Please deal me in.

Saturday nights are lonely for you, huh?

Not even in the same hemisphere.

You're making the fundamental mistake of thinking I'm still taking you seriously, or that Kevin or anybody else needs back-up to be protected from your rapier wit or your superior intellect. KSig is right -- you've had lots of good stuff to say many times, but in this and a few other threads lately, what you seem to think are stunning retorts are at best playground comebacks that everybody except Pee Wee Herman left behind in 6th grade and are at worst incomprehensible.

Maybe you've got some insight to offer here, but if so, you're burying it under all the garbage.

LOL! I tend to think protesting had it's day, but it's not as significant anymore.

well take the garbage and yourself out please.... 'preciate it peanutshelll

NOT SO WITTY RETORT

/I've considered it a standing invitation at this point.
//He called your posts the garbage... so did you just ask him to remove you?

I think you're right. I think as far as he's concerned, it is all about him, including coming to the US. He can show all the true believers back home how he came into the heart of the Great Satan and stood his ground.

I swear, when I was listening to him, I was reminded of a much scarier version of somebody like Rush Limbaugh. Not that I think Limbaugh is a crazy anti-American or supports terrorism or anything like that -- I want to be clear on that -- but there was that sense of "I'm right, nobody can convince me otherwise, and anyone who doesn't agree with me is evil, stupid or deluded." The true believers eat that stuff up.

Of course you don't, man - that was the whole point of my post!

Stop with the ridiculous personal attacks, because there's no way to back them up, and they detract from your point. If it's the greatest "zinger" in the world, it still doesn't invalidate another's point on its own - you have to prove your side.

You can't do that through insults, or taunting, or name-calling, or simply saying others don't understand. At some point, everyone else not understanding should indicate a problem with either the message or the messenger - it's Occam's Razor, and it should be a rule we all live by.

I tell you what...you start...and If I like where you are going...I will go with you

I saw an article that put it like this: instead of us talking about freedom of speech in Iran, we're debating freedom of speech in America... and that's what he wanted.

His responses on the Holocaust (that if it's real then why can't it stand up to alternate research) and homosexuals (we don't have them in Iran) were just pathetic, but you know they won't come off that way to those who hear it in Iran (edited to leave out the intro I'm sure)

^ Yeah, that's why I think Columbia made the correct decision to have this guy over. Allowing students to ask him questions regarding homosexuality in Iran, the holocaust, etc., helps us to see that he's not the sympathetic figure some would want him to be. It would be hard to conclude based on those few minutes of dialog that Mahmud (not even going to attempt his last name) is anything more than your garden variety religious zealot.

He is essentially the Muslim version of what we would have today if this country had elected Pat Robertson as Commander in Chief.

He didn't answer any of the questions.

And he and his country are involved in the daily murder of Americans as well as many others. Beyond denying the Holocaust, he's advocated mass genocide and is now about to be the proud owner of a nuclear bomb.

The only person that's any scarier in this world is N. Korea's Kim Jong Il.

-Rudey
--Enough talk about lawyers and their salaries, I have you all beat ;)

When did he advocate mass genocide? Excuse my ignorance.

He wants to wipe Israel off the map. I think in this speech he limited it to "Politically wiping them off the map" By elections. No one needs to die.


Right. That'll happen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6181029.stm
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={3C5833AB-CD3F-462F-874C-580756020566}

I mean, listen, basically it's really hard to get people in Europe to agree with Bush on anything. Somehow they are all freaked out by him and Iran.

And in regards to gays, if anyone wants to know, there are gays in Iran but they have wives/families. It's what you do in Muslim countries I guess. But being completely gay is asking for death, although they're willing to pay for you to get your gender changed.

-Rudey

He shouldn't have been invited to speak. Free speech on AMERICAN soil doesn't apply to terrorists and known supporters of terrorism. This goes to how I feel about any noncitizen who comes here, when you're HERE you will be treated as a human being but not necessarily given the same citizenship rights as citizens receive or given a platform to speak. Just like how Americans are often treated when we go to OTHER countries, especially Americans who are accused of tormenting or encouraging the torment of the citizens of other countries.

The president of Columbia is a cowardly moron. He waits until he's introducing the speaker to make negative remarks that will appease his critics.

Iran doesn't have gay people, everyone. Announcement.

Why did it seem like almost every news analyst on Fox News an alum of Columbia University?

Thanks for the link.