From the fangs of Coulter herself:

. . . Or maybe physical attacks on conservatives could merit a small slice of the rage and indignation directed at the display of racist symbols. Last year, a white student at a high school in Washington State was accused of taunting a black student with a noose. In response, the white student was immediately expelled from school. He was charged with a felony. There was a series of town-wide discussions. The U.S. Justice Department sent in mediators. And two more years were suddenly added to Whoopi Goldberg's career.

I think Kristol, Buchanan, Horowitz and I would be perfectly happy if college liberals merely brandished symbols at us. . . .

I see! Pie in the face = brandishing a noose!

Apparently, for a neocon, an offense that sends a perfectly good suit to the dry cleaner is equivalent to harassing someone with an item used to strangle people.

I also think that it's telling that the two boys -- they were college students -- who tossed the pies were, according to her, beaten up by her fans, to the tune of broken bones. Well, what can you expect of mob of neocons? Not a sense of proportion, surely.

Now, the boys shouldn't be throwing pie at her. It's undignified of them, and it ruins perfectly good pie. Heaven help us if it's cream pie: it would curdle on contact with her. But if Coulter wants liberals to stop acting like Curly, she going to have to stop acting like Moe.