Pat Buchanan Doused With Salad Dressing

[chlamor]

My Comment: Seems the pundits are having a bad food week.

Pat Buchanan Doused With Salad Dressing


Friday April 1, 2005 3:01 PM

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - Commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan cut short an appearance after an opponent of his conservative views doused him with salad dressing.

``Stop the bigotry!'' the demonstrator shouted as he hurled the liquid Thursday night during the program at Western Michigan University. The incident came just two days after another noted conservative, William Kristol, was struck by a pie during an appearance at a college in Indiana.

After he was hit, Buchanan cut short his question-and-answer session with the audience, saying, ``Thank you all for coming, but I'm going to have to get my hair washed.''

The demonstrator, identified by authorities as a 24-year-old student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, was arrested and faces a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. He was released on a $100 cash bond, pending his April 14 arraignment.

Buchanan's visit had evoked controversy on campus because it fell on the birthday of the late Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez. Buchanan favors tighter controls on immigration.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4907025,00.html

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Yup, and Ann Coulter was hit with a flying penis.

[MissMillie]

9. ?????

Really?

[Demit]

2. Was it Cesar salad dressing?

[meganmonkey]

3. Is this the beginning of the Food Fight Revolution?!

THere seems to be a whole rash of this sort of attack lately.

As juvenile and silly as it may seem, I think it is wonderful!

:toast:

[SmokingJacket]

4. Dems get anthraxed, assassinated, suicided...

Republicans get pied and splashed with salad dressing.

Life ain't fair!

[sui generis]

5. he was being anointed, praise cheezus and pass the pickles!

[davsand]

6. Aw hell, Pat is out there opposing the regime--leave him alone!

Pat is one of the only conservatives that has been out there talking about the deficit spending and the lack of an exit strategy in Iraq. He was open that he thought it was a bad idea. He's not as bad as a lot of them.


Laura

[chickenscratching]

7. dress it up!

does anyone know what kind of dressing and if their were any pictures?
i hope it was bleu cheese, he'll smell for ages.

i can't help but smile when i think of pat buchanan after seeing him on the Ali G show. BU CHAN AN!
respek.

[hippiechick]

8. What is it with us midwesterners and food fights ?

Interesting - if ineffective - way of protesting .... :silly:

[Wolfetone]

10. He just wiped it off and when on with answering questions.

If you're going to go through all the trouble of attacking somebody with food in public, you might want to try using rancid blue cheese dressing or something.

[booksenkatz]

11. Inasmuch as I'd actually prefer to see Pat up to his neck in pig shit,

I am not sure that these tactics help our cause. It makes us look childish, as if we don't have any coherent arguments. It makes us look like hypocrites who act out violently while espousing peace.

Nevertheless, I somehow can't bring myself to rebuke the salad dressing tosser entirely, LOL!

[othermeans]

21. I think your right

Earlham is a small Quaker college and the student who threw the salad dressing was roundly booed by the students.

[napi21]

12. I guess the new way to protest is a food fight.

These incidents are very funny, so long as no one gets hurt. So far it's been all against Pubs, but you can be sure it's giving ideas to the Pubs too. At some point, it will get way out of hand.

[Arkana]

16. Yes, but I have a feeling that if someone hit Michael Moore

or Al Franken with a pie, that they'd just say something funny, wipe it off, and finish the lecture.

[GregW]

13. I heard he's now changing his name to "Pat Bukkake"

[sniffa]

14. *snort*

and i've been speLLing it wrong.

[chickenscratching]

18. inappropriate!!!!!

but utterly hilarious.

here's to bukkake and golden showers!
:rofl:

[kenny blankenship]

24. Buchanan doused in ranch...

...but still tastes like shit. "I'm a salad tosser," the conservative pundit declared, "but I still can't get any love!"

[Arkana]

15. OK, so the list now stands:

Ann Coulter: Cream pies
Bill Kristol: Cream pie (direct hit!)
Pat Buchanan: Salad Dressing

[Autobot77]

20. You forgot Ah-nold

Someone threw an egg at him during the recall

[CanuckAmok]

17. wow..."lettuce pray" for a speedy recovery. Hail Caesar!

[chlamor]

22. Dude that's a freakin' great picture of Ali-Who's on the floor?

[The Animator]

19. I'm all for hundreds of us going to the White House.

Not actually going in, but just hanging outside the fence. Not to organize or to meet up. Just "randomly" accumulate there and position our selves around the edge of the wall, then at a perfectly synchronized time, we all whip out bags of preztels and whip them over the wall, then run like hell.

[AlFrankenFan]

23. lmao

This is great. Yes, it's funny, but doesn't it show conservatives that we have the maturity of children in a cafeteria?

[The Animator]

25. Conservatives wouldn't know maturity if it bitch slapped them.

We've been mature for far more than long enough, and they just walk right over us with their tantrums and any time we try to reason with them we get shouted down for being unpatriotic, or immoral sinners etc. Those of us who are well mannered will never be the focus of the media. Those who protest in free speech zones will never be heard.

Fuck that and fuck them too!

They will recognize immaturity, hell they've cornered the market on it over the past for years. If some body is up in your face screaming at you, don't just try to calm them down and get them to see reason... scream back. Why doesn't anyone bring rotten tomatoes to campaign rallies anymore?

I'm also up for parking a fleet of fertilizer trucks outside the capital building everytime there is some piece of crap legislation on the floor. The signs could read... "Hey if you think WE"RE full of shit..."