really only works if you stand a concrete risk by doing so.
Like, say, getting your head cut off or a bullet in the brain in return.
This guy doesn’t get that.
The president’s appearance was interrupted by a man, apparently a journalist, who leapt to his feet and threw his shoe at the president, who ducked and thus narrowly missed being struck. Chaos ensued. The [man] threw a second shoe, which also narrowly missed the president. The man was roughly 12 feet from the lecturn in the center of two rows of chairs, about two feet from the pool. A scrum of security agents descended on the man and wrestled him, first to the floor and then out of the ornate room where the press conference was taking place.
The president was at no point injured and he brushed off the incident. “All I can report is it is a size 10.”
The pool’s Iraqi colleague said the man shouted, “This is a farewell kiss, dog.”
I’d be a lot more impressed if the shoe thrower had thrown his shoe at Saddam in 2003. Throwing one at George W. Bush in Iraq in late 2008 is not exactly the stuff of martyrdom.