Today on The Five, Eric Bolling (taking a page from one of Drudge’s more inspired headlines) asked Greg Gutfeld if he was surprised that a Nobel Peace Prize-winning president had killed so many people with Predator drones. A debate over President Obama and President Bush’s dictator-toppling tactics and the reactions to them followed.

This afternoon on CNN, Wolf Blitzer presented video, via Al Jazeera, of a deceased Muammar Gaddafi and asked his panelists to weigh in with their thoughts.

It must have been a weird few months for Condoleezza Rice. Back in August, it was discovered that former Libyan leader Muammar al Gaddafi had kept a photo album dedicated to the former Secretary of State at his compound. Now, in the wake of his death, Rice has offered the Daily Beast an inside glimpse into her uncomfortable meeting with the eccentric dictator.

Soon after news surfaced of ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi‘s capture and killing, freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl) took to Fox News to pointedly congratulate British and French forces, and to criticize President Obama for “leading from behind.”

At Thursday’s White House briefing, Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry asked Press Secretary Jay Carney about Rubio’s remarks, and Carney responded, “I think this is not the day for politics.”

Should we be excited about today’s developments in Libya and as well as recent ones throughout the Middle East? Perhaps not. According to Rush Limbaugh, the good vibes we’re feeling are nothing but a “scripted thing to make a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood equal to an outbreak of Democracy.” To make matters worse, apparently that script has some sex scenes in it as Limbaugh accused the “drive-by” media of “orgasming” all over the place in their attempts to congratulate Barack Obama.

Video uploaded to YouTube on Thursday and broadcast on Arab satellite TV stations shows what appears to be a bloodied Muammar Gaddafi surrounded by jubilant rebels in Sirte. The battered former Libyan leader is shown being trucked in by fighters and then paraded around. “We want him alive. We want him alive,” chants an off-camera man.

Back when Osama bin Laden was killed, a photo of the President Obama and the top national security officials awaiting details of the mission became one of the most famous pictures around (perhaps in lieu of, y’know, this one). One of the most famous parts of the dramatic picture was Hillary Clinton’s seemingly stunned expression with her hand to her mouth. However, the Secretary of State later argued that she was actually just stifling a cough.

In what is sure to be a parade of Republican figures ignoring or downplaying President Obama’s pitch-perfect handling of dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney reacted to news of the tyrant’s death, in an interview with Iowa radio station KSCJ, by saying, “It’s about time.”

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.

Earlier today, reports surfaced that former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had been captured and killed by rebel forces. And since its never too early to consider the political impact of any big news, let’s first take a look at Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who appeared on Fox News this morning and seemed to give more credit to French and British-led NATO forces over anything accomplished by U.S. forces, or the Obama administration. Sour grapes, or just politics as usual?

Well, it appears that Muammar Gaddafi’s reign of terror is at an end. For decades he’s ruled over Libya with an iron fist. For perspective, realize that, a joke about him dying in a sitcom made all the way back in 1987 got a thunderous applause from the audience. Pretty crazy, huh? What’s even crazier though, is that that sitcom actually predicted his death as happening in…you guessed it…2011.

News of Muammar Gaddafi‘s reported death turned Morning Joe into more of a breaking news broadcast today, as they were among the very first to report on the news that the deposed Libyan dictator had been captured and killed. When an image alleged to be of the dead Gaddafi was released by French news agency AFP, MSNBC decided to run with it, with proper warning of its graphic detail and disclosure that the image was not yet confirmed.

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.”

Libyan rebels have reported the discovery of what is alleged to be a mass grave housing the remnants of about 1,270 prisoners killed by ousted former leader Muammar Gaddafi‘s regime during a particularly gruesome massacre back in June of 1996. The bone fragments were found just outside the Abu Salim prison in the capital city of Tripoli, where Gaddafi locked away and tortured his dissenters and opponents.

When inmates at the prison rioted in protest of their harsh treatment, the prison’s guards opened fire. Experts say the bodies are thought to have been stored in the prison until 2000 before finally being buried outside its walls.

The rebel uprising of Libya has left behind a treasure-trove of “surreal ruins”, The New York Times‘ Robert Worth reports in Sunday’s magazine cover story.

Worth details touring the war-torn remains of central Tripoli, astonished to get to go inside the belly of the beast, Muammar Gaddafi‘s Bab al Aziziya compound. He observed Libyan families were “strolling through and gazing wonderingly at the ruins.”

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?

Much has been made about one particularly photogenic aspect of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi‘s many eccentricities: His reliance on highly-trained female soldiers and bodyguards. Now, one of those young women is making news all on her own. Nisreen Mansour al Forgani, age 19, is currently chained to a hospital bed in Tripoli. She has admitted to executing at least 11 suspected rebel prisoners.

CNN’s Nic Robertson is an extremely well regarded reporter especially in areas of war and intense conflict. This weekend he reinforced his reputation by tracking down Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, also known as the convicted bomber of PanAm flight 103, who was found responsible for the deaths 270 individuals when the jetliner crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland. al-Megrahi was found in a coma, surrounded by family and in a lavish compound.

Muammar Gaddafi‘s personal effects have begun to flow from his besieged palace, and so far they have been fabulous, curious, and generally befitting of a man with Gaddafi’s mystique. Today’s haul, however, brings something that might actually be useful. Someone found the Libyan leader’s diplomatic passport, and in it we find that his preferred spelling [...]

Yesterday Saadi Gaddafi, a Hollywood investor and one of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi‘s sons, sent an email to CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson, suggesting that he has not, as the National Transitional Council announced on Sunday, been arrested along with his brother Saif al-Islam.

The middle Gaddafi son contacted the network wanting to negotiate a deal between his family and the rebels, telling Robertson that he has also contacted the White House and NATO in hopes of negotiating such a deal.

For five days, the journalists staying at Tripoli’s five-star Rixos Hotel were not allowed to leave. It was in those five days that the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi received its final blows, but forces within the hotel refused to believe it– and kept the journalists hostage in the belief that Gaddafi was busy eliminating the rebel forces, and not the other way around. BBC’s Matthew Price reported today on what went on in the meantime– how the reporters ate, slept, lived, and hope to be freed soon.

On Tuesday afternoon rebels invaded Muammar Gaddafi‘s compound, extracting many strange and opulent artifacts that seemed to perfectly symbolize a peculiar dictator (and in some cases donning golden military caps for interviews with Western media.) But one of the strangest items found was a photo album containing images of former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

Last night CNN’s Matthew Chance was the first to report that over 30 journalists holed up in a Tripoli hotel were being held against their will. Though the U.S. news media seemed to very carefully describe their plight as “being trapped,” it became clear that they were, in fact, being held hostage. After five days of being held captive, however, they were released this morning. Mediaite had the opportunity to chat with Chance just now, via an undependable satellite phone connection.

CNN’s Matthew Chance, who has been tweeting from inside the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, delivered a live report on developments at the hotel where journalists are reportedly being held against their will. Chance told American Morning‘s hosts of some alarming developments, describing how five more journalists had sought refuge from gun battles in the hotel, and are now unable to leave. According to Chance, that brings the total of journalists at the Rixos to about forty. Update – they have been freed from captivity.

With the fall of Muammar Gaddafi‘s compound in Tripoli today, American political commentators have begun to analyze whether that fall represents a victory for the Obama administration or a victory despite them. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly asked Col. Ralph Peters to assess the President, and despite not being a fan of the President at all, argued that the removal of Gaddafi was “as good as war gets.”