The gloating over the shoe thrower is about to end

A recent story in the New York Times reports that al-Zaidi, the childish little nincompoop who chucked a shoe at my president, has not been making it to his court appearances. His family hasn’t been allowed to see him. His legal representation hasn’t been permitted to see him either. In fact there have been no public appearances since the threw the shoe.

One he threw the shoe, he was quickly subdued first by another journalist, then by Maliki’s security detail, and roughed up. According to this NYT story, “his cries could be heard in a nearby room.”

Let me guess: The narrative on the left is about to change. So far its been all gloating and giggles and verbal high fives because this joker “was brave enough to express his righteous anger…blah blah blah.” Now it will be all about how horrible and brutally Zaidi is being treated - what a mess we have created. Oh yeah, there will be moonbats, mark my words, who actually blame how al-Zaidi has or will be treated on the U.S. just like they were mad at their own country for the way the Saddam Hussein execution was handled.

Now, if this story is true, and al-Zaidi was beaten in the next room, that certainly is a departure from our standards for how to treat people under arrest. Of course, its a vast improvement over how he’d been treated if he farted at a Saddam Hussein appearance, but that’s already a tired point. Yes, if it were Hussein in power, no one would throw a shoe. Ironic that the man he threw a shoe at was responsible for the freedom he felt to do so.

I have an opinion on harsh treatment of a subdued prisoner, but I also recognize (and the multiculturalists should be able to identify) that they do things different over there. We aren’t supposed to be forcing our standards on them right? So anyway, on the scale of what bothers me, Zaidi being roughed up is pretty far down the scale.

Anyone who thinks that throwing something at the face of a person you disagree with politically is fine and funny shouldn’t be too bothered by the violence either. But the liberals will whine for him nonetheless, and they won’t see they hypocrisy in it.