Speech

On the road again, this time in the rather fetching city of Vancouver, where over dinner we discussed the speech at Columbia University by this asshole nutjob of an Iranian President who's name I can't be bothered to type since I'm blogging by Blackberry. The upshot from across the table was (1) he shouldn't have been allowed to speak there in the first place and (2) the university President introducing him seemed wacked to be insulting him in his intro, having invited him in the first place.

My thoughts, in reverse order, are that (2) I'm assuming the Columbia President felt a need to innoculate himself, whatever the resulting media dissonance, and (1) as odious as the Iranian President's speech might be, including his threat to wipe Israel off the map, since he hasn't directly threatened the United States itself, and since many political speakers offend someone or some group as much as he offends Jews in NYC, it is better as usual to let daylight be the best disinfectant.

Just as Hugo Chavez made himself lool like a fool to all but his ardent supporters when he spouted hyperbolic at the U.N. last year, so too did this guy look like a dipshit for dodging direct questions and, best of all, denying that any homosexuality exists in Iran, which drew outright laughter in the room.

Oddly enough, if anything could have made him seem like a moron...that was it.

More fun to come with this U.N. visit, f'sure.