Newt Gingrich's laughable rational to why the President of Iran shouldn't have spoken at Columbia;
“I think it is an outrage for the university to lend its prestige to a dictator whose Government executes homosexuals, tortures and kills journalists, lock up students”
President Bush said Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia "speaks volumes about really the greatness of America."
As critical as I've been, this is one of those moments where I love America
Here is a man who is obviously not a big fan of us, nor are we of him. He comes to our largest city, is greeted with protestors, sneers and booing, something that he can easily prevent back home by intimidation, but he can't do a damn thing about it here.
Yet, still, as we make it clear that we hope he rots in hell, we still let him come to our higher institutes of learning and share his ideas with us. We don't, as he would do to his opponents back home, muzzle him. We let him speak.
The free exchange of ideas. That, my friends, is what makes America so much better than where he comes from.
I'm not a big fan of censoring people, no matter how wretched they are.
I mean we let Ann Coulter speak even though she sprews crap like this;
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.
Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.
I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.
