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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

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.

3 comments:

wd said...

The propaganda value to Iran's terrorist mullahs throughout the Muslim world is even more bright and shiny. None of the remarks made by that socialist dolt Bollinger made al Jazeera or any other Muslim propaganda organ. Then, the Iranian Hitler gets to speak to the other thugs at the UN after our President. Another propaganda coup approved of by the NY Times, the Democrat Party and our very own Roanoke Pravda no doubt.

Jerry Fuhrman said...

I think Bollinger made history. Like him or not.

As for The Worm's speech before the UN, both should now be kicked out of the country.

TugboatPhil said...

Too bad the students weren't as well behaved with the Minutemen.