seattle.politics

Gatt wrote:

> "SMITH29" wrote in message
> news:iqGdnXwaNvoh2WXbnZ2dnUVZ_ternZ2d@ ...
> > Some highlights:
> >
> > 1. Rude opening by the university president.
> > /articles/0,7340,L-3453180,
>
> LOL! Bitch slap.
>
> And to think people were -protesting- Columbia.
>
> "Your denial of the Holocaust might fool the illiterate and ignorant,'
> Columbia president tells Ahmadinejad, who says in response that the Shoah
> 'has been abused as a justification for Israeli mistreatment of the
> Palestinians"
>
> "You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated,"
> Bollinger told Ahmadinejad about the leader's Holocaust denial. "Will you
> cease this outrage?"

Et voila.

The right-wingers were all wringing their hands over this, as if it were
some kind of outrage that Ahamadinejad was even going to show up, and
here's the payoff: Columbia embraces the free speech the right-wingers
fear. That's how it works in a free society.

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/cartoons/2007/