These shoes were made for throwin'

There was an Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe. T'was no ordinary shoe mind you, but a very special shoe. Two of them in a size 10. And away to the Lame Duck President they flew. But that's only where the story began for poor Muntader al-Zaidi. While he hasn't been seen publicly since the incident, it seems he is seeking the forgiveness of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for his "ugly action." The correspondent for the TV channel in Cairo, Al-Baghdadiya, has become the talk of the government and the pride of Baghdad. He's even been offered a new job with a Lebanese television station "from the second he threw the shoe." Unless pardoned, as Maliki is under pressure to do, al-Zaidi could face up to 15 years in prison for the charge of "aggression against a president." That's a hefty penalty for the man who had to live with those shoes.