Patterico's Pontifications

7/19/2011

Rupert Murdoch Hit with Pie

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 12:29 pm



Is it wrong of me to suggest that this maneuver seems to be more prevalent among the fringe left than the fringe right?

69 Responses to “Rupert Murdoch Hit with Pie”

  1. It epitomizes the juvenile, idea-free, violence against opponents, nature of the left.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  2. It will probably be found that a Labour MP arranged for the kid to get into the hearing. This is part of the early skirmishing over 2012. Try to demonize Murdoch even more and then hope it slops over into Fox News.

    Mike K (4c76c8)

  3. No, it’s not wrong of you, Patterico. I remember the pie-in-the-face antics back in the 1970s, and the targets were invariably conservatives.

    Chuck Bartowski (4c6c0c)

  4. Anita Busch would condemn you for making such a suggestion Patterico. I am shocked, shocked, I tell you.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  5. He apologized, explained he didn’t authorize it, and doesn’t want to prejudge the situation.

    It’s amazing to me that he’s considered some kind of demonic force here. I agree that he should have apologized… it’s his company that did this. They need to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

    It’s interesting Daleyrocks brought up Anita Busch. I keep thinking about what the LAT did to her, in the context of this discussion.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  6. “It’s interesting Daleyrocks brought up Anita Busch.”

    Dustin – I thought I explained myself. She would not approve of Patterico’s post.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  7. According to the left Rupert Murdoch deserves it.

    According to the left the Bible is more evil than the Quran.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  8. Dustin – I thought I explained myself. She would not approve of Patterico’s post.

    Comment by daleyrocks — 7/19/2011 @ 1:08 pm

    Oh, I had no problem with your comment.

    I just think it’s interesting that the LAT is so much worse than any of Rupert Murdoch’s operations ever dreamt of being.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  9. It’s not wrong; and it is right. Oh, I meant, correct.

    Laurel Van Driest (62db1b)

  10. Grow up, Laurel.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  11. Can someone imagine Laurel saying the same thing if a Jew threw a pie at Cynthia Mckinney.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  12. SPQR and DohBiden: I think Laurel was answering Patterico’s (rhetorical) question. She’s saying that it’s not wrong (as in improper) for him to suggest it, and that it is right (as in correct) for him to do so.

    Chuck Bartowski (4c6c0c)

  13. I had the same impression of Laurel’s comment.

    JD (ce7dc6)

  14. Sorry Lauren ,Bartowski was right.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  15. Yeah, I think Laurel is saying it’s true the left seems to do this.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  16. Then I apologize for my misunderstanding.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  17. If it weren’t for bad manners, the Left would have none at all.

    AD-RtR/OS! (b87a7f)

  18. Ann Coulter. David Horowitz. Mark Levin. Pie victims all, I believe. And if it was me I’d prefer cake.

    Birdbath (19803d)

  19. SPQR – the best of us make mistakes.

    Rupert Murdoch’s hot wife ROCKS.

    JD (d56362)

  20. What happened if Michelle Obama was smacked with a pie…………..oh wait she’d capture it with her teeth and eat it.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  21. JD– His name is Rupert and he’s 80 years old. And he ends up with a wife like that. Bravo.

    Birdbath (19803d)

  22. Hit rupert murdoch
    with a pie? why couldn’t be
    BIG Mouth O’Reilly

    ColonelHaiku (cc5c75)

  23. Birdbath – A-freakin-men

    JD (6e25b4)

  24. I don’t care what she looks like… any wife willing to physically defend her husband from a creep like that, in a room where they had to feel surrounded, is a woman I respect.

    There’s real love there, which will only drive the left more nuts. I realize Rupert is not a Republican, and frankly I hold it against him that his organization did what Rupert apologized for,but the sense of perspective from the left on this is really insincere.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  25. Who threw that pie?-Larry
    Who threw that pie??- Curly
    WHO threw that pie???- Moe

    Jonnie Marbles. He just lost ’em. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.- Curly

    The Stooges (9d1bb3)

  26. I’m shallow but I wasn’t going on looks alone. I’ve seen bouncers in bars move slower and connect with less flesh than the shot she got in on Mr. Marbles. While wearing Galliano and Jimmy Choo no less.

    Birdbath (19803d)

  27. I know a lot of conservatives and some liberals. The conservatives tend to hate things like Communism, Anarchy and Socialism. The left tolerates those ideas, but they sure hate conservatives.

    tyree (84087f)

  28. I would love to have one of those SOB’s try it on me. When are the conservatives going to stop being so nice and fight back. And I don’t mean with pies.

    I like seeing Mrs. Murdoch throwing a roundhouse at the little punk. That’s what I’m talking about.

    Arizona Bob (aa856e)

  29. daleyrocks … still obsessing over me, I see.

    Anita Busch (a025dd)

  30. “…When are the conservatives going to stop being so nice and fight back…”

    TML!
    Too Many Lawyers!
    Now, if the pie-throwers would go after the legal-(b)eagles???

    AD-RtR/OS! (b87a7f)

  31. “daleyrocks … still obsessing over me, I see.”

    Anita – Don’t flatter yourself. My point was for Patterico who lectured us about making the type of generalizations he made in this post, primarily because you had a hissy fit about it although you could not back up your points when challenged.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  32. What the heck is a “fringe right”?

    YFS (322741)

  33. No, you’re not wrong. The Yippee Aron Kay is the inspiration for pieing.

    sierra (121696)

  34. Even when the target is on the left, like Bill Gates, I suspect the thrower is simply further to the left.

    Soronel Haetir (29fbb7)

  35. I’ve been waiting for the Pattericans to have their say on Rupertgate.

    Here’s my two cents.

    David Ehrenstein (2550d9)

  36. I think some on the right make generalizations at times that aren’t necessarily the case (the left is nastier!). It seemed to me the left was nastier until parts of the right turned on me; then they seemed plenty nasty too.

    But the pie thing? Sure seems like a lefty deal to me.

    Patterico (f724ca)

  37. Anita:

    DO you disapprove of my observation in this post? I sort of suspect you don’t; it seems factually correct, after all.

    Patterico (f724ca)

  38. “The Yippee Aron Kay is the inspiration for pieing.”

    sierra – I thought Soupy Sales was the inspiration for the pieing, but I could might be wrong.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  39. Soupy Sales…
    No, it goes back to the beginnings of vaudeville, and can be found in most of the slap-stick comedies from Hollywood in the 20’s & 30’s.
    But, the best pie-throwing was in “The Great Race”!

    AD-RtR/OS! (a64e11)

  40. David racist Ehrenstein is just begging for attention.

    JD (97473a)

  41. Physical attacks are and always will be wrong and those engaging in them should be punished to the full extent of the law and/or it should be perfectly legitimate for the victim or any bodygaurds to in turn physically assault the attacker.

    For the left to believe that battery is somehow “speech” is unbelievable. If it is o.k. to hit someone you disagree with regardless of with what – then I should be able to simply punch any liberal in the face whenever I want w/o consequences.

    Monkeytoe (5234ab)

  42. David Errorstein is always begging for attention.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  43. Patrick: Human nature being what it is, there are a lot of lunatics out there and it is not exclusive to one political party.

    Anita Busch (a025dd)

  44. Or one fringe group. @ daleyrocks, please get a life and stop obsessing over me.

    Anita Busch (a025dd)

  45. dcsca,

    Allen West called a person unladylike for commentary including a reference to women as oral pleasuring stations.

    You have shown a great argument for why the left is nastier. All West did was call a very, very trashy person unladylike, and explain why he won’t give that person respect.

    The left things being a progressive female is a trump card for moral authority, but it’s not. Not to mention the way the left has treated so many conservative women.

    Sorry, that example is powerful. How West calmly and directly calls out someone for being unladylike is a model for how a gentleman should behave. I’m very proud of this man, and I look forward to attempts by the hysterical left to compare their character to his.

    Also, why is it you guys are just asserting the right throws pies at people? Where are the examples? That’s what Patterico was asking about. This does seem to be an ugly method that is used 95% or more by the left. I could name many more.

    I mean no disrespect of Ms Busch, but it is difficult to agree with someone whose argumentation is just to state a conclusion.

    When did conservative fringe do this? I’ve found when the conservative fringe is blamed for something, the right has already distanced themselves, or even more commonly, the behavior was from a progressive who is crazy and hates democrats for not being liberal enough (Loughner, Stack, Oswald).

    Now I’m seeing this thing where something benign is treated as though it’s horrifying. But if West noting Shultz is not ladylike is the best DCSCA can do, that’s quite a ringing endorsement of the right’s civility.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  46. Huh? What exactly is nasty about Alan West’s email? What part of is is not the exact truth?

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  47. Would you bring me some syrup with that waffle, Anita?

    Birdbath (19803d)

  48. Disco Stu – Debbie Wasserman Schultz lies almost as much as Obama, so she has not reached the pinnacle of Democrat loserdom yet. It is good to have goals.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  49. 46.Patrick: Human nature being what it is, there are a lot of lunatics out there and it is not exclusive to one political party

    Strawman, Anita. Patrick didn’t say there were no lunatics on the right. What he said was that it seems pie-throwing is more prevalent among the lunatic left than it is among the lunatic right.

    Chuck Bartowski (4c6c0c)

  50. “Over the years, titans like Bill Gates have been pied. So has William Shatner, Jean-Luc Godard, and Andy Warhol. In some ways, being pied is a badge of honor. After all, they don’t throw pies at no-named underachievers…” – source, http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/07/19/rupert-murdoch-pie-face/

    So Rupert’s in good company. Most memorable, IMHO, Sinatra requesting a piece of the humorous action and granted same, pied live on Soupy’s show. Scooby-doobie-goo. Although The Three Stooges had the art well in hand- the Columbia sound effects department adding a flavorful panache to the hurling meringue.

    DCSCA (9d1bb3)

  51. You are a drooling imbecile, IMP.

    JD (d83df3)

  52. DCSCA, Rupert was pied because some fringe leftist is totally intolerant of a diversity of ideas in media.

    It’s not good. Your support for this says a lot about your lack of personal character.

    I see Anita thinks this is bad, and the argument with her is if it’s a both sided thing (her general point that there are rude people on both sides is accurate, btw). It’s interesting comparing an honorable progressive like her to a dishonorable one like you.

    Anyway, you have a problem with daring to call Schultz not a lady, but you lionize striking your opponents with a pie. You have no compass about these things aside from democrat=good.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  53. Yoo hoo! Over here, DCSCA! Over here where the discussion is about who throws the pies, not who gets hit by them.

    Birdbath (19803d)

  54. “After all, they don’t throw pies at no-named underachievers…” Rest easy, JD, you will never be pied.

    DCSCA (9d1bb3)

  55. IMP – why don’t you regale us with tales of playing steal the bath towel with Von Braun, or when you sniffed Rush, or played footside with Rather, of your time at NASa/CNN/NSA/wherever, or your time spent peddling fish wrap in London, or playing soccer on the lawn of the American embassy in Moscow … A good fable or 50 is always entertaining.

    JD (0d2ffc)

  56. “After all, they don’t throw pies at no-named underachievers…” Rest easy, JD, you will never be pied.

    Comment by DCSCA — 7/20/2011 @ 1:34 pm

    I just remembered you’re that pathetic dude who made up conflicting lies about your CIA background, among a variety of other sad lies.

    Yes, to someone who does that, winning on the internet amounts to claiming others are losers. You have no idea that what you’re supposed to be doing is making an argument that stands on its own.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  57. Pie-throwing is just another form of political violence; there is no legal or moral difference between throwing pies and throwing stones. That Frank Sinatra may have chosen to take it in good humor doesn’t change anything.

    And political violence, at least in America, is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the left.

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  58. DCSCA is a pathetic scamp.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  59. “And political violence, at least in America, is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the left.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GYGss3bkTc&feature=related

    David Ehrenstein (2550d9)

  60. @63

    http://www.geocities.ws/gctz1one/pied/100best.html

    =yawn= “May have chosen…” See #12 on the list of 100.

    [The scene: An internet cafe in Burbank near the WB lot. Shadowy patrons hidden behind newspapers and laptops seated all around.]

    [Zoom to Medium shot.] Milhouse slams down his mocha java indignantly, stands up from his laptop, croaking for all to hear:

    MILHOUSE: “Pie-throwing is just another form of political violence; there is no legal or moral difference between throwing pies and throwing stones…”

    [XCU of Milhouse’s face] Multiple-custard-pied by the grinning ghosts of patrons revealed as Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Lucy, Soupy, Korman, Lancaster, Carson, Benny, Berle, Wood, Curtis, Sammy and Frank from camera left and camera right] …

    [zoom out to medium shot] Milhouse clears custard from eyes, licks mouth, nods with tasty approval, and continues:

    MILHOUSE” …That Frank Sinatra may have chosen to take it in good humor doesn’t change anything.”

    Tentatively, waiter Mel Brooks walk up to Milhouse’s table, fresh custard pie in hand. Brooks leans in close, whispers to Milhouse:

    BROOKS: “Frank wants to know… more pie with your coffee?”

    [Fade to black.]

    “Nixon would have been perfect. As long as it’s funny, it can be political. … It’s okay as long as you’re hitting someone who deserves it…” – Soupy Sales, 2005.

    DCSCA (9d1bb3)

  61. No tales of you playing hide the soap-on-a-rope with Von Braun?

    JD (d56362)

  62. David, he did say almost exclusively, and I listed many examples while you listed a single.

    Still, this is fringe and it’s just as unfair to associate you with lefty extremists as it would be to associate me with McVeigh.

    The real problem is that the left does an inferior job calling out its thugs and fringe than does the right. Indeed, in many cases, the left has relied on terrorism and intimidation tactics.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  63. This stuff isn’t a joke. Its actually a mock assassination. Its a terror tactic and ought to be treated as terrorism.

    Ben H (6ad7c3)


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