Told You So

When Coulter was hit with a pie a few months ago, I wrote this:

If the two men who threw pies at her thought they weren't handing her the biggest advantage she'll ever get - one that she, with her limited intellect and reasoning skills, could never ever have created for herself - they're wrong.

It's the first rule of the playground, boys. No matter what nasty thing Jimmy says, if you hit him, you're the one in trouble and Jimmy won't ever let you forget it.  Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Now it seems that food-based attacks on rightwing figures have reached a mass critical enough to start the wingers howling:

These physical attacks targeting conservatives on campus and in the public square are getting more frequent. (See Kristol, Coulter, Perle, Harris, and the conservative kid who got kicked by a left-wing nut professor, for starters.) The Left continues to snicker about it. The MSM makes light of it (CBS: "A Dressing-Down For Pat Buchanan"; NPR: "What's a little pie in the face?"). And for the most part, college administrators let the thugs get away with it.

If this reaction could be any more predictable, and more easily justified, I don't know how.   I've played with the idea that the people throwing the food are agent provocateurs because they sure do more good for the victim than for the cause they are supposed to represent.  But who knows?  As Malkin points out, the corporate media doesn't take the events seriously and so nobody knows what's really going on. 

Watch the right wing noise machine crank this up to the point where we're watching some winger solemnly speaking to Ted Koppel about the incivility and frivolity of the Left.  It's time to start carefully cataloguing examples of violence by the Right.

Exhibits A, B, C, D

And, for the love of heaven, stop throwing food at these putzes.

Comments

[Riggsveda]

Nice roundup. The women being kicked at the RNC was the first thing that flashed into my mind when I read your piece. Orcinus catalogued a lot of election-related violence over at his site, too.

But they won't be speaking to Ted much longer, if at all, what with him taking his leave now. Personally, I think the very innocuous nature of the food attacks adds such a silly undertone to them that if the right does try to make a bruhaha out of it, most people will laugh themselves silly, and the media, always looking for a circus, will not hesitate to characterize them as comic.