filling the young skulls full of mush with his anti-Semitic sentiments.  At least the president of Columbia U had the decency to refer to him as a petty and cruel dictator.

Vilified as a Holocaust denier, a supporter of terrorism and a backer of Iraqi insurgents, the president of Iran was actually able to make New Yorkers burst into laughter — but not at a joke.

“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at Columbia University on Monday in response to a question about the recent execution of two gay men there. “In Iran we do not have this phenomenon,” he continued. “I do not know who has told you we have it.” Loud laughs and boos broke from the audience of about 700 people, mostly students at the Ivy League school whose garb included “Stop Ahmadinejad’s Evil” T-shirts. Everyone from presidential candidates to Sept. 11 families had expressed outrage that Ahmadinejad would speak there. After his assertions that Israel persecutes Palestinians and that Iran’s nuclear program is for energy not weapons, the Iranian leader’s comment on gays broke the tension. But it spurred strong reaction too. “This is a sick joke,” said Scott Long of Human Rights Watch, saying Iran tortures gays under a penal code that punishes homosexuality between men with the death penalty.

The way I see it, the left entrenched in academia has a real quandary here.  The guy is anti-Semitic, and we all know that the left is generally anti-Semitic (including their fearless leader, Hillary, with her F.J.B. comment many years ago) but on the other hand, he’s anti-gay and he uses the word retarded.  That makes him as bad as any conservative.  Decisions, decisions…do they support this guy because he hates Jews and America, or do we vilify him because he’s a supporter of terrorism?

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