Humble Pie for Steve Ballmer and Tom Friedman

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Two separate public incidents with similar overtones.

Today Steve Ballmer got pelted by a egg-throwing Hungarian nerd:

A few weeks earlier, on Earth Day no less, Tom Friedman gets a pie in the face:

Is this "The Wisdom of the Crowd"?

What I found interesting was the reactions of the "victims." Ballmer cracked a joke and went on. Friedman took it a bit harder - walking off the stage in a huff.

Apparently, this is nothing new for Microsoft execs. Here's a bonus clip from 2006:

Still, I don't think this is funny. Especially in this day and age. What ever happened to old fashioned heckling?

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How about Hillary and Bill?

Don't you agree they deserve a pie in the face at this point?

Just look at what how they're hurting the Democratic party- it's like they want us to lose.

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