That was one of the classic introductions of all time. The subtitle was "Welcome to our school.... Asshole!"
Among other goodies, Bollinger referenced Ahmadinejad's comments on the Holocaust, saying "You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated."
Half the undergrad audience laughed and started doing that thing we used to do in high school where you hold your middle finger with your thumb and flap your index finger against it. (Is there a name for that?)
Later the vice-president of the university was quoted as saying "Mahmoud be a salt bitch."
On Sept. 24, Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University where the school's head, Lee Bollinger introduced the visitor: 
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That was one of the classic introductions of all time. The subtitle was "Welcome to our school.... Asshole!"
Among other goodies, Bollinger referenced Ahmadinejad's comments on the Holocaust, saying "You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated."
Half the undergrad audience laughed and started doing that thing we used to do in high school where you hold your middle finger with your thumb and flap your index finger against it. (Is there a name for that?)
Later the vice-president of the university was quoted as saying "Mahmoud be a salt bitch."
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