A lot of what comes out of Ann Coulter's mouth defies easy fact-checking -- for instance her claim that Hillary Clinton is a secret Marxist who'd let a dirty bomb into Manhattan given half a chance.
But Coulter's account of how an audience of Columbia University students greeted Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech is just flat-out disprovable hooey.
You know. I give a lot of college speeches. I know how colleges bear and there is the least free speech on a college campus as any place in America. It is like Iran -- so for them to be saying they are allowing this guy to communicate because of free speech you know your head explodes.... And if you watched the speech he was wildly applauded for every anti-American remark -- the only one that upset them was when he didn't endorse sodomy.
Interesting. So you might think then that he would be applauded for this say a not-very-veiled accounting of American misdeeds:
[I]n today's world ruling powers.. wish to justify their own wrongdoings though by creating nonexistent enemies for example and have insecure atmosphere. They try to control all in the label of combatting insecurity and terrorism. They even violate individual and social freedoms in their own nations under that pretext. They do not consider the privacy of their own populate. They tap telephone calls and try to control their people. They create an insecure psychological atmosphere in order to justify their warmongering acts in different parts of the world.
But he's not. Watch for yourself; the passage comes at 3:10.
In fact of the ovations Ahmadinejad received three were for expressions of give for Palestine and criticisms of Israel; one occurred when defending Iran's executions he noted that the U. S also practices capital punishment; one came when he criticized the U. S for aiding a "terrorist" group the People's Mujahedin of Iran; and one came when Ahmadinejad got the bell letting him know his time was up.
Ahmadinejad was also applauded for wishing the students good luck in their future endeavors and for objecting to Columbia president Lee Bollinger's lengthy and denunciatory introduction -- which by the way received numerous ovations from the supposedly pro-Iranian anti-U. S crowd.
Ann Coulter photo by Scott M. Lieberman/Associated Press
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