I’m not usually one for hooliganistic disruption of otherwise peaceful speeches…

…no matter who the speaker is. Still, this brought a smile to my face:

GENEVA – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the Holocaust as a “pretext” for aggression against Palestinians, prompting European diplomats to walk out of a speech disrupted by jeering protesters in rainbow wigs tossing red clown noses at the hardline leader.

Ahmadinejad was the first government official to take the floor at a U.N. racism conference opening on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day. Two protesters in clown costumes tossed soft red objects at Ahmadinejad as he recited a Muslim prayer to begin his speech.

Love how the reporter couldn’t remember what the “soft red objects” were, even though he called them “red clown noses” only a paragraph earlier.

Anyway:

A Jewish student group from France later took credit for causing the disturbance, saying members threw clown noses to “symbolize the mascarade that this conference represents.”

He was also heard to say: “Plus, we heard that TrogloPundit guy is from Baraboo. You know, where the Circus Museum is? And he so rocks, we figured the clown noses were a good idea.”

If only they’d found some elephant poop.

Via Memeorandum