Enough with the Pies!

Yet another Pie Throwing incident... this time the target was conservative activist David Horowitz of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. Now, I'll be the first to admit that I laughed my butt off when somebody tossed a pie at Anne Coulter. But come on... enough already, people. Progressives are supposed to be the people who believe in free speech and respect for other's opinions. Leave the violence (however mild it may be with a cream pie) and supression of speech to the conservatives. Lowering yourself to their level does exactly that.. it's lowers you. It also gives the conservatives a chance to paint you with a broad brush of violent, radical behaviour, as happened below.

A conservative activist who criticizes what he calls the leftist domination of college campuses was struck with a pie Wednesday night at Butler University.

David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, had just started a lecture at Butler when he was hit.

Horowitz's supporters followed the assailants out of the hall, and confronted them with what a witness called "pushing and shoving." However, the attackers got away.

"There's a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I'd call fascists opposing conservatives," Horowitz said. "It's one step from that to injury."

After the incident, Horowitz completed his lecture.