Fun Fact #2: Iranian President Speaks at Columbia U

Another thing we learned from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at Columbia University today:

He respects the students of Iran

and encourages their freedom of thought.

"In Iran, tradition requires that when we demand a person to invite us as a -- to be a speaker, we actually respect our students and the professors by allowing them to make their own judgment, and we don't think it's necessary before the speech is even given to come in -- -- with a series of claims and to attempt in a so-called manner to provide vaccination of some sort to our students and our faculty."

I'm guessing very few people are invited to speak... just a hunch.