When the Shoe is Mightier than the Pen

And now the serious business. Comrade Sinan sent me this: "did u see the fuckers pull the man by his hair? and the iraqi security telling everyone to turn off cameras? god knows they will torture him. we should start an appeal to demand his safety." Will those fancy Western journalistic associations now demand that he be released? Will they speak on his own behalf? Or will they now say that shoe throwing is a brand of terrorism and that the man should be shipped to Guantanamo? A source received word from Baghdad that the man has been beaten.