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Did you see the guy throw his shoes at President Bush?
By admin | December 14, 2008
By Richard Allen
*** My first experience at public writing was on a Knoxville sports talk host’s website. In that blog I often made rather lame attempts at humor about a wide variety of subjects. Since there is not very much to write about in the world of NASCAR during the off season I thought I would give it another shot.***
Have you seen the guy who threw his shoes at President Bush while he was making a surprise visit to Iraq?
As luck would have it, RacingWithRich.com has been able to compile a list of quotes made by people from all walks of life. Here are what some notable folks had to say about the incident:
New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman- “We like the velocity he showed on his fastball and his off speed stuff had good movement. We are prepared to offer him $150 million over the next 8 years.”
University of Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin- “I’ve been looking at film of the quarterbacks I’ve just inherited. Does that guy have any college eligibility?”
Bill Clinton- “Bush thinks that’s something? Hillary throws her pointed high heels at me much harder than that.”
Terrell Owens- “At least somebody will throw in Bush’s direction”
Tony Romo- “Well, we know I’m innocent. I only throw toward Jason Witten.”
John Madden- “You know who could’ve hit Bush? Brett Favre.”
Bush’s speech writers- “He shouldn’t worry about getting hit by a shoe. He’s used to having his foot in his mouth.”
ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper, Jr.- “Let’s look at the Iraqi Prime Minister deflecting those shoes. He’s 5’11”, 210lbs and he runs a 6.5 in the 40. He’s a solid 4th round pick.”
NASCAR- “We could use that guy to chuck debris on the track for when our races get boring.”
George Bush- “You think unemployment’s bad now? It’s about to go up among secret service agents.”
Donovan McNabb- “Does that guy know you can have ties in the NFL?”
Phillip Fulmer- “I don’t know what happened there. I’ll have to look at the film but you’d better believe if the government would hire me for $12,500 a month I’d work like heck to figure it out.”
Bob Knight- “I find throwing chairs to be a more effective way of getting someone’s attention.”
It’s a good thing Imelda Marcos never decided to throw all of her shoes. Talk about weapons of mass destruction.
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