Because that Iranian president guy is speaking at a World Leader's Conference at the University.
Now my question is... if you don't want your tax dollars funding a hippie-liberal God hating institution like Columbia...are you okay with these universities that allow fascist authors like Ann Coulter to spread their message of love on their campuses?
Why should my tax dollars fund that? Hmm?
2007-09-21 06:22:07 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Bring it on, truthisfith.
I wasn't defending Iran's president, merely pointing out the hypocracy that no one else seems to realize.
And despite his lunatic statements about the holocaust and such... apparently he is still considered a world leader. So is that guy in North Korea. Go figure.
2007-09-21 06:28:36 · update #1
Um. Who said he's my hero? My question was regarding TAX dollars... not a moral debate over whether Ahmadinejad is a better person than Coulter. Let's not kid ourselves, he isn't.
My point is that you want to control what your tax dollars are spent on but if I were to withhold my taxes because I don't support them going to fund the Iraq conflict, I would be arrested.
2007-09-21 06:38:06 · update #2
I bet they will think it's OK to show up and heckle and disrupt the speech yet ***** and moan when a liberal shows up to do the same to a repub speaker. Effin hypocrites.
More thumbs down please. Keep em coming.
2007-09-21 06:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 8⤋
I think Columbia students would benefit from some different opinions such as Ann Coulter. She is a little hard to take but she is usually right on the money.
What value does Ach! My wienie's gone, bring to the discussion? The students have already heard that America is the root of all evil in the world and deserves to be blown up, that the insurgents are freedom fighters, the American military consists of people from trailer parks that are too stupid to find other work, America is torturing Arabs in illegal concentration camps in Gitmo when they are not too busy flushing Korans down the toilet, Israel is the cause of the terrorism in the Middle East, Bush is a monkey, an idiot, the dumbest man to ever hold office, Cheney is Satan, Haiburton is nothing but evil profiteers who deserve to be shot by the poor freedom fighting insurgents, Christianity and Judaism are evil etc, etc, etc, from their socialist professors.
Maybe a few conservative speakers would be nice for a change. That is if they are actually permitted to speak by the open minded champions of free speech and pie throwing.
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2007-09-21 07:17:47 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, Ahmedinejad is a world leader, that's just fact.
The problem with this question is in the comparison. For one thing, while I don't like Ann, I don't know that she's said anything fascist, but I consider the use of the word to be more often than not hyperbolic. I think she advocated doing a "Crusade," but how serious she was, I don't know. I tend to ignore here. For the second thing, the allegations against Iran, however much stock one puts in them, are far more serious than anything I know of Ann saying or doing, especially the charge of funding Shia militias in Iraq, which has a direct consequence to Americans.
2007-09-21 06:30:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Who says that Columbia isn't a decent target? They're such hypocrits it should be closed. I'm sure that, even with your eagle-eyed attention to detail, you missed the fact that they banned ROTC because of Don't Ask, Don't Tell but then invite the leader of a rogue Country where homosexuality is a capital offense.
Oh yeah, while you're whining about Ann Coulter, keep in mind (if you have a mind) that she's not sending people to kill our troops. It's really strange who you libs choose for heros.
2007-09-21 06:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Columbia University is the perfect setting for an appearance by the little rooster. Columbia was the school that welcomed the cadre of the Frankfurt School with open arms when they fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
2007-09-21 06:30:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I okay with anyone like that. Im okay with Moore, Franken Limbaugh, Coulter, Penn etc etc.
My beef is that Ahmadinejad is the President of a nation that is arming opposition and supplying them with IED's.
See the difference? Hes not an American with different views than me. Hes a mad man that wants war with our nation.
2007-09-21 06:33:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
two "facts" that seem to be missing one, Iran is holding a journalist from Columbia university as a political criminal as he talks and two Columbia doesn't allow Military personnel on their campus. So they want people who hold their own yet wont allow people that protect their own. If anyone doesn't see a problem in that along with the fact that Ahmadinnerjacket has said he envisions a day without the US, they seriously need to reevaluate which country they live in.
2007-09-21 06:29:14 · answer #7 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Columbia is a private University (trust me I'm 40 grand in debt from my MA--and I had a significant fellowship) so it's not that much federal money being put into it, especially considering students receiving money from the govt is more often than not simply loans rather than grants and thus repaid.
I saw speakers of every color of the rainbow in my undergrad days. Here at my ultra liberal public university where I work we see speakers of all kinds as well.
2007-09-21 06:26:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
And Democratic City Council Speaker Christine Quinn fired off a letter to Bollinger, arguing:
"All universities, Columbia included, should be laboratories for a healthy exchange of differing ideas. But an exchange of ideas should not include state-sponsored terrorism and hate speech. He can say whatever he wants on any street corner - but should not be given center stage at one of New York's most prestigious centers of higher education."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09212007/postopinion/editorials/columbia_hosts_a_thug.htm
2007-09-21 06:29:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
The real issue is that these colleges and universities that are all ran by left over hippies, and left wing wackos, ONLY invite speakers who side with them. I would be fine with it if Columbia didn't kick out the military or Minutemen . . . where's the fairness in that?!?
2007-09-21 06:37:13 · answer #10 · answered by vinsa1981 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Oh get over yourself.
Almondinnerjacket wants to come over here and preach peace and love right?
uh, no
Just a publicity stunt. Also, you'll find that most universities don't use tax $ for their speakers.
2007-09-21 06:26:06 · answer #11 · answered by Mark A 6 · 10⤊ 1⤋