(2007-09-24) — Columbia University promised a full investigation into charges of police brutality after today’s reported Tasering of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had come to the Ivy League school to give the annual Adolph Hitler Memorial Peace and Tolerance Lecture.
Like a similar incident at the University of Florida last week, the stun-gun assault by police followed a lengthy anti-American rant by the alleged victim, and was immediately condemned by civil rights advocates.
According to eyewitnesses, Mr. Ahmadinejad was dragged from the room shouting: “Do not make to Tase myself, slang brother man.”
It was not immediately known whether the victim was legitimately attempting to exercise his freedom of speech or if, as one unnamed witness said, “he’s little more than a publicity hound and prankster who will do anything to get news coverage.”
54 responses so far ↓
1 RedPepper // Sep 24, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Support freedom of speech!
In Iran !
2 Gotcha // Sep 24, 2007 at 12:54 pm
The annual AHMaPTL…nuts!! I was hoping for an anagram/acronym I could put on a bumper sticker!! Spot on as usual, Maestro Ott!!
And God Bless America!!
And belated Happy Blogging Anniversary last Friday!!
3 its-just-me // Sep 24, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Amen to post #1
4 Just Ranting // Sep 24, 2007 at 1:32 pm
It is reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the “students” that overthrew the American Embassy and imprisoned American citizens on November 4, 1979. They were only released when Ayatolah Khomeni set them free on Ronald Reagan’s inaugural day January 20, 1981. 63 hostages were taken, and 52 were held the entire 444 days.
It seems like turnabout would be fair play. Let the Columbia University students rush the stage and take him captive so that he can stand trial for atrocities he has committed against US, Iraqi and Iranian citizens. He should serve one day for each day each hostage was held. He should serve his time in an Iraqi prison (ours are far too cushy for his kind). His time should be served sequentially. That would be approximately 72-77 years.
Lastly, for the duration of the sentence, he should be forced to wear the same uniforms the Philadelphia Eagles wore in yesterday’s game. No…that would probably violate some Geneva Convention rule on prisoner abuse.
5 Gotcha // Sep 24, 2007 at 1:43 pm
So, how soon will the president of Columbia be fired for daring to insult this (slimey little punk) scion of freedom?! What’s up with that?! Is this a set up? Who is this Lee Bollinger(sp) guy anyway?!
6 random // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:22 pm
If wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets.
7 “Do not make to Tase myself, slang brother man.” : The Sundries Shack // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:29 pm
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8 avought // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:30 pm
This made me laugh a great deal at work just now. I read the headline and giggled to the point that a guy in the next cubicle looked to see what I was doing. To see that violent anti-Semite flopping about like a fish and dancing to the tune of a taser would be so very funny.
It’s a lot nicer than what his regime does to the oppressed Iranian people.
9 Effeminem // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:35 pm
I dunno, it strikes me as extremely tacky and John-Kerryish to
1) Invite a crazed dictator to give a speech
2) Defend the “free exchange of ideas” (even though inviting him supports those ridiculous ideas implicitly)
3) Notice that the public is outraged
4) Switch sides and denounce your guest
5) but still allow him to speak
It’s not like Columbia’s learned a lesson from this. I’d like to say “I’d expect a grown man to resist peer pressure” but I honestly don’t expect that any more.
10 woodnwheel // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:49 pm
avought: a wholehearted AMEN to your post (and to post #1)
11 woodnwheel // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:51 pm
P.S.: “To see that violent anti-Semite flopping about like a fish and dancing to the tune of a taser would be so very funny.”
I didn’t mention that when I read that line, I nearly burst out laughing… What a great mental image!
12 mig // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:52 pm
With you on that summation Effeminem…Vocal tasering.
13 da Bunny // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Last night I watched the first episode of Ken Burns’ “The War” on PBS, and I can’t help but think how low our liberals have sunk when they invite Ahm-a-dhimmicrat to speak at an Ivy League university, and brag that they would have invited Hitler, too. Despicable…
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15 Fred Sinclair // Sep 24, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Just Ranting #4 Good idea, problem is - it makes too much sense.
“There aren’t any homosexuals in Iran.” Well, of course there aren’t, the ones that were there have all been murdered via the headsman’s axe.
Perhaps The New York Times could “leak” classified information. “It is reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that after spending time with a Christian missionary Mahmoud has renounced Islam and is now a born again Christian. A Baptist who plans to return to Iran as a Missionary.”
I propose that the “leak” would be entirely within NYT responsible comittment to truth.
Heirborn Ranger
16 “Do Not Make to Tase Myself, Slang Brother Man.” » The American Mind // Sep 24, 2007 at 3:33 pm
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17 mig // Sep 24, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Three years the National Education Association will be more irrelevant than it is now in a roundabout way. Can Columbia remain relevant?
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19 Sally Struthers // Sep 24, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Shame on you all! SHAME!!!
Columbia is one of the nation’s finest institutions of higher learning.
After all, any institution that can train young minds of this caliber is not to be trifled with.
20 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 24, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Hmm, I always thought Columbia was a river not an Ivy League School. After all Woody Guthrie never composed any socialistic dust bowl songs about the school
21 Beerme // Sep 24, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Sally,
Let’s not forget that the following were also Comlumbia grads:
U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ,
former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
UN weapons inspector Hans Blix,
former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
George Stephanopoulos
A mind is a terrible thing to waste…
22 Beerme // Sep 24, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Er…make that “Columbia”. Never should’ve had that fifth beer!
23 Mack // Sep 24, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Americans are spoiled rotten. They call 911 and help comes. If the police even say offensive things people sue and cops are fired or prosecuted. Our soil has not been polluted by the foot of an invading army since the war of 1812. Our people are spoiled rotten.
If you want to know how spoiled just watch any press conference where the President is cross examined by reporters who have no respect for him let alone fear of him. In pre invasion Iraq people would have been hanged or worse if the government even thought they did not support Saddam.
Such things still happen in Syria, Iran, and any where our enemies have power. America is spoiled, but they will be spoiled in a new way if we are forced to withdraw before the enemy is defeated.
Their families will be spoiled and sacked by who ever has the fire power and the will to use it. The first people to be spoiled will be the liberals who now flaunt their amoral life styles. These are the very people the enemy have targeted in their societies and the people the enemy raves about in their news releases. Americans are spoiled in that the lights come on when the switch is flipped. They take for granted that everything they have from fast food to High Definition TV to the internet just is and expect it all to work without any effort on their part.
Even after rebuilding Iraq doesn’t have that assurance. We turn on the faucet and water flows. We spend billions each year on weight loss products because we have more food than sense to eat wisely. Only in America are poor people fat. Yes our nation is spoiled but the enemy wants to redefine that into suffering. We will get what we deserve if we do not stand up now and let the left know it.
Liberals are bound and determined to be the Captain on the Titanic.
Evil Triumphs when Good Men Do Nothing.
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25 random // Sep 24, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Next Columbia will give Chavez an honorary degree in political science, Castro in business management and Amamadjihadist in theology.
26 Maggie // Sep 24, 2007 at 9:21 pm
random re#6
If wishes and buts were candy and nuts,we’d all have a merrier Christmas.
27 Maggie // Sep 24, 2007 at 9:36 pm
This bit of OT just popped into my rememory.
Remember the Shaw of Iran and his wife,who fled to the USA years ago? He wrote a book about his escape
“I Ran from Iran”.(sub-titled……don’t taze me bro) It’s late….sorry.
28 Maggie // Sep 24, 2007 at 9:39 pm
BTW Sally….How is the Meathead?
Good Night everybody.
29 conserve-a-tips // Sep 24, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Well, I was simply horn-swaggled when I heard the Columbia president’s diatribe toward the diminuative Ahm-a-durn-nut-job. I was wondering if I was really listening to an episode of the Twilight Zone when I happened to catch a tiny article about the NY legislature and town council looking at defunding Columbia University. I guess they decided that tax money didn’t need to be going toward scholarships to this liberal university because this liberal university needs some lessons from Emily Post. Money has a funny way of changing liberals’ philosophies, don’t ya know?
Heh, if you want to see the cool baking project that Ms Rightwing, Ink and I have undertaken, just take a gander. I’m the cute blonde who is licking her fingers and Ms Rightwing, Ink is the sexy one sifting powdered sugar over the creation!
30 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 24, 2007 at 10:19 pm
conserve-a-tips
Hush now, automotive cake is not in today’s story at the cafe. I don’t want it let out that we are building cars out of Lady Fingers and pastry cream. It may not pass the mandatory government 5 m.p.h. crash test
31 conserve-a-tips // Sep 24, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Well, you mentioned sorghum in your piece and I noticed that they were pouring something that looked like that into the “oil chamber”. I figured that the car was an example of a real “cream puff”. I noticed that the gears were “jammed” and that the headlights had the air of “all that wiggles.” Heh, and did you notice that I had you as the sexy one???
32 conserve-a-tips // Sep 24, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Night all. My head hurts from all of that sugar. Have a good one!
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34 camojack // Sep 24, 2007 at 11:45 pm
So…Ahmadingaling was made to look the fool, eh?
I’m guessing it didn’t require much effort…
35 jcoxcollectibles // Sep 25, 2007 at 12:23 am
I heard Columbia University President Lee Bollinger’s speech on the radio tonight and was very impressed
36 jcoxcollectibles // Sep 25, 2007 at 12:30 am
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger had an obligation to set the tone for AwkDinnerJacket’s visit, and I think Lee did a grand job of doing that. He was appauded may times, and I wish more people could hear this incredible speech. It was on the radio talk show “The Jerry Doyle Show” tonight. Perhaps they’ll play it again sometime, maybe Jerry Doyle will have it on his website, and maybe “Coast-to-Coast” will have it on their website.
37 Terry_Jim // Sep 25, 2007 at 12:36 am
I’d like to see him hauled out of the U.N.
as he turns to the U.S. delegation screaming,
“Don’t NUKE me Dude!!”
38 INJUSTICE PREVAILS // Sep 25, 2007 at 12:52 am
President Ahmadinejad,
President Ahmadinejad,
I have a follow up question
To your response there are
“No Homosexuals” in Iran
Sir if there are “No Homosexuals” in Iran
how come Ive never seen you with a woman—ever?
in fact how come Ive never seen “any” Iranian leaders with woman-ever?
39 mig // Sep 25, 2007 at 5:01 am
The kind of woman that would find Amanutjob intellectually stimulating and could melt looking into those eyes is either a zombie or a man.
40 mig // Sep 25, 2007 at 5:03 am
And as far as Bollinger goes, there is something fishy here. I can’t put my finger on it. But it doesn’t seem right. There was something superficial and staged about that speech. Time will tell.
41 mig // Sep 25, 2007 at 5:08 am
Ah, back to media mentality. Man, I knew the Libs weren’t getting it.
The court martial of one of the accused soldiers, Spec. Jorge Sandoval Jr., is scheduled to begin in Baghdad on Wednesday. Also facing premeditated murder charges are Vela and Staff Sgt. Michael Hensley.
42 Fred Sinclair // Sep 25, 2007 at 5:20 am
# 38 INJUSTICE PREVAILS = Very good point! In fact, as you say, ” Ive never seen “any” Iranian leaders with woman–ever?”
They treat their dogs, horses and camels with more respect than they do women. The mere sight of a woman is so revolting and such a turn off that to keep their ugliness from poluting the scenery they force FORCE! women to cover their faceswith the hated burka.
I lived in a Muslim country (Libya) for 18 months (1961-1963) I wish someone had asked him for details on the Muslim teaching on how Mohammud is to be “born” when he comes back to earth? and how come if there are no homosexuals in Iran, the Muslim men wear the balooning baggy pants tied tightly at each ankle?
I know, and so does he but he won’t tell you. Also, why is it that Muslim men are forbidden to even touch a woman during their holy month of Ramadan?
(Ramadan |ˈräməˌdän; ˈraməˌdan| noun the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset. ORIGIN from Arabic ramaḍān, from ramaḍa ‘be hot.’ The lunar reckoning of the Muslim calendar brings the fast eleven days earlier each year, eventually causing Ramadan to occur in any season; originally it was supposed to be in one of the hot months.)
Their fasting from food for the month of Ramadan is from dawn to dusk but the fasting from sex with a woman is 100% of the entire month.
Heirborn Ranger
43 Hawkeye // Sep 25, 2007 at 7:34 am
Hey Scott. Sorry I got here late but… Wow! ANOTHER CLASSIC! Terrific!
44 ref // Sep 25, 2007 at 7:44 am
Camo,
“Ahmadingaling” That’s a great one! Now I can’t get the song out of my head.
(Which is bad…cause in my head, Mahmound is doing the video.)
45 camojack // Sep 25, 2007 at 8:39 am
Camo,
“Ahmadingaling” That’s a great one! Now I can’t get the song out of my head.
(Which is bad…cause in my head, Mahmound is doing the video.)
Comment by ref — September 25, 2007 @ 7:44 am
Got a case of “earworm” now, eh what? Sorry…
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47 random // Sep 25, 2007 at 10:13 am
Iranian President makes nice.
48 random // Sep 25, 2007 at 10:15 am
I love it, homos’ are included in “other matters” I presume. Certainly a far cry from Top Billing which is what they have become accustomed to here.
49 random // Sep 25, 2007 at 10:16 am
AND no for all those reading this that don’t know me, I am not homophobic, just worn out.
50 Darthmeister // Sep 25, 2007 at 11:20 am
Did anyone hear the soundbites of the whiny/weenie leftist questions that were asked of Ahmadamnutjob? What a joke! Yeah, those weenie leftists really stuck it to the Iranian Thug-in-Chief.
Question: How do you treat homosexuals in Iran. Do they have civil rights?
Answer: We do not have homosexuality in Iran like you do here in America.
Translation: We kill homosexuals as soon as we find them. Problem solved.
51 Darthmeister // Sep 25, 2007 at 11:21 am
#35,
You’re pretty easy to impress, uhn?
52 EXT // Sep 25, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Great that freedom of speech is still alive in America!
I’m puzzled, though, that Ahmadinejad was not, after having had his say, taken into custody on 3,000 counts of suspicion of murder in the first degree.
Surely The ACLU would have ridden to his rescue with bail money……
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54 mig // Sep 26, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Columbia University and CBS’ “60 Minutes” are giving Ahmadinejad added propaganda platforms. If either of these self-proclaimed bastions of free speech were truly interested in stimulating a debate on controversial issues, they would have invited a top Israeli leader, a Holocaust survivor and an Iranian dissident to debate Ahmadinejad face-to-face with no conditions. Instead, this wretched terrorist sponsor, human rights abuser and Holocaust denier will go largely unchallenged while he tries to portray himself as a reasonable leader open to peaceful dialogue.
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