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FREE SPEECH

There was a lot of right wing nonsense about letting the Iran guy speak at Columbia University.

I thought they handled it pretty well.

They let him speak but not until the university president Lee Bollinger, in introducing him, basically called him an asshole and excoriated his administration.

My questions for President Ahmadinejad

Of course, the asshole didn't answer the questions.

I saw some of the tape.

He did let us know that there are no homosexuals in Iran.

He did not mention that is because they hang them at an early age.

There is no line on free speech. It either is or it is not.

We deserve to hear this guy.

And we also deserve to have our say at him in return.

From Salon

The Iranian president responded by departing from his prepared remarks. "I think the text read by the dear gentleman here, more than addressing me, was an insult to information and the knowledge of the audience present here," Ahmadinejad said, according to a translated transcript. "Nonetheless, I should not begin by being affected by this unfriendly treatment."

Labels: free speech, politics