Model 271 brogues ´schoen van het jaar´

[Cees Binkhorst]

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Sommige multimediazaken begrijp ik af-en-toe niet helemaal, maar hier kan
ik me wel wat bij voorstellen ;)

Overigens vond ik de reaktie van Bush heel alert, oog op de schoen en
jezelf zo klein mogelijk maken.
Heel wat beter dan de Irakese minister-president Nuri al-Maliki. Die had
pas bij de tweede schoen door wat er aan de hand was.

Groet / Cees

Bush assailant kick-starts sales for shoemaker
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/22/shoe.thrower.turkey/?iref=hpmostpop

The shoes thrown last week at U.S. President George W. Bush have provided
an unexpected windfall for the shoemaker who made them.
President Bush, left, ducks a shoe as Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
tries to protect him.

Sales of the shoes made famous by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi have
soared, with requests pouring in to the Turkish shoemaker from across the
world, media reports said Monday.

As a result, Istanbul-based Ramazan Baydan has had to recruit an extra 100
staff to meet orders for 300,000 pairs of the "Model 271 brogues,"
Britain's Daily Mail said.

According to the company, Model 271 shoes are exported to markets
including Iraq, Iran, Syria and Egypt. Last week customers in Iraq ordered
120,000 pairs and some Iraqis offered to set up distribution companies for
the shoe, Baydan told Bloomberg.

Al-Zaidi, who faces a prison term if convicted, carried out the act in
front of hundreds of reporters, photographers and cameramen at a Baghdad
press conference given by Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Shouting as he was dragged to the floor, the reporter called his
shoe-throwing -- a traditional insult in Arab culture -- a "farewell kiss"
to a "dog" who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Neither shoe hit the
out-going president.

While the incident angered Iraq's government, Al-Zaidi has been hailed as
a hero by many Iraqis protesting his detention. In neighboring Iran, one
cleric dubbed the act "the shoe intifada (rebellion)."

"The shoe intifada in Iraq should not be overlooked easily," Iran's
Islamic Republic News Agency reported Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati as saying
Friday. "Well done to the Iraqi journalist for throwing the shoes at the
U.S. president."

Bush himself told CNN's Candy Crowley in the aftermath of the attack that
he "didn't have much time to reflect on anything (when the shoes were
thrown), I was ducking and dodging."

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