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A dose of his own medicine

The long and short of it is that one day, the cobbler or doctor gets ill and the people try to feed him the medicine he’s been dishing out to others.

The doctor refuses to eat it, finally admitting that his medicines are all fakes and that he is a shoe repairer by trade.

All right, here are media examples of more recent cases where people are fed a dose of their own medicine, meaning they’re receiving the bad treatment they’ve been giving others:

1. The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.

Muntadhar al-Zeidi ducked and the shoe hit the wall behind him.

“He stole my technique,” al-Zeidi later quipped.

The identity of the new shoe-thrower — and his motivation — weren’t immediately clear, but he appeared to be an Iraqi. It was not known if the intruder was a journalist or just pretended to be one to attend the news conference at a center for foreign reporters.

Whatever his motive, the confrontation didn’t stop there.

Al-Zeidi’s brother, Maithan, chased the attacker in the audience and — what else? — pelted him with a shoe as he left the room.

- Iraqi Shoe Thrower Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine, AP, December 2, 2009.

2. Whoa! Cheating alert! Was Lindsey Vonn just caught cheating on boyfriend Tiger Woods?! The stunning Olympic skier, 28, was spotted locking lips with someone other than the world’s top golfer, 37, just a few weeks ago, according to a new report.