{"id":5817,"date":"2009-09-26T20:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2009-09-26T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T00:44:15","slug":"the-un-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-un-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"The UN circus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaddaffi\u2019s insane ramblings were too much for his translator, who succumbed to the barrage<\/a> by declaring he \u201ccouldn\u2019t take it any more\u201d:<\/p>\n

Colonel Gaddafi’s bizarre rant at the UN was met with yawns and disbelief by delegates.<\/p>\n

But it was too much for the eccentric Libyan leader’s translator who is said to have collapsed with exhaustion during the lengthy diatribe.<\/p>\n

The beleaguered interpreter cried ‘I just can\u2019t take it any more,’ into a live microphone in Arabic after 75 minutes of Gaddafi’s ramblings.<\/p>\n

He was replaced by the UN\u2019s Arabic section chief, Rasha Ajalyaqeen, who translated the final 20 minutes of the speech.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Canada and others walked out on the odious Ahmadinejad’s battological drivel, thus sparing themselves from a similar breakdown, while Obama made the rather curious statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been in office for just nine months — though some days it seems a lot longer. I am well aware of the expectations that accompany my presidency around the world. These expectations are not about me. Rather, they are rooted, I believe, in a discontent with a status quo that has allowed us to be increasingly defined by our differences\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ignoring the first \u2013 it really is<\/em> all about me section \u2013 Obama seems to have somehow missed the fact that, if we are not defined by our differences, we will find ourselves in rather strange company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaddaffi\u2019s insane ramblings were too much for his translator, who succumbed to the barrage by declaring he \u201ccouldn\u2019t take it any more\u201d: Colonel Gaddafi’s bizarre rant at the UN was met with yawns and disbelief by delegates. But it was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[2227],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}