> Or -- stay with me here -- if Bollinger had invited President Bush to
> Columbia and made those same unvarnished remarks to him, and Bush had
> toughed it out and struggled to answer half a dozen unfiltered, critical
> questions from an audience not made up of his handpicked supporters . . . .
> Well, that too would have been free speech at its best.
>
> Unfortunately, that's not the kind of thing you're likely to see in America.
This kind of reminded me of that cold war joke where the American and Russian are debating who has more freedom of speech. The American says that he can go up to the White House entrance and criticize and insult the president, the Russian says he can go up to the Kremlin and do the same....
-- Andy