Tuesday, September 25, 2007,5:57 AM
A Shining Moment In Academic History
I so love to ridicule our institutions of higher learning and those who run them. Perhaps that's why I find Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's speech yesterday directed at that worm who heads up the terrorist state of Iran absolutely astounding. The man made me proud to be an American.

See his speech here.



If this moment in our history was what "freedom of speech" was all about, I'd say the USA had a good day. And we learned something from the experience. Nowhere on the planet other than here in our great country would this scathing speech have been delivered.

President Bollinger, a man I've criticized in the past for allowing radical leftist students to drive conservative speakers off campus with impunity, did us proud. Thanks, Lee.

Excerpts:

"Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator."

"Frankly and in all candor, Mr. President, I doubt that you will have the intellectual courage to answer these questions. But your avoiding them will have meaning for us."

"Today I feel all the weight of the modern civilized world yearning to express the revulsion at what you stand for."

Wonderful.
 
posted by Jerry Fuhrman
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