It seems as though David Horowitz is exploiting his pie in the face incident for money. In a message to supporters, Horowitz says he was "physically assaulted by a group of leftists" at Butler last week. He called the students juvenile delinquents and said, “This type of thuggish behavior is being encouraged by radical faculties that regularly deride conservatives and conservative students, expressing their bilious hatred of President Bush in the classroom that is tacitly condoned by school administrations that tolerate these acts!”

He urges his supporters to donate to his cause based on the pie throwing. "These students and their academic consorts are underscoring our point -- and they’ve taken to violence in response to the success of our National Campaign for Academic Freedom!"

He closed his message by saying, “There should be ZERO tolerance for this type of thuggery against campus speakers whether they are Pat Buchanan or Noam Chomsky! But leftists on campuses don’t feel that way, so we must continue to press our case for an Academic Bill of Rights for our colleges and universities from coast to coast.”

He is doing exactly what we were worried about…exploiting the pie incidents to push his Academic Bill of Rights.

Instead of throwing food, Campus Progress has a list of things you can do to combat right wing speakers that is 100,000 times more effective than throwing food…I promise!