reporting the shoes

Sky News informed us this evening that an Iraqi journalist had stood up at a press conference and thrown his shoes at President Bush.
Sky News took the perspective that this lone Iraqi somehow spoke for the Iraqi people.
Sky News pointed out that throwing a shoe is considered the worst insult possible among Iraqis.
Frivolous analysis Sky.
It might pass in Journalism School but not here.
Far worse insults than shoe throwing have proliferated in Iraq up until recent times.
Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay were accustomed to torturing and murdering people in acid baths before Mr Bush and the American army sent them to hell.
Torture in an acid bath is a good deal worse an insult to human dignity than having a shoe thrown at you.
The Iraqi people know this full well.
Sky News should know it too.

So Sky News contends that throwing a shoe at someone is the worst possible Iraqi insult.
Oh Sky.
Surely you are aware that your friends in that non threatening "scattering of affiliated Jihadists" known to the world as Al Qaeda, have plenty of even worse insults.

But Sky News isn't interested in Al Qaeda.
Sky News has for seven years failed to accurately report the Al Qaeda threat, preferring instead to demonise Mr Bush.
Interestingly enough, today's shoe throwing coward is not known to have ever thrown a shoe in anger while Saddam was murdering one tenth of the population and attempting to precipitate nuclear war with the West.
We might legitimately conclude that the shoe throwing Islamist coward is an agent of Al Qaeda and/or the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This isn't rocket science.
It's the bleedin obvious.
Yet Sky News chose to interpret this lone shoe throwing coward as being representative of the Iraqi people and to juxtapose his cowardice with five year old pictures of crowds of Iraqis beating Saddam's statue with a shoe after the Americans liberated Baghdad.
They thought it was the same thing.
Hey Sky.
Only one person threw his shoes at President Bush.
There were millions celebrating in the streets and thousands beating Saddam's statue the day the Americans came to Iraq.
Can you spot the teensy weensy incongruency in your juvenile sneering agit prop reportage?
I'm trying to help you.
Because I know you're not bad.
Just criminally incompetent.
After today's dramatic shoe throwing incident, Al Jazeera, the Arab Nazi channel, used precisely the same story angle and five year old footage, to tell precisely the same lies as Sky News.
Al Jazeera asserted that the lone shoe thrower this afternoon somehow acted with the sanction of the Iraqi people and held exactly the same mandate and legitimacy as the crowds who beat Saddam's statue with their shoes.
Hey Sky.
You and Al Jazeera.
Now that's good company you're keeping.

Here is the news.
Today a single cowardly Iraqi Al Qaeda supporter threw his shoes at Mr Bush.
The single cowardly Iraqi Al Qaeda supporter missed with both shoes.
The single cowardly Iraqi Al Qaeda supporter has never done a courageous thing in his life, choosing instead to uphold the interests of murderers, dictators and Islamic fascists.
Five years ago when America and Great Britain liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein, fifteen million Iraqis celebrated in the streets, and tens of thousands beat statues of Saddam with their shoes.

The millions who celebrated the Americans' liberation of their country are indeed representative of the Iraqi people.
The Prime Minister of Iraq who thanked Mr Bush for the American liberation of his country is representative of the Iraqi people.
The group of Iraqi journalists who immediately apologised to Mr Bush for the actions of today's lone coward shoe thrower, are representative of the Iraqi people.

Sky News is representative of no one.