Here find Columbia President Lee Bollinger’s sophistical statement about the campus’s invitation to Ahmadinejad to speak.

Also posted at Breath of the Beast are questions for “useful idiot” Bollinger:

  • Do you think it is even remotely possible that your pathetic little “sharp remarks” will make it into the state-run news in Iran?
  • Do you understand that his appearance there will be used as a propaganda victory for him at home and that it will feed the fanatical faction’s certainty that their victory is inevitable?· How would you feel if you were an Iranian patriot, or simply an Iranian woman with a mind of your own, who was in danger of being arrested at any moment and you saw this tyrant smiling, waving and prevaricating within the ivy covered walls of that great Institution whose name you are lending to him to sully with his posturing?
  • You insist that “we must respect and defend the rights of our schools, our deans and our faculty to create programming for academic purposes.” That’s all well and good but will you next encourage the medical school to invite the smallpox virus to an afternoon tea and release it for every one to sample?
  • If the “Polly Sci” students at Columbia want to be “…committed to confronting ideas—to understand the world as it is and as it might be…,” They can damn well read about this guy in the newspaper and see what he says at the UN, why should you willingly give him the prestige of Columbia for his next Parade in Tehran?