Mince Meatheads
I’m sure Tom Friedman is an okay guy. He gets it right on occasion (in my self-inflated opinion), with the major exception of shilling for the Saudi’s bogus peace proposal.
But I couldn’t be happier if I threw the pie myself.
Conservative campus speakers have long endured the threat of pie-throwing, shoe-wielding, salad dressing-tossing nutballs (see below). MSM types have barely batted an eye.
Now, enviro-nitwits have been caught throwing pies at NYTimes columnist and author Thomas Friedman because they disagreed with his approach to global warming.
I predict we’ll see a blossoming of liberal media pieces decrying the mob atmosphere at American colleges and universities and calling for civility in academic exchanges.
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“A Brown University student was apprehended by Brown University police last night after allegedly throwing a green pie container filled with what appeared to be green whipped cream at a New York Times columnist who had been invited to speak to students about energy.
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“At the same time the woman threw the pie, a male accomplice seated a few rows back ran down the aisle and onto the stage, throwing small pamphlets explaining the actions into the crowd.
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“…The pamphlets thrown by the male accomplice identified the pair as the “Greenwash Guerillas,” who wrote that they were acting “on behalf of the earth (sic) and all true environmentalists.”
“One side of the pamphlet contains an excerpt from a September 2006 review of Friedman’s book, “The World is Flat,” written by Raymond Lotta for the journal “Revolution,” which styles itself as the “Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.” The review is highly critical of Friedman, who the review claims cannot see his own errors while “seated in the business class of his analytical jetliner.”
“The other side contains five bullet-points explaining why “Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face,” which include reasons like “his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet,” and “for helping turn environmentalism into a fake plastic consumer product for the privileged.”
“The pamphlet declares “Thomas Friedman’s ‘Green’ as fake and toxic to human and planetary health as the cool-whip (sic) covering his face.”
Hot Air has the video.
Never mind the waste of paper in printing the pamphlets, the methane emitted by the cows who gave the milk for the whipped cream, and the wast of space by those and way too many other students at our nation’s institutions of “higher” learning. It’s all worth it to see the Left turn on its own.
What next, a noogie for Bill Clinton?