Usually conservative pundit Bill Kristol is left with EGG on his face, but this time…:
RICHMOND, Ind. — A pie in the face didn’t silence conservative pundit William Kristol during a speech at Earlham College.
A man who later was identified as a student at the private Quaker college jumped onto the stage and splattered Kristol with the pie Tuesday night about 30 minutes into a speech about U.S. foreign policy.
Members of the audience jeered the student as he walked off the stage, then applauded as Kristol wiped the goo off his face with a paper towel and said, “Just let me finish this point,” the Palladium-Item reported.
The student was suspended and could face expulsion following a disciplinary review, Earlham Provost Len Clark said today.
The school, which did not release the student’s name, said Kristol was hit by an ice cream pie. Some of the pie also hit college President Doug Bennett, who was sitting on the stage.
Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard in Washington who was chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, finished his speech after he was hit by the pie and then took questions from the audience before spending 30 minutes talking with students and others who gathered at the edge of the stage.
DISCLAIMER: We have to admit it. We couldn’t resist the ability to take a cheap shot at Kristol (not as accurate as the pie, but a shot…oh there we go AGAIN) in this posts’ headline and the first line. But, since we’re honest with readers we must disclose this:
Bill Kristol is actually one of the best conservative analysts and writers around — of any generation. TMV has read his stuff for years and even if he doesn’t always agree with all of it (we never agree with everything of anything anyway), Kristol is rock solid and not a knee-jerk writer. So no more jokes at his expense.
PS: This isn’t the first time Kristol has been creamed by someone hearing his ideas. (There we go AGAIN — and we REFUSE to use the line about him getting his just deserts…)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.