Comments on: Did Bollinger Disgrace Himself in Genuflecting to Lobby? http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/did-bollinger-d.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Sun, 27 May 2012 21:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christopher Brown http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/did-bollinger-d.html/comment-page-1#comment-69514 Christopher Brown Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/27/did-bollinger-d.html#comment-69514 <p>Your speech shows you... a bully, a man who invites a guest into his house, then abuses him before a cheering crowd.</p> <p>http://www.counterpunch.org/ross09252007.html</p> <p>An Open Letter to Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University<br /> A Barbarous and Ignorant Speech</p> <p>By CLIFTON ROSS</p> Your speech shows you… a bully, a man who invites a guest into his house, then abuses him before a cheering crowd.

http://www.counterpunch.org/ross09252007.html

An Open Letter to Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University
A Barbarous and Ignorant Speech

By CLIFTON ROSS

]]> By: Richard Witty http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/did-bollinger-d.html/comment-page-1#comment-69515 Richard Witty Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/27/did-bollinger-d.html#comment-69515 <p>A little long. A little confrontational.</p> <p>Minor sins.</p> <p>The reality of Ahmadinejad is the focus.</p> <p>He spoke candidly, and revealingly. You and I saw the same speech.</p> <p>"There are no homosexuals in our country" (They were all killed or in insane asylums.)</p> <p>"Iran values human rights", except for the ? killed in the original revolutionary purge.</p> <p>The elephant in the room is not Bollinger.</p> A little long. A little confrontational.

Minor sins.

The reality of Ahmadinejad is the focus.

He spoke candidly, and revealingly. You and I saw the same speech.

"There are no homosexuals in our country" (They were all killed or in insane asylums.)

"Iran values human rights", except for the ? killed in the original revolutionary purge.

The elephant in the room is not Bollinger.

]]> By: MM http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/did-bollinger-d.html/comment-page-1#comment-69516 MM Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/27/did-bollinger-d.html#comment-69516 <p>Right Witty, the elephant in the room is not American militarism and imperialism or Zionist colonialism, either. It's not nukes, it's not Mossadegh, it's not the economic warfare on Iran that hardly anyone is even writing about...</p> <p>The elephant in the room must be a great big rotting wooly mammoth carcass, unearthed just now to herald the caveman tactics of our pro-Zionist state media, who wield a brutish, bludgeoning club on anyone who doesn't obediently submit to the absurd mythology.</p> Right Witty, the elephant in the room is not American militarism and imperialism or Zionist colonialism, either. It's not nukes, it's not Mossadegh, it's not the economic warfare on Iran that hardly anyone is even writing about…

The elephant in the room must be a great big rotting wooly mammoth carcass, unearthed just now to herald the caveman tactics of our pro-Zionist state media, who wield a brutish, bludgeoning club on anyone who doesn't obediently submit to the absurd mythology.

]]> By: Christopher Brown http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/did-bollinger-d.html/comment-page-1#comment-69517 Christopher Brown Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/27/did-bollinger-d.html#comment-69517 <p> Rarely do we have an opportunity such as this to greet a figure of such central and global importance. It is with great gratitude and excitement that I welcome President Musharraf and his wife, Sehbah Musharraf, to Columbia University. ...</p> <p> We at Columbia are eager to listen. As a community of scholars and as students and faculty who come from everywhere in the world, we take a great scholarly and personal interest in what the President has to say. The development in Pakistan over the past several years, from its economic growth to its fight against extremism and terrorism, are vital issues for all of us. Mr. President, as you share your thoughts and insights you will give our students, the leaders of tomorrow, first-hand knowledge of the world their generation will inherit.</p> <p>"President Musharraf is a leader of global importance and his contribution to Pakistan’s economic turnaround and the international fight against terror remain remarkable - it is rare that we have a leader of his stature at campus," said Lee C Bollinger, the President of Columbia University.</p> <p>http://www.distantocean.com/2007/09/lee-bollinger-f.html</p> Rarely do we have an opportunity such as this to greet a figure of such central and global importance. It is with great gratitude and excitement that I welcome President Musharraf and his wife, Sehbah Musharraf, to Columbia University. …

We at Columbia are eager to listen. As a community of scholars and as students and faculty who come from everywhere in the world, we take a great scholarly and personal interest in what the President has to say. The development in Pakistan over the past several years, from its economic growth to its fight against extremism and terrorism, are vital issues for all of us. Mr. President, as you share your thoughts and insights you will give our students, the leaders of tomorrow, first-hand knowledge of the world their generation will inherit.

"President Musharraf is a leader of global importance and his contribution to Pakistan’s economic turnaround and the international fight against terror remain remarkable – it is rare that we have a leader of his stature at campus," said Lee C Bollinger, the President of Columbia University.

http://www.distantocean.com/2007/09/lee-bollinger-f.html

]]> By: Christopher Brown http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/did-bollinger-d.html/comment-page-1#comment-69518 Christopher Brown Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/27/did-bollinger-d.html#comment-69518 <p> Rarely do we have an opportunity such as this to greet a figure of such central and global importance. It is with great gratitude and excitement that I welcome President Musharraf and his wife, Sehbah Musharraf, to Columbia University. ...</p> <p> We at Columbia are eager to listen. As a community of scholars and as students and faculty who come from everywhere in the world, we take a great scholarly and personal interest in what the President has to say. The development in Pakistan over the past several years, from its economic growth to its fight against extremism and terrorism, are vital issues for all of us. Mr. President, as you share your thoughts and insights you will give our students, the leaders of tomorrow, first-hand knowledge of the world their generation will inherit.</p> <p>"President Musharraf is a leader of global importance and his contribution to Pakistan’s economic turnaround and the international fight against terror remain remarkable - it is rare that we have a leader of his stature at campus," said Lee C Bollinger, the President of Columbia University.</p> <p>http://www.distantocean.com/2007/09/lee-bollinger-f.html</p> Rarely do we have an opportunity such as this to greet a figure of such central and global importance. It is with great gratitude and excitement that I welcome President Musharraf and his wife, Sehbah Musharraf, to Columbia University. …

We at Columbia are eager to listen. As a community of scholars and as students and faculty who come from everywhere in the world, we take a great scholarly and personal interest in what the President has to say. The development in Pakistan over the past several years, from its economic growth to its fight against extremism and terrorism, are vital issues for all of us. Mr. President, as you share your thoughts and insights you will give our students, the leaders of tomorrow, first-hand knowledge of the world their generation will inherit.

"President Musharraf is a leader of global importance and his contribution to Pakistan’s economic turnaround and the international fight against terror remain remarkable – it is rare that we have a leader of his stature at campus," said Lee C Bollinger, the President of Columbia University.

http://www.distantocean.com/2007/09/lee-bollinger-f.html

]]> By: Kevin http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/did-bollinger-d.html/comment-page-1#comment-69519 Kevin Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/27/did-bollinger-d.html#comment-69519 <p>Bollinger was a hectoring fool; the whole thing stank of self-regard and a bloated ego. He thought he'd constructed the perfect setting for himself -- create a false "free speech" issue that he could act as the liberal savior for (after last year when he more or less pushed out the Lisa Anderson, dean who had invited Ahmadinejad) and then play to his "base" of zionists who desperately need to believe that a new Hitler is rising and that they are physically and existentially threatened by him, by using his vomitorium for a flatulent display of bravado. Now he can enter the board meeting with one or two new allies; I only hope the board as a whole sees what a poseur and a embarrassment Bollinger has become: I think it will be his defining moment, much though he should be remembered better for his pathetic performance during the David Project fiasco . </p> <p>And don't get me started on Manhattanville. </p> <p>Richard Witty: yawn. </p> Bollinger was a hectoring fool; the whole thing stank of self-regard and a bloated ego. He thought he'd constructed the perfect setting for himself — create a false "free speech" issue that he could act as the liberal savior for (after last year when he more or less pushed out the Lisa Anderson, dean who had invited Ahmadinejad) and then play to his "base" of zionists who desperately need to believe that a new Hitler is rising and that they are physically and existentially threatened by him, by using his vomitorium for a flatulent display of bravado. Now he can enter the board meeting with one or two new allies; I only hope the board as a whole sees what a poseur and a embarrassment Bollinger has become: I think it will be his defining moment, much though he should be remembered better for his pathetic performance during the David Project fiasco .

And don't get me started on Manhattanville.

Richard Witty: yawn.

]]> By: bob f. http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/did-bollinger-d.html/comment-page-1#comment-69520 bob f. Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/27/did-bollinger-d.html#comment-69520 <p>What also should be noted is that former Columbia University President (and former Mobil Oil board member) Grayson Kirk gave Iran's former "great dictator"--the Shah of Iran--an honorary "Doctor of Laws" degree two years after the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran brought the Shah back to power. And in 1977 former Columbia University President (and former Texaco board member) William McGill again expressed Columbia University's institutional support for the Shah of Iran's police state by giving a Columbia University "presidential citation" to the Shah of Iran's wife, Empress Farah Pahlavi. Bollinger, incidentally, also sits on the board of directors of the Washington Post Company/Newsweek media conglomerate, which often reflects both CIA and Zionist lobby priorities in its editorial policies.</p> What also should be noted is that former Columbia University President (and former Mobil Oil board member) Grayson Kirk gave Iran's former "great dictator"–the Shah of Iran–an honorary "Doctor of Laws" degree two years after the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran brought the Shah back to power. And in 1977 former Columbia University President (and former Texaco board member) William McGill again expressed Columbia University's institutional support for the Shah of Iran's police state by giving a Columbia University "presidential citation" to the Shah of Iran's wife, Empress Farah Pahlavi. Bollinger, incidentally, also sits on the board of directors of the Washington Post Company/Newsweek media conglomerate, which often reflects both CIA and Zionist lobby priorities in its editorial policies.

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