Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, January 19, 2009 4:45:59 PM
Hey, I thought that the media had anointed Muntazer al-Zaidi the
representative of the Iraqis in terms of their feelings towards George
Bush and the American liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein. After
Zaidi tossed his shoes at the outgoing American president, the
mainstream media made him into a hero and used the shoe-tossing assault
as an ongoing motif in cartooning and in Bush retrospectives. In Iraq,
though, Zaidi has discovered that it constitutes assault on a foreign dignitary — and they’re enthusiastic about prosecuting him for it (via Michelle)
Why does he need asylum? The biggest problem, outside of the
potential 15-year sentence, is that Zaidi can’t get work as a
journalist since his attack on Bush. Imagine that! Why would an
unprovoked assault on a foreign leader suddenly mean that a journalist
can’t be trusted to report on events?
For more irony, consider the options asylum would bring Zaidi:
Once settled in Geneva, the bachelor without children
could “very well work as a journalist at the United Nations” which has
its European headquarters here, Poggia said.
Of course he could! Why, shoe-throwers are what make the
UN the credible multinational organization it is. I can’t think of a
more appropriate correspondent for the UN’s Geneva base. Someone
brings up Oil for Food? Throw a shoe. Anyone talking about how UN
peacekeepers routinely sexually exploit women and children in exchange
for aid? Throw a shoe. Hugo Chavez talks about smelling sulphur after
following Bush to the dais? Hand Chavez a shoe for him to throw.
Zaidi committed an assault on a foreign dignitary for his own political purposes. He’s not being persecuted, he’s being prosecuted
for a crime that not only got captured on video, it got seen by
hundreds of millions of people around the world. Now Zaidi wants to
take the cowardly way out of the consequences of his actions. What a
hero!
Michelle Malkin • January 19, 2009 11:40 AM
Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, the international moonbat who threw his shoes at President Bush, wants refuge in Switzerland
I hear he has also filed for asylum in Hollywood. Third choice: the NY Times newsroom.