The Libya-centric portion of the Morning Jolt:

That Wacky Gaddafi!
So Moammar Gaddafi and Charlie Sheen are having the world’s most high-profile Showdown of Crazy, huh?
Over at ABC News, Christiane Amanpour made a foreign-correspondent-shaped hole in the wall of the This Week studios as she gladly ditched the inside-the-Beltway Sunday show stuff that so obviously bores her and finally enjoyed a chance to return to her bread and butter, chatting with a maniacal leader in the Middle East.
“I interviewed Col. Moammar Gadhafi this evening, when he told me he could not step down because he is not a president or king, and denied there were demonstrations against him anywhere in Libya,” she wrote. “’They love me. All my people with me, they love me,’ he said. ‘They will die to protect me, my people.’ Gadhafi reiterated his mantra, saying he’s not president and he’s not in a formal position. Libya is ruled by the people, and he is one of the people, he told ABC News.”
So, the palaces with the landscaped gardens, covered swimming pools, sauna and Jacuzzi – those are open to just any Libyan, right? You just have to call ahead, right? …
Jonah is disgusted with the press attention on a deeply disturbed individual, used to the heights of power and wealth, whose grip on reality and their power is unraveling before our eyes: “If you take the position he doesn’t have serious mental-health issues — an implausible position, I think… he’s still an absolutely ridiculous person… It’s rare to see someone own his idiocy and self-destruction so completely, never mind so boldly. He makes it hard to look away… Regardless, there’s a certain flies-on-fecal-matter aspect to the spectacle, as well. Watch this segment on Good Morning America, where the host gamely tries to make ABC’s exclusive interview into something serious and important, when the truth is that everyone involved is simply turning the cameras on a human train-wreck for the ratings.”
No, wait, that’s his post on Charlie Sheen. But you can understand the confusion.