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12:05 AM ET, September 25, 2007

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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.
irna.ir:
IRI President addresses students at Colombia University  —  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.
Mere Rhetoric:
PHOTOGRAPHS TO HELP EXPLAIN WHY THERE ARE NO HOMOSEXUALS IN IRAN [CONTENT WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS] (UPDATED: VIDEO ADDED)  —  Original: It's because they're trying to kill them all.  These are two gay teenagers who were kept in a cage, publicly humiliated, gruesomely hung, and left to dangle in front of the macabre crowd.
T-Steel / The Moderate Voice:
An apology is in order!  —  Silly, Silly Man!  —  Those who sharply criticized Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs President Lee C. Bollinger for inviting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak owe him a galaxy sized apology.  You know who you are so I'm not naming names/blogs/media outlets.
Catherine Donaldson-Evans / Fox News:
Ahmadinejad Speaks of Love, Kindess, Beauty and God in Speech to National Press Club
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Facing Scorn, President of Iran Is Defiant to His Critics
Discussion: FP Passport
Frank James / The Swamp:
McCain: Columbia allows Iranian but not ROTC?
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Shuster to Rep. Blackburn: "When was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody?"  —  Tucker substitute host David Shuster confronts Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) about the blatant hypocrisy of the Republican party when he asks about Rush Limbaugh's Senator Betrayus smear …
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
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Jon Healey / L.A. Times:
MoveOn.org's thin skin  —  MoveOn.org's excessively discounted broadside against General David Petraeus in the New York Times two weeks ago won't rank as its most successful tactic.  The full-page nastygram appears not only to have solidified Republican opposition in the Senate for proposals …
Discussion: Horses Mouth, Don Surber and The Fix
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.
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Associated Press:
Prosecutor: Sen. Craig is 'politicking'  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Sen. Larry Craig is only trying to get out of his guilty plea in an airport sex sting because he doesn't like the political consequences, a prosecutor wrote in court papers filed Monday.  —  Craig, R-Idaho, has asked to withdraw …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Ezra Klein:
Fearful Nation  —  I genuinely don't understand the quaking fear over Ahmadinejad's interview at Columbia.  When did America become so weak, so insecure, that we mistrust our capacity to converse with potentially hostile world leaders?  Do we really believe the president of Columbia …
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 …
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.
Discussion: bustardblog and Riehl World View
Paul Krugman:
Bubba Isn't Who You Think  —  Since I've just published an op-ed about the enduring influence of race on Southern voting, I'm sure to be accused of being a typical Northeastern snob talking about poor white trash who don't know what's good for them.  So I thought I'd mention an important point …
 
 
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