--- title: Hillary Clinton Gets Shoe Thrown at Her in Las Vegas description: Someone threw a shoe at the former Secretary of State during a speech canonical: https://time.com/58579/hillary-clinton-shoe-throwing-las-vegas/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-10T23:30:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:25.591Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Gets Shoe Thrown at Her in Las Vegas og:description: Someone threw a shoe at the former Secretary of State during a speech og:url: https://time.com/58579/hillary-clinton-shoe-throwing-las-vegas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Gets Shoe Thrown at Her in Las Vegas twitter:description: Someone threw a shoe at the former Secretary of State during a speech twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # That's Not Happiness to See Me: Hillary Clinton Greeted With Flying Shoe > Sponsored content. 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Hillary Clinton Gets a Shoe Thrown at Her During a Speech_  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 10, 2014 11:30 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 10, 2014 11:30 PM UTC Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting in Las Vegas on Monday was interrupted by a shoe flying through the air and towards the former Secretary of State. Clinton dodged the shoe, and the thrower was escorted from the room. “Is that somebody throwing something at me? Was that part of Cirque de Soleil?” Clinton joked after the shoe flew past her. “My goodness, I didn’t know solid waste management was so controversial. Thank goodness she didn’t play softball like I did.” Witnesses say the shoe-thrower walked down the aisle until she was about six rows from the stage area. After throwing the shoe, she put her hands in the air and walked towards the back of the room at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino before ushers stopped her, [according to](http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/object-thrown-hillary-clinton-during-speech) the Associated Press. Security officers ushered the woman who claimed to have thrown the shoe out of the room. Authorities said she will not be arrested. Clinton isn’t the first politician to be the target of an airborne shoe. Former President George W. Bush had to [duck not one but two shoes thrown at him in Iraq in 2008](http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/04/someone-reportedly-threw-a-shoe-at-hillary-clinton/360503/). ## Transcript Thing about to. [ NOISE ] What was that, a bat? Was that a bat? That somebody throwing something at me? [ LAUGH ] Was that part of Cirque du Soleil? [ LAUGH ] [ SOUND ] Hillary Clinton cracking jokes just seconds after a woman hurled a shoe at her during a paid speech in Las Vegas to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. I didn't know solid waste management was so controversial. [ SOUND ] The hurler, who slipped in without a ticket, was immediately subdued and taken into custody. It's not the first time objects have been thrown at a politician. An Iraqi journalist chucked not one, but two shoes at President Bush during this news conference. And protesters in Egypt, threw tomatoes at then Secretary of State Clinton's motorcade. The latest incident, nowhere near as threatening. Thank goodness she didn't play softball like I did. [ LAUGH ] Perhaps an item for her new memoir, which her publisher said, this week, will come out in mid June. Until then, expect some more dodging from Clinton. Not shoes, but questions about her presidential ambitions. And I am thinking about it. But I want. Brianna Keeler. CNN, Washington. 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