Mahmoud’s Excellent Adventure
September 24th, 2007 at 3:31 pm . by nukeHere is CNN’s introduction to Ahmadinejad’s excellent adventure at Columbia University…
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger excoriated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday, going through a long list of documented actions and remarks by the firebrand Iranian leader and his government.
“Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,” Bollinger said to applause from many of the 600 people in the room for a speech from the Iranian leader.
Bollinger cited the Iranian government’s “brutal crackdown” on dissidents, public executions, executions of minors and other actions.
And he assailed Ahmadinejad’s “denying” of the Holocaust as “ridiculous” and “dangerous propaganda.” He called the Iranian leader either brazenly provocative “or astonishingly uneducated.”
“The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history,” he said.
He said he doubted Ahmadinejad would show the intellectual courage to answer the questions before him.
Lee Bollinger is right. Mahmoud is a cruel and petty dictator. He is also a liar.
CNN is right. Dr. Bollinger displayed all of the condescending self-importance of one who in his arrogance, expected a straight answer from a person who has publicly never given a straight answer.
Not only did Mahmoud lie repeatedly, but he did not answer any of the “tough” questions posed by Bollinger.
So what was accomplished?
Mahmoud used the forum and prestige of Columbia University to give the patina of respectability to a cruel and petty dictator and state sponsor of terrorism. Today, Lee Bollinger helped Mahmoud to elevate his stature at home and abroad.
Lee Bollinger won the hearts and minds of liberals around the world by appearing to be a tough and principled advocate of the First Amendment. In doing so, his wine and cheese social calendar will be booked for months to come. As long as dangerous groups like ROTC, and The Minutemen are banned and/or shouted down at Columbia U, then the liberal interpretation of the First Amendment is safe for another generation.
Shame on Lee Bollinger. Shame on Columbia. It is time for regime change in Iran, and at Columbia University.
See also: Intolerance in the name of tolerance
The take from BBC,
From Associated Press
Ummah News: So much for Free Speech in Iran —
“Iran’s judiciary has sealed off the offices of a popular news Web site critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies after journalists continued to update it despite official filtering, the Web site said.
Rights groups and diplomats say there is a broad crackdown on dissenting voices in the Islamic state. The authorities deny such moves, saying they allow free speech.”
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*Sigh*. Good example of an educated fool.
I’m angry.
I’m angry that Mahmoud is still stealing oxygen, that he is still murdering people, like he did when he gave the coup de grace to a thousand condemned inmates, that he is on our soil, that he is given an adoring forum, and that he mocks us about it.
I’m angry that he and the Mad Mullahs continue to present a retrograde force to the world.
That was weird.
I couldn’t get in, kept getting the white page.
Need to shut’er down. Dang ragweed pollen was over 850ppm today, which is just wrong. It kicks my firm and ample arse when it is 400ppm.
That must be it. There had to be an explanation for why it was more painful to listen to Bollinger than it was to listen to the celebrated Persian propagandist, even though Bollinger didn’t say a thing I disagreed with.
Yes, that must be it. There had to be an explanation for why it was more painful to listen to Bollinger than it was to listen to the celebrated Persian propagandist, even though Bollinger didn’t say a thing I disagreed with.
Though I am sure all the bad press was the motivating factor, I actually enjoyed seeing Bollinger verbally scald the mullah puppet Ahmadinejad. What scares me more than puppetman is the crazies there in the US that they photograph over on Zombie Time. Those people they photographed partying on the fourth of july scare the hell out of me. I swear we not only live in a different country but a totally different universe.
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