Why are Democrats throwing pies at opponents?

[Q Classic]

That said, the more I see of Delay the less I like of him. Any Republican leader should set an example of good behavior. This would clearly put us in a different category than Dems who seemed to have no problem with Bill and Hillary.

And yet the Republican leadership is strangely... quiet on the matter of mister DeLay...

[Ned]

Re: Re: Why are Democrats throwing pies at opponents?

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar


Where exactly?

http://www.anncoulter.com/

Liberals enjoy claiming that they are intellectuals, thrilled to engage in a battle of wits. This, they believe, distinguishes them from conservatives, who are religious fanatics who react with impotent rage to opposing ideas. As one liberal, Jonathan Chait, put the cliche in The New Republic: Bush is an "instinctive anti-intellectual" and his administration hostile to "fact-driven debate." In a favorable contrast, Clinton is "the former Rhodes scholar who relished academic debates." Showing his usual reverence for fact-checking, The New York Times' Paul Krugman says the Republican Party is "dominated by people who believe truth should be determined by revelation, not research."

I'm not sure how these descriptions square with the fact that liberals keep responding to conservative ideas by throwing food. (Remember the good old days when liberals' "fact-driven" ideas only meant throwing money at their problems?)

Last October, two liberals responded to my speech at the University of Arizona — during question and answer, no less — by charging the stage and throwing two pies at me from a few yards away. Fortunately for me, liberals not only argue like liberals, they also throw like girls. (Apologies in advance to the Harvard biology professors who walked out on Larry Summers in a demonstration of their admiration of "research," not "revelation" — but this may account for the dearth of female pitchers in Major League Baseball.)

Unfortunately for them, Republican men don't react favorably to two "Deliverance" boys trying to sucker-punch a 110-pound female in a skirt and heels. The geniuses ended up with bloody noses and broken bones.

It's really outrageous how conservatives respond to liberals who are just trying to engage in a "fact-driven debate." How typical of Republicans to go on the offensive just because a female has been physically attacked. Instead of capturing and subduing my attackers, those strong Republican men should have been trying to understand why they threw the pies.

In the five months following the liberal ass-whupping in Arizona — I mean "fact-driven debate" — all was quiet on the Eastern Front. College liberals still couldn't formulate a coherent argument, but they seemed to want to avoid ending up in jail having to explain to their cellmates that they were in for trying to hit a girl (and missing).

Then on March 19, all charges were dismissed against the "Deliverance" boys — including a felony charge for $3,000 worth of damage to school property. Inexplicably, this outcome did not instantly lead to widespread rioting and looting in South Central Los Angeles.

Democrat Barbara LaWall is the Pima County attorney who allowed the liberal debate champions to walk. LaWall brags on her Web site about "holding criminals accountable." She didn't say anything about liberals, however. Be forewarned, conservatives: Do not expect the law to protect you in Pima County.

In the three weeks following the dismissal of all charges against my attackers, three more conservatives were attacked on college campuses.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Q Cubed

That said, the more I see of Delay the less I like of him. Any Republican leader should set an example of good behavior. This would clearly put us in a different category than Dems who seemed to have no problem with Bill and Hillary.

And yet the Republican leadership is strangely... quiet on the matter of mister DeLay...

I would hope that the party is doing something behind closed doors. There is a old saying about raising your sword against the King. You had better succeed or your life (and your political carreer) may well be over.

[Riesstiu IV]

Ann Coulter is a hateful ***** akin to Goebbels. Anyone beyond a third grade education level shouldn’t even bother reading her drivel.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
Ann Coulter is a hateful ***** akin to Goebbels. Anyone beyond a third grade education level shouldn’t even bother reading her drivel.

Her rhetoric is no more flamboyant that Al Franken's or Michael Moore. I think you just disagree with her politics.

BTW, she is a lawyer.

[Fake Boris]

Pie's the limit.

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Ned


Her rhetoric is no more flamboyant that Al Franken's or Michael Moore. I think you just disagree with her politics.

BTW, she is a lawyer.

You assume too much. I hate them too, and her being a lawyer doesn't make a difference to me. I have an extreme dislike for gasbag ****heels who go on various media outlets and spew out there own drivel like their omnipotent beings who have knowledge on everything and are never wrong. The current state of media and punditry is disgusting.

[Fake Boris]

Ha ha a DL.

[Dinner]

They throw a pie at her and she claims she was "attacked" by liberal Democrats?

Proof that these people are even Democrats or liberals? I see... she has none.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
You assume too much. I hate them too, and her being a lawyer doesn't make a difference to me. I have an extreme dislike for gasbag ****heels who go on various media outlets and spew out there own drivel like their omnipotent beings who have knowledge on everything and are never wrong. The current state of media and punditry is disgusting.

I have to agree. Ann Coulter, Micheal Moore, and Rum Limbaugh are worthless hacks.

[Q Classic]

Her rhetoric is no more flamboyant that Al Franken's or Michael Moore. I think you just disagree with her politics.

Except Michael Moore and Al Franken have never, to my knowledge, made racially charged remarks against an American of Asian extraction.

[Jules]

I think Ann Coulter just needs to grow up and accept the fact that she's not the center of the universe.

[Spiffor]

Liberals enjoy claiming that they are intellectuals, thrilled to engage in a battle of wits. This, they believe, distinguishes them from conservatives, who are religious fanatics who react with impotent rage to opposing ideas.

Ned, why do you believe such drivel? How can you believe it when somebody "flamboyant" paints about 50 millions Americans with a broad brush, especially when you know how biased she is?

Is the unemployed who gets some aid at GePap's office in NY an intellectual who engage in battle of wits? Is the average balck man a member of the intelligentsia? Is the unionized worker a caviar-champagne elitist?

Ned, it's sad to watch your intellect getting wasted on prejudice. Painting people with a broad brush, without having a base for it, is the first step to bigotry

[dannubis]

dems sling with pies

repugs with mud

you should consider yourself lucky to be a republican

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Admiral
Democrats are the opposition party. Seeing the other side pass bill after bill which seem to be, to them, betraying the American people naturally excites ire and passion. But at least they're throwing pies, not bullets. And after all, pie is free speech, and explosives aren't.

They are going to stay the opposition party as long as it seems like they are a bunch of kids and the rank and file is ok with their behavior.