Iran's Ahmadinejad Gets Shoe Thrown At Him, Will Media Care?

Consider what was published by Israel's Haaretz Saturday:

A shoe was recently hurled at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was in the city of Urmia, an Iranian Web site has reported.

The incident in the Iranian city was an apparent imitation of a similar attack on former U.S. president George Bush in Iraq last year.

Urmia News, the Iranian site, reported that Ahmadinejad was in a car en route to an election rally when the shoe was thrown.

Will American media care about this? After all, according to LexisNexis, there were almost 1,000 reports in December when it happened to President Bush.

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