From Bloomberg News:
The shoe hurled at President George W. Bush has sent sales soaring at the Turkish maker as orders pour in from Iraq, the U.S. and Iran.
The brown, thick-soled “Model 271” may soon be renamed “The Bush Shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush,” Ramazan Baydan, who owns the Istanbul-based producer Baydan Ayakkabicilik San. & Tic., said in a telephone interview today.
“We’ve been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy,” he said. “We’ve even hired an agency to look at television advertising.”
People are stupid.
They just had an one of the best incidental commercials in modern history, and they’re looking to buy more? If orders are flying in like crazy, why would you bother advertising?
Anyway, I’d wear a pair of Bush Beaters.
The actual shoes would sell on ebay for a million dollar
They’re flying off the shelves!
I am as liberal and anti-Bush as they come, but don’t you dare throw a shoe at MY fucking President.
I understand old vaudeville performers kept moving back and forth across the stage to better dodge flying tomatoes and other assorted fruits and veggies if the audience didn’t like their act. It’s harder, of course, to hit a moving target. Perhaps Bush will be more animated in his delivery of speeches as a result.
I am as conservative and pro-Bush as they come, but damn that was funny when that guy through a shoe at Dubya.
Somebody throw a Chevy at him next*
*as read elsewhere