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Video captured what appeared to be a man using a shoe to try and strike Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today as the Iranian president greeted a crowd in Egypt. The video, uploaded to YouTube by the Anadolu Agency, a Turkish news service, shows Ahmadinejad in a crush of people smiling and shaking hands until a bearded man comes in the frame holding a shoe high over his head. The shoe comes down twice in Ahmadinejad’s direction, but too far from the Iranian leader to pose a threat. …

That such a question is even asked shows the mentality of CNN.

Charles Barkley, whose mouth is sometimes bigger than a president's influence, just doesn't seem to have the reflexes of George W. Bush when it comes to dodging shoes. And Barkley was an athlete...well...in so much as someone nicknamed the Round Mound of Rebound can be called an athlete. See the video from TNT's Thugball daily wrapup here:

A different take on the Iraqi "shoe thrower." Unlike the rest of the liberal mainstream media I show how the incident validated Bush's policy in Iraq. I am also happy to say that excerpts from my piece were read by Bill Bennett on his show this morning and he linked to it on his website. Human Events will also be linking to it. http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2008/12/16/top_stories/doc494747b1b8c61803680189.txt

An Iraqi journalist tossed his reporter's notebook at U.S. President George W. Bush during a Baghdad news conference Sunday. "I write crap. We all write crap. Your policies are crap," Muntazer al-Zaidi from Al-Baghdadia channel, which broadcasts from Cairo, said while throwing his notebook at Bush. The action is considered by most media to be the worst insult they could make -- even worse than reporting outright lies and fabrications as truth. [Editorial Note: This report is an outright lie and fabrication reported as satire.] See video here: