Columbia University and Ahmadinejab

I may need to apologize to Columbia University. When given a chance to get up in front of an audience of American college kids, the president of Iran managed to make himself look like a complete tool. I don't know if that was Columbia's President Lee Bollinger's aim, but it was certainly the result. Judging from his introduction I think that he had an idea what Ahmadinejad's speech would sound like. "We have no homosexuals" and "What Holocaust?" He might be somewhat deluded and hyper religious, but Ahmadinejad isn't stupid. My best guess is that he just doesn't realize the demographics would include a sizable number of both Jews and homosexuals, at least compared with a representative sample of the rest of America. Then again, maybe he did and was just playing to the home audience knowing that in America, not even Bush-hating lefties would warm up to him. (for an exception read here)
In Iran there probably aren't as many open homosexuals as there are in NYC, not least due to the unfortunate risk of stone-based kinetic energy poisoning so common in Tehran. As for hoping that New Yorkers will buy the story that there was no Holocaust, tell them that Babe Ruth never lived and 9-11 never happened.
I'll say this about Ahmadinejad; he does have balls. While I'd like to think that someday an American-built smart bomb will blow them off, its more likely that he will die in bed. Just not in another guy's bed because they don't have that in Iran.