Someone Please Tell The Washington Post That "Nutty" Is In (UPDATED)

According to the Washington Post, by given Ahmadinejad a podium, the whole world was done a favor:

Without listening to Ahmadinejad, how can the world appreciate how truly nutty he is? Ahmadinejad lost his audience at the press club almost immediately. After only one sentence of his speech, the translator stopped translating. "The president is reciting verses from the holy Koran in Arabic," she explained.

Columbia University and the press club may have let the genie out of the bottle--but now everyone wants a turn rubbing the bottle. A forum on the BBC website had all kinds of positive reactions to Ahmadinejad and his appearance at Columbia:

The Iranian President’s visit to the U.S. has served to help Americans understand Iran’s perspective on various issues and also Iranians in general better. There should be more of these types of cultural exchanges to foster understanding between the two sides. I think that the Iranian President was bold in taking this step and I hope Americans recognize this fact.

And if listening to a leader of terrorism is helpful, then who better than attorney Lynne Stewart--convicted of acting as a messenger for sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, serving a life sentence for Seditious Conspiracy--to come to Hofstra University to speak at their Sixth Biannual Legal Ethics Conference on "Lawyering at the Edge: Unpopular Clients, Difficult Cases, Zealous Advocates".

I don't think these people have the slightest clue where "the Edge" is.

[Hat tip: LGF]

UPDATE: What more proof? Forbes named the top 10 pundits in America. First some background:

What exactly is a pundit? According to the dictionary, it's "a person who makes comments or judgments, especially in an authoritative manner; critic or commentator."

...But which pundits have the most sway over America? Or, more specifically, which have the most influence by appealing to those most sought after by advertisers?

Sure enough, the Forbes list of top pundits was put together by a market research group.

And the list? AllahPundit did the tabulations:

1. Roger Ebert
2. Bill Maher
3. Bill O’Reilly
4. Al Franken
5. Geraldo Rivera
6. Rosie O’Donnell
7. Leonard Maltin
8. Greta Van Susteren
9. Lou Dobbs
10. Bill Walton

Forbes' methodology explains their list--and may help explain Columbia's and Hofstra's too.

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