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RUSH: Have you seen the stories, all the backlash, now at Lee Bollinger because he was rude to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? In the New York Sun today: ”Backlash Against Bollinger Hits Columbia.\u2019 A backlash against the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, who on Monday delivered a harsh rebuke to President Ahmadinejad, is coming from faculty members and students who said he struck an ‘insulting tone\u2019 and that his remarks amounted to ‘schoolyard taunts.\u2019 The fierceness of Mr. Bollinger\u2019s critique bought the Iranian some sympathy on campus that he didn\u2019t deserve, the critics said, and amounted to a squandered opportunity to provide a lesson in diplomacy.\u2019 This misses the point. Ed Koch has a piece today that talks about Bollinger was rude, you don\u2019t invite somebody into your house and treat them this way, you don\u2019t invite them to your school, but his main gripe was that Bollinger forgot to stand up for the US. He stood up for Israel but he didn\u2019t question Mahmoud\u2019s assertion he wanted to wipe America off the map, too. Death to America, death to America! <\/p>\n

There are others running around saying it was bad, it was horrible, you don\u2019t invite somebody in and treat them rudely like that. Everybody is missing the point. If you want to feel that way, I can understand if you have manners and culture, but that\u2019s not the point of this. Again, the point of this is the invitation should never have been given. Mahmoud was going to have media access all through his trip. He\u2019s a star to the Drive-By Media. Hell, last night Mahmoud, or maybe it was the night before, I\u2019m not sure which, threw a dinner party for 50 academics and journalists over at the Intercontinental Hotel. You ought to read in TIME Magazine the glowing report, the glowing review of Mahmoud: he\u2019s brilliant, he\u2019s fierce, he\u2019s articulate, he\u2019s everything Bush isn\u2019t. He refused to take questions. He did allow people to make statements to which he would respond. You could say what you wanted, but you couldn\u2019t ask any questions. It\u2019s a coveted invitation from his excellency, the president of Iran, the Islamic Republic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (interruption) Whether he did at the dinner or not, we\u2019ve got more side-by-sides coming up of Mahmoud and Democrats saying the identical things. But he\u2019s still on the warpath. <\/p>\n

I want to go back to this Bollinger business before we let this go. Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? As a human being — forget his title — who is he as a human being? He is a man who orders his opponents to be imprisoned, tortured, and killed. He is a man who wants Israel wiped off the map and is predicting that it\u2019s going to happen, and that he\u2019s going to be the one to do it. We all know that his country and he participate and allow the stoning of women who look the wrong way out of the burqa. We know that he executes homosexuals when they\u2019re uncovered. Wait \u2019til you hear when we get the audio sound bites, he was asked a question by a reporter about gays. Well, I\u2019ll just tell you. He said, ‘We really don\u2019t have that phenomenon.\u2019 Reporter says, ‘Well, I know some that are there.\u2019 And Mahmoud asks the reporter for their address so he can learn about this phenomenon that he didn\u2019t think is going on in Iran. So who is this guy? The guy is a state terrorist. He\u2019s a state sponsor of terrorism, and we\u2019re worried that he was treated rudely. I can understand that some people might think this. But we\u2019re missing the point here. <\/p>\n

Once again, we\u2019re focusing on ourselves. It\u2019s all about us and were we polite or not, and are we doing the right thing, are we making the world like us. Screw that! We\u2019re dealing with a situation like we\u2019re in with international terrorism threatening our existence. In addition to that, the whole platform was nothing more than a propaganda thing for Mahmoud. I guarantee you, he doesn\u2019t care he was treated rudely. He might say so, because he knows how to court Americans who have this, ‘I wonder what they think of me today? I wonder what they think of us?\u2019 Of course he\u2019s going to say that, but Mahmoud clearly enjoyed the opportunity for propaganda back to his targeted audience in the Middle East. It\u2019s still undecided and he\u2019s denying it, but he might have been one of the original terrorists that was involved in the kidnapping and holding of the American hostages during the Carter administration. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s photographic evidence that places Mahmoud at the embassy. He, of course, has denied this. I don\u2019t know. I think that when you look at the invitation, why Bollinger did what he did, we could go nuts analyzing this from our perspective. ‘Oh, so rude.\u2019 Yeah, I have no doubt that Bollinger\u2019s treatment of Mahmoud aided and abetted his propaganda and created sympathy for him. But is what Bollinger said untrue? Does it pass the truth test? What he said was true. I think that\u2019s what some people are having trouble dealing with, not all, but they just didn\u2019t want to hear it, makes them uncomfortable, confrontation wasn\u2019t necessary. Invite this guy to your academic institution, and you thus convey upon him the status of a scholar. The whole thing should never have happened, because Mahmoud was going to get his media circus whether he went to Columbia university or not. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, let me make this point. One of the things I said about Bollinger is, ‘What did he say that was untrue? What did Lee Bollinger say that was untrue, ladies and gentlemen?\u2019 You see, it made me think about something. I am routinely, by people who never have listened to this program, I am routinely tarred and feathered as impolite, racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobe, all the cliches. Some of the people who have listened to the program, and who offer incessant personal-attack criticism, I think do so because the truth is now considered to be impolite. <\/p>\n

In a world of political correctness, ladies and gentlemen, where everybody must be guarded about what they say, must ask ourselves, ‘Well, would it be improper to say what I really think? What if it offends somebody? I shall shut up. I shall thus silence myself, and I will not run the risk of offending anybody.\u2019 And so the truth often gets suppressed. Well, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, I don\u2019t describe to PC, I love the truth, and I love hearing myself articulate the truth. As such, I think, in our carefully controlled, and in our we-don\u2019t-want-to-be-hurt, we- don\u2019t-want-to-be-offended, we-don\u2019t-want-to-be-offensive society, we\u2019re always censoring ourselves because this is a slow and building process called political correctness, which is essentially censorship. I think the truth is now part of PC. You can\u2019t say the truth if you hurt somebody\u2019s feelings. You can\u2019t say the truth, because it\u2019s going to be thought of as rude to be so honest and truthful . <\/p>\n

When there is a fact, when there is a truth out there that the libs don\u2019t like, especially a fact or truth that refutes their lives, that they can\u2019t bat down any other way, they guilt everybody into shutting the hell up. So truth becomes a casualty, truth is impolite, truth is offensive. When we have truth on our side, we need to stop letting them get away with feeling us into being quiet. Now, this reaction that everybody is getting, or having to Bollinger, is missing the point. He didn\u2019t say anything that wasn\u2019t true. And to whom did he say it? It wasn\u2019t the chairman of the local garden club that came in there for a lecture. But, see, we don\u2019t even want to admit the truth of who Ahmadinejad is, some of us, because admitting the truth of who Ahmadinejad is might cause us to have to take it seriously, and I\u2019d rather be first in line at Blockbuster on Friday night than have to deal with this sort of stuff. So I think that\u2019s one of the factors here in all of this backlash. I realize that some of you, genuinely because of your manners and your upbringing, think it was a rude thing to do. I still think that having that as a primary reaction to what happened up there is missing the point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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