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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[concerned about politics]

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

Oh no no no. Those are.....gasp.....animal products!
To be politically correct, it would have to be something.....hack......recycled.

[concerned about politics]

If the Democrats think hate and physical attacks will get them green votes, I'm afraid they may be mistaken. If anything, the greens will rally to vote against Democrats for attacking a prophet of mother Giah.

[finnman69]

DUmmy nails Nader with a pie. Ya gotta love it.

[LaGrone]

Soupy Sales would have been proud!

[ArcLight]

I don't think it's cute or funny. I wish Nader had hauled off and broken the jerk's jaw. It's a form of assault and there's no excuse for it. And if someone tries this sort of stunt with Ahnold out in California, I hope that's exactly what he does.

[ArcLight]

Break the guy's jaw, I mean...sorry for the incoherence!

[ffusco]

"Now kids, go into Mommy's purse and send the money to: Soupy Sales, c/o NBC studios...."

[al_c]

I guess the pie was deemed "unsafe at any speed." ;o)

[Tank-FL]

http://kpix.dayport.com/launcher/242/

[RonDog]

I understand.

See also:

Alberta Premier Gets Cream Pie in Face - Who says 'Tastes Not Bad' but Plans to Press Charges
			Posted by Sub-Driver On 07/07/2003 11:08 AM PDT with 7 comments ABCnews ^

[MinuteGal]

Whipped cream or meringue? Naw.

More than likely a fruit pie.

Leni

[bc2]

not likely... There are scores of Republicans foaming at the mouth at the thought of Ross Perot "costing Bush the election and sticking us with 8 years of Clinton".

[RobbyS]

To be fair to Nader, he and the other third party candidates were treated shabbily by a media that refused to put them on the same stage as Bush and Gore.

[RobbyS]

I suppose that you will agree with me that Bush blew the election. If he hadn't run a tired campaign, he would have taken a lot of votes away from Perot. In 1968 Nixon managed to neutralize Wallace, who was a far more vigorous candidate than Perot.

[Freedom4US]

I'm no Nader fan, but I'd have kicked Mr. Pie Thrower's @&&; everyone cleared a path for the thrower to make his getaway too, what a bunch of weenies. I'd have belted him a good one to knock him out, and then held him while Ralph worked him over ;)

[LaGrone]

LOL. Too Much!!

[onyx]

If Ralph were half the man as you appear, he'd have taken after the pie-tosser himself! :-)

[TigersEye]

this celebrity status is causing him to be exempt from ordinary political inspection....

As opposed to the usual exemption for being a communist sympathizer that the media gives Democrats.

[YaYa123]

I'm glad you mentioned the down side of this...imagining how I would feel if it happened to President Bush or Laura, or me. I know how shaken up I was sitting at a stop sign with my window down, when two teenaged boys rode by and let me have it with a water pistol. They laughed like loons as they sped away, and I was so upset, felt so violated, and so unsafe, that I started crying and couldn't stop.

[ExSoldier]

I must be catching the "Lazamataz" syndrome...all I saw was SF RECALL and thought about my buddy telling me that a bunch of his former SpecOps "colleagues" were being recalled to active duty like crazy...but on the "sly" some of the vets service records date back to the early 1980's.