{"id":2789,"date":"2007-09-23T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/oh_i_understand_free_speech_much_better_now.html"},"modified":"2007-09-23T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T06:03:20","slug":"oh_i_understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/oh_i_understand.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, I Understand Free Speech Much Better Now . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2007\/09\/23\/2007-09-23_columbia_university_dean_wed_invite_adol.html\">This should help mitigate that bad PR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Columbia University dean said yesterday the Ivy League school would gladly welcome mass murderer Adolf Hitler to speak on campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him,&#8221; John Coatsworth, dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, told Fox News yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Coatsworth spoke two days before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slated to give a lecture on campus.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/?q=node\/26779\">those Minutemen wack-jobs are somehow worse than Hitler<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should help mitigate that bad PR: A Columbia University dean said yesterday the Ivy League school would gladly welcome mass murderer Adolf Hitler to speak on campus. &#8220;If he were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him,&#8221; John Coatsworth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}