So Iranian leader Ahmadinejad is going to speak at Columbia University. And the usual suspects are calling this "free speech". And I'm betting that the peaceniks on the left will flock to see it in spite of the fact that the thug is working to get nukes and has promised to give the technology to their terrorist friends when they figure out how it works.

Yeah I know - all those charges are false. They're just made up by propagandists from Halliburton and the Bush administration to make money and oppress minorities. The Iranian leader has tan skin and is a member of a minority religion here in the United States - so he's obviously just a victim.

The left is going to eat this guy up. On the eve of coming here, he's spouting all kinds of Democrat talking points: from not caring about Katrina victims to natinationalizing health care. As typical, the libs aren't nervous to hear one of the biggest troublemakers in the world agrees with them. In fact libs seem to take comfort in this fact.

Anyone else see the double standard? When a third world warlord comes here giving left wing talking points we're supposed to listen. When a racist white supremacy group gives support to a right wing cause (like say Illegal Immigration), conservatives are supposed to be shamed and dropped their position.

So Columbia is backing up "free speech" eh? There are tons of controversial people here in the United States that never seem to get invited speak at there. Would they invite a pro life speaker to talk there? How about someone who supports Bush and spying? How about someone who is opposed to Affirmative Action?

Somehow I don't think so. Those speakers are "hateful."

Columbia University is an Ivy league school. Like most Universities, it is a private institution that sucks up tons of government grants every year. And every year it rejects thousands of good, honest, hard working American students. People who are trying to better themselves. These are the same people giving that tax money that Columbia so eagerly sucks up. Some of these people are poor and have no rich relatives to grease the right palms insuring that they'll get in. These people will never get on to Columbia campus, much less be invited to speak there at a large forum. In fact, despite the fact that Columbia is lecturing us all on "free speech" I do believe the Ahmadinejad's lecture is closed to the public. So he has the right to speak, but the rest of us peons have no right to hear even if we're paying for what's being said. That seems unjust.

And the University stands by its decision.

And what do they think Ahmadinejad going to say? We're talking about a man who held a military parade showing off his new weapons, including a missile he proudly claims can hit Israel - a state he admits he wants gone. You think that would upset peaceniks here in the United States - but instead they'll be flocking to see this guy. I'm sure that there is more than one unbiased, non partisan left wing professor that will require their students to go and see this guy (and test them on what he says.)

Question: What will Columbia do if several angry students charge the stage? Will they try to stop the students? Have security take them out? Almost a year ago speakers from the Minutemen had their speech interrupted when angry students stormed the stage. University officials defended themselves by stating "it's not our responsibility to defend their free speech" or some nonsense like that. Be interesting to see if Ahmadinejad is worth defending or not.

The people at Columbia think they're some of the smartest people in the United States yet they're letting hostile foreign leaders play them like a fiddle. No wonder al Quada, North Korea, the Iranians and others have no respect for us.

Jeremy Meister graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1998 and a Bachelor's degree in Media Production from Missouri State University at Springfield in 2005. He is also a film director, producer and author of over seven feature length screenplays including 'Hollow Dogs' and 'Epic: the Flames of Summer', as well as owning his own film company LWC Productions. Jeremy is the former host and producer of the Conservative internet radio program "The Tzimisce Show". Presently he is a producer for Hansen and Cokin, Last Man Standing, The Clubhouse, Showerless and Mr. Sunshine as well as Sports Book Radio with Brian Blessing at Lotus Broadcasting (AM 1460 and AM 920 - check out the streams at LVRocks.com). Contact him at LWC_Productions@hotmail.com or at www.myspace.com/tzimiscechi or at TownHall.com. Art for the people: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888382