Lucky us Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi gave a fairly short speech today. At a little over 95 minutes the "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialists Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" (one of his actual titles, he has a few) was hours off the records for real long UN speeches. Too bad they didn't let him pitch his tent in the park across the street (really), or he might have been well rested and talked longer and maybe, just maybe, he might have made some sense. But hey, he is the force behind the Libyan National telescope project.
The UN's inclusivity has given equal time at the same podium to nut bars, dictators and down right losers. Sometimes you just gotta piss some people off to keep your street credibility.
Speeches that easily eclipsed this speech were: India's V. K. Krishna Menon, the holder of the trophy with his killer 7 hours, 48 minutes. It was January 23, 1957 when he tore into Pakistan for what is for most people a whole day's work time.
And it's nearly the anniversary of Fidel Castro's September 26, 1960 thumper. He gave it a good run clocking in at 4 hours 29 minutes.
Though not at the UN, Hugo Chavez went on for over 8 hours on some Venezuelan talk show. Jesus.
No comments:
Post a Comment