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Washington Times op/ed: Pie throwers and goon squads
The Washington Times ^ | April 11, 2005 | Washington Times editors

Posted on 04/11/2005 5:09:48 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy

When two assailants attacked conservative columnist Ann Coulter with pies while she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona in October, most people, including the speaker, dismissed it as a prank. When an enraged protester threw his shoe at former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle during a debate with Howard Dean, crying "Liar, liar," in February, it was quickly forgotten. Earlier this month, when assailants tossed pies and salad dressing at conservatives William Kristol and Patrick Buchanan at two separate campus events, the media played it as a joke. But when another pie thrower lobbed his projectile at conservative activist David Horowitz last week at Butler University, the speaker took a moment to bring up a very serious point. "There's a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I'd call fascists opposing conservatives," he said. "It's one step from that to injury."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academia; brownshirts; coulter; goon; horowitz; kristol; lefties; pie
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1 posted on 04/11/2005 5:09:48 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: NutCrackerBoy

Oh yes, but that was a religion of peace gesture. V's wife.


2 posted on 04/11/2005 5:12:01 AM PDT by ventana
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To: NutCrackerBoy
The party of peace, tolerance, understanding and free speech in action.
3 posted on 04/11/2005 5:12:35 AM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: NutCrackerBoy

heh, heh, heh... Poor Sean Hannity is all but begging the pie-throwers to come for him. I think he's feeling a little left out. Because you know, Sean, only relevant conservatives get the pie treatment...


4 posted on 04/11/2005 5:14:37 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: NutCrackerBoy
Violence, of course, should be intolerable no matter who is on the receiving end, and must be rejected by people of goodwill, whatever their political ideology.

That about says it all. By not highlighting the tactics of the liberal left the MSM promotes it. We know all about the violence the liberals created during the election. This is not a joke, but until someone gets hurt (which they will) we can all giggle like idiots and watch it happen.
5 posted on 04/11/2005 5:22:20 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne
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To: NutCrackerBoy

Here in the dreaded private sector, we joke about whether it's time for the taunting and name calling. But we don't engage in it, because whoever tries to slam someone,even if he or she is convinced that it's true, he only winds up as undermining his or her own credibility. There's an effective way to make a point and then there's name calling and pie throwing.

It has the same effect in the public sector, but some people don't see it that way ;)


6 posted on 04/11/2005 5:22:56 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: NutCrackerBoy

The little Lefties should be careful who they incite. Should they one day do it in the wrong place a good old fashioned ass whipping would be in order.


7 posted on 04/11/2005 5:23:49 AM PDT by Neville72
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To: NutCrackerBoy

i remember before the election when there were cartoons of Bush being assassinated, conservatives were outraged, but the left just laffed them off because, after all, "it's just a cartoon, and not really real" ... and "cartoons are for kids, anyway, don't take it seriously"


8 posted on 04/11/2005 5:26:30 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Look! Jimmy Carter! History's greatest monster!)
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To: InvisibleChurch
BUT... one pie in Hillary's face, in a public forum, and... it will be a week's worth of NYT op/eds on "this disturbing rise in fascism", nightly Aaron Brown hand-wringing on our collapsing culture, outrage on The View over this misogynist attack on feminism, and Maureen Dowd doing 10,000 words on how this mirrors the zeitgeist of the last week's male-dominated Desperate Housewives.
9 posted on 04/11/2005 5:42:20 AM PDT by Jhensy
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What the left is doing has happened not so long ago to a different group of people by similar thugs.

It was called "KRISTALNACHT".


10 posted on 04/11/2005 5:43:49 AM PDT by chatham
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To: NutCrackerBoy

How does one get a pie through security at one of these sessions? Either there's inadequate security or campus officials are allowing pies through.


11 posted on 04/11/2005 5:44:52 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: Dilbert56
Pies were outlawed just after the reign of MoeLarryCurley. Now only outlaws have pies.

FMCDH(BITS)

12 posted on 04/11/2005 5:49:23 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: Neville72

Yeah, I have not seen them throw a pie at Oliver North!


13 posted on 04/11/2005 5:53:07 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: Dilbert56

They don't exactly run people through metal detectors.


14 posted on 04/11/2005 5:55:22 AM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "You are a wise man." -- Torie; "You rock!" -- TonyRo76)
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To: chatham
The will to humiliate conservatives is now a theme, not a series of isolated incidents. Notice that we conservatives are not asking ourselves "Why do they hate us?" Just as the USA does not change its behavior based on something written by Osama bin Laden.

Having said that, those who engage in and condone the humiliations want to signal a clean separation; saying the other side is beneath contempt.

15 posted on 04/11/2005 5:57:32 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Hatteras

Hope they don't throw one of those 1800 degree steaks at him. He'd be ok, because he could hear it coming from across the room.


16 posted on 04/11/2005 5:57:58 AM PDT by Crawdad (The following statement is false. The preceding statement is true.)
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To: Dilbert56

It ius not a matter of inadequate security, it is a matter of no security.

My thoughts exactly. These idiots can walk into the building with a pie and no one notices? It is a matter of time before one of these spoiled punks takes a gun into one of these forums shoots a speaker.

I hope one oif these speakers snatches one of these punks and beats the living shiite out of him.


17 posted on 04/11/2005 6:02:43 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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Damn, spell check, spell check, spell check.........


18 posted on 04/11/2005 6:05:36 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: NutCrackerBoy

Doesn't this type of 'political statement' seem to be the province of the radical Left?

I don't recall any conservatives wasting good pie on Leftists.


19 posted on 04/11/2005 9:02:07 AM PDT by wildbill
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