Moammar Gadhafi's Bizarre State TV Appearance ... With An Umbrella (VIDEO)

Libyan State TV stated several times Monday evening that a statement from the nation's leader Moammar Gadhafi was "imminent." Word spread quickly, through the streets in Libya and also across the world through Twitter.

When he finally began speaking, it was over in a blink. His "speech" was less than 20 seconds long to dispel rumors that he had fled Libya.

Most bizarre of all was the setting. Gadhafi is holding an umbrella. He says he had been talking to young people at the Green Square in Tripoli (the capital) but stepped away because he wanted to speak to the Libyan nation and make it clear he was in Tripoli. He adds that he's not in Venezuela as the "dogs" (foreign media) have said.

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[duxguts]

05:56 AM on 02/23/2011

Looks like when he woke up this morning he put his bum on the wrong end.

[ForVivi]

03:07 AM on 02/23/2011

"In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary."

Emile M. Cioran

[duxguts]

02:08 AM on 02/23/2011

Singin in the rain.

[justanotherbushhater]

11:40 PM on 02/22/2011

That wasn't the real Gadhafi ... that was Bizarro Gadhafi.

[markjuliansmith]

09:44 PM on 02/22/2011

Gadhafi: ‘I will be a martyr’. Hurry up for God’s (which God?) sake and do all of us a favour.

Martyr to bad comedy and genocidal mania more like.

I wonder if Gadhafi will get his 72 celestial virgins in heaven as Gadhafi has had more than this number on earth.

Maybe Gadhafi will get the old Greek religions gallons of alcohol instead. Apparently for the old Greeks having sex was not as desirable as drinking buckets of wine. Times change I guess.

If Gadhafi will not step down his only choice now is to fall down.

Let’s all sing for this champion of lunacy and his evil son.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

[Les Kern]

09:17 PM on 02/22/2011

If he wasn't killing so many of the citizens he's supposed to protect I'd feel sorry for him.
Count the days folks. Count the days.

[FlakBait]

07:55 PM on 02/22/2011

"Your bullets won't hurt me...........the suns solar rays will."

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

05:14 PM on 02/22/2011

I didn't realize that the phrase absolute power corrupts absolutely meant that the corruption started on the body and brain.

[leorangerie]

03:30 PM on 02/22/2011

The SNL writers are licking their chops at this video!

[justanotherbushhater]

11:44 PM on 02/22/2011

As are the Daily Show and Colbert Report

[snove77]

03:27 PM on 02/22/2011

Anybody know if it really was raining in Tripoli when this was supposedly shot?

[Les Kern]

09:18 PM on 02/22/2011

That's merely the blood-mist his goons caused.

[veganrd]

07:47 AM on 02/23/2011

yes it was raining according to a friend with relatives there. some originally thought he was posing with the umbrella to prove that he hadn't left the country - but apparently he's still there...for now.

[KenClay]

02:14 PM on 02/22/2011

Go into exile and free the people of Libya...

[duxguts]

02:09 AM on 02/23/2011

Who will take him?

[TaylerWoods]

02:12 PM on 02/22/2011

He should have fired his Stylist long ago. Or at least his Haberdasher, and stop using a Sharpie as eyebrow pencil.

[media4me]

02:12 PM on 02/22/2011

Another one of Prez Obie's cousins losing it.

[goodmarina]

01:57 PM on 02/22/2011

this kind of strange get-up, location and 20-second quickie statement means only one thing to me:  he was not in Libya at all.   this was a close shot showing nothing much (background-wise)

he gave some sort of a long rant to the nation on liveTV (supposedly) today.   even there, he looks like he is in some rubble-like building ... and asking his supporters to come to the square in support of him tomorrow.   

i mean . . . if the dude wants people to know that he is in his country ... why not televise it from a known Libyan location?   it doesn't have to be in a place where people are revolting ...

oh wait - they are revolting everywhere, no?

:P

[nowpolitics]

01:50 PM on 02/22/2011

Well, he wants to be a martyr. What are they waiting for?