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Hillary ducks shoe thrown at her during speech
American Thinker ^ | 04/11/2014 | Rick Moran

Posted on 04/11/2014 8:08:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

If the shoe fits...

Hillary Clinton receives $250,000 in speaking fees  - peanuts compared to Bill  - but I'll bet she'd give it all back to avoid this kind of embarrassment.

Clinton was addressing a convention of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries in Las Vegas when an unknown woman approached the stage and tossed a shoe at the former secretary of state.

Hillary ducked and then joked about the incident:

Mark Carpenter, a representative for the organization hosting the event — the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries — stressed that the woman “was not affiliated with our organization and was not credentialed for this event.”

“Our staff denied her access before she later rushed past security,” he continued in a statement. “An ISRI staffer then stopped her as she approached the stage. She was then handed over to law enforcement.”

The incident is reminiscent of a 2008 scene in which then-President George W. Bush ducked during a news conference in Baghdad when an Iraqi attendee threw two shoes at him.


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To: DesertRhino
We sure aren’t hearing much about the identity of the show thrower ...

Probably a staff member of her publicity team.

41 posted on 04/11/2014 9:10:22 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe it was contrived, stagea but those pictures of her are a horror. For someone like that to possibly be president of the US. I like to steam liberals off by saying “I don’t think she can be elected at 79 years old” because they always go out of their way to correct me, “She 69 years old, not 79”. Even if it is Hillary and some others, I don’t like to say detracting things about women but let it be, she looks like “Her Frumpiness” and I don’t really say that to be mean or offend anyone.


42 posted on 04/11/2014 9:13:48 AM PDT by BeadCounter (Without the C, there is no need for the Coexist bumpersticker.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All
hmm.."planned/executed photo op" by
SHRILLary et. al to show her humanity.
*snicker*

43 posted on 04/11/2014 9:19:37 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: CharlesWayneCT; JoeProBono; Revolting cat!; Daffynition
She did NOT DUCK. The show missed, and then she flinched, and started muttering about bats.

"Is this bat country?"


44 posted on 04/11/2014 9:21:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad she wasnt at an NHL event


45 posted on 04/11/2014 9:25:29 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: SeekAndFind

Probably one of those women Bill dallied with only to have the beast come after her in order to destroy her life. Or maybe it is a daughter of one of those gals.

Or...could be a Benghazi relative.

In either of those cases, I doubt the MSM would want to pursue the show thrower.


46 posted on 04/11/2014 9:28:21 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind
Capitol Hill Blue has more details:
Ilene Rosen, the wife of a conventioneer from Denver who was seated in the second row, said she saw an orange object fly toward the stage from a side aisle and papers fluttering in the air.

Rosen said the woman had walked to a rope line within six rows of the front of the seating area, threw the items, turned around, put her hands in the air and walked up the aisle toward the back of the room. Security officers quickly caught up with her.

In the hotel hallway, the middle-aged blonde woman sat calmly on a sofa, wearing a blue dress and thong sandals. She said she threw a shoe and dropped some papers, but didn’t identify herself to reporters or explain the action. Security officials then ushered reporters and photographers away.

Spellacy and Mark Carpenter, spokesman for the recycling institute, said the woman wasn’t a credentialed convention member and wasn’t supposed to have been in the ballroom.

An attendee sitting near Rosen later handed a reporter a piece of paper that he said the woman threw. It appeared to be a declassified copy of a Department of Defense document labeled confidential and dated August 1967; it referred to a Bolivian Army operation called “Cynthia” in Bolivia.


47 posted on 04/11/2014 9:28:45 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: SeekAndFind


I'll get you my pretty. And your little dog too!
48 posted on 04/11/2014 9:34:44 AM PDT by Old Yeller (In Latin, the word sinister means left. Which is appropriate for left-wingers.)
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49 posted on 04/11/2014 9:35:09 AM PDT by Daffynition (The price of gas when Heussein took office: $1.81/gal)
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To: SeekAndFind

The close up is frightening. She’s not aged well.


50 posted on 04/11/2014 9:40:10 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun
What happens in Vegas, stays....


51 posted on 04/11/2014 9:45:04 AM PDT by Daffynition (The price of gas when Heussein took office: $1.81/gal)
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To: SeekAndFind

President Bush reacted instantly, like a former fighter pilot would. Hillary didn’t duck until the thing was 5 feet behind her.


52 posted on 04/11/2014 10:24:35 AM PDT by barefoot_hiker
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone was just trying to help the sole-less b!tch


53 posted on 04/11/2014 10:38:36 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: elpadre

My thoughts exactly. Everything is scripted with commies like Hillary and Barry. Nothing just “happens” with them.


54 posted on 04/11/2014 10:44:41 AM PDT by Flagpole Erectus (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove they aren't out to get me. Forget PMs. I gots tinfoil.)
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To: PapaBear3625

The papers she threw were strange, something about classified work in Bolivia in 1967.


55 posted on 04/11/2014 11:53:24 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: SeekAndFind

She can move pretty fast when she has to. Just like when they were shooting at her on the tarmac in Bosnia.


56 posted on 04/11/2014 11:57:55 AM PDT by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: Daffynition

There’s no business like shoe business.


57 posted on 04/11/2014 12:00:33 PM PDT by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: miserare

""I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe. That's my dog, Tige, he lives there too!" ;)

58 posted on 04/11/2014 12:22:51 PM PDT by Daffynition (The price of gas when Heussein took office: $1.81/gal)
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To: a fool in paradise

.....a scrap recycling convention? Whognu?

59 posted on 04/11/2014 12:27:23 PM PDT by Daffynition (The price of gas when Heussein took office: $1.81/gal)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Was that a bat?” No, the bat was the target of a flying shoe.


60 posted on 04/11/2014 12:27:55 PM PDT by windsorknot
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