There has been some bitching on FSP about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s invitation to speak at Columbia University. Considering that the president of the University, Lee Bollinger, verbally bitch-slapped President Ahmadinejad into the previous century (5th century, but Iranian standards), I wonder how much the FSPers will be crying now.
University President Lee Bollinger said:
”Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,” Bollinger said to applause from many of the 600 people in the room for a speech from the Iranian leader.
He cited the Iranian government’s “brutal crackdown” on dissidents, public executions, executions of minors and other actions.
And Bollinger assailed Ahmadinejad’s “denying” of the Holocaust as “ridiculous” and “dangerous propaganda.” He called the Iranian leader either brazenly provocative “or astonishingly uneducated.”
“The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history,” he said.
He said he doubted Ahmadinejad would show the intellectual courage to answer the questions before him.
The better part of me thinks it’s good that the students at Columbia will get to hear this man speak. The meaner side thinks it’s uproariously funny that the university President had the nuts to swing first! I hereby invite President Ahmadinejad to Delaware where I will remove from his spine the +5 Dagger of Hilarious Backstabbing.
Kudos to Columbia University for the funniest turn in recent history!
PS I have more commentary on this as soon as I stop laughing…
Tags: Columbia University, Funny, President Ahmadinejad
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