September 26, 2007

Tase Him, Bro!

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By: Ann Coulter

Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question -- unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" is surely no more frightening than "B. Hussein Obama."

And liberals agree with Ahmadinejad on the issues! We know that because he was invited by an American university to speak on campus.

Contrary to all the blather about "free speech" surrounding Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia, universities in America do not invite speakers who do not perfectly mirror the political views of their America-hating faculties. Rather, they aggressively censor differing viewpoints and permit only a narrow category of speech on their campuses. Ask Larry Summers.

If a university invites someone to speak, you know the faculty agrees with the speaker. Maybe not the entire faculty. Some Columbia professors probably consider Ahmadinejad too moderate on Israel.

Columbia president Lee Bollinger claimed the Ahmadinejad invitation is in keeping with "Columbia's long-standing tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate."

Except Columbia doesn't have that tradition. This is worse than saying "the dog ate my homework." It's like saying "the dog ate my homework" when you're Michael Vick and everyone knows you've killed your dog.

Columbia's "tradition" is to shut down any speakers who fall outside the teeny, tiny seditious perspective of its professors.

When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

Imbued with Bollinger's commitment to free speech, Columbia junior Ryan Fukumori said of the Minutemen: "They have no right to be able to speak here."

Needless to say -- unlike Ahmadinejad -- the university had not invited the Minutemen. Most colleges and universities wouldn't buy a cup of coffee for a conservative speaker.

Fees for speakers who do not hate America are raised from College Republican fundraisers and contributions from patriotic alumni and locals who think students ought to hear at least one alternative viewpoint in four years of college.

And then college administrators turn a blind eye when liberal apple-polishers and suck-ups shut down the speech or physically attack the speaker.

Bollinger refused to punish the students who stormed the stage and violently ended the Minutemen's speech.

So the one thing we know absolutely is that Bollinger did not allow Ahmadinejad to speak out of respect for "free speech" because Bollinger does not respect free speech.

Only because normal, patriotic Americans were appalled by Columbia's invitation of Ahmadinejad to speak was Bollinger forced into the ridiculous position of denouncing Ahmadinejad when introducing him.

Then why did you invite him?

And by the way, I'll take a denunciation if college presidents would show up at my speeches and drone on for 10 minutes about "free speech" before I begin.

At Syracuse University last year, when liberal hecklers tried to shut down a speech by a popular conservative author of (almost!) six books, College Republicans began to remove the hecklers. But Dean of Students Roy Baker blocked them from removing students disrupting the speech on the grounds that removing students screaming during a speech would violate the hecklers' "free speech." They had a "free speech" right to prevent anyone from hearing a conservative's free speech.

That's what colleges mean by "free speech." (And by the way, my fingers are getting exhausted from making air quotes every time I use the expression "free speech" in relation to a college campus.)

"Tolerance of opposing views" means we have to listen to their anti-American views, but they don't have to hear our pro-American views. (In Washington, they call this "the Fairness Doctrine.")

Liberals are never called upon to tolerate anything they don't already adore, such as treason, pornography and heresy. In fact, those will often get you course credit.

At Ahmadinejad's speech, every vicious anti-Western civilization remark was cheered wildly. It was like watching an episode of HBO'S "Real Time With Bill Maher."

Ahmadinejad complained that the U.S. and a few other "monopolistic powers, selfish powers" were trying to deny Iranians their "right" to develop nukes.

Wild applause.

Ahmadinejad repeatedly refused to answer whether he seeks the destruction of the state of Israel.

Wild applause.

He accused the U.S. of supporting terrorism.

Wild applause.

Only when Ahmadinejad failed to endorse sodomy did he receive the single incident of booing throughout his speech.

Responding to a question about Iran's execution of homosexuals, Ahmadinejad said there are no homosexuals in Iran: "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 it."

I already knew that from looking at his outfit. If liberals want to run this guy for president, they better get him to "Queer Eye for the Islamofascist Guy."

Posted by redguy at September 26, 2007 09:48 PM

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Way to go Ann! I wish Mr. Bollinger would have been giving a speech like to Minuteman who were invited by the Republican students, was up there on the stand when the students invaded this free-speech. I would like to see the look on his face as all of these "mush heads" violently took over the podium and threatened the speakers. Columbia University is a mockery of everything that America stands for. This is the most America hating school I have ever discovered in all of my readings. The president of Iran was so smooth in responding to all of the questions put to him that he didn't answer any of them. In fact he just kept badgering the monolithic United States and how it's being a bully. The guy is a terrorist and he represents a terrorist country that no doubt is funding terrorists and insurgents who are killing our soldiers in Iraq and Colombia gives him a forum to peak and to spew his rhetoric. Instead of having him come to ground zero by the World Trade Center memorial I wish he could've been there right when it happened. I wish he could've been there when the towers came crumbling down killings 3000 people and countless volunteers while the the hijackers yelled "Allah acbar" or in modern English "God is great." It won't matter much if all of the scholarship donors stop funding Colombia University and it begins to suffer a financial hardship because George Soros will come to his rescue and fund it through one of his phony corporations. Just the way he funded the NASA weather forecaster who retracted his statements about the weather once he got $750,000. And everybody thought he was clean as a whistle. Phony as a seven dollar bill is what I call it and that's what I call this university phony as a seven dollar bill. I would be embarrassed if one of my kids wanted to go to Columbia University to get their degree. I'm appalled at the duplicity of the University especially in not punishing those rabble-rousers who interfered with the Minuteman's speech and threatened violence to the speakers that were invited to speak. The fact that he did not issue any consequences just makes them more emboldened. I can't say anymore than I have already said because I can't stand what the university stands for. I'm appalled and I'm saddened for this country that there are universities and colleges that crank out students full of mush and liberalism and they're going to be our future leaders. God help us all and I really mean that!

Posted by: joemg51 [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 27, 2007 11:44 AM

Ann,

I am finally seeing the justification of the French Citizens' use of the Guillotine on their leaders.....Sounds good to me...even makes more sense now..

How difficult would it be to have one installed...say on Columbia's Campus...It would have been really handy while Armadinejad was there.....

Oh! Such black humor is sometimes so comforting!!!

Posted by: LAMadDog [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 27, 2007 12:24 PM

OK, Ann, the jig is up.

I only have but a moment to reply now but will check back in later on.
'
It is bad enough you do not make coffee for me in the morning, but reading my letters to the editor of our local paper/birdcage liner then using it in your opening salvo is, well, putting a strain on our relationship. my dear.

Composed the night before and sent to the editor before this column was posted I wrote:


"I think the person who best represents the views and personas of the Democrat Party has just slipped through that party's grasp..
There is a man who is as far off-base as Gravel, has the same tailor as Kucinich, dark complected like Obama, unaware of the facts as Edwards, bi-lingual like Richardson and as evasive, denying and obfuscating like Clinton.
Too bad for the Democrats that Ahmadinejad is not a citizen. He personifies all for which the Democrat Party stands!"

Now, Ann, darling, wherever did you come up with your idea.

Or, is it, giant brains think alike?

'Tis fine, I will make the coffee tommorrow. (And will check back later on. Need anything from the store?)

Love
God Bless and God Speed
John

Posted by: Jaksavin [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 27, 2007 12:48 PM

Keep up the good work, Ann.

The Democratic party is so self-contradictory that its constituents can say they are for and against the same thing in the same sentence.

Posted by: Florida Cane [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 27, 2007 03:42 PM

I wish more people would expose the insanity on our country's college campuses. I attended a Catholic private women's college and was amazed at how immoral and politically liberal the teachings were! God help you if you utter some conservative political thought because it might effect your grade or get you lynched.

There were different tiers of academic expectations too. Very little was expected of minority students while white students had to live up to much higher standards. It deeply saddened me because the students they let "slide by" did not benefit from such liberal-minded pandering,rather, they probably suffered when they had a head-on collision with the "real world."

There too, conservative politics were silenced. Speakers and entertainers were and still are strictly liberal and in step with the faculty's wildly liberal leanings. It was amazing to see a Christian institution start foaming at the mouth over their support of abortion, homosexuality and anti-American regimes. It is frightening to think what would happen if colleges were completely funded by the government!

Posted by: The_Katâ„¢ [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 27, 2007 08:16 PM

You know, the little fella is going to need a catchy slogan - a moniker by which he is easily identified.

How's this? . . . "The Predaceous POTUS"

Or, this? . . . "The Pertinacious POTUS"

Or maybe, . . . "The Pernicious POTUS"

Or, if he wants to go for the humorous side,

Here's one . . . "The Preposterous POTUS"


Posted by: Trochilus [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 29, 2007 03:57 PM

Sadly, and I do mean, THE Infinite Sadness, is that Ms Ann does such a good job at pointing out the glaring wrongness of what is accepted and condoned by each of us.

The scales have tipped, the waiting is over, and soon enough we will all be singing the chorus to the "Songs of the Doomed."

It is written: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness" (Isaiah 5:20)

Posted by: The Sentinel [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 6, 2007 09:45 PM

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