How Ahmadinejad Played US Media Suckers
This Los Angeles Times writer will probably have his car keyed within the week….
Ahmadinejad walks away with a win
By Tim Rutten
September 29, 2007
One of the world’s truly dangerous men, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left New York a clear winner this week, and he can thank the arrogance of the American academy and most of the U.S. news media’s studied indifference for his victory.
If the blood-drenched history of the century just past had taught American academics one thing, it should have been that the totalitarian impulse knows no accommodation with reason. You cannot change the totalitarian mind through dialogue or conversation, because totalitarianism — however ingenious the superstructure of faux ideas with which it surrounds itself — is a creature of the will and not the mind. That’s a large lesson, but what should have made Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia University this week a wholly avoidable debacle was the school’s knowledge of its own, very specific history.
President Bush will never be offered an invitation to come anywhere near Columbia, but world dictators like Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and their ilk will always be welcomed by liberal academia because they consider Bush the real evil in the world.
Ahmadinejad was almost laughed off the stage with some of his answers, and we know the press in Iran described his appearance as something else. Our media fawned over Mahmoud’s smile.
At least the Iranian press had a purpose. Our media is worthless.
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