Today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak at Columbia University as part of the Universities foriegn leaders and history courses. The big three news stations are all covering this lie. The chyrons are:

MSNBC: BREAKING NEWS: “IRANIAN PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK AT COLUMBIA UNIV. ANY MINUTE NOW”
CNN: HAPPENING NOW: “IRANIAN PRESIDENT TO SPEAK AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SHORTLY”
 FOX NEWS: AWAITING CONTROVERSIAL SPEECH FROM IRAN’S PRESIDENT AT COLUMBIA UNIV.”

Fox adds it’s own spin on the story. They feel the need to report the story and also tell us they obviously have their own views on the speech happening. See: Some People Say.

While MSNBC and CNN have chosen to go live with Columbia Univ. President Lee Bollinger, Fox News has chosen to show a split screen. Half showing a muted live shot of the speech and the other half a debate with of whether Osama Bin Laden should be allowed to appear and speak in America as well. Clearly, that comparison is ridiculous. Not only is Osama Bin Laden not a major political leader(or a political leader of any kind for that matter) but he is also a wanted man.

Or does it have more to do with the fact that Fox News is the only national news agency not to be granted an interview itself with the leader? Anderson Cooper for CNN, Brian Williams for NBC, and Mike Wallace for CBS were granted interviews late last year.

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