Since the idiot known as Qaddafi spewed forth his nonsense, several news outlets have given us their take on Fuckwittery at the UN. Below is Foreign Policy's
take on the dumbest shit ever spewed at the UN:
Ortega Goes Rambo on Reagan
Year: 1987
Quote: "Before consulting the hotheads who present various military options such as a military invasion: remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies.''
Impact: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega used the platform of the U.N. to assail U.S policy in Central America, particularly the financing of the Contra rebels and supporting the Somoza dictatorship, which Ortega said "bled the Nicaraguan people dry." The angry speech prompted a walkout from the U.S. delegation. "The people of Nicaragua may have to sit and listen to him, but I don't," said then U.S. Ambassador Vernon Walters.
Chavez Sniffs out a Sinner
Year: 2006
Quote: "The devil came here yesterday, and it smells of sulfur still."
Impact: Venezuela's theatrical president, Hugo Chavez, has always loved the spotlight that the General Assembly provides and it was never more in evidence than when, with a flourish, he compared U.S. president, George W. Bush, to Satan. Chavez also began his regular habit of using his speeches to plug books by prominent leftists authors, when he held up a book by U.S. professor Noam Chomsky. Chavez referred to this famous moment in his speech this year, saying that it "no longer smells like sulfur" now that Barack Obama is president.
Bashir Denies a Genocide
Year: 2006
Quote: "The picture that volunteer organizations try to give in order to solicit more assistance and more aid, have given a negative result."
Impact: At the 2006 speech, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir claimed that the ongoing slaughter in Darfur, which then President George W. Bush had recently referred to as "genocide," was in fact a scheme cooked up by Western aid organizations to solicit funding. On the sidelines of the meeting, Bashir went further, blaming Israel and Zionist organizations for spreading lies in order to weaken the Sudanese government. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made this claim as well.
Those are just my picks from their top ten. Read all of them
here. It does include the winner from the USSR when Kruschev banged his shoe on the podium:
Year: 1960
Quote: "Mr. President, call that toady of American imperialism to order."
Impact: Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev provided one of the cold war's most iconic moments when, in an attempt to silence a Filipino delegate who was railing against Soviet imperialism, he issued the above epithet, removed his shoe, and began banging it on the table. The gesture has become a classic example of overheated rhetoric, but it shouldn't have been all that surprising coming from the man who coined the phrase, "we will bury you."
So we do have competition in the idiocy department. Gotta love it! ;p
