Praise for Man Who Threw Shoes at Bush?

Sole Attacker

(Fox News) - The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President Bush Sunday is being hailed as a hero in parts of the Arab world. And now colleagues in the Mideast media are also coming to his defense. The editor of a Jordanian newspaper says, "Throwing the shoes at Bush was the best goodbye kiss ever."

A Lebanese-American professor at Stanislaus University in California writes, "The flying shoe speaks more for Arab public opinion than all the despots-puppets that Bush meets with during his travels."

And the attacker's employer released a statement saying, "Any measures against (him) will be considered the acts of a dictatorial regime."