April 13, 2006
VEGAS GADDAFI
This shit really pisses me off: how do you satirize Gaddafi
when he
throws a
grand gala hootenanny to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of
Reagan's bombing of Tripoli, starring Lionel Richie??
"Artists from the United States & Europe will take part to send the
whole world a message that art is capable of uniting peoples whom
politics has divided & to express their regret for what their
governments did."
"Candles will be lit & patriotic songs sung before the concert. A film on the US raid entitled The Resistance to the Attack is also to be shown, along with children's drawings & paintings. A conference is to be held, which organizers hope will be attended by Western academics, on the theme: The US attack, its consequences & the right of Libyans to compensation & an apology".
The shindig, organized by - cough - Osama Mohammad (remind me to address the severe shortage of male names in the Muslim world) - is called the Hana Festival for Freedom & Peace "in remembrance of the Libyan leader's slain daughter". Okay, it wasn't his daughter, it was some kid he adopted after the raid & called his daughter. And the raid was in retaliation for Gaddafi's bombing of a Berlin disco full of US servicemen.
But Lionel Richie? Haven't the Libyan people suffered enough?
See also How to Build a Lionel Richie Head; How Libya Carried Out the LaBelle Disco Bombing
UPDATE: From our new friend, Libya — senior Libyan thug official says Bush is "insane" & that the US "is a damned country, banished from divine mercy & deserving only of being cursed." Cursed?! Wait'll you hear Lionel Richie, buddy!
Posted by Jeff at April 13, 2006 07:21 AM
Comments
Could be worse, Mate, say, if his bobblehead daughter came along...
Posted by: pete doherty at April 13, 2006 08:36 AM
I guess paying for all her rehab gets expen$ive
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at April 13, 2006 09:05 AM
"Oh what a feeling
When you're hanging from the ceiling."
Posted by: Laurence Simon at April 13, 2006 09:18 AM
Gotta do Brick House for the female bodyguards too. Hard to believe Richie once fronted that great old band.
Posted by: Hermit Dave at April 13, 2006 09:35 AM
He's once, twice, three times a collaborator.
Posted by: Attmay at April 13, 2006 12:11 PM
What is Lionel on? Now I could understand if you said Whitney was performing...
Posted by: Dan at April 14, 2006 10:41 AM