Bush Attacked By Shoes

An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at President Bush during a news conference in Baghdad. Bush, surprisingly alert and showing quick reflexes, ducked out of the way (apparently those 500 vacation days have paid off). Later, Bush joked, "All I can report is a size 10."

Watch the video of Bush experiencing the last throws of the insurgency.

Naturally, Internet jokesters have been all over this. Check out a series of amusing mock-ups featuring Bush dodging things like snowballs, volleyballs, and pies, a flying shoe from Austin Powers, a stomping foot from Monty Python, as well as Bush dodging a shoe Matrix-style.

Late-Night Shoe-Throwing Jokes

"I've got to give President Bush credit for this, because he's taking it all pretty well. He says that he's actually happy about the shoe-throwing episode, because he says it proves finally that Iraq does, in fact, possess footwear of mass destruction." --David Letterman

"The shoe-throwing incident has made Sarah Palin want to be president even more. Free shoes! You betcha!" --Craig Ferguson

"The man who threw his shoes at President Bush is being hailed as a hero in Iraq. In fact, when he dies, he'll be greeted in heaven by 72 podiatrists." --Conan O'Brien

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More Shoe-Throwing Humor
Flying Shoe Cartoons (About.com)
Austin Powers Shoe Mashup (YouTube)
Bush Shoe Toss Immortalized in Games (Wired)
Bush's Shoe Dodge Game (Atom)
If the Shoe Flies, Hurl It (Will Durst)
Questions I Have For the Secret Service (23/6)
12 Things to Throw at Bush (Mark Morford)
Yankees Sign Iraqi Hurler (Borowitz Report)
What Bush Was Thinking In Footwear Incident (23/6)

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