Monday, December 15, 2008

Relief Pitcher Yanked After Two Wild Throws

Muntadhar "Dizzy" al-Zeidi had a poor outing in his first big league appearance, and was pulled after throwing two bean-ball pitches at President Bush during a press conference in Baghdad.

Al-Zeidi - a reporter who is living the dream of practically every left-wing journalist in America - not only hates America, but claims to hate Iran, too. We eagerly look forward to him taking the mound in Tehran against Ahmadinejad.

The AP helpfully puts this incident in context: "The sight of an average Arab standing up and making a public show of resentment was striking — especially against a leader widely blamed for a litany of crimes by the Associated Press including the turmoil in Iraq, where tens of thousands of civilians have died in the war."

Update: Who does al-Zeidi want to be like when he grows up? I'll give you three guesses, and the first two don't count.

4 comments:

  1. Only tens of thousands of civilian deaths! Well dang! Progress. That reporter may lose their Obavda Card.

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  2. Pres Bush has excellent reflexes, if it was me I would have been hit twice and stood there like a stunned fish. There wasn't much else he could have done, so good on him. And he cut a joke! I have grown to love GWB's personality, he's a hero in my eyes.

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  3. This tosser is a lucky boy...if it had been the late unlamented Saddam, the scribe wouldn't be needing shoes anymore, and it's pretty hard to throw anything wthout hands.
    I wonder what history will say about GWB in, say 20 years? or 50? (assuming the sea level rise hasn't drowned everybody...or is it the boiling ocean that will be the problem?)

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  4. What I want to know is: where was the Secret Service agent who dives in front, to take a shoe for the President?

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