Freedom of Speech

Posted by cocoNUT on September 25th, 2007 6 Comments

For those of us who didn’t get a chance to hear Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speak at Columbia University yesterday, it seems y’all missed out. While he did say some shocking things like there are no homosexuals in Iran…period, and the Holocaust is not is a sham, the NY Times coverage of the 2 hour speech/rant/rave/whatever you want to call it, provides an interesting glimpse at this radical head-of-state. You can catch the first 10 minutes on this video:

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In response to his homosexual comment, one of my Columbia friends sent me this email:

“this would be quite the metaphysical experience for me if i ever visited Iran -instant sexual reversal upon crossing a geopolitical border, or I’d be some sort of mime crashing into an invisible Iranian box, or maybe i’d just vanish. Anyway, aside from him denouncing me, it was very enlightening”

I think we are in store for quite a show when he speaks a the U.N. later this week. While it seems his speech had many moments of ridiculousness, having him and President Bush duke it out on stage in front of the entire world will be truly entertaining.

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6 Responses to “Freedom of Speech”

  1. 25 Sep 2007 at 9:07 am1Ethan said:

    It was a brilliant propaganda move by Columbia by allowing him to speak–one that really plays into the hands of the anti-whatever crowd anyway. I don’t understand why so many people seem to support this guy. I know he’s Bush’s arch-villain, but the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” thing isn’t always true.

  2. 25 Sep 2007 at 11:07 am2cocoNUT said:

    Is the YouTube video showing up left justified to anyone else?

  3. 25 Sep 2007 at 11:27 am3Ethan said:

    Yes.

  4. 25 Sep 2007 at 11:29 am4downtown, oy said:

    it’s right justified for me. maybe it adjusts for the viewer’s political leanings…

    -gary

  5. 25 Sep 2007 at 11:40 am5cocoNUT said:

    Ha…I just took out the caricture of the man, seems to have fixed the problem…just you all wait, one day we will have this looking mighty NICE!

  6. 26 Sep 2007 at 9:33 pm6Jack said:

    christian conservatives are opposed to gay marriage. how many homosexuals have been hung in the public square? its time americans come to reasonable solutions about our issues here and recognize our enemies abroad and stop mixing the two. wake up

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