Submitted by Dcarpenter, Nov 13, 2007 00:49

The old phrase attributed to native Americans - "white man speak with forked tongue" - in old B-movies may have value in describing the members of Columbia U's staff who signed the "Statement of Concern." Undoubtedly they pride themselves on their diversity and their willingness to let anyone speak, even the obscene and anti-Jew, anti-American, anti-Christian leader of Iran. Yet they feel noble about their desire to deprive the University's president of that same right and privilege. Let the tyrant speak, but punish the president for speaking. Hmmm. And they chide the president (statement 4) because his remarks seemed to take "partisan political positions," yet they take a strong and obvious political position in deriding the "Bush administration's war" in statement 3. So let's see, they are allowed to have a "University position," but he is not. Ahmadinejab is allowed to speak his mind, but Bollinger is not? Sounds like faculty members speak with forked tongue.

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