U.S. media all-stars dine with tiny terrorist on his last night in town by Allahpundit

Laura Ingraham’s joke wasn’t far off the mark. The Times editorial board didn’t ask him to lunch at the Four Seasons; he asked the equivalent of the Times editorial board to dinner at the Intercontinental Hotel. And most of them seem to have accepted, of course. Here’s the first account of the event I’ve seen, from Time’s managing editor, Richard Stengel:

The invitation was on creamy stationery with fancy calligraphy: The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran “requests the pleasure” of my company to dine with H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The dinner is at the Intercontinental Hotel — with names carefully written out at all the place settings around a rectangular table. There are about 50 of us, academics and journalists mostly. There’s Brian Williams across the room, and Christiane Amanpour a few seats down. And at a little after 8pm, on a day when he has already addressed the U.N., the evening after his confrontation at Columbia, a bowing and smiling Mahmoud Admadinejad glides into the room…

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