Does Columbia University Trustee Ellen Organ Kaden's support of the September 24, 2007 campus speech by Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hint that she supports the anti-gay, anti-American, anti-women, anti-Semitic views of the Ahmadinejad?

Moreover, we wonder if Ms. Kaden, who is a senior vice president of Campbell Soup Company, has the support of Campbell Soup in her silence as a Columbia Trustee?

Perhaps Campbell Soup is hoping to sell more tomato soup to the Iranians and other terrorist-backing fanatics?

Cambell Soup Web Page Featuring Ellen Oran Kaden

The connection between Campbell Soup, Ms. Kaden, Ahmadinejad and Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger is not one the mainstream media has detailed.

Ms. Kaden, who has been at Campbell Soup since April 1998, reports directly to Douglas R. Conant, president and chief executive officer.  Certainly Mr. Conant must be aware:

A.) Ms. Kasdan is a member of the Columbia University Board. 

B.) That the Columbia Trustees have allowed Lee C. Bollinger to retain his job after allowing Ahmadinejad to speak on campus. 

C.) That Ahmadinejad is a virulently gay-killing, anti-American, anti-Semite.

Unlike the folks on the Columbia Board, who answer to no one, Campbell Soup is publicly traded and hence Conant and Kaden must answer not only to shareholders, but to their customers.

When consumers buy Campbell's soups; V8 drinks; Prego sauces; Pepperidge Farm snacks and other products, are they voting for Iranian repression of gays, women and university professors?

If Ms. Kaden didn't support the A-Jad-Bollinger speech, she had an obligation to speak out publicly or resign from Columbia University's Board.  She did neither.

Her silence is a de facto endorsement.  Let's see if Campbell Soup, too, remains silent on the issue of Ahamadinejad.