A few days ago I mentioned the rally against President Ahmadinejad, scheduled for Monday in front of the United Nations in New York. Senator Hillary Clinton had just backed out of appearing, after she heard that Governor Sarah Palin would be there too. Since then, organizers have withdrawn the invitation to Sarah Palin. The explanation they have provided is quite absurd.

Organizers said they aren’t being partisan. They decided to bar all elected and federal officials from the rally on Monday in fear of a “media feeding frenzy.” The rally was specifically intended to protest Ahmadinejad’s presence at the United Nations.

“In order to keep the focus on Iranian threats and to ensure that this critical message not be obscured, the organizers of the rally have decided not to have any American political personalities appear,” the National Coalition to Stop Iran Now said in a statement Thursday.

There’s a rally of some kind against Ahmadinejad every time he visits New York. How much do you hear about such rallies? That’s right: zilch (unless you’re highly motivated to seek the information out). It would be so terrible if the rally actually got covered on the evening news because Sarah Palin had attended? Give me a break. Clearly pressure was brought to bear by Democratic partisans and heavy-hitters. It’s a pity. It ill serves the goals of those rallying for the organizers to play politics in this perverse way and minimize the press coverage that the protest will get. But so it goes.

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Not entirely unrelated: I see that Ahmadinejad has been invited to dinner with certain American religious leaders while he is in New York. Those who don’t comprehend the effect of what they’re doing by legitimizing this would-be reenactor of the holocaust are merely idiotic, I suppose. The rest of them — which I’m afraid would have to be most — are making themselves effectively complicit in the crimes he would commit, to say nothing of the crimes he and the Iranian regime are already committing. It’s shameful.

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Addendum: At Hot Air “Organizers of Iran rally threatened with loss of tax-exempt status if they invited Palin.”

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