Muammar el-Qaddafi/Gadhafi/Gaddafi/Qadhafi addressed the UN today, and his speech was a doozy. And at 90 minutes long perhaps best viewed from Twitter, which courtesy of some well-established media types was distilled it down to its very best parts…with one or two embellishments. It makes for a great read.

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All cable news networks, all morning:
The leader of Libya has now completed a more than 90-minute speech at the United Nations, with CNN, Fox News and MSNBC taking it in full (well almost – FNC cut out a few minutes before). It was rambling, accusatory and at times fairly incoherent. But now we must ask the important question – how do we spell this guy’s name?

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: