They’re both in the soup at the moment. They’re both making headlines. Megalomania and self-pity have established competitive juntas in both of their cerebral cortices. And they sound a bit off when rallying their supporters, said to be many, and denouncing their enemies, said to be even more.
Can you tell which statements belong to Muammar Gaddafi and which to Julian Assange? (OK, in fairness, one of these statements actually belongs to Charlie Sheen.)
1. “There are four things that cannot be concealed for long, the sun, the moon, the truth — and dessert!”
2. “All they want is to kill your kids, that’s what bin Laden wants, he should be happy now, that’s what he wants.”
3. Has described his book as illuminating the “global struggle to force a new relationship between the people and their governments” and “one of the unifying documents of our generation.”
4. “Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.”
5. “It has been falsely stated that I said that the CIA or the Pentagon were involved in the initial allegations. I never stated that.”
6. “They have been brain washing the kids and young people.”
7. “We’ve finally discovered that the wife of producer for this show was part of the Zionist movement in London.”
8. “What does it mean when only those facts about the world with economic powers behind them can be heard, when the truth lays naked before the world and no one will be the first to speak without payment or subsidy?”
9. “I only have moral authority.”
10. “[W]alk with me side-by-side as we march up the steps of justice to right this unconscionable wrong.”