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The New York Times & Columbia University: An Axis of Evil?

Filed under: Iran ~ Ukraine

"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 this."
-- the so-called "president" of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to students at Columbia University earlier today and explaining why it's impossible to accuse Iran of persecuting and executing homosexuals.

Ten days ago, we reported on how the New York Times had sunk to a new low, allowing the wretched extremist left-wing Soros-funded propaganda campaign "Moveon.org" to pay less than one-third the going rate for a full-page ad launching a scurrilous attack on General David Petraeus over his handling of the Iraq campaign. In the resulting scandal, not only did the Washington Post expose the fact that the Moveon ad was riddled with factual errors, but the Times own Public Editor declared the preferential pricing to have violated the Times own guidelines for accepting political advertisements -- exposing a Times cover-up which insisted for days that it did nothing wrong in accepting the ad. Moveon is now running scared in the face of several complaints to the FEC by conservative groups.

Meanwhile, crazed Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived today in New York City with an invitation to speak before the student body of Columbia University and the intent to visit and desecrate with his presence the sacred ground of the 9/11 attack site.

How are the two incidents related, you ask? Well, it so happens that a few years ago Columbia, which controls the Pulitzer Prize for journalism, voted to allow Times reporter Walter Duranty to keep his Pulitzer prize even after it was revealed that Duranty had intentionally covered up facts about the Ukrainian famine/holocaust inflicted by Josef Stalin in order to help advance the interests of the USSR. As a recent letter to the editor of the International Herald Tribune stated: "During the Soviet-induced famine in Ukraine in the 1930s when at least 14.5 million people died, according to the historian Robert Conquest, many millions of Ukrainians were marched by foot to the White Sea, where they were loaded on to barges to be towed out to sea. Soviet gunboats then blasted them out of the water. No one knows how many millions perished. They too deserve mention and our memories."

Does anyone see a pattern?

Interestingly, the cowardly little rat bastard Ahmadinejad did not have the guts to let fly with his whole holocaust-denying, Israel-destroying repertoire of senile, subhuman bile while speaking at Columbia, giving rise to speculation that he may be too extreme even for his own country and may be getting flack at home for poisoning Iran's diplomatic well. But even toned down, he's still a weeping pustule on the buttocks of the world. Senator Mitch McConnell said of Columbia's invitation: "There is a world of difference between not preventing Ahmadinejad from speaking and handing a megalomaniac a megaphone and a stage to use it." New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn stated at a mass protest outside the United Nations: "We're here today to send a message that there is never a reason to give a hatemonger an open stage." Columbia University President Lee Bollinger told Ahmadinejad during his introduction of the speaker: "You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated. Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator. When you come to a place like this it makes you simply ridiculous." Gee, wonder which one of those reasons was the one that caused Columbia to give him a platform? Did they just want to all have a good laugh? Is any brainless moron or insane provocateur entitled to expect Ivy League speaking engagements?

Has the world gone mad?

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Photo courtesy of Michelle Malkin. (It's worth noting that Russia also provides massive financial aid to Hamas, as well as Hezbollah, and provides nuclear technology and missiles to defend it to Iran itself, as well as huge quantities of weapons to Syria. Russia may certainly be deemed a root cause of Iran's hubris and aggression, making the regions lunatics think they have a bulwark against intervention, and should be treated accordingly in U.S. and European foreign policy.)

As David J. Feith & Jordan C. Hirsch of National Review put it:

It is naive to ignore the uses to which Ahmadinejad will put his invitation. Over the past years, Ahmadinejad's confrontational rhetoric and policies have resulted in diplomatic isolation and economic hardship for Iran. These developments are unpopular among Iranians. It is beneficial to Ahmadinejad and his regime, then, if he can claim to the Iranian people that his leadership is not hurting their country. If he can demonstrate that he is treated abroad as a respected leader, he will be better able to counter his critics at home. Columbia's invitation thus gives political assistance to Ahmadinejad.

How is it possible that the leaders of one of our loftiest universities can't understand this? Maybe Ahmadinejad was truly among his peers, where he belonged?

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Comments


anonymous says:

Columbia and the Pulitzer under the guidance of Pres Bollinger has been a travesty.

You are absolutely right - between the Duranty Pulitzer and Ahmadinejad, this fine institution is on the slippery slope of losing its 250 year plus legacy.


L says:

So there are no gays in Iran? Hum. LOL.
Ahmadinejad did mention the millions of Palestinian so-called refugees that are almost never recognized or even mentioned by the rest of the world. Israel can continue expanding all it wants. The rest of the world does not give a rat's behind about the fate of the Palestinian people. The Palestinians do not have a powerful lobby in Congress. They do not have an imposing Zionist community funneling millions and millions of dollars into their economy and they certainly do not have a country like the USA giving them state of the art weaponry and billions upon billions of dollars a year in aid. Ahmadinejad is a jackass but he hit it right on the money as far as the plight of the Palestinian people is concerned.The world has never cared about their plight.


Artfldgr says:

Columbia has been a hot bed of soviet communist spies, fellow travelers, useful idiots, and an amazing cadre of who's who in the "take control of the world for its own good crowd".

you can start with the "frankfurt school" who was exiled to america in 1939 when hitler kicked them out and they took up residence at Columbia.
or you can actually go farther back than that if you want, to the labor movement communists

[the times total conversion came later than the columbia school stuff. in fact i would dare say that the students of columbia took up jobs at the times (from the columbia journali school), and teaching jobs, motion picture productions, music industry, newspapers, not for profit organizations, various "liberation" fronts, etc.

some spies from the past, all at columbia.

Bela Gold—Economist

Harry Dexter White—senior Treasury official for FDR, helped found World Bank/IMF

William Malisoff—(Ph.D.) Scientist

Victor Perlo—Economics professor, Soviet spymaster involved in Harold Ware spy ring and Perlo group

Enos Wicher—Professor, stepfather of State Department Soviet spy Flora Wovschin

Paul Massing, scientist at Columbia University’s Institute of Social Research. Defected.

Flora Wovschin, NKVD operative in U.S. State Department, comrade of Marion Davis Berdecio and Judith Coplon from their days at Columbia University

However a complete list is not possible, as there are many more from other sources, and many of those under those exposed were never tagged or bothered.

in 1992, the post-Soviet government of Boris Yeltsin threw open the Communist Party's records, including the enormous collection of documents held by the Communist International, or Comintern, which directed the affairs of foreign Communist parties during the first half of the century. Two years later, the Russian SVR, the cash-strapped successor to the KGB, allowed brief and limited access to some of its old files to a handful of Western historians in return for a substantial gratuity. And finally, in 1995, the U.S. government released thousands of KGB cables intercepted and decoded in the 1940s in a top-secret operation known as Venona. In all, some 2 million pages of new documents became available

so does it surprise me that they volunteered to help iran to help keep weapons alley open? not at all... if we ignored the whole thing, that would be the worst thing we could do to them. but we wont.

meanwhile... iran has been the center of tons of intrigue from world powers since the turn of the early part of the last century.

the more it changes the more it stays the same.


Russian says:

The fact that Columbia University let Ahmadinejad speak before the audience despite all the pressure, and people bought out all the tickets for the meeting within a half of an hour speaks that there are democratically minded Americans, sound and intelligent.

The fact that there are As David J. Feith, Jordan C. Hirsch, Kim Zigfeld, Artfldgr etc. speaks that not all the Americans are like those.

I see mostly Jewish names on this list.
Well, the USA is not a part of Israel yet. You may love Israel and hate Israel's foes, this is your right, but let the Americans be Americans. Let Democracy work. They fought for democracy, for the right to speak what they want, to listen to whom they want, and to read what they want.

Those he opposes the invitation loudly yell about democracy but want people to hear just one, their side of the "story".
They want it exactly like it was in the USSR. Oh-oh... Poor America if such people gonna lead her.

PS. What if Ahmadinejad had not been allowed to speak?
He would say to Iranian people that the USA is afraid of the truth, that Americans only say that democracy is their commitment, that in real they are cowards and liers.
Denial would thus give political assistance to Ahmadinejad.
How is it possible that the authors and commenters on this blog can't understand this?


Artfldgr says:

I see mostly Jewish names on this list.

that is true... though they test out with a higher IQ average for the group. this means they are more represented in those areas where such does well, like politics, philosophy, arts, sciences, etc.

the problem with pointing it out is that most people would not realize that thats the reason, and they would rather make up a conspiracy, or connections to love of ireal, etc.

just a bunch of smarties who we paid attention to, and in this case, many we shouldnt have.

there isnt much you can actually draw from the list since its a mix of red diaper babies, useful idiots, fellow travelers, and all others as well. and the list above is not comprehensive, just what i could grab fast.

you will also find that a lot of the people you think might not be jewish are jewish and use a stage or pen name.

i dont want to think of what a world without their contribution would be like. you wouldnt either actually (if you knew how much). more have given us positive things than negative, but i will admit the negative ones have been doozies some of them, and people dont notice the postive ones as they should.


Manuela says:

The world gone mad! The only issue is that Ahmadinejad as crazy as he is he is merely a puppet. Ayatollah Khameini and the mullahs rule Iran. If they share his believes well its doom day soon. Otherwise its dangerous but the world should not give him that much attention.


Steve says:

Columbia University claims they are America’s best and brightest?

Did you see the way they applauded Ahmadenijad?

They are just a bunch of filthy Little Eichmanns.

It is too bad that Cho Seung-hui didn’t go to Columbia University!


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