Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Visits Columbia
The President of Iran went to Columbia University today. The event was a tragedy of democracy. A left-wing, radical university gave voice to a madman, allowing him to spew anti-Semitic and homophobic filth across the national airwaves. President Lee Bollinger has granted the head of a state-sponsor of terror a platform from which to legitimize himself while attacking the West.
Well, not quite. For one, as much as the country is blaming Columbia for allowing Ahmadinejad to speak, it was the national networks that gave him voice by airing his speech live in its entirety. Nevertheless, our media has humiliated us in the name of the 1st Amendment. Only a few sane voices prevailed, like Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is calling for a withdrawal of federal funding from the school (albeit by torturing a law that allows the government to remove funding if schools do not allow military recruitment on campus).
Except, Columbia is the only party who doesn’t appear foolish. Ahmadinejad surely does; his incoherent rambling was punctuated only by soundbites like: “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.” And the pundits and politicians look no less silly; they placed themselves in the position of defending both claims that Mahmoud is a fool and that letting him speak somehow empowers his inanity.
