True Life, Brown: The Impossible-to-Find Footage of Tom Friedman Getting Pied in the Face!
So yesterday the internets were all a-twitter with news that Tom Friedman got pied in the face by an unhinged Brown leftist. Here’s the footage you’ve been waiting for.
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April 24th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
this is fantastic!!!!! hahahah
April 24th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
these closwns are attention-whoring assholes. nothing like humiliate-and-run tactics to open a constructive discourse.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
HAHAHA
brown is such a joke. what a great way to discourage leading thinkers who are not in line with radical student activists (ie everyone who matters) from coming.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
This is beyond embarrassing for both the liberal movement in general and for the students, faculty, and administration here at Brown. It highlights the disgustingly liberal society our Baptist-founded institution has become.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
But more importantly, these kids showed awful aim. They didn’t pie him in the face as much as the arm. I’d sentence them to pie-throwing target practice.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
How embarassing to the school. Liberal or no, their means of getting their point, er, pie across was just ridiculous. I don’t think the administration will have to do much if anything to reprimand them…their peers will be the toughest jury. Hold your heads high, lads.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Tom Friedman is a 54 year old man. This is an execrable act on the part of the students.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I can’t tell, was the awkward applause that broke out after a few seconds in support of the pieing, or in support of Friedman?
April 24th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
So what do these hippies hope to accomplish by throwing pies?
April 24th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
So what do these hippies hope to accomplish by throwing pies?
April 24th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
are the perpetrators brown students or townies? the brown news story seemed to imply they were townies ’cause the guy said he was dressed in the “college uniform.”
April 24th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
God, they hit the arm. This is why Ivy League football sucks.
As for whether the action was merited, the man, in addition to being the most laughable philistine in our country, is also a vicious apologist for imperialism. If you were a little older you’d remember him calling for the US to bomb countries back to the Stone Age and whoring himself out in support of the Iraq War. One pie to the arm for contributing to a million deaths sounds like a pretty lenient punishment.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Exactly, was the applause hailing the nefarious pie-throwers or Friedman? Either way, their horrible aim fails to make the entire act worth its salt. I would even go as far as saying that the throwers might be feigning their disapproval of Friedman for attention, yet it’s all at the cost of their own reputations! Idiots!
April 24th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Wow that wasn’t edgy at all.
It would have been better if they had just said that they DID pie him in the face, when they really didn’t. That’s art.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
That’s appalling.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
While I can’t say I exactly agree with the tactics displayed at Brown, Friedman is not deserving of the respect he gets. He and the rest of the Washington media are as guilty for the criminal war in Iraq as any in Bush’s inner circle.
James Kunstler may be the only sane man left in this country.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Mr. Friedman is a fellow of my college, his daughter graduated from Yale in ‘07. I’ve met him several times and was incredibly impressed– he is a witty, brilliant and personable. The act at Brown is appalling, completely disrespectful and entirely undeserved. How dare these self righteous pricks engage in such a short sighted and ridiculous exercise of humiliating themselves and their university.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
is it possible to ‘humiliate’ Brown?
April 24th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
A full-on pie to the face complete with sound effects and laugh track. I demand someone make a recreation with some more zing.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Since when has “posted on Gawker yesterday” been synonymous with “impossible to find?”
April 24th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Just because some dildos pied somebody doesn’t mean you should talk crap on Brown as a whole.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
No we take talk crap on Brown as a whole regardless of whether or not some sex toys pied somebody.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
im in ur ivygate
makin no cents
April 24th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
you take talk crap? which school do you go to? maybe some typing classes could help.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I FUCKING HATE MY SCHOOL.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
you take talk crap? which school do you go to? maybe some typing classes could help.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
you take talk crap? which school do you go to? maybe some typing classes could help.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
effing ivygate…3x
April 24th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
(1) “Take talk crap on” like “Take a crap on” except most commenters are talking smack about Brown. It’s a clumsy construction, but not nonsensical. (2) Is that what they call English at Brown? “Typing?” I guess all the brainiacs in Providence go to RISD. (3) Never mind. Brunonians can’t fathom three. (As evidenced by your posting twice and saying “3x”.)
April 24th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Thomas Friedman got exactly what he deserved. Why is this guy being invited to speak at universities in the first place? He has some how parlayed a tenuous grasp of free trade into at least three books (that i know of). This man’s mastery of the obvious is only surpassed by his shameless self promotion. He has absolutely no understanding of economics and is to economics as Lamarck was to Darwin, observing what has already occurred and prescribing some ad hoc explanation to it (though, i suppose this could be said about the entire field of economics, but at least we make up a formula first). The only thing worse than this idiot is all of the second hand idiots I have to ecounter who have read this man’s “work”.
Thomas Friedman: Shut up and go away.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
@ Aliza: you never fail to amuse me
April 24th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Haha…”(3) Never mind. Brunonians can’t fathom three. (As evidenced by your posting twice and saying “3x”"
Actually, if you look up, after my post, is the third post that you think doesn’t exist.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
haha dumbass can’t count..or type.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
You’re an idiot, Friedman is not. Now “shut up and go away” (back to your shitshow school). @ B ‘09: seconded.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
It was obviously a harmless typo, exasperated by the shitty IvyGate commenting system.
And I will encourage you to take a geography course if you honestly don’t know what school I am associated with. You won’t even have to water down your already over-inflated GPA by getting a grade for it.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
o noes! he took a shot at the pass fail system! vartan gregorian where are you?
April 24th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
@ cayuga:
Are you associated with Amherst? I bet its Amherst.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Are people from Amherst allowed on Ivy Gate? Brown is the color of poop
April 24th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
The fact still remains: This was lame from any perspective. Loony students pie a speaker who isn’t *that* controversial; nobody stops it or even tries; Brown 5-0 can’t catch everyone; and, the stunt wasn’t even done right.
For an encore I propose you make impressive plans to take difficult courses, do poorly, and then be able to skip the final with no affect on your GPA. Oh, wait….
April 24th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
The fact still remains: This was lame from any perspective. Loony students pie a speaker who isn’t *that* controversial; nobody stops it or even tries; Brown 5-0 can’t catch everyone; and, the stunt wasn’t even done right.
For an encore I propose you make impressive plans to take difficult courses, do poorly, and then be able to skip the final with no effect on your GPA. Oh, wait….
April 25th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Why throw pies? Isn’t it just -asking- to be compared to clowns? Meh. The problem is, it isn’t a funny comparison.
Additionally, the video is just awkward.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Not that this excuses the pie-throwers, but they weren’t “protesting” Friedman for his stance on the Iraq War, but (mainly) for his advocating free-market solutions to environmental problems. So far as I can tell, they believe people shouldn’t be offered financial incentives (such as carbon credits) to not pollute; rather, people should just stop polluting on their own.
This position puts them on the far, far left fringe, extremely radical even at Brown, where the vast majority of even the most liberal students realize how stupid the idea is as a matter of policy. What’s remarkable is that in the “real world,” Friedman’s actually pretty liberal on environmental stuff - he raises concerns about global warming, advocates for increased steps being taken to guard against climate change, etc.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Not that this excuses the pie-throwers, but they weren’t “protesting” Friedman for his stance on the Iraq War, but (mainly) for his advocating free-market solutions to environmental problems. So far as I can tell, they believe people shouldn’t be offered financial incentives (such as carbon credits) to not pollute; rather, people should just stop polluting on their own.
This position puts them on the far, far left fringe, extremely radical even at Brown, where the vast majority of even the most liberal students realize how stupid the idea is as a matter of policy. What’s remarkable is that in the “real world,” Friedman’s actually pretty liberal on environmental stuff - he raises concerns about global warming, advocates for increased steps being taken to guard against climate change, etc.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Close. Holyoke.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Ahh Holyoke, the worst Ivy of them all
April 25th, 2008 at 9:48 am
i’m sort of impressed that those students were able to smuggle those pies into the auditorium in the first place.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
why? they allow bags for some speakers. the guy on before him was the president of bolivia and the security was higher if im not mistaken
April 25th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
That those imbecilic hippies suck at throwing makes it all the better.
June 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I don’t know who this Brown guy is but those two guys are cowards.