{"id":31173,"date":"2008-12-15T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:14","slug":"bush_keeps_cool_as_the_shoes_fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/12\/15\/bush_keeps_cool_as_the_shoes_fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Keeps Cool as the Shoes Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Cameron in Hartford, Connecticut. Cameron, thank you for waiting. I appreciate your patience.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, it\u2019s grand to be on following the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And a huge responsibility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CALLER: Goody two-shoes dittos, and I wanted to mention and ask you if you might agree that this display of strength by our president yesterday when someone stood up and started hurling things at him, which could have been shoe bombs, I suppose, will we ever see this kind of reaction in the future by future presidents and their secret security details? I mean, when you think about it, think back to when he went out in Yankee Stadium, walked out to the mound solo after 9\/11\/01.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And walked by himself to the mound and threw a strike. There\u2019s an inner strength that this man has, that regardless of any of his other foibles, comes through in a way which I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll see again. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You raise an interesting point about this. One of the things that I\u2019ve noticed, the Drive-Bys are ecstatic with this. The Drive-Bys think it\u2019s the coolest thing in the world, wish they\u2019d have done it themselves. They\u2019re thankful for this guy who threw the shoe and they\u2019ve gone into great detail explaining that this is one of the most profound insults in the Arab world is the sole of a shoe, filth and dirt, you stomp on your opponent\u2019s face with it and that\u2019s cool, and they\u2019re wishing they coulda done it. This guy is a hero to them. The second thing is I\u2019ve seen the video of it, and just on the face it\u2019s kind of hilarious, but everybody is asking, &#8216;Why didn\u2019t the Secret Service act sooner?\u2019 They did. What people don\u2019t know is Bush told the secret service, get away, you saw what happened, some loco weed threw a shoe. It was Bush who kept that room under control by keeping the Secret Service from moving in there and uprooting everybody and throwing them out. <\/p>\n<p>Now, your question about will we see this again, here\u2019s what you have to ask yourself: Let\u2019s imagine here that rather than President Bush it\u2019s Obama somewhere in the Arab world and some reporter from some Arab news agency decides to throw their shoe at Obama, and let\u2019s say that Obama, the same thing happens, he ducks, gets out of the way. Who can know, who can project the future, but I would be pretty confident in suggesting that the media would take after whoever did it and personally string the guy up. There would be no praise for the guy, there would be no admiration for the guy, and the news coverage would be &#8216;how dare they,\u2019 and Obama I think would probably try to play it down, while at the same time suggesting this is just something not done to heads of state and so forth, and probably fire somebody on the Secret Service while nobody is looking and that kind of thing. We don\u2019t know. That\u2019s just a wild guess. Thanks for the call out there, Cameron. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Cameron in Hartford, Connecticut. Cameron, thank you for waiting. I appreciate your patience. CALLER: Well, it\u2019s grand to be on following the vice president. RUSH: And a huge responsibility. 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