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Ahmadinejad is making Americans lose their minds

Dear America,

Look. I know that it has been a rough couple of years - with us bogged down in multiple wars and the economy going down the tubes.

But, can we all get a grip?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations and his speech at Columbia is apparently making everyone completely lose their fucking minds. Especially Fox News who on tonight's 10 PM broadcast labeled him the Iraq President. I know: some comments and pronouncements which I don't agree with, are factually inaccurate and are frankly abhorrent. He is basically a loony. My question is thus: if him visiting and speaking on US soil is so horrible and such a watershed moment, what does that say about the state of America? Personally, I think the US is strong and resilient enough to host a tin-plated near-despot.

What I don't get is the flap about Ahmadinejad visiting Ground Zero - Iran and Ahmadinejad had exactly zero involvement with September 11th. Can we grow up? Have we become a country of, for lack of a better term, pansies?

It is if the New York Post and every other tabloid on the planet is looking for this year's bogey-man. Last year it was Valenzuela's President Hugo Chavez which was the Great Satan. Look's like he is yesterday's news.

The best things to do is let him in, say whatever loony thing he will say and let him go. To try to protest his speech or interrupt it will give him a great propaganda victory.

So please America, can we just stand back and be grownups?

Sincerely,

The Grubbykid

Update - Watch the video of the speech live.

Update - that ended about as well as it could have. If there wasn't any of this foolishness from the Media then his banality would have gone unnoticed. Check out the New York Times live blogging and recap.

I'm opening comments up: what did you think of the speech, his presence at Columbia and the brough-ha-ha surrounding his appearance?

nope - I buggered the commenting engine, no comments available; sorry!