By Lindsay Beyerstein
A mysterious pro-Qadhafi group outside the United Nations in Manhattan.
Col. Qadhafi delivered a bizarre 90-minute address to the General Assembly today. He touched on various themes including a protracted prison rape analogy, a theory about the next big thing in man-made influenza ("fish flu," you heard it here first), and a plea to reopen the Kennedy assassination probe to determine the true role of "Israeli" Jack Ruby (hint: JFK was getting too close to Israel's nuclear program).
More pictures from today's General Assembly and yesterday's Summit on Climate Change.
The JFK thing was bizarre. But love the pictures!
Posted by: publius | September 23, 2009 at 09:42 PM
For the life of me I don't understand why anyone in the freaking world should give a good god damn about anything Muammar Qadhafi has to say.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the guy just seems like a total thug to me. And a weird one at that.
Posted by: russell | September 23, 2009 at 09:53 PM
I work down the street. This time of year is pretty wild. These guys were mostly Nation of Islam with a few Black Panthers scattered in.
Posted by: Jomo | September 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Both Qadhafi and James Traficant are prime candidates for Republican House of Representative seats in 2010.
Incoherent, unAmerican thugs to go with the rest of the lying filth in the Republican Party political and media class.
Posted by: John Thullen | September 23, 2009 at 10:17 PM
And he also does 'literature'. Wasn't there an attempt to blackmail Sweden once to give him the Nobel prize for literature or no oil would be delivered anymore? Kishon wrote a satire on that but iirc that was based on real events.
Posted by: Hartmut | September 24, 2009 at 03:48 AM
Here, in my office, we are speculating if he has had a lot of bad cosmetic surgery. Which lead to one person remarking that he kind of reminded her of David Guest. I am now trying to imagine a wedding with Liza Minelli.
Posted by: kate | September 24, 2009 at 05:47 AM
This is wonderful stuff, Lindsay. Thanks.
Posted by: von | September 24, 2009 at 09:00 AM
How much y'all wanna bet 'Jayson Smith' will eventually link to tinyURLed goatpr0n and commit html vandalism?
Posted by: matttbastard | September 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM
I think if you replace "Israeli" with "dirty JOOOOO", this idea is a more coherently crazy one.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM