After a slow-news week we have the following news story reported in Free Republic:
Turkish company sees boom in sales of 'George W. Bush attack shoes'
News.Com.Au
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 2:53:15 PM by Sub-Driver
Turkish company sees boom in sales of 'George W. Bush attack shoes'
Agence France-Presse
December 19, 2008 10:41pm
THE Turkish shoe company [Baydan Shoes of Istanbul] making the brand of footwear used by an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush has seen a surge in orders. Ramazan Baydan, owner of the shoe factory in Istanbul of the same name, told DPA that he had received orders in the past week for some 300,000 pairs of the model that was thrown at the US president.
"Someone even came from America seeking distribution rights," Baydan said.
The entrepreneur wants to rename the model, a brown leather shoe with a thick sole, as the "Bye Bye Bush shoes"....
See YouTube video here.
Reuters reports that an Egyptian offered his daughter in marriage to journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, and that she approves of this idea.
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