If the shoe fits...

As of this morning I've seen the shoe throwing episode 4 or 5 times. When I watched it on The 700 Club a thought occurred to me and listening to a local radio talk show host an hour later remark how "spry" President Bush was in avoiding the shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi reporter I thought it even more possible that the whole event was staged. Perhaps it was to add some drama to President Bush's farewell tour of Iraq.
President Bush didn't really seen surprised when the shoes first one and then the other came flying at him.
No one with him on the stage flinched.
President Bush's security guards didn't really do much and the Iraqi security mainly wanted to shut down the cameras.
President Bush in an interview not long after the event said he wasn't upset or insulted by the shoe throwing. Either President Bush doesn't know much about Middle Eastern culture or maybe he wasn't insulted because it was a put up job, not for real.
Perhaps after 8 years of this administration it's too easy to look for and expect to see chicanery behind every bush.
Or perhaps it's just reasonable.