Mahmoudapalooza: The madman comes calling; Update: A Columbia/nutjob quid pro quo?; Update: 11:45am Eastern blogging from CU; Update: 1:35pm Eastern Hundreds counterprotest at Columbia; 2:20pm Eastern - “Some big powers to do not want to see the progress of others;” Update: 4:30pm Eastern Over to Ground Zero; Update: Who didn’t get to speak
Update 6:00pm Eastern. This is probably one of the most powerful signs I snapped photos of today at Columbia University…
Absolute moral authority.
Meantime, no sign of the Iranian nutjob here at Ground Zero. It’s possible he squeezed in his visit this morning when the protesters were cleared up. If so, though, why would he sit on the disgusting propaganda photos?
Across town, you can find blog reports of the large protest at the United Nations at Atlas Shrugs and The Invisible Hand.
This Ain’t Hell attended the National Press Club protest in Washington, D.C.
Hugh Hewitt is not impressed with Columbia president Lee Bollinger’s attempted salvage operations:
Whenever Lee Bollinger steps down as Columbia’s president, some poor fool will toast him for his “stirring” speech today, for speaking truth to power, blah blah blah. Nonsense. President Bollinger gave Ahmadinejad a microphone and a stage and then tried to use the underbilling to redeem his university’s sorry complicity in the legitimizing of this fanatic’s place in the world. Columbia can black out the backdrop and deliver stern lectures that go unheard in the Islamist world, but it won’t remove the stain on its own reputation: It played a role of accessory to many lies today, delivered by a killer of our troops.
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Outside Columbia University at the Stand with Us/Hasbarah protest, approx. 1:00pm Eastern.
Update 9:25pm Eastern. Charles Johnson reprints an email from a Columbia U. student about those who cheered Mahmoud’s evil, insanity, and obfuscation. You won’t be surprised.
Update 5:45pm Eastern. Judith at Kesher Talk has photos of the protesters and 9/11 family members who gathered at Ground Zero this morning before being hustled out by the Port Authority.
Gerard Van der Leun has a round-up of reax to Bollinger’s rope-a-dope.
Update: 4:35pm Eastern. We’ve headed over to Ground Zero, where some of the Columbia University protesters have gathered in case the Iranian nutjob decides to sneak his cursed wreath onto the memorial site.
After the Columbia University speech let out, dozens of protesters stood at the front gates of Columbia chanting “Shame on Columbia!” The anti-Mahmoud coalition took on a few clueless ANSWER protesters clad in orange and Bush Derangement Syndrome bumper stickers. I interviewed Iranian-American dissident Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi of the Secular Muslim Summit, who was livid after confronting the moral equivalence and historical ignorance of the moonbats holding anti-Bush signs. The Jewish groups and Iranian critics of the mullahcracy were joined by many NYC-area bloggers and Gathering of Eagles members as well.
Speech highlights: There are no gays in Iran, don’t you know? More on Mahmoud’s John Lennon peace, love, and harmony routine. And here’s the Bollinger intro.
Dan Riehl sheds light on the significance of Mahmoud’s science and technology spiel:
Anyone listening closely should have been able to comprehend that Ahmadinejad’s discussion of science and technology was about the search for truth and it was based upon the notion that to discern truth one must be free of ideology and bias due to a pure understanding of Islam via The Koran. That was why he preceded all that science and technology stuff with the little intro on divine wisdom. And the particular truth he was riffing around had to do with the Holocaust.
It’s precisely that point, which the Left and apparently some on the Right miss that makes Iran and Ahmadinejad so dangerous.
Don’t let the warm embrace of some of the Columbia University students fool you. We saw plenty of disgusted Columbia alumni and families who were not impressed.
Update 2:15pm Eastern. Watching the speech on a TV at a deli. So, Columbia is getting an earful about Allah and Islam. Lots of finger-waving…and now he’s accusing the West of forcing other cultures into “submission.” Classic projection. He’s complaining about nuclear intimidation. Seriously. He attacks the West for “denying the scientific progress of others.”
One CNN commentator is calling Columbia president Lee Bollinger’s introduction a “humiliating dress-down.” Bollinger chided Mahmoud for his “preposterous, belligerent statements.” Raves for Bollinger here. I’m withholding judgement. If you caught it and you agree, chime in.
Update 1:35pm Eastern. Inside the gates, Ahmadinejad has begun the “dialogue.” Video. There are several hundred counterprotesters outside the Columbia gates, mostly Jewish organizations and some brave Persian dissidents. I’ve talked to rabbis, young families, students, alumni. Most are livid that Columbia has penned them off campus. There are busloads of kids here, but many older folks are disappointed that the turnout isn’t higher. This may be because lots of people turned out for the anti-Mahmoud rally at the U.N. Organizers expect many of them to head over here. Lots of helicopters overhead.
We’re going to try to do a livestream from the protest. Meantime, a few more photos:
This mother and daughter drove from Morris County, NJ:
Here’s the Iranian nutjob’s National Press Club appearance.
Update 11:46am Eastern. Allah passes word via PJM that Ground Zero was cleared of anti-Mahmoud protesters this morning.
Meantime, we’re stationed at Columbia at the front gates on 116th and Broadway. I just interviewed CU undergrad Jacob Kriegel, president of the student Jewish organization LionPAC. There’s a sizable crowd gathering. Many Persian students raising their voices in opposition to Ahmadinejad’s presence. We’ll have video.
Here are a few pics of the scene on Broadway, which is lined with media:
Update 9:50am Eastern. Was there a quid pro quo? CNSNews’s Susan Jones raises the question in a story about the recent release of an Iranian Columbia alum (hat tip - reader Jeff):
The president of Columbia University is expressing relief that a Columbia alumnus was released from an Iranian prison — just days before the Iranian president is scheduled to speak at Columbia University.
Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh, who works for George Soros’s Open Society Institute, was one of several Iranian-Americans detained by Iran for allegedly conspiring against Iran’s national security.
Tajbakhsh was freed on bail last Thursday. Iranian President Mahmoud Amadinejad is speaking at Columbia on Monday, and the invitation for him to appear on campus has drawn widespread condemnation from politicians and ordinary Americans, who view Amadinejad as an enemy of the United States and Israel.
Here’s more from the student publication, the Columbia Spectator.
As they say: Question the timing.
Update 9:30am Eastern. Spoof time–a reader sends along the webpage of the new Columbia University School of Terrorism.
Fake, but accurate.
Not a spoof: Left-wing lesbian crushing on Mahmoud.
Another small sign of sanity at Columbia: The law school dean, David Schizer, speaks:
This event raises deep and complicated issues about how best to express our commitment to intellectual freedom, and to our free way of life. Although we believe in free and open debate at Columbia and should never suppress points of view, we are also committed to academic standards. A high-quality academic discussion depends on intellectual honesty but, unfortunately, Mr. Ahmadinejad has proven himself, time and again, to be uninterested in whether his words are true. Therefore, my personal opinion is that he should not be invited to speak. Mr. Ahmadinejad is a reprehensible and dangerous figure who presides over a repressive regime, is responsible for the death of American soldiers, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the destruction of Israel. It would be deeply regrettable if some misread this invitation as lending prestige or legitimacy to his views.
But Hugh Hewitt is right:
While the dean’s candor on what Ahmadinejad represents is welcome, the idea that “prestige or legitimacy” is not inherent in the invitation is just absurd. It is the “World Leaders Forum” at one of the world’s great universities –of course Columbia is not merely “lending” the fanatic “prestige” and “legitimacy,” it is wholesaling both to him and all he represents.
For as long as we recall that Iran has been killing American soldiers and Marines, we will also recall that when Ahmadinejad came to the United States, it was Columbia that welcomed him and gave him a stage, a microphone, a vast audience and all the “prestige” and “legitimacy” Columbia can confer.
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A reminder again about the protests taking place today in NYC and D.C. against Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadenihad, via The Israel Project. I’ll be in NYC today for his “Manhattan Moment.” How about you:
MONDAY, SEPT. 24:
What: Ahmadinejad to speak at luncheon at National Press Club by videolink
When: 12 p.m.
Where: Washington, DC: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW
MONDAY, SEPT. 24:
What: Rally led by Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Community Relations in cooperation with United Jewish Communities, UJA-Federation of New York and Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Speakers include Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame, III, (Capt., USNR, Ret.), pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.
When: 12 p.m. (rain or shine)
Where: NYC: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 2nd Ave. at 47th St.(across the street from the UN)
MONDAY, SEPT. 24:
What: Rally by students from Columbia and other universities incuding Rutgers, Brooklyn College and Queens College, area high school students and dozens of Jewish organizations
When: 1-3 p.m.
Where: NYC: Outside Columbia University at W. 116th St. and Broadway
Keep checking back for updates.
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American former hostage Barry Rosen, held captive in Iran for 444 days with more than 50 other innocent citizens, delivers his message to Mahmoud in the NYPost today:
Ahmadinejad was one of those outrageous Iranians who took me and more than 50 other Americans hostage for 444 days, violating international law and making us suffer indescribable moments of terror.
There is simply no reason to give him a platform to spew his venom.
No matter how hard-hitting Columbia’s president questions Ahmadinejad, the Iranian leader is a winner.
Every word he utters is meant for his radical constituents at home and legitimizes his standing among other dictators like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.It’s only when Ahmadinejad permits his own people to march and speak freely, that I believe Columbia President Lee Bollinger would be justified in giving the Iranian president an open forum.
Not before then.
Clint Taylor looks at Columbia and is reminded of Yale’s embrace of the Taliban.
Michael Rubin nails academia’s selective defense of free speech:
The issue we see with Columbia is deeper than freedom of speech but rather the inconsistency with which university faculties choose to support it. If men like Richard Bulliet and Lee Bollinger, and women like Lisa Marie Anderson cared about freedom of speech, they might want to enable those who don’t have it, rather than celebrate the men who have taken it away.
Exactly. It has been nauseating listening all weekend to the same, speech-squelching student mobsters who shut down secure-borders proponent Jim Gilchrist now preaching about allowing “dissenting voices” to be heard.
There is one, rare voice of sanity and adulthood at Columbia. Power Line reprints a statement from Columbia U’s business school dean, Glenn Hubbard. His bottom line:
Some would argue that a University should be a place of intellectual freedom and open debate, but others including me argue that Mr. Ahmadinejad, who is responsible for the death of American soldiers, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the destruction of Israel, has proven himself incapable of engaging in a true and honest academic discussion.
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Sorry I’ll miss the party; but I won’t be alone in counting on you to give him Hell for me, Michelle…
I wish that I could blame insanity on allowing him to speak, but what appears more likely is that in the name of ‘liberal enlightenment’ Columbia has decided to give this holocaust denier a platform, as well as some publicity for themselves. Yet he goes beyond that label. This man is the head of a state that is actively fighting with our troops, and the figurehead of a government that would like nothing better than to exterminate the “Zionists” (read: Jews). It is unfortunate that there are those among us that are so willingly deceived in this country, or academia for that matter. This idiocy goes a long way in explaining why we have ignored the terror threat for as long as we have, or would continue to do if some ill informed parties had their way.
Well, I’m glad it seems like many, many people see this guy as “Hitler: The Next Generation,” although I’m sure it won’t be long before Miss Malkin gives us a quote from some American politician defending his visit.
I’m with you in spirit too Michelle. If I caould have made it, I would. Just dan’t make it work.
dl, I/m with you on the POS
54 yrs ago I worked w/Jewish lady who had been in one concentration camp while her husband and son were in another. They were reunited and came to US via S.America. I am not a Jew, but I am livid about this visit. God bless MM and all who support her.
Coatsworth was on Fox News this morning defending his decision AGAIN as STILL, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, and “WHAT’S THE ALTERNATIVE? CENSORSHIP!” routine.
The gang did a terrific job challenging him on it, THEY are ALL FURIOUS about th is debaucle, but they did drop the ball on the MOST OBVIOUS QUESTION NOT ASKED: “WHERE’S THE BALANCE???”
IS HE NOW going to open the podium to The MINUTEMEN, TO CREATIONISTS, TO PRO WAR ON TERROR American Military Veterans, ROTC, Military Recruiters, Christians, anti-Socialists, AMERICAN FOUNDING FATHER PROPONENTS, the likes of Bridgette Gabriel, and Walid Shoebat, John Hagee, Rod Parsley, General Georges Sada, ACLJ, anti-abortionists, etc…
We’re all holding our breath!!!
Ombre Rose, caught that too with Coatsworth and he got on the free speech bandwagon as that’s what our military fights for. Speaking for our family, we fight/fought for the protection of this country and free speech, while important is not the main reason most people serve.
The condescension of these fools at Columbia is really beyond the pale.
I know there are Iraq war vets there at Columbia and they seem to be dismissed by the “smart ones”. Our little boy is 3 and last night my husband told him if he goes to an Ivy League school he’s out of the will. John said “okay, dad!”. But my husband is dead serious. He’s sickened beyond belief that this school is inviting him to speak. He’s lost a lot of friends, including one of our groomsmen from our wedding through IED attacks in Iraq. Chances are pretty good that they came from Iran. Funny thing, Coatsworth wouldn’t address that question when either Steve or Brian asked it regarding the killing of Soldiers and Marines through his deeds. He just yapped about free speech.
I’m spitting mad over this… In the coming days, I’ll be venting my anger via shooting things in Halo 3…
Video games - my anti-homicide…
Terrig…
Kansas State University would be a great school…
Not then I’m schilling for them or anything.
Is their any little tin pot dictators a** that the left won’t kiss?
Bush’s?
*ducks and runs*
swj719AWG, does KSU have ROTC? I went to the University of South Florida (graduated in 1990) before it was run over by terrorists but don’t think I’d send him there either.
It sure does…
General Richard Myers (former Chairman f the Joint Chiefs) is a KSU grad, and an ROTC man…
Airforce, yes, but I’m almost 100% certain they have it for the other branches…
I mean, it’s basically right next door to Fort Riley…
If Bush and the US Government had any stones, they’d have this man killed upon entering the United States.
This man is once again humiliating us before the world and we’re sitting around like a nation of weenies letting it happen.
Eyes up Michelle. The left views you as more of a threat than Imadinnerjacket! Stay safe, we’re praying for you…
I hope you can make it to Fraunce’s Tavern for dinner tonight, the original hang out of Patriots! You’ll fit right in!!
I was hoping against hope that this was not going to actually happen. Now that it’s clear that it will, I stick with my earlier remarks: this is the low point in America’s history…
JWS,
Give it time… The left just keeps hitting rock bottom, and then deciding that it should dig…
BTW, EVEN “BALANCE” doesn’t justify this ACT OF TREASON. The University elites - even if every university elite clique in the nation all agreed, DOES NOT GIVE THEM THE RIGHT, OR AUTHORITY, TO OVER-RIDE THE DEFINITION HELD BY THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO AGREE WITH THE DEFINITION LAID OUT SPECIFICALLY IN OUR NATION’S CONSTITUTION FOR TREASON with their STALINIST Socialist definition of “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” to give this PRESTIGE to a DICTATOR.
THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ENABLING AND VALIDATING A DICTATOR (Coatsworth referred to him as an elected head of state!), and NOTHING of value can be learned by ANYONE from a “debate” with a DICTATOR. But the PROPAGANDA VALUE TO ONE BILLION MUSLIMS WORLD WIDE they handed to this person BY CONSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION MAKES THEM COMPLICIT WITH HIS CRIMES!
Now, if they want to make this a MEDICAL STUDENT CLASSROOM EXAM OF A PSYCHOPATH in the PRISON HOSPITAL, that is different.
“The first principle of republicanism is that the lex majoris partis is the fundamental law of every society of individuals of equal rights; to consider the will of the society enounced by the majority of a single vote as sacred as if unanimous is the first of all lessons in importance, yet the last which is thoroughly learnt. This law once disregarded, no other remains but that of force, which ends necessarily in military despotism.” –Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1817. ME 15:127
[Yeah, we know the Liberals CLAIM the majority - WITHOUT ANY ELECTIONS TO PROVE IT]
“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels — men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” –Dwight Eisenhower
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
- Samuel Adams
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
- Samuel Adams
Samuel Butler - Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.
Patrick Henry - Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Patrick Henry - Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people!
And when the WILL OF THE MAJORITY is thwarted and subverted, and the plain meaning of ordinary words is so horribly distorted, so that dictators are elevated, and the will of the few is enthroned by OPPRESSIVE MEASURES, THEN THE PUBLIC LIBERTY IS VICIATED!
And I really don’t give a flying leap what the Columbia University cares to PRETEND their “UNDERSTANDING” of the words, “TREASON” and “FREEDOM”, are defined as!
We have many excellent examples today for first cases of Treason to be brought to trial, including MoveOn.Org’s political ad against General Petraeus. But probably NONE are better than this, even though so many are certainly EQUAL.
All that happens when you provide a DICTATOR a PLATFORM is he attracts NUTJOBS TO HIS CAUSE. - NO good thing can come of that.
swj719AWG
I’m serious. Although there are things that are damaging in more tangible ways (actual deaths, buildings falling, etc), history may well point to this as our point of no return moment. The symbolic damage to us/ gain for the terrorist world is enormous…
Ah, the open minded & tolerant leftist-utopian academic pinheads in their ivory towers. They have managed to turn the infantile suck response into an ‘on their knees’ art form, and will be the death of this republic (along with their willing accomplices, k-12 government schools).
The only way to end this intellectual atrophy is to cut off public funding, and let these birkenstock dipsticks soil themselves on their own nickel!! Do you know who your congressperson is??
But, if you would like to address your comments on this subject directly to Dean John Coatsworth of Columbia University, he can be reached here:
Email- jhc2125@columbia.edu
Telephone- +1 212 854 4604
Fax- +1 212 864 4847
Snail Mail- Columbia University, NYC
1414 International Affairs Building
Mail Code: 3328
United States
Enjoy!
I’ll ask again: What would Reagan do?
I’m happy Ahmadinejad has come to the US. If it pisses enough people off, it’s all worthwhile. We’ve been seeing things getting better in Iraq, and now those in the fog can see the reason why we’re fighting terror crystallize before their eyes.
In addition, we can see the people who oppose the war on terror and their dangerous, foolhardy actions, such as inviting him to speak at their school. Or having a little crush on a man who would probably have her hung in the public square for her sexual orientation.
All because this guy stands up to the Bu$$$$hitler.
You know, I wonder, if he is the Bu$$$hitler, will Columbia invite him to come speak as well?
trinitytim
I answered your question on the warrant in yesterdays thread.
Hello, Terrig, I hear you, big time. I have two sons, my oldest is an EMT.
When I got hold of that old 1950’s Stalinist Agenda that was published in the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963, and promptly adopted as the Democrat Party platform, I was horrified at the philisophical points I had absorbed “as my own”, by circa 1980, never realizing the source of them.
Funny think, I’ve showed it to hundreds, maybe even thousands of people, the last 2 decades, but not yet to a single Liberal that was shocked or mortified to find that STALIN and his goal of destroying America was the source of their warped and un-American views!
And I’m with you 100% about disowning folks over them taking to Liberal ways.
There is enough trouble in this world with takers who aren’t even also Liberals!
But I’ll say this, over the last 20 years, I had begun to dispair that ANYTHING would shake America out of this SLUMBERING SPIRIT (like the frog slowly boiling to death being lulled to sleep, by the initialy coziness of the warmth!)
I am mightily encouraged to see American get outraged and stay that way over several of these issues, this year, year and a half.
Just keep remembering - God still hears the prayers of our Founding Fathers for this nation, and as we join in, there is no way our efforts cannot outnumber these destructive people!
BTW, my nephew was over there in Iraq about 3 yrs ago, and got to participate in helping with security for their very first election, shortly before he came home again - not a scratch on him, thank goodness. He said helping with that election was the best thing in his whole life (as he sat beside his wife!) We are so proud of him for going, and so glad to have him back - and it is a total outrage that they have removed shrapnel with the Iranian stamp on it from our boys, yet he is on American soil, safely!
Can you see George Washington, Paul Revere, Nathan Hale, and Patrick Henry taking that? I certainly cannot!
Yeah, it stinks that I can’t be in NY or DC today.
I was listening to the news this morning and the president of Columbia said that Ahmadinejad needed to be heard - that all people with “dangerous” views should be heard, that “no view is too disreputable to be excluded.”
But the Minutemen must be beyond “dangerous” and “disreputable” since Columbia shut down a planned speech by them.
This guy said that Hitler would have been allowed at Columbia. How gutsy - to nobly proclaim you’d let one of the most vile human beings in history to have a platform sixty-plus years after his death. Really bold!
So, kiddies, what’s the lesson here:
Terror supporting, anti-Semetic, jihadist-loving dictators = good.
American, law-abiding, illegal immigrant fighting organization = bad.
The President of Columbia University, doesn’t get it? When you stick your head up, and side with the Enemy of your Country, (Giving the President of Iran a Bully Pulpit) you get labled and it is going to stick. Who wants to send their children to Columbia University? I mean there are alternatives. The behavior of the President of Columbia University, is drawing a Big Sign on the whole academic institution. The sign, this left leaning administration, is hanging on this old American Academic Institution “Columbia University is Pink” We live in a free market society, the left keeps forgetting, We-Americans vote with our wallets and our feet.
“Faux News Alert”
35 Applicants for vacant high paying, high level positions were escorted from premises amongst sounds of hysterical laughter once discovered they were graduates of Columbia. film at 11:00
Michelle, again be careful out there. You are a target of the left and they know you will be there. Whoever is in charge of your security–heads up! We love you and will be praying. Sorry I cannot be there in body but in heart & mind will be with you all.
Wouldn’t it be a ripe moment if the hostages held by Iran in the Iranian Hostage Crisis were in that auditorium to face their captor, Ahmadinejad, and publicly accuse him in person. He denies the charge. What a confrontation that would be, the lying Iranian religious fanatic versus the righteous former captives.
I’m delighted to tell you we know PRECISELY what Reagan would do, BECAUSE HE TOLD US SO DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN of ‘79, WHILE AHMEDINAJAB had our Embassy folks HOSTAGE for 444 DAYS, without any significant reaction from Jimmy Carter - and what Reagan said made Jimmy Carter FURIOUS - put he was IMPOTENT, anyway!
Reagan said that HE WOULD NOT NEGOTIATE WITH IRAN NO MATTER WHAT! He said that THE MINUTE the Inauguration was over, if HE won the election, HE would begin dropping bombs on Tehran, until our people were released SAFE. He said if THEY wanted to NEGOTIATE, then they better do it with Jimmy Carter while the opportunity was available, because the SECOND he was inaugurated, it was OVER.
(Jimmy’s response was to b egin filling our missile silos with CEMENT - the silos were $40 million each at that time. Literally poured full of CEMENT! EVEN AFTER JIMMY LOST THE ELECTION, he filled more of them with cement! before he left office!)
The hostages were released DURING THE INAUGURATION and we didn’t get to see the inauguration because the MAINSTREAM PRESS CUT FROM THE INAUGRATION to the hostages, didn’t tape and replay the inauguration, either!
REAGAN WAS NOT AN ENABLER OF DICTATORS AND TYRANNY LIKE FRED THOMPSON!
Lets hope one of their “hard hitting” questions is regarding his involvement in the hostage crisis. I’m not holding my breath, and also believe the questions he is presented have well been in his hands days ago. What a sham, scam, crock of baloney this entire circus is going to be. barf and gag.
So all I need to do is kill a few American soldiers, kidnap some American citizens and then I too can go speak at a once prestigous university and be fawned over by the faculty? I know the added charm of this guy is presiding over a country which routinely hangs people from cranes in public and has a mad desire to be the first true Muslim country with nukes. Maybe Matt Sanchez can send the president of the university some souvenirs from Iraq, you know those EFP’s that are killing so many of our troops so that he can get a deeper understanding of the complexities of Middle Eastern culture.
The soldiers don’t worry about complexities, just living or dying. Life is simpler that way and there is no room for debate.
IF ANYTHING GOES, as according to the Columbia Board of Regents, MoveOn.Org, ACLU, etc, then WHY NOT TOTAL RECIPROCITY by those former hostages, right on the Columbia University campus, or the UN building?
Won’t that be JUST AS COOL as Ahmedinajob???
Seems perfect to ME! After all, if this creep is cool on an American Embassy grounds, this must be cool, too! According to the Liberals, and let Coatsworth enjoy his fair share of the receiving end, too.
Wonder if he’ll stick to his guns and hold fast to his faith in Ahmendinajab’s “FREE SPEECH RIGHTS”, or have a Stephen F. Austin moment?
Love to be a fly on THAT wall!
We must hear only Zionist propaganda here. The people must never have an opportunity to listen to the other side lest some of it might sound reasonable.
We’re with you, Sir. Sooner or later, those idiot Liberals are going to come face to face with that reality. I don’t think they are going to like being tossed over the wall, when the rubber hits the road!
Well, Alphonse, you really need to go to Iran, then, where you sure won’t have to put up for one single minute with being bothered by all that propaganda.
It’s important for you to know your true niche in life!
Wondering if she is also hyperventillating and swooning over the fantasy of letting him personally chop her head off for all her crimes against Allah. I’m sure the supreme thrill for her would be in knowing the camera is rolling and she is fully conscious as it happens, with none of that brutal American torture of the painful shots of painkillers.
Alphonse:
The exact same thing could be said when liberals tout the UnFairness Doctrine or shut down conservative speakers - what are they afraid of? Hearing the truth? Losing liberals to conservative thinking?
The difference is Ahmadinejad is a nutcase - a terrorist supporting, jihad loving, homosexual killing, woman oppressing, Holocaust denying, Israel hating danger.
How can you not see that? And how the HELL do you think “Zionist propaganda” is taught at Columbia or any institution of higher-learning in America? Where’s your proof?
We, meanwhile, have ample evidence that Ahmadinejad is dangerous and a blight on his own country and Western civilization.
All that is left to make the capitulation of the west complete is for Al Sadr to give a commencement address at harvard. It is coming.
What concerns me more than what’s been discussed is;
How do we know he is not here to spy on specific locations for terrorist plots?
This whole situation is insane and psychopatic.
That should be psychopathic…sorry.
According to PJ Media, the authorities broke up a demonstration this morning near Ground Zero and at the subway stop that would have prevented Ahmadinejad from visiting the site.
Why is this relevant? According to the Iranian foreign minister, the terrorist’s visit to Ground Zero is still on.
Unbelievable.
Ombre Rose…
If they did that, I would personally buy their plane tickets and pay for their hotel rooms. Alas, I doubt this will not happen in my lifetime
Thanks to all who served in our military. May God bless you all. I love you.
Alphonse…
Please go to Iran and report back to us in a few years how things went. Looking forward to your report if you’re still alive by then
Swj…
Ft. Riley, ah!! The home of my beloved Rig Red One. America’s finest.
Go get ‘em, Michelle. This has proven to me that Michael Savage is correct…the left does have a mental disorder.
In a word, no.
Because there are some dangerous ideologies that deserve a platform but all the above are just beyond the pale and CANNOT be tolerated.
Five bucks says no one disrupts Ahmadinejad’s speech or throws food at him, which would/has happened to the above whenever they’ve tried to speak on a college campus.
Once again, the left subliminally shows its desire to repeal the First Amendment in its entirety.
This morning, the real truth finally came out. In a Fox News interview with former ambassador Marc Ginsburg, much more intricate details were revealed about why Columbia University would invite that despicable I’m in a jihad president of Iran and give a terrorist like him a platform to spew more of his lies and dangerous, hateful rhetoric.
Former Ambassador Marc Ginsberg appeared on Fox News today, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. I am currently actively looking for the op-ed piece that he mentioned during the interview in which he wrote about the formidable relationship between a Columbia U. alumnus (I think) and another “person” who has a long history of ties with Iran.
With the threat that Iran is gaining nuclear weapons; the regular pronouncements of the Iranian Madman who wishes to “wipe Israel off the map” and incites crowds in his country to chant “death to America.” it is beyond belief that an American university would even want such a creep to appear on campus.
I have so many questions! When Mr. Ginsberg shared the details of the “connections” during his appearance on Fox News, it was then that I realized how much more details need to come out about the Columbia U. president’s decision to host the Iranian madman. I wondered, what could possibly be the reason that this CU president would go through with this, despite all the protests of so many Americans?
I predict that when Mr. Ginsberg’s informative article is widely shared (hopefully the MSM will get their heads out of the sand and report it!), many U.S. citizens (except, of course, the Kos kidz) will be led to wonder why aren’t American traitors like these being investigated?
I just knew that there had to be more to this story than what the MSM was reporting.
I tuned in to the interview session a bit to late to write down where the essay was printed/posted, or any of the names and exact details. But when I find either a link to the Fox video or a link to Mr. Ginsberg’s essay, I will post it here.
Any readers here who locate the essay, please post a link here or in the comment section at my Talkwisdom blog. Thanks.
Yesterday and this morning Mahmoud Amadinejad is repeating DEMOCRAT talking points. They must be proud of him. He repeats what the democrats say on the senate floor. He sounds just like Ted Kennedy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never in my life thought a Republican administration would welcome every criminal alien they could find into this country…
Even life-long Democrats must be wondering why their party has the same talking points as Mahmoud and Osama.
Thirty-five protestors defended Ground Zero today. That’s all?!?!? Thirty-five!?!?!?! And that looks to be about the same number of protestors at Columbia, too.
What a pathetic show of force. I’m so disappointed with my fellow Americans today.
I wonder how much sympathetic “free speech” demands would come from the press if David Duke or a KKK Grand Dragon asked to speak at Howard U, or if a NAMBLA rep asked to speak at NYU. The myopic innocence of Columbia and liberal types fails to see how this visit plays in the Muslim world; Mahmoud bravely struts into the jaws of the devil and craps in it and leaves, grinning between the spit. This is a PR coup for him that can only prop his stature and enlist more fanatic recruits, all because a U.S. university doesn’t know the difference between free speech and declining to provide a stage to crap on you and your family (a’la nuke promises) with its tacit endorsement. Mahmond just got a new excuse for his proxies to nuke us; stupidity doesn’t deserve to survive.
And no, when he gets that nuke, I think all those bold pro-Western leaners in Iran will very quickly turn quiet as a dormouse. Can you spell Kurds under Sadaam?
James Greenidge
Queens NY
If I ran the Fire fighters union, they’d all be there, blocking the streets….
The Columbia intelligencia. I know the type very well.
They are quick to wrap themselves in the cloak of Freedom of Expression, woven from the fine threads of liberty.
With cavalier disregard, they staunch all discussion concerning the source of that liberty which so comfortably protects them from the chill of criticism and tyranny.
They will not hear of the fact that each thread on their comfortable cloak represents a life of a patriot who gave all to secure their comfort and to protect them from the harsh elements of spawned by despots and tyrants.
They themselves would never risk securing that in which they take daily comfort. That risk is for those they deem less enlightened to take on their behalf. And if ever challenged as to why they would not toil in the fields of freedom to reap the harvest of liberty, they wrap themselves in the First Amendment decrying the manner of the toil and the harvest.
They are the the cowardly users of the Country. They take, enjoy and abuse what had been secured for them by the blood and sacrifice of others.
Our detractors who envy and detest our freedoms because it hampers their tyrannical and despotic goals, know well of these people. They are the fuel for the fires such tyrants and despots can ignite to create the smoke that covers the trail of domination and repression. The cowardice of the users is the tinder for a conflaguration that will clear freedom and liberty from the land to allow a new harvest of oppression and enslavement to the whims of the dictator.
Intellectual freedom? Enlightened thought? I think not. Their words are merely a boisterous cover for cowardice, sedition and treason.
It is all quiet on the SF front, neither SFGATE nor the Chronical have even a Whisper about the little-man’s visit or protests against in their “Headlines and Front Page Stories”
http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
(However, the breaking news is concerns that their are fewer Gay Charachters on TV now)
But, buried in the politics section we have this little love letter from the AP staff writer named NAHAL TOOSI, with the article heading…
sfgate.com//cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/24/national/a100401D10.DTL&type=politics
Absolute BS.
Just checking back and just saw the quote from Dean Hubbard of the Columbia School of Business-thank God there are some reasonable people at the school but unfortunately not enough. Caught the first few seconds when Bollinger was yapping about any pain this nutjobs visit may have inflicted. I would be livid if I was a family member who had lost someone in Iraq at the outright condescension of this clown. Hell, I’m outraged just as an American but he really thinks this all wipes everything off that is wrong with this picture. Bollinger’s questions have all the requiste outrage but don’t feel the true sense of outrage coming from him. Just my opinion though
I guess one reason there may not be a lot of protestors is because most of us have to work and unlike the great unwashed that show up at every protest, we have jobs and just can’t leave at the drop of a hat. I would love to be up there but can’t, we don’t have Soros bankrolling us.
I didn’t catch all the intro, but it sounded fairly fawning, and now he’s begun to speak and the audience is APPLAUDING him??!!!
What a freaking idiot.
They’re clapping for his little mistake. Would anyone be surprised if this guy doesn’t get a standing O when this is done?
I wonder if there are any of Amadinejad’s goons are in the with the protest crowd? I would wager there are a few floating around…
Zorro, I don’t know if technically his goons are there but it sure seems like there are 600 goons who sit in that auditorium who are cheering him like Pavlov’s dogs.
Katycue, Bollinger’s introduction was anything but fawning. He was, I say reluctantly, awesome!
Coffee260, I respectfully disagree with you. I felt it was condescending and while the words were right, the outrage was not.
WTF? So those few who did show up at today’s protests are the great unwashed now? Also: “drop of a hat”? MM has been trumpeting this for a week now. It’s disappointing to realize that so few heard her call.
I saw only the end of the Columbia President’s speach, but from what I saw, he was BRILLIANT!
pennity, you don’t get it do you? I was talking about the great unwashed who show up at all the anti-war marches who are clueless but are there for the good time. If you saw what you think you saw, you are greatly mistaken. Obvously you saw what you wanted to see. I said, that many would like to be there in support of those who are there but unlike the great unwashed who are supported by Soros, we don’t live in the area and it’s difficult to leave a job. So WTF back to you?
(finger down the back of my throat watching that weasel on TV)
gayle, you need you’re finger. lol… i know u dont.
The introduction by Bollinger was well short of awesome. It was appeasement of those of us who objected to the invitation in the first place. He even said at the end of his intro that he did not expect the Idiot to even answer the quesions he posed.
Applause during the Idiot’s statement. Appalling!!!
Ambassador Ginsberg has called it right. There are ulterior motives at play and I hope they eventually work their way to the surface.
This guy has perfected circular logic and knows how to deliver it. This was a waste of time just like I thought it would be.
OMG! Liar!
TrinityTim,Coffee, etc., maybe I’m a bit biased. Spoke with a family who lost their son in Iraq to an IED over the weekend. They are very upset, upset beyond words that their son was probably killed by an IED courtesy of Iran, is allowed to speak and that those who disagree are being shut down as anti-free speech types who live in an echo chamber.
Who the hell is applauding this guy?
The applause is disgusting.
Interesting that he keeps projecting though, lecturing, insulting, nagging, accusing “some selfish superpowe” of bad acts of which he himself is guilty.
I just can’t watch anymore. Ahmadinejad stands up there lying through his teeth and he gets a round of applause from the Columbia moonbats. Asked a simple no or yes question about Isarel, he goes off on a rant about Palestinians, never answers the question and they applaud. I wonder if being anti-American was a prerequisite to attend this little lovein for yet another despot that the left loves so dearly.
Columbia won’t let the military on campus, but gush over someone who kills our soldiers. They can scream all they want about freedom of speech, but they are not patriots. Some things are just not right.
9/11 was our fault according to the man in the bad fitting suit.
terrig.. I’m with you 1000% I think having this idiot speak at CU is an outrage. I hope I didn’t mislead you.
I ride with the Patriot Guardin the Carolinas and so far, I’ve been to more than 20 funerals of our soldiers and marines killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. I’m also a Vietnam Vet who served with the 1st ID, had my own experience with IED’s, back then we called them mines.
God bless our military! God bless America!
Give my love and condolences to your friends who lost their son.
Good lord.
Then his little parade those were all dud’s? and the signage?
Drudge is quoting Ahmadinejad as saying
Could that be because you kill anyone who’s openly homosexual, you lying bag of scum?
This really is a sickening display of political correctness run amok.
Someone either in this thread or another asked if Ahmadinejad was doing surveillance work for a future terror strike. No…he’s just checking out the nation he’ll be president of if the liberal moonbats have their way.
Well, he might want to talk, but i sure don’t. He’s a liar, plain and simple.
Dump him.
Do the people applauding actually buy this drivel?
So now he’s thanking them, inviting them to Iran and the crowd goes wild!
My question too, aj. Who are those people? IMO, there should be silence or booing after every lie he tells.
I just can’t get over the general reception - laughter, applause… rambling Q/A responses. Guess I wanted to see him shouted off the stage…
The translator cant keep a straight face.
few boo’s disgusting.
They like him….they really like him….
Now somebody go up and kick his a**.
lol katie!
Did they give him a standing o?
BNS (Blaise’s News Service) New York
Iranian President Ahmad Ahmadinejad was harshly criticized by Columbia University President Lee Bollinger during his introduction. Bollinger pointed out that Ahmadinejad showed signs of being a “brutal, petty dictator”, had limited speech and women’s rights and had demonstrated either either provocation or collosal ignorance in his denial of the Holocaust.
Bollinger then went on to say “Your presence here defiles this place, its place in history and the sacrifices of the alumni that have built Columbia’s reputation. I cannot believe that anyone allowed such an ignoramus , particularly an anti-semitic one such as yourself, to speak at this illustrious institution under the guise of providing a worthwhile alternative viewpoint. Your collosal ignorance belies such an excuse and demonstrates that your appearance has no intellectual value whatever. I denounce whoever permitted you to appear and call for his resignation.”
Bollinger then concluded his remarks with the comment “Ooops”
If only……..
TrinityTim, no, I don’t think I was mislead and perhaps it wasn’t that bad but I did disagree with a few of you and I guess I wanted to tell you all why. I just didn’t hear the “fire in the belly”, just the words. But again, I know that it’s my bias.
I gotta hand it to the Dean. He really let little Hitler have it in his opening remarks. The little worm hasn’t answered a direct question yet. Maybe this was a good thing afterall. Now, at least the Liberals can see this guy for what he is and maybe our government and military might get a little more respect from them.
I don’t think that the applause was for Amadinejad as he began his remarks by critizing the Dean. I think it was for the Dean.
Lurkin over at Kos it seems pretty slow. I suspect they’re all over at CU getting wood. Seriously…check it out!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/24/1382/99801
I really wish I could be there to protest. I have never protested in my life, but recently, between the troops and this kind of thing, I would love to be out there holding up the signs and our flag.
I am beyond outraged it is a damn good think CU is on the other side of the country otherwise I would forget my military trained discipline and go on my own search and destroy mission. My blood pressure has been up since I heard Aminthemoodforjihad was getting this opportunity to be legitimized by the useful idiots in academia. I guess they missed the stories from Iran about hanging dissidents with construction cranes so the entire city could see them swinging in the breeze.
I am with Duncan Hunter this so called institution of learning needs to loose all federal funding. I do not want one penny of any hardworking Americans forced contributions of taxes to be distributed to this terrorist enabling institution. Too many GIs have been murdered by this regime to allow any of its officials on our shores. It is time for the UN to move to the Hague, let the EU pay for it.
What a lying SOB (but the president’s introduction was a surprise.) My flesh and blood is in Iraq for the 2nd time. For his sake and for all our troops, I hope this maniac has revealed his true evil self to the world. He needn’t go any further than Ann Frank’s museum in Amsterdam for proof of the holocaust.
Did anyone else just catch what Ahmadinejad just said in regards to the war with Iraq?
He just went on for over a minute on how Iraq routinely used chemical weapons against the people of Iran.
Of course, chemical weapons are considered “weapons of mass destruction.”
Guess there were WMDs after-all.
I thought the President’s introduction went for the throat directly from his heart. I was shocked, and pleasantly surprised.
The reaction of the students during the speech, however, was probably as expected..young, impressionable; they just don’t get it.
IMO, the Dean, who claimed to be surprised at the opposition to this event, only did such a thing to CYA. My anger is not appeased, but at least the bastard didn’t get off scott free. However, I am sure all the applause makes Amadinejad feel he is getting through to the American people. He is so misunderstood.
I wonder how this will be spun in Iran when the little liar gets home?
Not sure what to think about the intro now - I didn’t hear much, but it sounds as if he tr