Today’s edition of The Chris Matthews Show featured a small little awards ceremony to honor the most important political moments of the year. Chris Matthews dedicated the first award to President Obama for his “Best Move” of the year. The nominees for the category were the death of Osama bin Laden, the Libyan invasion, the fulfilled promise to withdraw from Iraq, and his unifying speech to the nation following the Arizona shootings and critical injury of Gabrielle Giffords.

Weeks after his father Moammar Gaddafi was killed after falling into the hands of rebels, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has been reported captured and in the hands of revolutionary forces. Gaddafi was rumored to have been caught by rebels back in August, but that turned out to be untrue. Now it seems there is enough evidence to show that Gaddafi has been captured by the rebels.

Geraldo Rivera knows a thing or two about Libya and Muammar Gaddafi, having covered their collective story for almost two decades. So it was somewhat predictable for Fox and Friends to invite him to the “curvy couch” to discuss yesterday’s news of Gaddafi’s death. What was somewhat surprising for long time viewers of the Fox News morning program, was Rivera’s championing of President Obama’s record on foreign policy.

A gory video televised by Al Jazeera showed overthrown Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi being dragged through the streets, hemorrhaging blood with a wound to his head. The video appears to show rebels dragging Gaddafi’s bloodied body throughout a crowded street.

Journalist Marisa Guthrie reports the cell phone video was taken by one of the rebels on his cell phone, according to Al Jazeera’s James Bays.

According to Reuters, ousted Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been captured by Libya’s National Transitional Council. According to the report, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid told Reuters’ Samia Nakhoul that “”He’s captured. He’s wounded in both legs … He’s been taken away by ambulance.”

Wednesday’s edition of Washington Post Media‘s free Express daily featured a headline that’s garnering viral guffaws and questions about their editorial judgment. Aggregating an AP story about former Libyan rebels rooting out Gaddafi loyalists, the paper, in an obvious attempt to appeal to the political center, headlined the item “Libya Ferrets Out Gadhafi’s Taint.”

Was the headline a prank, an error in judgment, or…something in between?

Despite condemning the NATO-led operation in the African nation, Iran has publicly supported the Libyan rebels in their struggle for freedom. President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said a few months ago that Gaddafi’s forces should not be killing civilians.

Time faced a tough challenge in sorting out their cover for this week. Earthquakes and hurricanes aside, the end of Gaddafi‘s 42 year reign was arguably the week’s biggest story. Time has traditionally marked fallen tyrants on their covers with big red x’s scrawled across their face; Osama Bin Laden being the most recent example, and with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler in the past. In vein, they used a black x to mark Japan’s surrender from WWII. But Gaddafi has not yet offered himself up for surrender, nor can anybody find him. He’s not so simply, ready to be big-red x-ed out, gone.

These are a few of his favorite things… The Condoleezza Rice photo album discovered at Moammar Gaddafi‘s compound was just the tip of the eccentric iceberg. This week Libyans got an inside look at the Gaddafi family riches and helped themselves to whatever they could get their hands on.

The four-decade-long rule of Moammar Gaddafi in Libya has been dealt blow after blow in the last few months, and people who previously felt censored by the regime are now free to speak their minds about the “Brother Leader.” Political comedians in Libya have obviously not been free to openly mock Gaddafi, but one comic [...]

Donald Trump returned to Fox & Friends today and said that the United States should be able to take oil from Libya, arguing that a deal should have been made for the U.S. to take 50 percent of the nation’s oil if the rebels were successful in overthrowing the Gaddafi regime.

President Obama spoke publicly today about the war in Libya, declaring that “the Gaddafi regime is coming to an end, and the future of Libya is in the hands of its people.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke to reporters today about the latest developments in Libya, calling for an end to the violence and pledging the support of the United Nations to “assist in all vital areas” by coordinating with “Libya’s neighbors and the international community.”

Last night the Libyan civil war reached a critical juncture, when rebel forces captured two of Moammar Gaddafi‘s sons and advanced on the capital city of Tripoli. The situation in Libya for reporters has always been a tenuous one, but in a video report released earlier today, one BBC reporter was caught in the middle of an ambush during his report.

Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann appeared with Chris Wallace this morning and whole-heartedly disagreed with President Obama’s strategy in Libya. However, being so strongly opposed to the President’s position, Bachmann found herself supporting her argument by citing a statistic from a Libyan official who works under Muammar Gaddafi. Such an odd tactic left Wallace scratching his head.

Although everyone seems to be having a ball with Donald Trump’s Magical Birth Certificate Mystery Tour®, the sheer volume of Birther mythology makes it tough for interviewers to hit every clay Birther pigeon Trump tosses into the air. To be fair, reporting on the both certificate issue always seems to be missing one or two pieces, like a yard sale Monopoly set. Hopefully, this handy guide will remedy that situation, and help The Donald’s next Birther interview go straight to truth-jail. Do not pass “Go,” do not collect the nomination.

Members of Muammar al-Gaddafi‘s entourage, including at least a couple of the Libyan ruler’s family members, are apparently acting as (not-so-) secret “peace feelers,” attempting to gauge whether a ceasefire is possible – or, if that won’t work, whether Gaddafii and those close to him can exit the country quickly and safely.

With former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin‘s reliability as a lava-hot content generator on the wane, and her poll numbers tanking, the shared liberal/conservative dream of a Palin presidential nod is in real peril. Into that breach has stepped up-and-coming contender Donald Trump (R-$$), who’s not content to pay the Republican “Crazy Tax,” instead appointing himself Secretary of the Crazy Treasury. Can The Donald supplant Palin as the GOP base’s go-to rabble-rouser, or can Palin reload?

More discouraging news out of Libya: Fox News is reporting that forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi essentially used journalists from CNN and Reuters as “human shields,” successfully thwarting an attack by British forces. Update- CNN’s Nic Robertson calls this report outrageous and absolutely hypocritical.”

With the air attack in Libya underway in order to implement a no fly zone, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is not happy and his son Saif spoke to Christiane Amanpour to express the family’s frustration. Saif claimed he was surprised by the attack from the Americans, British and French that “terrorized children” with bombing everywhere, and warned that the western countries were choosing the wrong side in the conflict.

A common thread woven throughout coverage of Egypt’s revolution was the manner in which ousted leader Hosni Mubarak‘s government attempted to control news flowing out of the country, and it seems that’s also the case in Libya. There, however, Muammar al-Gaddafi‘s government (despite the Libyan leader’s continued insistence that the Libyan people essentially govern themselves) takes a slightly different tactic: Smiling and shaking one’s head while gently wondering how people could be complaining about something so obviously silly as censorship.

The current upheaval in Libya is in some respects similar to last month’s uprising in Egypt. But from a western media-centric perspective, there is at least one very significant difference. The perilous situation in Libya — combined with a regime with a anti-Western history — have made reports from actual areas of conflict nearly impossible. Which makes Al-Jazeera’s report that Libyan soldiers had been executed for refusing to fire on rebel troops interesting on a number of levels. The graphic video appears to be compelling evidence, but it is labeled as “rebel video” and cannot be confirmed by Al Jazeera.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh has a bone to pick with Bill Kristof‘s (or “Bill al-Kristof”… whichever floats your boat) assessment of why, exactly, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is so “nuts.”

The U.S. press systematically refer to Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi as a crazy, narcissistic despot whose people are suffering and whose country is in turmoil. But, for a brief slice of time in 2007, people reading through certain U.S. and British publications may have found themselves reading about a new or “changed” Gaddafi, a Gaddafi committed to paving the way for democracy in Libya.

There’s a reason for that.

Nelly Furtado, the Canadian singer whom you might remember as being somewhat “like a bird,” announced via Twitter today that she plans to donate the money she received in exchange for performing for the Gaddafi family in 2007. Furtado writes that she received $1 million for a 45 minute performance at an Italian hotel.