Comments on: Video: Bollinger’s rebuke to a “petty and cruel dictator”; Update: Students cheer Ahmadinejad’s rebuke to Bollinger

By: Islamofascism Awareness Week October 22-26

Islamofascism Awareness Week October 22-26 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:45:27 +0000

[...] is your Dean of Students… Now, pay attention or I’ll chew you out like a visiting Iranian President at Columbia [...]

By: Rugged Individual

Rugged Individual — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:47:22 +0000

Excellent point, BD… I’ve been saying the same thing to everybody I know and the Left-leaning of us don’t shy away from the accusation that they see Bush and Republicans, in general, just the way you described it. In fact, they usually admit it eagerly. The simple fact that they see no difference between Bush and the Mulah-animated puppet president is all one needs to learn in order to come to the conclusion that Liberals are completely devoid od any sense of reality regarding most important issues and perhaps even the most basic of matters as well.

By: Grammar Islamo-fascist « docweaselblahg

Grammar Islamo-fascist « docweaselblahg — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:53:19 +0000

[...] HotAir has a video of the entire fiasco, if you can stomach it. [...]

By: Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin » “Both Barrels”

Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin » “Both Barrels” — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:07:29 +0000

[...] characterized Bollinger’s description of Ahmadinejad as a “petty and cruel dictator” as the “money line.” It’s not. I am frankly stunned at the words President [...]

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:17:48 +0000

Bollinger is incredibly arrogant and dare I say, “offensive”.

Right out of the box he begin saying, We at this university have not been shy to protest and challenge the failures of our own government to live by these values.

It is one thing to say that vital issues should be debated; It is quite an other for Bollinger to decide for the rest of what defines “failure”.

Keep in mind that when Bollinger says that Ahmadinijead is “astonishingly uneducated” he feels the same way about Bush and Republicans.

We’re just a bunch of ignorant yahoos, dontcha know.

By: Tel-Chai Nation

Tel-Chai Nation — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:24:24 +0000

Lee Bollinger is a disgrace…

Did he go through with his allowing Ahmedinejad to use Columbia as a platform for his obscenities? Tragically, yes….

By: Holy Shiite! Mahmoud Say It Ain't So! | Stuck On Stupid

Holy Shiite! Mahmoud Say It Ain't So! | Stuck On Stupid — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:54:24 +0000

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By: Tuari

Tuari — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:44:27 +0000

You know, at this point, I’m up to believing that the libs and Columbia student’s brains were eaten by zombies, aliens removed them at night while they slept, or they were born with out any biological brains and are surviving by some Clinton funded nano-technology black project. Otherwise, I don’t know what else to believe that might explain them. Reality, rationality, and logic no longer apply anymore.

By: Milestones

Milestones — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:24:32 +0000

Ganz großes Kino…

So, das war er also, mein Tag in der Geschichte. In ein paar Jahren werde ich meinen noch zu kriegenden Kindern sagen können: Ich war dabei, damals, ich hab es gesehen. Man wird Schulen nach mir benennen. Der geneigte Leser wird sich nun fragen, “hat…

By: Apologize? Like Hell. : The Sundries Shack

Apologize? Like Hell. : The Sundries Shack — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:15:11 +0000

[...] Bollinger stood on the stage with Mad Mahmoud and gave him a really stern scolding, which is supposed to make it AOK that he had the murderous little twit as a guest of his [...]

By: T J Green

T J Green — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:37:37 +0000

Bollinger had no business playing “State Department” in this fashion. He neither represents nor speaks for Americans at large, and inviting Little Big Man to a televised verbal spanking was just a gutless stunt that accomplished nothing.

No one but the President and his State Department should speak on our behalf. Unfortunately, POTUS went AWOL and the void was filled.

By: davod

davod — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:51:11 +0000

The free speech proponents forget that the ratbag doesn’t give a rats what we say or do in the US. His words, and where he spoke, will be broadcast around the world as a good thing for Isalm. The Dhimmis welcome the prophet’s servant.

By: MB4

MB4 — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:42:39 +0000

Monday, Sep. 24, 2007
Why Iran’s Ahmadinejad Loves New York
By Tony Karon

The Cheshire Cat smile worn by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his address at Columbia University on Monday was no surprise — the event was a resounding victory for the Iranian president. Of course, students and faculty in the hall jeered many of his comments, while protestors outside denounced him as the new Hitler. And Columbia University president Lee Bollinger — clearly stung by criticism of the institution for hosting Ahmadinejad — used his introduction to excoriate the Iranian leader as everything from a “cruel and petty dictator” to “astonishingly uneducated.” But all of this was merely grist for Ahmadinejad. The furor it had created ensured that what might have passed as a relatively obscure address in a small Ivy League auditorium turned into a national media event, in which the Iranian president had the microphone, unmolested, for the best part of an hour.

New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, had criticized Columbia for hosting Ahmadinejad, warning that “All he will do on that stage … is spew more hatred and more venom out there to the world.” Not quite. Despite the harsh words of his host, Bollinger, Ahmadinejad stayed on message, appearing relaxed, reasonable, open, even charismatic. Whether or not American TV audiences are seduced is beside the point, because Ahmadinejad’s primary audience is not American. The provocations of his New York visit are an integral part of his domestic political strategy, which depends on his ability to hold America’s national attention with an unapologetically nationalist message about Iran’s nuclear rights, lecturing them about God and their aim to run the world.

It was pure political ju-jitsu, using the momentum of your adversaries to your own advantage. The protestors got him on TV, and he used the platform to grandstand for the folks back home. He will share an even bigger global platform with President Bush on Tuesday, at the lectern of the U.N. General Assembly. The two men won’t appear together, of course, but each is making a pitch for international support in the showdown over Iran’s nuclear issue. But Ahmedinajad appeared to steal a march on Bush Monday by virtue of his televised propaganda show at Columbia.

Challenged on his statements questioning the Holocaust, for example, Ahmadinejad cleverly turned the issue around, asking, “Why is it that the Palestinian people are paying the price for an event they had nothing to do with?” That argument may not get much sympathy with an American audience, but championing the Palestinian cause helps Iran’s strategy of undermining the moderate Arab regimes allied with Washington.

Ahmadinejad’s primary audience, however, is in Iran, because — despite Bollinger’s assertion that he is a dictator — the Iranian president faces reelection in 2009. As things stand, his failure to deliver on the economic promises he made in his first campaign and the deterioration of Iran’s global position puts him at substantial risk of losing to the more pragmatic elements in the Iranian leadership, who are already campaigning against him. Playing the nuclear card as an expression of Iranian national pride has always been part of his domestic political game, and the breathless television coverage his visit has prompted in the U.S. won’t do his domestic prospects any harm.

By: davod

davod — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:42:38 +0000

Note that they masked out the name of the venue (Hattip to Michael Savage’s radio show). Are they ashamed to be associated with their own program.

I also read somewhere that the Iranians released from prison someone from Columbia about two weeks ago (blackmail anyone).

By: The Amboy Times

The Amboy Times — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:27:50 +0000

Columbia Prof Bashes Ahmadinejad…

What pleasant surprise. Frankly, I’m relieved that Prof Bollinger hands Ahmadinejad his hatred on a silver platter. The Prof slices and dices and makes mounds and mounds of evidence that Ahmadinejad is a petty and cruel dictator I still think…

By: deepdiver

deepdiver — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:24:04 +0000

It’s ~~becoming~~ painfully obvious that this country will deserve whatever it gets.

Griz on September 24, 2007 at 7:56 PM

Being that 9/11 didn’t wake up the sheep, I fear we are in for a painful, protracted fight for survival.

By: Griz

Griz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:56:53 +0000

It’s becoming painfully obvious that this country will deserve whatever it gets.

By: Griz

Griz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:55:18 +0000

America, land of the free… home of the retarded.

By: Irenaeus

Irenaeus — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:30:20 +0000

In regards to Ahmadinejad reading from the Koran I would have thought that all that talk about a Deity would upset Columbia more then anything. I would like to see a Christian there be able to recite from the Bible.

By: I’m A Pundit Too » Blog Archive » Because you Can Never Get Enough Mahmoud Imanutjob

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:25:23 +0000

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By: Coming to America: Assmad Arriveth | Hashmonean.com | Israel vs The Global Jihad

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:18:48 +0000

[...] HotAir video of the intro to Assmad’s speech at Columbia by the University President, who promised to be harsh & critical of the honored guest.. Plus [...]

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:14:33 +0000

Absolutely correct. I’ve spent a little time on the C&L comments today challenging this very nuanced blind spot. Effing fools, all of them. Their hatred of Bush overrides every bit of common sense they have. Their response? “What, you want to start a war to save the gays?” Brilliant.
I usually try my damnedest to find common ground, but I can honestly say I’m completely disgusted with their ignorance on this.

SouthernDem on September 24, 2007 at 6:40 PM

Actually, that might be one thing you could get these libs behind a war for.

Charles Krauthammer made a great point on Special Report… the students didn’t boo Ahmadinejads attacks on Bush, the United States, Israel, etc… but when he said gays don’t exist, the crowd just wouldn’t stand for it. It’s so true, attack Christians, Jews, Republicans, the military, the United States, traditionalism… but don’t you dare talk bad about the gays!

By: doriangrey

doriangrey — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:05:31 +0000

Hang the CSMF and send everyone who applauded him to Iran.

Air drop should do. (Parachutes optional)

ticticboom on September 24, 2007 at 7:02 PM

Nope, Parachutes are way to expensive to waste like that.

By: ticticboom

ticticboom — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:02:21 +0000

Hang the CSMF and send everyone who applauded him to Iran.

Air drop should do. (Parachutes optional)

By: SouthernDem

SouthernDem — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:59:45 +0000

doriangrey on September 24, 2007 at 6:52 PM

I know, at this point I’m just deluding myself.