A Week of Flip Flops and Shoes…

This has been a rather entertaining week of Flip flops; Shoes and President elect six packs.

Let’s start with the Flip flops, Pakistan seem to be in a holiday mood and slipped on their ‘flip flops’ the entire week. Their statements were as slippery as the slippers or the flip flops. Asif Ali Zardari flipped ‘non state actors are responsible for the Mumbai attacks’ and then flopped by saying that ‘non state actors on their soil were his responsibility’ and almost immediately not to be out done, our gud ol friend Nawaz Sheriff who has spent more time in exile than in Pakistan flipped that he had personally checked out on the lone surviving terrorist’s Pakistani links and confirmed it and then went on to flop saying that India needs to provide evidence that Sir (‘Night’hood here …cos the boy has probably seen his daylights removed in the past days) Kasab was from Pakistan.

The next was the poor Iraqi journo getting the projectile all wrong or was it that Mr. Bush well trained in the last 8 years on the art of avoiding being shoo shooed …All said and done in cricketing parlance the delivery was pretty flat and more ‘pie chucker like’ with not enough flight. The Middle East press gave Bush's Middle East 'footwear farewell' the best possible coverage. One freak did it out of sheer frustration and no more. Bush would have won a lot of brownie points had he actually pardoned the journo. It would definitely have done a world of good on his way out. Not that it’s going to matter anymore.

Finally the President elect Barack Obama was shot on camera by the erstwhile paparazzi literally in a ‘Kulli scene’ as they call it back home. Well as some one said there’s no supply without demand… we the public suck up to all the exclusives with a thirst for fantasy thereby encouraging such ridiculous acts of invasion of privacy.