Posted AT 8:58 PM EDT on 27/09/07
So, really, who's the buffoon?
There was something way over the top in Western responses to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN visit this week: There seemed to be a bull's eye painted on him as soon as he arrived in New York. Everyone was trying a bit too hard, as if they had something to prove.
Columbia University president Lee Bollinger introduced Iran's leader by saying his school was showing the “courage to confront the mind of evil,” a fairly brazen way to welcome a campus guest.
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