, in the eye, with a microphone…
In other shoe-throwing news, you can now throw virtual shoes at Bush in a number of online games, or you can send him some actual shoes via a new online campaign promising to give Bush the boot. They all sound like good ideas to us!
Not that I doubt the honesty of that lying bag of crap, but those marks look quite symetrical. If she was hit with ONE mike, how come she has such neat and tidy shiners?
Looking for a little pity, perhaps?
No. Lots of times a hard blow to the face gives you two shiners, no matter which side of the face it was on. Or, at least, I know that’s the case for women. I bashed myself on one side of my face years ago and hollered at the doctor about getting two shiners out of it, and he said that’s very normal.
And, yes, that’s about all that is normal about me….
And, oh, oh, would that it might have been Ari Fleischer instead!
Yup a good run into a fist with your beak will make two shiners also, I had a cop hit me in the beak with the butt of his shotgun (long drunken story) it was real purdy the next day.
To the victims of the Librul scourge
There’s still hope 😛
Purina is (and all of the rest of them are) getting off easy. Like all the old Nazis, she’s “just been following orders” – but, unfortunately for everyone, we’re again talking genocide, worse, genocide for mercenary reasons, here. The gallows (or some “enhanced” method like the Guillotine) is the appropriate destination for mass murderers of this order of magnitude. Saddam Hussein was no saint, unless, that is, you stand him next to “our” pretzel-“brained” duhbaya, dumbsfield, cheaty, NOTDONNA rice, and so on, in which casse he comes across as a reasonable minor-leaguer with no fofreseeable future. I’m a good old peace and love and rock and roll hippy from the 70s (sorry, I was busy doing my soldierly duty in ther 60s), but I have truly evil, malevolent feelings towards these “people” – may everyone’s own personal god/ess(s/es) damn these villains’ eyes to seeing endless replays of the ultimate demises of the millions of innocent persons, women and children included in abundance, of course, whom they have brutally slain (seems a little redundant, since I can’t imagine too many non-brutal slaying methods, but what the hay?)! May they rot in their own personal hells, after, that is, expiring in their cells in The Hague.
PS – I get the feeling that a lot of other star-crossed women who have met duhbaya have wound up with similarly6 marred faces. Just a feeling…
Send some stinky old sneaks, AIR MAIL, along with a bag or two or pretzels, to the greatst war criminal of the millennium, at least to date!!!
Uh.. you don’t throw shoes at the President of the United States. You don’t. It’s assault. But what upsets me most is that the US Media is acting like we need to “understand this guy’s viewpoint.” We don’t. Throw him in jail. Keep him there. If someone had thrown shoes at Obama, they would have gone out of their minds with indignation, but it’s okay because it’s Bush? Double standard. Rediculous. He’s the president. Period. You just can’t assault our president and then want to “explain”. The media shames me.
The shoe thrower dude Mary has 1,297,997 reasons to be pissed at us. Before this, he has been kidnapped by the other side, detained by US forces, had family members killed…walk a mile in his shoes sometime, or better yet, how would you feel if some foreign country did this to us?. I think he was pretty restrained myself.