When footage of Saif toting an assault rifle and rallying pro-Qaddafi troops leaked, it was clear that he’d become the new spokesman for a congenital strain of Qaddafian dementia.
„In February, as protests in Benghazi—where Muammar had started his coup four decades ago—turned into a civil war and government security forces went on the offensive, Colonel Qaddafi asked his son to come home. Liberal Libyans and Saif’s supporters were convinced he could be the peacemaker.
But when Saif finally did emerge, in a speech on state television on February 20, those hopes vanished. He talked for almost an hour, appearing at times disoriented, baffled, or bored. Wearing a suit and sitting in front of a map of Africa, he blamed tribal factions for the fighting, then Islamists, then foreigners. He promised reforms and warned of civil war, and closed with »We will live in Libya and die in Libya.«
His subsequent appearances only got worse. In interviews, he informed the world that there was no war, but if there were, its real villains were not the Qaddafis but terrorists, drug dealers, Washington, the U.N., Prime Minister David Cameron, or the very news networks talking to him at that moment. By March, when footage of Saif toting an assault rifle and rallying pro-Qaddafi troops leaked onto the Internet, it was clear not only that Saif wouldn’t be Libya’s visionary but that he’d become the new spokesman for a congenital strain of Qaddafian dementia. Slouching in an armchair in a luxury hotel suite, looking tired and impatient, he scolded a SkyNews interviewer: »There is a big, big gap between reality and illusion,« he said, the reality being his and the illusion that of Westerners. The latter were »living in their own world … They have no idea what is going on in Libya.«
But of course Saif knew better than anyone that this was a lie. Certain Westerners had a very good idea of what was going on in Libya—because of him. »A whole passel of people are thoroughly surprised and unhappy and very confused about Saif,« a lobbyist who worked closely with him says. Some have urged Saif to abandon his family. One sent him a text: »You’re better than this.« But most have washed their hands of him. »They all liked him then, but they’ll all say he’s terrible now,« Fahmy-Hudome says.”
Az új közvélemény-kutatás szerint az EU-s polgárok lesújtó véleménnyel vannak az Európai Bizottság munkájáról. A válaszadók 63 százaléka szerint a testület munkája elégtelen. Ursula von der Leyen mindenesetre az újraválasztását kéri.
„Legfőbb sértett”, „új Márki-Zay” – így jellemezték többek között Magyar Pétert a szombati performansza után a közéleti szereplők.
A publicista nem rejtette véka alá a véleményét Varga Judit exférjéről.
A világháló korában nem lehet ugyanúgy működni, mint 1938-ban.
„Kormányzati ügyekkel foglalkozom, tévésorozatokkal nem foglalkozom. Minden jót maguknak!” – mondta a 444-eseknek a kormányfő.
A brit lap hírszerzési információkra hivatkozva azt írja, hogy a Kreml a Wagner csoporttal és helyi milíciákkal csapként használja az afrikai migrációt: ha választások jönnek egy régióban, akkor ott a csapot megnyitják, és ezzel az ottani közhangulatot befolyásolják, ha nincs tét, akkor elzárják.
A feljutás szombaton dől el, az ellenfél Szlovénia lesz.
A Kossuth-díjas zenészt már nem érdekli, hogy a libsik és a rosszindulatú kommentelők mit írnak, fel meri vállalni a véleményét.
