Lee Bollinger Misses Mark on Ahmadenijad

Lee Bollinger

For those still trying to sort the event at Columbia University featuring Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, Hugh Hewitt has the succinct analysis that defines it. I won't add anything because Hugh hits the nail so squarely that I don't need to add anything:

"The absurd world of the academic left does not seem capable of imagining that skilled propagandists are at work for the other side, and that Ahmadinejad's non-answers to the questions posed to him will benefit him and his regime. They are naive beyond expression."

Hugh's Conclusion?

"Whenever Lee Bollinger steps down as Columbia's president, some poor fool will toast him for his "stirring" speech today, for speaking truth to power, blah blah blah. Nonsense. President Bollinger gave Ahmadinejad a microphone and a stage and then tried to use the underbilling to redeem his university's sorry complicity in the legitimizing of this fanatic's place in the world. Columbia can black out the backdrop and deliver stern lectures that go unheard in the Islamist world, but it won't remove the stain on its own reputation: It played a role of accessory to many lies today, delivered by a killer of our troops."

Perfect pitch and tone from Hugh Hewitt. Well done.