Israeli's YouTube Spoof of Gadhafi Goes Viral

[Jazzy]

A YouTube video of Moammar Gadhafi pumping his fists behind a lectern, spliced alongside footage of half-naked women gyrating to rap music, has fast become an Internet sensation in the Arab world -- even though it was produced by someone in Israel.



The clip, dubbed Zenga, Zenga, first popped up on the Internet on Wednesday, the day after the Libyan dictator gave a rambling televised speech threatening to hunt down pro-democracy protesters house by house ... and alleyway by alleyway, or zenqa, in Arabic. His speech struck Israeli DJ Noy Alooshe as very comic visually, Alooshe told Agence France-Presse.



Gaddafi's speech had all the makings of a hit, he told the Israeli news website Ynet.



So he decided to mix the video of Gadhafi's speech with music from the U.S. rapper Pitbull. Repeating the words 'zenga zenga,' his unique outfit, lifting his arms up in triumph like he's at a party -- I just added some club music to it and thought it would be a funny joke, Alooshe said.



The resulting clip went viral, spreading across social media like Facebook to reach hundreds of thousands of viewers within days.

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Link: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/28/israelis-youtube-spoof-of-moammar-gadhafi-goes-viral/

 

[The Dragon Master]

Very good.

 

[Jazzy]

Oh my!