Their main hero President-elect Barack Obama being too busy primping for the Inauguration Ball to pay them any mind, CodePink has a new hero: shoe-throwing Iraqi “journalist” Muntadhar al Zeidi.
Tossing their own going away party Sept. 24 from the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center, CodePinkers came back today heaping praises on the Arab world’s latest folk hero.
Members of the group and their hangers-on marched around the recruiting station, holding shoes in the air to show support for al Zeidi, who hurled both his shoes at President George W. Bush during Sunday’s news conference in Baghdad.