Did you miss Muammar el-Qaddafi's (or Gadhafi/Gaddafi/Qadhafi depending on who your media source is) address to the United Nation's General Assembly this morning? It was a doozy. And at 90 minutes long (the time limit is 15, by the way) perhaps best viewed from Twitter, which courtesy of ABC's Jake Tapper, CBS's Mark Knoller, Salon's Mike Madden, Anna Marie Cox, and Politico's Ben Smith and Michael Calderone among others, was distilled it down to its very best parts...with one or two embellishments. It made for the best twitter read I've had since Sarah Palin announced her resignation. Behold. Who knew a former "terrorist" (President Reagan's words, not mine) from Libya could bring out the media funny so well. (Note: Tweets in reverse chronological order.) (more...)

Conspiracy alert! As unlikely as it sounds, Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader whose controversial address to the UN is likely to dominate the news cycle for some time to come, inadvertently helped launch Glenn Beck's career as a political commentator. Here's how: (more...)