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[Me#1You#10]

In the interest of making lemonade from lemons, I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of the vitriol leveled at Ahmadinejad by Columbia President Lee Bollinger in his opening remarks. Undoubtedly the video will be available shortly...watch it.

[LewWaters]

Lets say I was suspiciously surprised at how Columbia president, Bollinger addressed Ahmedinejad today.

Rush was first to ask, where has this been the last 5 years?

Mark Levin chimed in later with a reminder that Duncan Hunter was proposing legislation cutting off federal funding to Columbia should they go ahead with the speaking engagement. He feels that is why the tough sounding questions to Ahmedinejad, to prevent the funding cut.

Regardless, Ahmedinejad didn't really answer anything directly and just skirted the issues, insisting they don't have gays there and women are very well treated.

To quote a prominent, and scary, liberal, "to accept his words would require a willing suspension of disbelief."

Not surprising was seeing Ahmedinejad receive applause from the audience.
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[BuffaloJack]

Cutting off funding is a perfectly legitimate option. If the morons at Columbia want to invoke free speech over public sensitivities, then the price should be that they pay their own way and not receive money from those their actions offend.
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[carpro]

Ms. Coulter is not my favorite, but sometimes...



http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22596


Tase Him Bro!
By Ann Coulter

EXCERPT


If a university invites someone to speak, you know the faculty agrees with the speaker. Maybe not the entire faculty. Some Columbia professors probably consider Ahmadinejad too moderate on Israel.

Columbia president Lee Bollinger claimed the Ahmadinejad invitation is in keeping with "Columbia's long-standing tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate."

Except Columbia doesn't have that tradition. This is worse than saying "the dog ate my homework." It's like saying "the dog ate my homework" when you're Michael Vick and everyone knows you've killed your dog.

Columbia's "tradition" is to shut down any speakers who fall outside the teeny, tiny seditious perspective of its professors.

When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

Imbued with Bollinger's commitment to free speech, Columbia junior Ryan Fukumori said of the Minutemen: "They have no right to be able to speak here."

SNIP

Liberals are never called upon to tolerate anything they don't already adore, such as treason, pornography and heresy. In fact, those will often get you course credit.

At Ahmadinejad's speech, every vicious anti-Western civilization remark was cheered wildly. It was like watching an episode of HBO'S "Real Time With Bill Maher."

Ahmadinejad complained that the U.S. and a few other "monopolistic powers, selfish powers" were trying to deny Iranians their "right" to develop nukes.

Wild applause.

Ahmadinejad repeatedly refused to answer whether he seeks the destruction of the state of Israel.

Wild applause.

He accused the U.S. of supporting terrorism.

Wild applause.

Only when Ahmadinejad failed to endorse sodomy did he receive the single incident of booing throughout his speech.
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"If he believes his 1971 indictment of his country and his fellow veterans was true, then he couldn't possibly be proud of his Vietnam service."

[dcornutt]

Yes, Columbia ejected the ROTC program because it disagrees with their speech (don't ask don't tell—or that was the excuse they used to do it anyway). They did not allow the founder of the MM program to come back to speak after he was attacked there by students who were never disciplined for what they did.

But, Amadenihad?? Oh..he can speak anytime.

It doesn't matter, that Bollinger gave him an intellectual lashing here because that will never be shown in the ME, nor taken that way either. Just the very fact that he was invited/allowed there, along with carefully edited snippets, will be used as propeganda.

That's the part I will never understand about these people who willingly allow themseves to be used by our enemies for propeganda (even when they may themsevles feel otherwise about it). In Bollingers mind, he probably thinks he has somehow done a great service by exposing Amadenijad for the intellectual midget he really is. Yea...he really showed him. Instead, he is a willing participant in Iranian gov propeganda. That's all.