As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a keynote speech on Thursday at a convention for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, she and everyone in the audience was shocked when a woman threw a shoe at her.
The incident can be seen in this?video?from TMZ:
According to an?Associated Press report on ABC, Clinton used humor to deescalate the situation:
Clinton ducked, and she did not appear to be hit by the object. She then joked about it. “Is that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque de Soleil?” Clinton quipped.
Many in the audience of more than 1,000 people in a large ballroom laughed and applauded as Clinton resumed her speech.
“My goodness, I didn’t know that solid waste management was so controversial,” Clinton said. “Thank goodness she didn’t play softball like I did.”
Here’s another look at what happened, via ABC News:
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Secret Service and convention representatives issued a statement saying that the woman who threw the shoe was not supposed to have been in the room — she was not credentialed. The Secret Service declined to identify the woman, but said that she has been detained and will face charges. From Jezebel:
Ilene Rosen, the wife of a conventioneer from Denver who was seated in the second row, said she saw an orange object fly toward the stage from a side aisle and papers fluttering in the air. Rosen said the woman had walked down the aisle to within six rows of the front of the seating area, threw the items, turned around, put her hands in the air and walked toward the back of the room. Security officers quickly caught up with her.
In the hotel hallway, the middle-aged blonde woman sat calmly on a sofa, wearing a blue dress and thong sandals. She said she threw a shoe and dropped some papers, but didn’t identify herself to reporters or explain the action. Security officials then ushered reporters and photographers away.
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An attendee later handed a reporter a piece of paper that was apparently thrown by the woman. It appeared to be a copy of a Department of Defense document labeled confidential and dated August 1967; it referred to an operation “Cynthia” in Bolivia.
We have a piece of advice for our future Madame President (not that she needs it). Here at Liberal America, our motto is “Our Haters are our Motivators.”
Below is a?a fictional depiction of the shoe thrown at Pres. George W. Bush during a press conference in Iraq in 2008. The photograph taken at the Museum in TriBeCa, New York City. The actual shoes that were thrown at Pres. Bush were destroyed by U.S. and Iraqui forces to prevent them from being placed as iconic objects in an Iraqi museum.
Image: Wikipedia
