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Catherine Donaldson-Evans / Fox News:
Ahmadinejad Speaks of Love, Kindess, Beauty and God in Speech to National Press Club — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during his remarks to the National Press Club Monday that the world needs to build a better future "based on peace and security of all humanity," …
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CNN:
Iran's president on Israel, nukes and gays — NEW YORK (CNN) — Columbia University President Lee Bollinger excoriated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday, going through a long list of documented actions and remarks by the firebrand Iranian leader and his government.
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Iranian Leader, Calling Introductory Remarks Insulting, Addresses Columbia — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran completed his appearance by thanking his audience. "I ask Almighty God to assist all of us to work hand in hand for a future filled with peace, justice and brotherhood," he said.
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
U.S. Focus on Ahmadinejad Puzzles Iranians — TEHRAN — When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was first elected president, he said Iran had more important issues to worry about than how women dress. He even called for allowing women into soccer games, a revolutionary idea for revolutionary Iran.
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Juan Cole / Salon:
Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
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Michelle Malkin:
Mahmoudapalooza: The madman comes calling; Update: A Columbia/nutjob quid pro quo?
Mahmoudapalooza: The madman comes calling; Update: A Columbia/nutjob quid pro quo?
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David M. Schizer / law.columbia.edu:
STATEMENT BY DAVID M.SCHIZER RE: SIPA INVITATION TO MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
STATEMENT BY DAVID M.SCHIZER RE: SIPA INVITATION TO MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
Nahal Toosi / Associated Press:
Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
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Bill Sammon / Examiner:
Examiner Exclusive: President predicts GOP will keep control of White House after 'tough race' in 2008 — Washington, D.C. (Map, News) - President Bush, for the first time, is predicting that Hillary Rodham Clinton will defeat Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DON'T MISS THAT MEME — As you can see in our feature story over on the right, the White House's new line is that Barack Obama may be too "intellectually lazy" to run a serious presidential campaign let alone be President of the United States. — But don't think this allusion to generations …
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Horses Mouth:
Clark Hoyt, the public editor of The New York Times, has now weighed in with a long piece on the whole controversy involving the MoveOn ad in his own paper attacking Mighty Scholar-Warrior Petraeus. It's a deeply disappointing article. He takes a very high-horse tone in the piece …
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Charles Hurt / New York Post:
MOVE ON TO PAY UP — MoveOn.org yesterday said it would pony up the full price it should have paid The New York Times for a full-page ad slamming Gen. David Petraeus, a day after the paper admitted giving the left-wing activist group a huge discount. — MoveOn said it would wire $77,083 …
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Podhoretz secretly urged Bush to bomb Iran — President Bush and Karl Rove sat listening to Norman Podhoretz for roughly 45 minutes at the White House as the patriarch of neoconservatism argued that the United States should bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. — The meeting was not on the president's public schedule.
Washington Post:
U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With 'Bait' — A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of "bait," such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items, according to military court documents.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton campaign kills negative story — Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for president learned that the men's magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland. — So Clinton's aides pulled a page from the book …
Little Green Footballs:
Daily Kos: 45% Want Ahmadinejad As US President — A Daily Kos diarist has put up a poll asking the question, Daily Kos: Who would you rather have lead, Bush or Ahmadinejad? — Bush is actually ahead. But not by much. — (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Rather Ridiculous — I have obtained new documentary evidence regarding Dan Rather's relationship with his former bosses at CBS News. — Obviously, I cannot identify my source. But he told me during a collect call from Sofia, Bulgaria, that he has access to Rather's "personal files" and that his typewriter was built after 1966.
The Raw Story:
Chemical weapon disaster 'led to Syria strike' — Israel did not strike a nuclear weapons facility in Syria on Sept. 6, instead striking a cache of North Korean missiles, current and former intelligence officials say. — American intelligence sources familiar with key events leading …
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Democrats Answer to Republican Resolution Regarding MoveOn.org — Sens. Jim Webb (Va.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) and every other Democrat who has served in uniform should go the Senate floor together and call for a vote on a resolution similar to the following:
Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Eyewitness to Nonsense — Just came from the Columbia campus, where a shocking number of my classmates skipped out on discussion section to go watch the show. In the SIPA lobby I joined a hundred and some other people watching Bollinger on closed circuit TV.
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Justin Hart / My Man Mitt.com:
If Columbia is not ashamed of the decision... ... then why did they blacken out the podium and the backdrop? — See these heavily-branded events from the same Columbia U. World Leader Forum: — Dr. Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, — Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia