"What's the deal? I thought you liked me."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran speaks at Columbia University Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
I think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did more interviews and had more face time on TV yesterday than Hillary Clinton did on Sunday.
He was everywhere.
He was on network, cable, and public television.
There was the National Press Club videoconference luncheon and the Columbia University appearance.
Most of the time, he was smiling. He was smiling and lying.
It seemed like he was trying to be charming, fully expecting to be embraced by the American people, bound by their common enemy -- George W. Bush.
It was a bit odd how tough the Lefties were on Ahmadinejad.
It must have pained them to attack the Iranian president, but they did.
They were critical of him. They challenged him. They belittled him. They laughed at him.
In short, they treated him like they treat President Bush.
It was weird for them to acknowledge the madman that Ahmadinejad is because usually they are basically on the same page.
Case in point: Jimmy Carter
ATLANTA -- Speaking at Emory University, Carter, who brokered the 1979 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt, said Israel's superior military power and distance from Iran likely are enough to discourage an actual attack.
"Iran is quite distant from Israel," said Carter, 83. "I think it would be almost inconceivable that Iran would commit suicide by launching one or two missiles of any kind against the nation of Israel."
...Carter said unease between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is a far greater threat to Israel's security than Iran. He criticized the Bush administration for not doing enough to broker peace in the region.
In other words, Iran is good. The U.S. under George Bush and puppet Israel are bad.
I really don't think Ahmadinejad was prepared to face the challenges he did yesterday from the usually friendly Left.
In his "please don't take our funding away" CYA speech, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger was relentless.
(Full transcript of Bollinger's blistering introductory remarks)
After laying out a litany of questions/ charges, Bollinger closed with this:
Frankly, and in all candor, Mr. President, I doubt that you will have the intellectual courage to answer these questions. But your avoiding them will in itself be meaningful to us. I do expect you to exhibit the fanatical mindset that characterizes so much of what you say and do. Fortunately, I am told by experts on your country, that this only further undermines your position in Iran with all the many good-hearted, intelligent citizens there. A year ago, I am reliably told, your preposterous and belligerent statements in this country (as in your meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations) so embarrassed sensible Iranian citizens that this led to your party’s defeat in the December mayoral elections. May this do that and more.
Nonetheless, the Islamic Republic News Agency painted Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia as a triumph. No surprise there.
Despite entire US media objections, negative propagation and hue and cry in recent days over IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's scheduled address at Colombia University, he gave his lecture and answered students questions here on Monday afternoon.
On second day of his entry in New York, and amid standing ovation of the audience that had attended the hall where the Iranian President was to give his lecture as of early hours of the day, Ahmadinejad said that Iran is not going to attack any country in the world.
Before President Ahamadinejad's address, Colombia (Note: The IRNA can't spell.) University Chancellor in a brief address told the audience that they would have the chance to hear Iran's stands as the Iranian President would put them forth.
That's a sanitized version of events.
He said that the Iranians are a peace loving nation, they hate war, and all types of aggression.
Referring to the technological achievements of the Iranian nation in the course of recent years, the president considered them as a sign for the Iranians' resolute will for achieving sustainable development and rapid advancement.
The audience on repeated occasion applauded Ahmadinejad when he touched on international crises.
At the end of his address President Ahmadinejad answered the students' questions on such issues as Israel, Palestine, Iran's nuclear program, the status of women in Iran and a number of other matters.
The truth is Ahmadinejad is an intolerant, warmongering, lying, threat to the world.
And the Left looked so foolish. These people have spent years attacking Bush. Bush is the greatest threat to world peace. Bush is the terrorist. Bush is the enemy.
All of that crap for all of these years.
Doesn't what Ahmadinejad had to say today illustrate that Bush is no Hitler, that he's not the real enemy?
Ahmadinejad echoed much of what the radical Left holds dear -- the 9/11 conspiracy theories, the certain defeat of the U.S. in Iraq, the depiction of Bush as an imperialist or a devil.
The libs are on board with Ahmadinejad when it comes to those matters.
But Ahmadinejad made a fatal mistake when speaking at Columbia.
There is no way that the Left can stay in Ahmadinejad's corner after what he said about homosexuals.
"In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country," he said. Above the guffaws from the crowd, he continued: "In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have it."
Good grief. And libs say that Bush and Republicans are hostile to the gay community.
Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier as well as a homosexual denier.
According to Ahmadinejad, "this phenomenon" is nonexistent in Iran.
Big, BIG mistake.
There's a lot that the Left will tolerate.
9/11 conspiracy theories and blaming Bush for the attacks, either directly or indirectly? Of course.
Sympathy for the Palestinians and disdain for Israelis? Absolutely.
Questions about the Holocaust? Not so much, but perhaps.
Iran being a gay-free zone? No way.
Ahmadinejad won't recover from that. His comments on homosexuals reveal that he is truly nuts, even by the Left's standards.
Has Ahmadinejad tripped an epiphany for American Bush-haters?
Did they learn something yesterday?
Unfortunately, probably not.
The nooses are tightened around the necks of two homosexual youths about to be executed in Iran. (Photo/ISNA)
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