Duncan Hunter Just Can't Let Ahmadinejad Thing Go

Published: October 1, 2007, 5:45 pm

Tags: in other news, columbia university, mahmoud ahmadinejad

Duncan Hunter.Photo: AFP/Getty ImagesCalifornia state representative Duncan Hunter was on Fox last night, and he's still got his knickers all in a twist about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia last week. Late last week, he introduced legislation that proposes cutting Columbia's access to federal funding (the university received $458 million in '05) in order to punish them for hosting an adversary of America. Basically, Hunter postulates that Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia, and the attention surrounding it — the discussion, the blogs, the numerous tabloid covers — might have given the wee Iranian Heidi Montag Disease, the recently identified condition in which a minor character is plucked from obscurity and elevated by a bored and restless culture to a level of fame far greater than their original stature ever warranted. Except, you know, Hunter doesn't exactly mention the condition by name (maybe because Heidi is a constituent?) Anyway! Hunter's bill does not,

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