Model 271 brogues ´schoen van het jaar´

[Henk Vreekamp]

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Ik vond het bukken en reageren van Bush jr ook heel alert - maar dat was
niet zo'n prestatie want Bush stond op dat moment in de zaal te kijken
omdat hij vragen kreeg tijdens de persconferentie. Fysiek heeft'ie nog wel
wat conditie - die Iraakse mastodont naast hem ziet volgens mij slecht, is
te ijdel om een bril te dragen... Vandaar die grap dat Balkenende zo'n
schoen pats in z'n gezicht zou hebben gekregen.
hv,u
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At 18:04 12/22/2008 +0100, ceesbink at xs4all.nl wrote:
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>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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