{"id":658,"date":"2008-12-17T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T07:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-12-17T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T07:05:42","slug":"muntazer-al-zaidi-must-be-celebrated-in-song-and-ballad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/17\/muntazer-al-zaidi-must-be-celebrated-in-song-and-ballad\/","title":{"rendered":"Muntazer al-Zaidi Must Be Celebrated in Song and Ballad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the man is fabulous. For the past eight years, Bush-hating activities have existed at a level that can best be summed up as &#8220;lame-ass&#8221;. There have been protest marches with bad slogans. There have been <a href=\"http:\/\/gauravsabnis.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/solapur-all-over-again.html\">riots in Lucknow where Hindus and Muslims beat each other up<\/a> (or vice versa), but Bush himself escaped unscathed. He wasn&#8217;t even anywhere near Lucknow. There&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/donklephant.com\/2005\/11\/24\/bushs-plastic-turkey\/\">a persistent falase rumour about him serving plastic turkey to the troops<\/a>. At a time when people were sick of him and the Iraq war, he couldn&#8217;t be defeated in an election, for crying out loud. You have to ask what the hell people have been doing.<\/p>\n<p>And now, this man does with forty days of a Bush presidency to go what people couldn&#8217;t do in eight years before him: take direct action against the man himself, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hYS5PeLbqqmrfep6Hvo1mi7IGAtg\">hurls a pair of shoes at him<\/a>. While violence is deplorable, it has to be admitted that his directness is admirable. No shilly-shallying for this man of action.<\/p>\n<p>The incident also shows the declining standards in Presidential manliness. When Theodore Roosevelt was shot on the campaign trail, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_15895_p5.html\">he just kept on giving his speech<\/a>. When Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reagan_assassination_attempt#Reagan_taken_to_George_Washington_University_Hospital\">he took it in the lung like a man and told Nancy Reagan that he&#8217;d forgotten to duck<\/a>. Bush ducked, when faced with nothing more dangerous than shoes. Deplorable. One can only hope Obama turns out less feeble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the man is fabulous. For the past eight years, Bush-hating activities have existed at a level that can best be summed up as &#8220;lame-ass&#8221;. There have been protest marches with bad slogans. There have been riots in Lucknow where Hindus and Muslims beat each other up (or vice versa), but Bush himself escaped unscathed. 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