Any Lebanese by applause? Lebanese.

Once like a Muti, and you'll clap, just once.

The line was greeted with prolonged applause and understandably so.

A call for the repayment of past bonuses was received with applause.

Easy applause can no longer be had by attacking big business or the IMF.

Unsurprisingly, the tyrant of Tehran launched his invective at the Jewish state, accusing it of being the racist perpetrators of genocide . The bulk of the Arab delegates applauded. The 23 representatives of the European Union walked out.

And so, if you'll put up with this, I would like to enlist your help with a first experiment today. The experiment is and I notice, by the way, that when you applauded, that you did it in a typical North American way, that is, you were raucous and incoherent.

He rightly sided with the Arab freedom movements, then when the matter was decided traveled to Cairo s Tahrir Square to receive his applause, and then rightly called for Qaddafi s overthrow and his rendition to the International Criminal Court, only to chicken out when it came to the Security Council vote.