I definitely have more important things on my mind at the moment, but I note with interest the primative midget’s arrival in the US and speech at Columbia University.
From what I am reading, he received a hostile reception from Columbia President Lee Bollinger – the man who allowed this vermin the forum to spew forth his bile in the first place. Unfortunately, it seems like he has received a very different kind of reception from the audience.
Iran’s controversial president received a rough reception from Columbia University’s president today but got a rousing round of applause from the audience when he chided school officials for their “unfriendly treatment.”
“In a university environment we must allow people to make up their own mind,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, speaking in Farsi while a translator relayed his comments. The audience clapped loudly.
Ahmadinejad took the stage after Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger, took him to task for Iran’s record on human rights, its nuclear program, its alleged arming of Iraqi militias and its treatment of Iranian-American scholars. Bollinger also demanded to know why Ahmadinejad denied the Holocaust and why he has vowed to “wipe Israel off the map.”
“You exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,” Bollinger declared.
“Frankly, and in all candor, Mr. President, I doubt that you will have the intellectual courage to answer these questions,” Bollinger said.
Taking the stage, Ahmadinejad said he was taken aback that the Columbia president would attack his speech before he had even delivered it.
“In many parts of his speech there were many insults and claims that were incorrect,” Ahmadinejad said.
If this is the future of America, then G-d help you.
Update: Charles received this mail from a Columbia student who attended the speech:
I was in the audience today, and it is completely unfair to characterize the students in the audience as all having clapped for him. [Actually, I didn’t do that. – ed.] We didn’t. The applause you heard was from about 20-30 students (in the back, nearest to the cameras) out of an audience of over 600. Rest assured that 99.9% of Columbia students are absolutely disgusted by this thug, and we’re glad he made himself look even more insane. It’s important for people to understand how truly nuts he is.
