State Department on Nobel Prize: Better to be thrown accolades than shoes

From Elise Labott CNN State Department Producer WASHINGTON (CNN) — “Certainly from our standpoint this gives us a sense of momentum when the United States has accolades tossed its way rather than shoes.” That’s the take of Hillary Clinton’s State Department on President Barack Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, according to her spokesman, Assistant Secretary P.J. Crowley. Crowley was referring to an incident last December, when an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President G

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