Up from a Squelch

Wingnuttia moves on from their last hysteria to their new hysteria: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's trip to NYC, where he will visit the UN (wingnuts grumble), is threatening to drop by Ground Zero (wingnuts shriek), and will also speak at Columbia University (wingnuts piddle in ecstatic horror).

Ahmadinejad is nuts, and his mumbling about going to the 9/11 site in defiance of the NYPD's refusal to allow him to go is an annoying PR stunt -- intended, I should imagine, in part to provoke the kind of response that might just make him look like a Statesman in comparison to any protesters who lose their sense of personal dignity, a tactic that by gosh just might work. 

Because in terms of sheer lunacy, there's not a spittle fleck's worth of difference between him and Greater Wingnuttia. The Columbia gig is a case in point. The Powerline boys are at their drippy best:

There is a suicidal mania that grips elite opinion in the United States. It is exemplified nowhere better than in our elite educational institutions.

"Suicidal mania"? Yes, the Iranian Islamofascist preznit is quite likely to gun down the entire Columbia faculty while he is there, and those appeasenik leftards will thank him and ask for more! Bang bang! Columbia's president though has imposed certain conditions upon the visit, even if these are not likely to satisfy Trunk Boy & Rocket-Man:

In order to have such a University-wide forum, we have insisted that a number of conditions be met, first and foremost that President Ahmadinejad agree to divide his time evenly between delivering remarks and responding to audience questions. I also wanted to be sure the Iranians understood that I would myself introduce the event with a series of sharp challenges to the President on issues including:

· the Iranian President's denial of the Holocaust;

· his public call for the destruction of the state of Israel;

· his reported support for international terrorism that targets innocent civilians and American troops;

· Iran's pursuit of nuclear ambitions in opposition to international sanction;

· his government's widely documented suppression of civil society and particularly of women's rights; and

· his government's imprisoning of journalists and scholars, including one of Columbia's own alumni, Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh.

OK then. Pammy Juggs would maybe prefer to nuke Ahmadinejad as soon as he steps to the podium, but perhaps there is also something to the University's approach.

But it falls to Michelle Malkin to make the definitive comment about dear old Columbia:

Why anyone would consider sending their kid there is beyond me.

Because you're sending yours somewhere else?

Comments

[Captain Goto]

[Rimshot]

[Tom Hilton]

The thing I find most amusing about this latest group hissy fit is that there was zero comment on Ahmadinejad's visit until the New York Sun reported that he was planning to visit ground zero...then they all leapt into action. And of course that report turned out to be false (his request had already been denied)...but hey, why should that make a difference?

[DrDick]

"Because you're sending yours somewhere else?"

Given the child's genetic inheritence, I'm thinking the West Spider's Breath Vo-Tech and Community College. That is if the little ratfucker can pass the entrance requirements.

[apishapa]

Funny. These people do not remember seeing thousnads of candles lit in Tehran for the victims of 9/11. Iran did not attack the United states and has never threatened to do so.

The person who should not be allowed to visit Ground Zero is George Bush because all of the blood shed by innocent people because of his neverending floggingof this tragedy in the name of war.

[SteveB]

Wingnuttia moves on from their last hysteria to their new hysteria...

John Edwards' haircut to Petraeus-Betrayus to Ahminedajad is the Tinkers to Evers to Chance of wingnut outrage.

[ts]

Steve, that's the greatest comment ever. Seriously.

[whiskey girl]

Oh who owns New York?
Oh who owns New York?
Oh who owns New York, the people say.

Oh we own New York,
Yes, we own New York,
C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A!

[MikeJ]

It's a pity that someone would want to use the WTC site for a political stunt.

[merlallen]

Sometimes I wonder just what the fuck is wrong with those sick bastards.
Not that I give a fuck. At least they are amusing.