Meet My Fellow Blogger

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Really.

His blog is even more permissive than Andrew's. He allows comments.

I wonder how long it takes DHS to note the fact I link to Iran's glorious leader's blog in my file?

Al Jazeera on Ahmadinejad

The Iranian president was "reaching out" to Americans and met with vilification, mostly from American Jews.

That's the way Al Jazeera sees it.

So Why Invite the Iranian President?

"Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator," Bollinger told Ahmadinejad from a podium across the stage. He said that the Iranian's denial of the Holocaust might fool "the illiterate and ignorant," but that "when you come to a place like this, it makes you quite simply ridiculous." Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust suggested he was either "brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated," Bollinger said.

The university president's caustic comments were met with cheers and sustained applause from the roughly 700 people in the audience, most of them students.

So if he's so ridiculous, why did you invite him? These comments make the whole thing seem like a stunt.

And, of course, Ahmadinejad's remarks -- and the laughter that ensued in his denial of the existence of Gay Iranians -- only helped prove how ridiculous he is.

Free speech has a way of doing that.