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Pie in the Face at SF Recall Event [Ralph Nader gets creamed supporting Camejo]
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| August 12, 2003
| Hank Plante
Posted on 08/12/2003 6:53:28 PM PDT by RonDog
Pie in the Face at SF Recall Event
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Ralph Nader was hit with a pie while Peter Camejo talked to reporters. |
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Hank Plante
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."
» 08-12-2003
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: greens; nader
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To: CounterCounterCulture
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.
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posted on
08/13/2003 8:12:46 AM PDT
by
concerned about politics
("He who controls communications rules the world." - Adolf Hitler)
To: RonDog
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.
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posted on
08/13/2003 8:19:35 AM PDT
by
concerned about politics
("He who controls communications rules the world." - Adolf Hitler)
To: RonDog
DUmmy nails Nader with a pie. Ya gotta love it.
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posted on
08/13/2003 9:11:58 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(!)
To: RonDog
Soupy Sales would have been proud!
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posted on
08/13/2003 9:58:49 AM PDT
by
LaGrone
To: RonDog
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.
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posted on
08/13/2003 11:10:37 AM PDT
by
ArcLight
To: ArcLight
Break the guy's jaw, I mean...sorry for the incoherence!
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posted on
08/13/2003 11:11:01 AM PDT
by
ArcLight
To: LaGrone
"Now kids, go into Mommy's purse and send the money to: Soupy Sales, c/o NBC studios...."
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posted on
08/13/2003 11:12:33 AM PDT
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: RonDog
I guess the pie was deemed "unsafe at any speed." ;o)
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posted on
08/13/2003 11:15:35 AM PDT
by
al_c
To: RonDog
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posted on
08/13/2003 11:20:26 AM PDT
by
Tank-FL
(Keep the Faith - GO VMI)
To: ArcLight
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posted on
08/13/2003 11:22:07 AM PDT
by
RonDog
To: CounterCounterCulture
Whipped cream or meringue? Naw.
More than likely a fruit pie.
Leni
To: concerned about politics
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".
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posted on
08/13/2003 11:41:03 AM PDT
by
bc2
(http://www.thinkforyourself.us)
To: concerned about politics
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.
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posted on
08/13/2003 1:14:00 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
To: bc2
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.
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posted on
08/13/2003 1:21:12 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
To: onyx
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 ;)
To: ffusco
LOL. Too Much!!
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posted on
08/13/2003 5:38:35 PM PDT
by
LaGrone
To: Freedom4US
If Ralph were half the man as you appear, he'd have taken after the pie-tosser himself! :-)
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posted on
08/13/2003 5:40:15 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
To: RonDog
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.
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posted on
08/13/2003 6:52:24 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Joe McCarthy was right ... so was PT Barnum!)
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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.
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posted on
08/13/2003 7:29:01 PM PDT
by
YaYa123
To: RonDog
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.
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posted on
08/13/2003 8:01:58 PM PDT
by
ExSoldier
(M1911A1: The ORIGINAL "Point and Click" interface!)
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