Showing posts with label Radio and Television Correspondents Association. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Radio and Television Correspondents Association. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2008


On the Incident of the Shoes in Iraq

When I think about the recent incident in which an Iraqi journalist threw shoes and invectives at George Bush, my thoughts tend to return to a speech Bush delivered at the March 2004 Radio & Television Correspondents Association dinner, during which he joked about not being able to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction that he had used as a pretext for invading Iraq. Below is the whole speech, complete with the laughter of the attendees. And here is David Corn's reaction: "MIA WMDs--For Bush, It's a Joke."



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