Qaddafi at the UN: Great speech, or the greatest speech?
posted at 7:21 pm on September 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
His first appearance in 40 years. Total length: 96 minutes. I didn’t watch but Twitter was aflame with rolling updates about his intro as the “king of kings,” his musings about jetlag and why the UN should be moved to Beijing, and, oh yes, his hope that The One shall remain president forevermore. And that’s just for starters: I’m giving you two clips, one of CNN covering the kookier lowlights and another of a lowlight they forgot to mention — his pensees about the JFK and MLK assassinations. I can’t tell if the interpreter is (mostly) unintelligible because he simply doesn’t speak English well or because Qaddafi is that incoherent, but the garbled syntax only adds to the whole vibe.
And now I’m going to make a painful confession. As loathsome as he is, I couldn’t help feeling a tiny — tiny — bit of sympathy at watching someone who quite clearly lacks the mental capacity to realize he’s making a spectacle of himself. Ever seen a homeless guy ranting at no one in particular, and quite convinced that he’s winning the “argument”? Dude. Exit question: First Joe Wilson, now Qaddafi. How many “important” Obama speeches are going to be overshadowed by a bizarre outburst?
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I said this before but he really does look like Mr. Potato Head.
OR:
He looks like he was beat to a pulp without the bruising. How do you do that?
milwife88 on September 23, 2009 at 8:34 PM
His mouth looks like an early Disney Animatronics reject.
Maquis on September 23, 2009 at 8:38 PM
What a freaking loon. If these idiots want to move the UN to Bejing, they can have at it. Just pack up and go.
Terrye on September 23, 2009 at 8:40 PM
He forgot to mention Roswell NM, WTC #7, and the fake moon landing. Thanks for playing, Mo.
stevezilla on September 23, 2009 at 8:40 PM
YIPPEE!!!
A dictator loves B.O!!!!
shock/not
christene on September 23, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Wilson’s was a ‘bizarre” outburst? Really? What exactly was bizarre about it? Is it bizarre for people to call each others liars? Was he wrong when he said Obama lied at that point? Is it bizarre for congress not to sit quietly and applaud when the president speaks? No, no and no, so there was nothing “bizarre” about Joe Wilson’s outburst and it’s ridiculous to compare it to a murderous dictator’s rantings.
Sweet Jesus AP get a clue already.
And don’t bother suggesting you only meant both would overshadow Obama’s speech. In that case there would be no reason to describe Wilson’s outburst as bizarre. It may have been dumb but it wasn’t bizarre.
Rocks on September 23, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Savage just played excerpts where he sounds just like Reverend Wright – nutty stuff about companies creating viruses in order to sell vaccines.
TheBigOldDog on September 23, 2009 at 8:43 PM
A stream of consciousness from someone who doesn’t have a conscience.
OhioBuckeye7 on September 23, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Fine. See ya. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Mallard T. Drake on September 23, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Sounds like he has partaken of too much fermented pomegranate juice. This guy is a bigger looney tune than our current leader. Oh well, he’s young and will probably catch up. Now I’ve made myself thirsty.
Kissmygrits on September 23, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Wow! It seems all the nutters are coming out of the woodwork with the ascension of the 0ne. Do all these guys get a sense of kinship from 0bama? They all are coming into the light and staking their claims, crazy and otherwise.
4shoes on September 23, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Outside the UN today I saw the “Fruits of Islam” ready to welcome him.
RobCon on September 23, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Why is Corporal Klinger giving a speech at the UN?
Isn’t he back in Toledo yet?
NoDonkey on September 23, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Today dave724 wins that title hands down, and he was convinced he was winning. So sad.
4shoes on September 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Yep, they caught him.
4shoes on September 23, 2009 at 9:03 PM
About 5 minutes into this jerk’s diatribe, I found myself looking stage left for “the hook.”
In movies I have seen about vaudeville, there was, besides booing, another way to quickly expedite the exit of a bad act. There was a long pole with a huge hook on the end which would loop the actor or singer or comedian and unceremoniously pull him/her off the stage.
Qaddafi definitely was overdue for “the hook.”
marybel on September 23, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Well we know he has a fondness for the son of Africa now don’t we.
bluegrass on September 23, 2009 at 9:18 PM
I have no pity for this murderer of innocent Americans.
Hening on September 23, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Jack Ruby – Israeli? Yeah didn’t he run a Tel Aviv strip club?
ronsfi on September 23, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Wonder what he would have said if Reagan were president?
bluegrass on September 23, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Qdaffy looked like a dead man in a horror movie, no eyes, died hair, and a pallor on his skin that just looked…sick.
Then he rambled on like a goddamned zombie. Some of it was pretty humorous, I laughed out loud several times. After that rib tickler I just could stomach dinnerjacket or his butt buddy zerobama. I like my TV too much to lose it by abusing myself that much.
Spiritk9 on September 23, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Is that Libyan nutcase another Obama mentor?
BottomLine5 on September 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM
I’m impressed that anyone even takes the time to find out how to spell his name…
right2bright on September 23, 2009 at 9:37 PM
I think Qaddafi should give a good 4, 6 or 8 hour speech every day at the UN, it would raise the standards at the UN considerably.
/S
RJL on September 23, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Cut me Mick.
http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/ab276/justltl/kadoofy2.jpg
justltl on September 23, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Qaddafi looks like a pimp in an ACORN video!
roninacreage on September 23, 2009 at 9:52 PM
When my tv (aka alarm clock) clocked on this morning Qadaffi was on and this is how I began my day. I was vastly entertained I must say…I loved it!
HawaiiLwyr on September 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Terrye on September 23, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Where do we gather to help them pack?
oldleprechaun on September 23, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Hey, I was wondering where getalife disappeared to…
Del Dolemonte on September 23, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Why is Chico making a speech at the UN? Was Groucho unavailable?
“Yeah, that’s a where he lives, Dollars, Taxes!”
jrouse9394 on September 23, 2009 at 10:04 PM
He at least seems to make a few good points. Just took his time making them..
Reaps on September 23, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Anyone else seeing Keith Richards here?
Pablo on September 23, 2009 at 10:16 PM
He’s almost as long winded and boring as BHO.
vilebody on September 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM
G’daffy wants to move the UN to Red China?
Dude!
I’ll help him with the packing!
Bruno Strozek on September 23, 2009 at 10:29 PM
I’m gonna say crackhead incoherent, and this is what you get when you allow your country to become a Third World shithole run by some charismatic psycho.
alliebobbitt on September 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Then what the hell are you still doing here? Usually, one would walk away from the homeless guy ranting.
ICBMMan on September 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
I thought that was intro of Obama speech?
IntheNet on September 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Qaddafi or Obama?
IntheNet on September 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Yeah, but this guy’s still waaaaay better than Bush any day.
Signed,
Impressed Libtard
Dr. ZhivBlago on September 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM
All the best people endorse BO.
d1carter on September 23, 2009 at 11:54 PM
He’s like a very old Dave Navaro from the Bizarro world.
Mojave Mark on September 23, 2009 at 11:55 PM
He wants Obama to remain in the WH for life? I have a feeling Obama would simply love to get that possibility rolling.
After all, Obama describes the WH as “my house,” the nukes are all his, Americans are kindies in need of more teachable moments, the songs sung by children appeared before even he was (*cough*) elected, schools are being named for him, a holiday is proposed to commemorate him each year, now we just need the massive murals on the sides of buildings on every other corner.
Obama as the leader-for-life. What could go wrong?
fireweednectar on September 24, 2009 at 1:54 AM
Qaddafi was calling for Democracy in the United Nations, equality of votes for all countries, but yet the guy is an oppressive dictator and there is no democracy or equality or rule of law in his own country.
Qaddafi – first make your country Democratic, have free elections, a free press, take the oil money you rake in and divide it equally among your people, then come back and preach for Democracy in the UN.
albill on September 24, 2009 at 7:37 AM
As CJ used to say, “Qaddafi is the Michael Jackson of the Arab World.”
Niko on September 24, 2009 at 8:16 AM
President Obama learned the Muslim finger wagging habit so well in his madras in Indonesia. Ghaddafi shows a little more class, though, because whenever he touched his face in the speech he didn’t flip someone the bird.
I’m left to ponder who is the bigger flake, Ghaddafi or Obama?
Ampleforth on September 24, 2009 at 9:00 AM
He still is suffering from blast damage aka concussion from the bombs dropped on his property by Regan in response to Qaddafi’s role in the as a result of PANAM 103.
MSGTAS on September 24, 2009 at 10:01 AM
In a post-9/11 America, the mastermind of PAF103 air piracy and mass murder of 189 American innocents should NOT have been permitted anywhere near NYC airspace.
“The Guide of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” holds no public office or title. If Foggy Bottom can restrict Libya’s NJ residence to “Ambassadorial use only“, surely the (allegedly) “outraged“ Obama could have restricted this terrorist outcaste from US airspace.
FLASHBACK 1989: JFK Intn’l is where Kaddafi’s mass-murdered Lockerbie dead were forklifted in cardboard boxes for their families to retrieve from airport livestock storage.
JFK is the LAST place Kaddafi should have been permitted to set foot. His presense on American soil was yet another agonizing injury to the victims’ families grief.
Germany and Japan were only legitimated AFTER their fascist leadership was deposed. Libya can not be legitimated with this Islamo-fascist terrorist as “The Guide.”
/Kaddafi delenda est
Terp Mole on September 24, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Kaddafi knows EXACTLY how crazy (like a desert fox) this makes him look. His “crazy” act is all part of the game of playing on Western conceits… don’t play along.
Widows, orphans and aging parents are suffering agony over this. It was pathetic watching 40 of them silently face a mocking phalanx of hundreds of Kaddafi-cheering Nation of Islam thugs outside the UN.
/disgraceful
Terp Mole on September 24, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Was he reading Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals?
la.rt.wngr on September 24, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Move the UN to China! Now there’s an idea from a guy who looks like Mickey Rourke after a hangover that I can go for.
kens on September 24, 2009 at 11:35 AM
He made a spectacle with his little hat and big afro sticking out of the sides. If you shrink the video, you would swear you are looking at Princess Leia!
jeffn21 on September 24, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Guys as much as we generally dislike the UN, it’s not easy to move them off US soil. Many other countries would not be so willing to take the UN World HQ and become permanent host. Not only that but there would have to be a consensus among the UNSC and UNGA to make the move provided a host is found. If a host is found and both the UNSC and UNGA approve then you can expect there to be considerable legal action in the US over it.
Lehner on September 24, 2009 at 12:42 PM
The only thing he didn’t mention was getting thrown off of Trump’s property. That would have been comedy GOLD!
silenced majority on September 24, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Just brainstorming here….
We dismantle the federal govt, and become 50 separate nations, plus territories. We work together for armed forces, and trade, etc. We don’t even close the borders between states.
Then we send 50 representatives to the UN with 50 votes. :)
That is basically what is going on already with half of these muslim nations. They all agree that the jews should die, but they all want to be a dictator and end up having dozens of third world nations with dozens of reps in the UN.
Of course, this would be a big mess for extra votes in a meaningless arena.
jeffn21 on September 24, 2009 at 1:08 PM
If you’re going for other sad ironies, note the name of the Plaza they’re cheering in. It’s unlikely that a lot of these supporters (who for what it’s worth aren’t all thugs) aren’t aware of Ghadaffi’s role in furthering civil war among black Muslims in Chad.
Grunchy Cranola on September 25, 2009 at 6:59 AM
Er, make that “it’s unlikely that they are aware…”
Grunchy Cranola on September 25, 2009 at 7:01 AM
I agree with Qaddafi.
Dandapani on September 27, 2009 at 8:57 AM
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