I will be among the millions this morning giving a thumbs up to Columbia President Lee Bollinger for calling Iranian President Ahmadinejad exactly what he is -- aside from either the first or second most dangerous man in the world -- "...a petty and cruel dictator,...brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated."
Don't know how many will be joining me in giving a thumbs down to the NYT front page story about the Columbia visit where, in its constant need to apply an adjective to the news so that its readers will be guided in their reactions, the Times does not call A's views on homosexuals in Iran and the Holocaust -- none exist and theory not fact respectively -- "lying," "preposterous," "stupid" or even "dubious." No, they were only "bewildering." Lots of things in life, String Theory or why people read about Britney Spears, are "bewildering," but I suspect not many beyond the Times news pages would consider A's statements among them.
To be fair, the editorial page does get it right on all aspects of the visit.
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