Good evening. I‘m Chris Matthews. Welcome to HARDBALL. Like a nasty
pair of New York cab drivers, the president of Columbia University
traded barbs today and insults with the president of Iran. This
afternoon in Manhattan, trying to cover his tracks for inviting him in
the first place, the university president trashed his guest on every
front before giving him a chance to even speak. He committed the
outrage, I think, of actually winning sympathy for the demagogue he
invited to his campus.
The diminutive head of state he referred to as petty. It was the
American host who came across, I‘m afraid, as petty. Anyway, not a
great day for America, the land of the free, that looked today like it
was afraid to hear what it didn‘t like hearing. Looked today like the
bully big shot first-world country picking on the little guy it had
invited into the lion‘s den.
Ahmadinejad will dine out for the rest of his life on this day in
Gotham. He will have what he needs most, the moral indignation of a
people who spent years being exploited by the shah, who the U.S. CIA
placed on his peacock throne.
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MATTHEWS: OK, let‘s talk about that very point. The hottest issue of
the last century, of course, and the worst case of inhumanity to man, of
course, is the Holocaust. I listened carefully to him. And I know you
did, sir. Didn‘t you hear him allow the fact that there was, in fact, a
Holocaust?
WEPRIN: Well, he—his statement today was different than his statement
in the past.
MATTHEWS: Right.
WEPRIN: In the past, he‘s clearly said that the Holocaust was a hoax,
it never existed. Now he‘s talking about doing more research. There‘s
no question...
MATTHEWS: Don‘t—don‘t—I‘m not asking you to agree with him, but didn‘t
you notice that he said, I‘m not denying that there was a Holocaust? I
thought I heard that pretty clearly.
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