One key point missed in all the veggie chucking is that it's traditionally something done by everyday people to (economic) Royalists.
"Just Plain Folks" don't get pelted by produce: the overly privileged divorced from the lives of the everyday do.
THAT is why it strikes such a chord: it resonates the truth.
@Novaload: Palin is too easy, she really is a fool. I wonder how commenters would react if Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Charles Rangel or Barney Frank got pelted. Maybe everybody who disagrees with a politician should just start throwing food at them? I'm down with that.
In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin? How about: In Defense of Nominating Sarah Palin as the GOP Presidential Candidate! That would be a win-win, because she would most likely lose, but if she didn't America would deserve her as president.
Incidentally, we should mention that we endorse that tomato-throwing guy if and only if he was chucking very soft, overripe tomatoes which would splatter readily and harmlessly all over Ms. Palin and drip down into her clothes while she was trying to sign books. Also, the tomatoes should have been organic and fair trade!
And right to the face from two stories above, right Adrian?
Right.
Out of curiosity: since the tomato hit a police officer, and, say, that police officer, thinking he was being attacked, I don't know, then drew his weapon and then, oh bother, fired his gun into the crowd, would it still be funny then?
On the one hand, I agree on some level with the comment Aaron Altman left on the other post, but on the other, it's not a tarring and feathering or a tasering. It was a tomato. I think the outrage about your post was a little excessive.
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"Just Plain Folks" don't get pelted by produce: the overly privileged divorced from the lives of the everyday do.
THAT is why it strikes such a chord: it resonates the truth.
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So don't dignify the idiot by throwing food at her.
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And right to the face from two stories above, right Adrian?
Right.
Out of curiosity: since the tomato hit a police officer, and, say, that police officer, thinking he was being attacked, I don't know, then drew his weapon and then, oh bother, fired his gun into the crowd, would it still be funny then?
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Not to be a fruit-n'-vegetable nerd, but I hope he was sufficiently figurative as to have thrown the appropriate variety, the Balconi Red.*
*I am not making this up.
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Proving my theory that she wasn't born with one.
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