Twitterati fishes for man who threw shoes at then US President George Bush; strikes gold

Even more than a decade later, Twitterati have shown the ability to find the man who flung a shoe at former US President George Bush during his press conference in Iraq in 2008 almost at will. In an interesting series of events, an account put out a tweet saying that the best thing about Twitter was that whenever the Bush shoeing incident was mentioned, the actual guy who did it responded. Just like he predicted, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the journalist who was responsible for the incident, responded with a 'Thank you.'

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Netizens react 

After nearly 12 years, netizens took to Twitter to laud the Iraqi journalist for throwing his shoes at George Bush, thanking him for 'his service.' Some even requested if he could stage something similar during one of current US President Donald Trump's press conferences. 

The Bush Shoe-ing Incident 

On December 14, 2008, during President George Bush's press conference in Iraq, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi flung both of his shoes as a mark of protest against Bush who was supposed to retire soon, following the inauguration of his successor Barack Obama. 

"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, dog", yelled the Iraqi journalist when he threw his first shoe."This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq," he shouted as he threw his second shoe. Both the shoes were dodged by George Bush shortly after which Al-Zaidi was dragged out of the room by guards.

The Iraqi journalist received massive support worldwide for his incident forcing the authorities to reduce his three-year prison sentence, to two years. However, he was released even earlier in September 2009, after nine months of incarceration, due to his otherwise impeccably clean criminal record.

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