Roeper frames the issue as lefties throwing pies at conservatives. But my only experience with pie terrorism actually involved lefty-on-lefty violence (piolence?).
Who was the victim?
Jerry Rubin.
I once saw the (now) late Rubin get a pie in the face at a lecture at SIU (circa 1979). Rubin got mad and asked the guy why he did it. The dumbass pie thrower says, "It was a very sixties thing to do" or some such. Rubin angrily called him a fascist, wiped himself off and continued the lecture.
Like I said, it's really dumb.
Even lamer, is using salad dressing. Pat Buchanan was assaulted with the stuff recently while speaking in Michigan.
Pat Buchanan after recent salad dressing attack
OK, the picture is funny and I'm glad i found a way top work it into my blog. God, I'm such a terrorist.
Of course, none of this compares to some of the tactics used by the right, like bombing federal buildings, abortion clinics and the Olympics. Not to mention plotting to kill judges (bye, bye Matt Hale).
Still, Rush Limbaugh sees the pie-throwers as the real threat:
[W]ho is it that is responsible for fomenting harm against others? Who is it
that cannot tolerate hearing things they disagree with, and who is it that
reports to heckling and throwing salad dressing or ice cream pies on
conservative Republican speakers? It's the left, my dear. It is the
left, my good friends, that is out there fomenting violence. --Rush
Limbaugh (4/1/05). (quote courtesy of Think Progress)
Indeed.
UPDATE: The pie terrorism continues unabated! Just last night, David Horowitz was pied in the prime of his life. Oh, the humanity!
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