Posted on 04/07/2005 10:06:23 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
(Indianapolis) - Someone threw a pie at conservative commentator David Horowitz during a lecture at Butler University in Indianapolis Wednesday night.
It's the second time in a week a conservative has been hit by a pie at an Indiana school. Witnesses say there was some "pushing and shoving" when Horowitz's supporters followed the pie-throwers out of the hall, but the attackers got away. After the incident, Horowitz completed his lecture.
A Butler spokesman called the incident "deplorable." Horowitz has criticized what he calls the "leftist domination" of college campuses. On his blog Wednesdaynight, Horowitz spoke of "a wave of leftist violence against conservative speakers on college campuses."
Horowitz has spoken out in favor of an "academic bill of rights," proposals in several states including Florida that would force educators at the college level to present diverse views on the subject matter they teach. The movement was initiated by conservative student groups who feel they are discriminated against by "liberal" professors. Opponents worry that such a measure would chill academic freedom and force professors to acknowledge long-discredited theories.
Last week, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol was hit by a pie during a speech at Earlham College in Richmond. And commentator Pat Buchanan was doused with salad dressing during at talk at a Michigan school.
hatemongers...
Fascists.
Well, perhaps the pie incidents will draw more attention to the conservative message the pied victims are dispensing, more than if there had been no pie.
Ah yes, the old problem of trying exceed absolute zero.
Hard to chill academic freedom any further.
Seems to me that these acts are on the rise...over the last month. I know most of the conservatives don't press the matter. Perhaps it's time they did.
Hello - Senator Kennedy - your words are inciting violence. Hello - will you please tell these folks to stop.
Atleast it's not feces, but give them time.
Yet, another episode brought to you by the Party of Tolerance
Ban Pies Now!!!
Pies hurt people!!
Little brown shirts...
Mmmm... pie.
What kind of pie was it? They always leave out the crucial details.
Man, I wish somebody would throw a pie or two my way. Preferably boisonberry.
Anybody need a conservative speaker? I was in speech and debate for four years and am just about as conservative as you can possibly get.
Perhaps the conservative speakers should come fully armed with cream pies and retailiate!
Almost makes you think that the student radicals are afraid to debate issues. Why risk embarassing yourself by exposing your lack of ideas and principles? Far easier to throw a pie.
Well I guess the pie throwers prove his point.
When pies are outlawed, only outlaws will have pies.
Leftists are goons with no manners. They come to their political beliefs and lack of respect for authority out of a deep-seated resentment toward their own parents.
Why don't these conservative speakers start carrying guns?
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