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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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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.
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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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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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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 …
Sewell Chan / NYT:
City Room: Scene at 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. "Best of luck to all of you."
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Bollinger's rebuke to a "petty and cruel dictator"; Update: Students cheer Ahmadinejad's rebuke to Bollinger — If you believe the Columbia Spectator, everyone's had a change of heart and the calls of support for having hosted Ahmadinejad are flooding in to the university switchboard.
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.
Vanderleun / AMERICAN DIGEST:Bollinger Rope-A-Dopes Ahmadinejad and Many Conservative Blogs …
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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 …
The Atlantic Online:
Women who make good salaries, and the men who don't love them — The New York Times has another thumb-sucker about the dating problems of female professionals: … Apparently—you're not going to believe this, but I swear, it's true—there are men who don't like it when the women they date make more than them.
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Joshua Freed / Associated Press:
Prosecutor: Craig is 'politicking' — MINNEAPOLIS - 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 his guilty plea …
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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 …
Rasmussen Reports:
23% Approve of MoveOn.org Petraeus Ad, 58% Disapprove — Twenty-three percent (23%) of Americans approve of an ad run in the New York Times "that referred to General Petraeus as General Betray Us." A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 58% disapproved.
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
IF GORE WINS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, WILL HE RUN FOR PRESIDENT? — I am occasionally asked why it is that so many Europeans display reflexive anti-Americanism, and I force myself to choose from a salad of possible answers. One of these is the resentment that I can remember feeling myself …
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
What Has Bush Done to the Government? — The last two times the Pew Research Center asked people to describe President Bush in a single word, chief among the overwhelmingly negative responses was the word "incompetent." — What makes that particularly fascinating is that it's a realization …
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