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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: There are no gays in Iran, says Ahmadinejad; Update: Photos — Iran executes gays — I've got Bollinger's surprising, much-lauded speech coming up, but enjoy this as a snack. Some rare derisive laughter from the audience greets this little pearl. — Maybe it was a translation error …
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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.
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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.
Matt / Think Progress:
Hunter: I Will Try To 'Cut Off Funds To Columbia University' Because Of Ahmadinejad Speech — Earlier today, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said in a statement that if Columbia University President Lee Bollinger "follows through with this hosting of the leader of Iran, I will move in Congress …
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Ahmadinejad denies existence of gays in Iran. — In his speech at Columbia University today, Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was asked about the treatment of gays in Iran. Ahmadinejad responded, "In Iran, we dont have homosexuals like in your country. We don't have that in our country.
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.
Sewell Chan / New York Times:Iranian Leader, Calling Introductory Remarks Insulting, Addresses Columbia
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Juan Cole / Salon:Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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.
Associated Press:
Giuliani party seeks $9.11 per person — WASHINGTON - A supporter of Rudy Giuliani's is throwing a party that aims to raise $9.11 per person for the Republican's presidential campaign. — Abraham Sofaer is having a fundraiser at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Wednesday …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Bush: We Can't Spend $22 Billion On America Because We Need $200 Billion For Iraq War — The Democratic leadership in Congress is set to pass a host of domestic funding bills that would exceed Bush's request by $22 billion. The extra funding would help go towards veterans health care …
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