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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    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.
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    So you would be cool if someone decided to pelt Michelle Obama with rotten tomatoes? I don't think so. You can't make a post like this and then decry how mean and vicious the other side is being politically. When behavior like this just adds fuel to the fire.
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    12/10/09

    @Lance Uppercut: Why would anyone want to throw food at Michelle Obama? It's not like she coined the imaginary phrase 'Death Panels.'
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    In the 1800s, an unappreciative Cincinnati theater-goer protested the performance of actor William Macready by throwing a sheep carcass onstage.

    Macready was a British performer who angered Americans by writing things like,"[American] masses, rich and poor, are essentially ignorant or vulgar, utterly deficient in taste."
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    You all are American unsophisticates: food throwing (esp. eggs) has a special place in European electioneering.

    [www.rferl.org]

    So don't dignify the idiot by throwing food at her.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    Well, sure. So long as you have the same fun and games spirit when the veggies and eggs start flying in Obama's direction.
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    12/08/09

    @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.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/08/09

    @fuckingoldman: I'm first in line for Pelosi.
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    12/08/09

    @Novaload: Oky, you can have Pelosi, but can I have Rangel?
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/08/09

    @Novaload: Bring on the veggies and eggs. It's the bullets that concern me.
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    12/08/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Water balloons, anyone?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    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.
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    As much as I realize that Sarah Palin simply isn't qualified to be president and the thought of her in the Oval terrifies me...it most certainly is not "cool" that someone threw tomatoes at her. Just like it wouldn't be cool if someone threw tomatoes at our guy. Let's be grown ups about this.
    Here's a better idea. Throw facts and logic at Sarah Palin. Those obviously do more to her than fruit ever could.
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment Edited by Cupajo at 12/08/09 10:01 AM Cupajo was starred Cupajo was unstarred
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    12/08/09

    @Cupajo: Clearly, you haven't noticed that she seems immune to facts and logic. But is she immune to tomatoes? No!
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    12/08/09

    @lostarchitect: Fair enough. Maybe I should have said "She is obviously less equipped to counter facts and logic than she is errant tomatoes."
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    Let's not forget that George HW Bush threw food on the Prime Minister of Japan. After it had sat in his stomach for a while.
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    12/08/09

    @Mediahohoho: Let's not forget that Bill Clinton threw cum on Monica Lewinsky after it sat in his balls for a while.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/08/09

    @fuckingoldman: Eeeeeeeeew.
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    12/08/09

    @Lysergic Asset: *smile*
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    I don't know anything about John Ritchie, but if I hear "Say You, Say Me" one more time, I'm going to throw a tomato at Lionel Ritchie.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    You left out Anita Bryant, whose meringue-coated bouffant filled my babygay heart with joy.
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    12/08/09

    @BettyCrocker: "Well, at least it's a fruit pie!"
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    Feel free to offend and insult me, but do not even think of touching me.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    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?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    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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    12/08/09

    @Lucky: Seconded.
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    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    No, you're wrong. Throwing tomatoes at politicians approaches the same level of disrespect we see in TeaBaggers at their hate rallies and the racist email we see from a handful of Republicans. Attacking Palin's stupidity, her publicity whoring, her secessionist husband's politics, her lying, her attachment to conspiracy theory and her overall classlessness -- via words -- is a-okay. Throwing shit is bush league.
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    12/08/09

    @royb2000: The Teabaggers are an organized "movement", whereas in this case we're dealing with a lone tomato-man. I think this is an important distinction. In the former we're dealing a group of gullible people easily manipulated into thinking they're making some sort of statement, in the latter we're talking about one person's solo political statement. Because there's only one of him, we can admire the tomato-man's moxie, without endorsing his technique.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/08/09

    In reply to In Defense of Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin
    Dude tossed maters from a second-floor balcony?

    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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    12/08/09

    @AzureTexan: Okay, now I am hearting you. Puns about produce pretty much gets me every time.
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    12/08/09

    @pony_express: Then I guess I should save my kill-shot — "How did they ketchup to the guy?" — for a later date and time.
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    12/08/09

    @AzureTexan: Ha, I'll be sure to -relish- it at the appropriate time.
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    12/08/09

    @pony_express: I'll try not to "pico" too early.
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