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?
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?