Ahmedinjad was nicely verbally assassinated by the University President before he even reached the stage. The anti ahmedinjad protests had all the 'innocence' of a nazi youth rally during the olympics and the Pres. of Columbia university bollinger appeared to be the more 'fanatic' & fundamentalist, perhaps bollinger holds the bill o'reilly chair of moral philosophy, ahmadinejad, hardly the sharpest engineer in the metalshop but verily at columbia he was einstein before the apes. Any decent human being, - in any formal cultural setting, in any nation of this planet - would at least have let the invited guest speak his words and then afterwards, allow him to answer questions. There was no need to begin with insults.
You know like the goons who tazered Andrew Meyer, Bollinger seems to be oblivious off the cultural image he projects but don't take my word for it, watch it or read it for yourselves.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."