Bush Fiasco, YouTube's Gain
Techtree News Staff
Dec 16 2008
The now infamous video showing US President George W. Bush ducking as an Iraqi journalist throws shoes at him has become a Youtube rage. Apart from grabbing 11 of the top 20 "most watched video" spots, videos posted on the site have given rise to anti-Bush communities, with thousands of comments posted already.

Soon after the incident came to light on Sunday, various versions of the videos were uploaded by users. Some of them have managed to cross over 500,000 views each, while others have crossed 100,000 views - all in just two days. People are still uploading videos at an amazing rate of around 209 videos per hour, according to the Washington Times. The combined number of views of all these videos together is calculated to be around 8,145,000!

Muntadhar al-Zeidi is the disgruntled Iraqi journalist who vented his anger against the US President; he apparently called the President a dog.

Bush, on the other hand, laughed off the incident and joked, "If you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw."



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