Thomas Friedman Pie In The Face Video: Watch The New York Times Columnist Get Hit

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was hit with a pie Tuesday during a speech at Brown. You can read about Friedman's speech and the pie incident here, or you can watch the video of the pieing below:

Comments

[mphalen]

I have never understood why anyone would listen to this guy about economic issues when he married into his money. If he thinks the world is flat, then why doesn't he do the world a favor and just walk off the edge and disappear?

[Taaj]

Bravo, at some point Americans must stand up for peace, and say "WE ARE MAD AS HELL AND WON'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!"

[Durango]

I thought pie assassins dressed as clowns.

Ther are standards that need to be upheld.

[jerseywolf]

Now that's funny.

[travy]

that made my day. more of like this, please!

[pc51]

He should have a pie thrown in his face at least once a day. So should every member of BushCo.

[falcao]

I think I saw old Tom actually take a lick at one of his pie-encrusted fingers. That just about sums it up for me. He would've been smart to laugh it off although that looked like an expensive black cashmere turtleneck. He lost me a long long time ago. I hope the kids are given a scolding but not suspended. It would appear that Tom can dish it out but likes to act all testy and aggrieved when he's forced to take it. Is anyone surprised?

[paixa3]

I hate was the USA has become. Believe me, I do not support anyone who participated in setting up the phoney wars, but, human respect still needs to remain.

There are other more painful ways to make a point.

[dugan45]

Friedman is too obtuse to apprehend the reasons behind the pie throwing. He'll have to spend four years making documentaries for History and Discover Channels and writing columns for the NYT analyzing what meaningful subtext could be behind it. But given that he still has no clue how so far off he has been on bush and his godforsaken war, I doubt if after four six years of analyzing it, he'll be able to figure it out. My only regret is that the pie missed his face. Too bad all those who rely on Friedman's wisdom don't get what the pie thrower understands..

[dave]

A shameless mouthpiece for Israel and a supporter of the illegal and immoral war of bu$hco gets his just "desserts". To bad it wasn't a brick!

[TocinoHumano]

This happened to Ann Coulter a few years ago. She called it "an act of terrorism". This from the "woman" who said the Jersey Girls should hurry and do a Playboy layout before they get too old.

[bobo209]

This little rat is responsible for the mass murder of iraqis and americans..A pro zionist traitor.

[bobo209]

BEELUU??What are you smoking??pies?/ This little rat was and is for the fraud war for israel.a war criminal in my book,arrest him nowww.How can the mis his ugly mutt??

[SouthpawSass]

I don't get the whole pie in the face thing... What's the point?

[TocinoHumano]

You should go rent a 3 Stooges video.

[SouthpawSass]

roflmao... Exactly!

[dugan45]

Read Friedman's columns. Then you might get it.

[chronic]

If he hasn't read any of Friedmans colums by now then its to let to "get it".

[SouthpawSass]

No, I've read his columns... It's the purpose of the "pie in the face" act... It seems silly.

[fiatpax]

It's a pacifist's means of non-aggressive aggression. It was first used at Ealham College, a progressive Quaker College, against William Krystol who came to try and sell the invasion of Iraq there in 2003. The students were outraged not only at his message, but at what they perceived as a sellout of their Quaker principles of pacifism by the school's administrators who invited him.

[blytzd]

LOL, too bad they missed his face... these pie chuckers always miss the face. How do they mamage to smuggle these in anyways, it looked like the first guy was sitting in the aisle down front.

[Spindoctor6]

What if he had been allergic to some of the pie ingredients? Some people are just clueless.

[TocinoHumano]

Kind of a stretch, don't you think? Or don't you?