Ahmadinejad at Columbia - where's the love for the non-moonbat speakers?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by hapaboy, Sep 24, 2007.

  1. Frankly your constant, baseless and premature victory laps don't impress anyone, we've seen it all before, they merely demonstrate your insecurity, immaturity and a complete lack of class.
     
    #161     Oct 2, 2007
  2. Tase Him Bro!

    By Ann Coulter
    Wednesday, September 26, 2007

    Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question -- unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" is surely no more frightening than "B. Hussein Obama."

    And liberals agree with Ahmadinejad on the issues! We know that because he was invited by an American university to speak on campus.

    Contrary to all the blather about "free speech" surrounding Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia, universities in America do not invite speakers who do not perfectly mirror the political views of their America-hating faculties. Rather, they aggressively censor differing viewpoints and permit only a narrow category of speech on their campuses. Ask Larry Summers.

    If a university invites someone to speak, you know the faculty agrees with the speaker. Maybe not the entire faculty. Some Columbia professors probably consider Ahmadinejad too moderate on Israel.

    Columbia president Lee Bollinger claimed the Ahmadinejad invitation is in keeping with "Columbia's long-standing tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate."

    Except Columbia doesn't have that tradition. This is worse than saying "the dog ate my homework." It's like saying "the dog ate my homework" when you're Michael Vick and everyone knows you've killed your dog.

    Columbia's "tradition" is to shut down any speakers who fall outside the teeny, tiny seditious perspective of its professors.

    When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

    Imbued with Bollinger's commitment to free speech, Columbia junior Ryan Fukumori said of the Minutemen: "They have no right to be able to speak here."

    Needless to say -- unlike Ahmadinejad -- the university had not invited the Minutemen. Most colleges and universities wouldn't buy a cup of coffee for a conservative speaker.

    Fees for speakers who do not hate America are raised from College Republican fundraisers and contributions from patriotic alumni and locals who think students ought to hear at least one alternative viewpoint in four years of college.

    And then college administrators turn a blind eye when liberal apple-polishers and suck-ups shut down the speech or physically attack the speaker.

    Bollinger refused to punish the students who stormed the stage and violently ended the Minutemen's speech.

    So the one thing we know absolutely is that Bollinger did not allow Ahmadinejad to speak out of respect for "free speech" because Bollinger does not respect free speech.

    Only because normal, patriotic Americans were appalled by Columbia's invitation of Ahmadinejad to speak was Bollinger forced into the ridiculous position of denouncing Ahmadinejad when introducing him.

    Then why did you invite him?

    And by the way, I'll take a denunciation if college presidents would show up at my speeches and drone on for 10 minutes about "free speech" before I begin.

    At Syracuse University last year, when liberal hecklers tried to shut down a speech by a popular conservative author of (almost!) six books, College Republicans began to remove the hecklers. But Dean of Students Roy Baker blocked them from removing students disrupting the speech on the grounds that removing students screaming during a speech would violate the hecklers' "free speech." They had a "free speech" right to prevent anyone from hearing a conservative's free speech.

    That's what colleges mean by "free speech." (And by the way, my fingers are getting exhausted from making air quotes every time I use the expression "free speech" in relation to a college campus.)

    "Tolerance of opposing views" means we have to listen to their anti-American views, but they don't have to hear our pro-American views. (In Washington, they call this "the Fairness Doctrine.")

    Liberals are never called upon to tolerate anything they don't already adore, such as treason, pornography and heresy. In fact, those will often get you course credit.

    At Ahmadinejad's speech, every vicious anti-Western civilization remark was cheered wildly. It was like watching an episode of HBO'S "Real Time With Bill Maher."

    Ahmadinejad complained that the U.S. and a few other "monopolistic powers, selfish powers" were trying to deny Iranians their "right" to develop nukes.

    Wild applause.

    Ahmadinejad repeatedly refused to answer whether he seeks the destruction of the state of Israel.

    Wild applause.

    He accused the U.S. of supporting terrorism.

    Wild applause.

    Only when Ahmadinejad failed to endorse sodomy did he receive the single incident of booing throughout his speech.

    Responding to a question about Iran's execution of homosexuals, Ahmadinejad said there are no homosexuals in Iran: "In Iran we don't have homosexuals, like in your country. In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have it."

    I already knew that from looking at his outfit. If liberals want to run this guy for president, they better get him to "Queer Eye for the Islamofascist Guy."
     
    #162     Oct 2, 2007
  3. a typical terrorist sympathizer, extremist, and hater of the constitution.

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    #163     Oct 2, 2007
  4. Rofl, "the seeds of "obfuscation", says mancoulter devotee.

    The only surprising thing, is the evident lack of understanding of the principle of diplomacy. Speaking to enemies;even "peace talks" have been known to occur, when strangely, governments just love halting "diplomatic relations" with supposed enemies, they seriously think the opponent nation gives a shit?
    Hell no, its "obfuscation" for the public.

    "We have cut diplomatic relations with this regime",

    translation, "our corporations and mercenaries are now free to act outside normal protocols or ethics, we dont want to hold the bag on this one, thanks, we cant be seen to be officially involved, we officially disapprove."

    Coulter is a parasite. Why doesn't he/she travel there, and get the conservative lowdown, if nobody wants to hear from fellows like the president of iran domestically?
    Iran is very friendly to transsexuals, i gather. Bizarrely, the ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on it, sex change operations are ok with islam.

    Does it get weirder?
     
    #164     Oct 2, 2007
  5. Yeah, I'm sure Coulter would be welcomed in Tehran, as long as she wore a chador and didn't happen to do something untoward in public, such as kiss her boyfriend or something, for which she might be stoned for impropriety....

    You may have no problems with allowing a tyrant such as Ahmadinejad to visit and speak his bullshit at our colleges, but that's no surprise as you are among the multitudes of lefties who see no harm in such visits as long as those visiting tyrants rail against the very country of which they are a guest and spew lies and invective against certain ethnicities. But invite someone like Coulter on campus?!? Good God, no!!

    Coulter's article is dead-on. Truth hurts, huh Ac?
     
    #165     Oct 3, 2007
  6. Mahmoudapalooza: The Good, the Bad and the Craven

    By Michelle Malkin
    Wednesday, September 26, 2007

    When my children are grown, I can tell them where I was when bloodthirsty Iranian thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dared to disgrace Columbia University with his presence. I was standing with Jewish leaders, Iranian-American dissidents, World War II veterans and other concerned citizens, young and old, taking a stand against evil outside the campus gates.

    Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, an Iranian-born activist whose dissident journalist father is jailed in her homeland, was appalled at the ignorance and moral equivalence of the leftists who paraded in front of the TV cameras with their Bush-is-a-terrorist paraphernalia. A few goons held a large banner that read: "Ahmadinejad is bad. Bush is worse."

    "It's not always about Bush," Zand-Bonazzi exclaimed after schooling the Ahmadinejad apologists and pointing out fellow Iranian protesters holding signs memorializing persecuted and executed countrymen. The ANSWER mobsters, she fumed, "have their history wrong. They don't see the greater threat. They don't get it."

    Rabbi Avi Weiss, a Jewish Orthodox leader from the Bronx, gets it. Standing amid a small but sturdy sea of "Hitler lives" and "Never forget" placards, Rabbi Weiss told me: "The First Amendment means you have the right to invite in the arch-terrorists of the world. It doesn't mean that you are obligated to do so -- especially when this whole visit was initiated by the Iranian mission, and Iranian missions around the world are known to have fomented and orchestrated in the communities where they are." Instead of being feted, Rabbi Weiss said, "this man, who is responsible for contributing to the killing of American troops in Iraq, should be served with papers and hauled into court."

    Several anti-Ahmadinejad protesters expressed disappointment that a larger crowd had not turned out in New York City. I concur. Ahmadinejad's nuclear ambitions, Mahdi devotion, Jew hatred, Holocaust denial, human rights repression and American troop-murdering machinery threaten us all. Not just Jews. Not just persecuted Persian activists. Not just military families.

    Immediately before landing in the Big Apple, the Iranian madman was grandmaster of a military parade in Tehran punctuated with "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" posters. Newsflash: It's not an either/or death wish.

    Lost in the debate over the Columbia "debate" are the jumbo-sized jihadi dots connecting Iran to global Islamic terrorism, including 9/11. The 9/11 Commission Report stated in a section on Iran and the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that "the evidence of Iranian involvement is strong."

    On Iran and al Qaeda partnerships, the report concluded, "there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were future 9/11 hijackers. There also is circumstantial evidence that senior Hezbollah operatives were closely tracking the travel of some of these future muscle hijackers into Iran in November 2000."

    The report said of Iran training al Qaeda that "In late 1991 or 1992, discussions in Sudan between al Qaeda and Iranian operatives led to an informal agreement to cooperate in providing support -- even if only training -- for actions carried out primarily against Israel and the United States. Not long afterward, senior al Qaeda operatives and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives . . . The relationship between al Qaeda and Iran demonstrated that Sunni-Shia divisions did not necessarily pose an insurmountable barrier to cooperation in terrorist operations."

    You won't be surprised, then, to learn that the weekend before Mahmoud arrived at Columbia, foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia met to "stress the need for unity among world Muslims, and called for vigilance in the face of plots hatched by enemies to sow discord among the Shiite and Sunnite Muslims." No, it didn't come up in the "debate."

    On my train ride home from Mahmoudapalooza, I spoke briefly with a Columbia University grad steeped in the Ivy League haze of non-judgment. She was upset and embarrassed -- not by Columbia president Lee Bollinger's bone-headed decision to legitimize Ahmadinejad at its World Leaders Forum. No, she was mortified that Bollinger had delivered his face-saving introduction challenging Ahmadinejad.

    With childlike naivete, this Columbia alum told me: "I'm frightened by the polarity." Which about sums up the majority view of academia and the Ahmadinejad excusers on the left: They are more afraid of standing up and calling out evil than losing the West, their country and their own lives to it.
     
    #166     Oct 3, 2007
  7. DaveCT

    DaveCT

    Why are you guys even debating this nut DrEvil? A fricking CTer!!!!! :confused: :eek: :D
     
    #167     Oct 3, 2007
  8. DrEvil

    DrEvil

    Very recently joined I see. Would you be Haroki, Hapaboy, dddodo or some other disgruntled psycho?

    How sad ...
     
    #168     Oct 3, 2007
  9. DaveCT

    DaveCT

    Yes, I joined recently to post about someone passing bad info. If you didn't kill off all your brain cells thinking up all these conspiracies, you would've checked my past posts and found out I'm just another guy that just found your kooky posts.
     
    #169     Oct 3, 2007
  10. DrEvil

    DrEvil

    Yep just another guy who joined last week. Oh yeah no way you could be Haroki, dddodo or Hapaboy. I shouldn't laugh at you, but it's not everyday you come across such a cretin.

    Welcome to ET brainiac.
     
    #170     Oct 3, 2007