Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.23.08 | 12:04 PM ET
New York Times columnist and “The World Is Flat” author Thomas Friedman got a pie in the face as he began delivering a lecture at Brown University, apparently hurled at him by a student protesting, among other things, “his sickeningly cheery applaud (sic) for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet.” (Via Romensko)
Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
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John M. Edwards 04.23.08 | 4:11 PM ET
Hi Jim:
This Via Romensko sounds like a dangerous lunatic—but how funny can he be using the old pie in the face routine.
Oh how Friedman must have rankled.
A friend of mine a long time ago, at another high school, surprised both faculty and students by standing up abruptly during an assembly, abruptly flipping the bird with a two-word endearment; “Blank you!—and lobbed an egg for a direct hit on the principal.
I doubt he was protesting anything though; he probably just felt like doing it.