Friday, September 25, 2009

hOmeboys

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk

Colonel Gaddafi's bizarre rant at the UN was met with yawns and disbelief by delegates.

But it was too much for the eccentric Libyan leader's translator who is said to have collapsed with exhaustion during the lengthy diatribe.

The beleaguered interpreter cried 'I just can’t take it any more,' into a live microphone in Arabic after 75 minutes of Gaddafi's ramblings.

He was replaced by the UN’s Arabic section chief, Rasha Ajalyaqeen, who translated the final 20 minutes of the speech.

Rant: An interpreter translating Colonel Gaddafi's rambling speech at the UN is said to have collapsed with exhaustion

'He’s not exactly the most lucid speaker.

'It’s not just that what he’s saying is illogical, but the way
he’s saying it is bizarre. However, I think I could have made him sound
a lot better.'

UN speakers are supposed to limit themselves to 15 minutes and the
chamber was half empty by the time Gaddafi finished.

His speech wasn't as long
as Fidel Castro's in 1960 which went on for four and a half hours.