Times Columnist Hit In Face With Pie During Speech At Brown
Political Activism At Its Best: A female Brown University student leaped on stage during a talk by NY Times Columnist Tom Friedman and hit him square in the face and chest with a lemon meringue pie. But this was no ordinary pie-throwing protest: the student, who was caught shortly after her sweet stunt, had thrown leaflets around the auditorium explaining that she had thrown the pie to raise awareness of what she saw as Friedman’s fake, facetious environmentalism.
The pamphlet declares “Thomas Friedman’s ‘Green’ as fake and toxic to human and planetary health as the cool-whip (sic) covering his face.”
That’s gotta hurt, Tom.
There’s an uplifting end to the story, though; ten minutes after the pie incident, Friedman returned to the stage sans Cool Whip and gave the rest of his talk.
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