Pie in the Face at SF Recall Event [Ralph Nader gets creamed supporting Camejo]

KPIX-TV ^ | August 12, 2003 | Hank Plante

[RonDog]

Pie in the Face at SF Recall Event

Ralph Nader was hit with a pie while Peter Camejo talked to reporters.

Hank Plante

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The recall election against Gov. Gray Davis has been called a circus, and Tuesday, that seemed very apt.

In a San Francisco event to mark the endorsement of Green Party candidate Peter Camejo by Ralph Nader -- who ran on the Green Party ticket for president in 2000 -- Nader was hit by a pie.

The pie thrower got away, and Nader seemed to take it all in stride. But it shows you how unpopular Nader is in some circles for draining votes away from Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race. Now, some fear that Camejo may do the same thing to Davis.

"I think Peter Camejo and Arianna Huffington play a role much like Nader's role in the last presidential election," said Prof. Bruce Cain of U.C. Berkeley. "They could bleed off support among liberal Democrats into a green vote or an independent vote, and that in the end could hurt Cruz Bustamante, and it could also of course contribute to a 'yes' vote on the recall.'"

The governor himself, meanwhile, was reduced Tuesday to answering questions on live television about whether he would resign. His answer?

"No," Davis said on CNN. "I have an obligation to the eight million people ... who went to the polls last November. They asked me to do a job and I'm going to do it."

But will those eight million people give up on him? No less a political observer than San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown told us over coffee Tuesday that the man getting all the publicity, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is getting a free ride.

"When NBC gives Arnold the opportunity to make his announcement for public office on one of the highest rated shows, when it's followed with the cover of Newsweek and the cover of Time Magazine, this celebrity status is causing him to be exempt from ordinary political inspection.... It's just a matter of time before the press turns on you, because you can only be a glamorous person for so long... But I don't think that time will come within the next 60 days."

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[RonDog]

See also:

Pie in the Face at SF Recall Event [Ralph Nader gets creamed supporting Camejo]
			Posted by RonDog On 08/12/2003 6:53 PM PDT KPIX-TV ^ | August 12, 2003 | Hank Plante
Nader Takes a Pie in the Face in California
			Posted by Paul Atreides On 08/12/2003 6:49 PM PDT with 5 comments Washington Post.com ^ | 8-12-03

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yes!!!!! Bwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!

[A_perfect_lady]

But it shows you how unpopular Nader is in some circles for draining votes away from Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race.

I love to see them turning to devour one another. It just gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.

[martin_fierro]

Chortle!

[RonDog]

From the OTHER thread:

To: Paul Atreides

A fruit pie, I presume...

15 posted on 08/12/2003 7:12 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Defund NPR, PBS and the LSC.)

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[Mo1]

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... Best news I've heard all day

[Rate_Determining_Step]

Grrrrr..

Biased reporting. When anybody else not a darling of the left gets this, they train the camera on them afterwards. Here they said "he took it in good strid."

Why didn't they show him all shook up?!

[Servant of the Nine]

Has he called for mandatory air bags on pies yet?

So9

[CounterCounterCulture]

Sure hope that was meringue or whipped cream...you never know about Frisco.

[Mo1]

Ping

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Thanks for the ping.

I got a pie in the face once. It was my birthday, I was playing a gig - and I sang some tune, ended it (on a literal, abrupt high note), turned my head and BLAM. Pie in the face, courtesy of the male lead singer in the band.

I wiped off what I could in the ladies room, and heard some girl saying, "It was so funny when that singer got the pie in the face. She DESERVED it!"

LOL (NICE.)

As if that wasn't bad enough, I had to sleep at our bass player's parents' farm that night, and woke up with flies on my face and in my hair (we arrived in the middle of the night and I couldn't take a shower or anything).

I doubt Nader's experience was as bad as mine. : )

(Still, this is cool.)

[onyx]

Captured on tape --- I laughed! The pie-thrower got away too!

[Cyclops08]

Ralph took 90,000 votes in Florida. Had he not run, we would be lamenting another inane decision by President Gore.

[onyx]

Yes, yes, and I'm looking forward to his candidacy again in 2004! ;-)

[MeekOneGOP]

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

When NBC gives Arnold the opportunity to make his announcement for public office on one of the highest rated shows, when it's followed with the cover of Newsweek and the cover of Time Magazine, this celebrity status is causing him to be exempt from ordinary political inspection

But it's peachy keen when Dean gets the Newsweek and Time covers the same week.

[reformed_dem]

"I have an obligation to the eight million people ... who went to the polls last November. They asked me to do a job and I'm going to do it."

No, only about 3 of those 8 million actually voted FOR you.

[concerned about politics]

News Max -- Greens Blame Democrats for Pie Attack on Nader

......It's so sad to see the left devouring itself. Peter Camejo, the Green Party's nominee for governor of California, is blaming DemoRats for a pie attack on Ralph Nader.......

.......The Sore Losermans, it seems, are still miffed that Nader helped get President Bush elected. But we don't recall any Republicans assaulting Ross Perot after he greased Bill Clinton's way into the White House.