A columnist for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman, was hit in the face with a pie this week while speaking at Brown University. The Brown Daily Herald reports that the assailant was a Brown pupil who helpfully had an accomplice issue flyers denouncing Mr. Friedman for his “sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet.”
The video:
Evidently, Brown students have too much food on their hands… they forgot to thank free market capitalism for that one.
What’s most bothersome is that a Google search will show a great deal of people supporting this idiotic behavior. Alright, so you disagree with the guy’s views. Debate him maybe? Neh, prove him wrong by throwing a pie in his face.
I was especially ammused by the comments on Wonkette’s coverage of the event, I feel like they put this sort of idiotic behavior into context:
Dave J. writes:
Dude is like catnip for baby boomers. He prints it, my parents will buy it. I don’t think they even really care what the book is about.
So you’re going to throw a pie in his face because he reminds you of dad? Seems like this generation of the affluent American left is best defined by its Daddy/Mommy complex.
Mr. J, you are an asshat. Please grow up.