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Calling Galloway's Bluff
Slate ^ | 10/25/2005 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 10/26/2005 4:11:08 AM PDT by saveliberty

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Hitchens has Galloway's number. Hitchens is a former Trotskyite who gets the Global War on Terror and who understands the importance of bringing down fascism.

Best quote is the close

Yet this is the man who received wall-to-wall good press for insulting the Senate subcommittee in May, and who was later the subject of a fawning puff piece in the New York Times, and who was lionized by the anti-war movement when he came on a mendacious and demagogic tour of the country last month. I wonder if any of those who furnished him a platform will now have the grace to admit that they were hosting a man who is not just a pimp for fascism but one of its prostitutes as well.

1 posted on 10/26/2005 4:11:08 AM PDT by saveliberty
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To: saveliberty

I say his (C.H.) debate with Galloway on C-Span a month ago. If you get a chance, you should see it.


2 posted on 10/26/2005 4:15:01 AM PDT by RangerM (Perhaps he was comfortable within his skin)
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This is mine:

Galloway has often referred in moist terms to his friend Aziz, and now this is his reward.

I don't know why. I guess the phrase "moist terms" just struck me as funny.

3 posted on 10/26/2005 4:16:21 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: RangerM

I didn't get to see it but I will try. I did read about what happened there.


4 posted on 10/26/2005 4:20:04 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
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In connection with just one of these allocations, Galloway's wife, Amineh Abu-Zayyad, received about $150,000 directly.

Not to prejudge, but Galloway's wife's name may be a clue to Galloway's short sighted leanings! He is a traitor to his kind.

5 posted on 10/26/2005 4:20:18 AM PDT by RAY (John Roberts, Chief Justice, The U.S. Supreme Court -- good move!)
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To: Siena Dreaming

:-) The man can write.


6 posted on 10/26/2005 4:20:27 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
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It's time to start thinking about removing Galloway's belt, shoe strings and any other objects he might use to harm himself.


7 posted on 10/26/2005 4:21:33 AM PDT by Recon Dad ( Now to be known as Force Recon Dad (and proud of it))
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LOL! It's not prejudging as the documentation has been pouring out of Iraq on Galloway for 2 years.

On a more serious note, he is a traitor, but not to his kind. His kind are now on trial in Iraq. Would that we could hand him over to the Iraqis. Now.


8 posted on 10/26/2005 4:22:20 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
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Galloway's wife's name may be a clue to Galloway's short sighted leanings!

I thought the $150,000 was a clue.

9 posted on 10/26/2005 4:22:23 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
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It's time to start thinking about removing Galloway's belt, shoe strings and any other objects he might use to harm himself.

I doubt he could muster up that much honor.

10 posted on 10/26/2005 4:23:11 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
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Quite the contrary. He will come back and bluster his way through a denial even though the evidence is clear that he accepted bribes. er payments.


11 posted on 10/26/2005 4:23:29 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
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Until he's doing his perp walk and someone says "tell it to the judge".


12 posted on 10/26/2005 4:38:23 AM PDT by Recon Dad ( Now to be known as Force Recon Dad (and proud of it))
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I agree.


13 posted on 10/26/2005 4:40:20 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
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Yup, That last line was a great one. I liked this one too...."I wanted no further contact with Galloway until I could have the opportunity of reviewing his prison diaries."


14 posted on 10/26/2005 5:23:45 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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:-) I liked that one too.


15 posted on 10/26/2005 5:31:22 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
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Yet this is the man who received wall-to-wall good press for insulting the Senate subcommittee in May, and who was later the subject of a fawning puff piece in the New York Times, and who was lionized by the anti-war movement when he came on a mendacious and demagogic tour of the country last month. I wonder if any of those who furnished him a platform will now have the grace to admit that they were hosting a man who is not just a pimp for fascism but one of its prostitutes as well.

Definitely the pull quote....

16 posted on 10/26/2005 6:32:01 AM PDT by BartMan1 (...)
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It's time to start thinking about removing Galloway's belt, shoe strings and any other objects he might use to harm himself.

Let him! Heck, I'm thinking of sending him a length of rope as a gift! The guy doesn't even qualify as "pond scum."

Mark

17 posted on 10/26/2005 6:38:33 AM PDT by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: BartMan1

:-)


18 posted on 10/26/2005 6:44:03 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
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To: RangerM

The debate was a classic. Galloway basically yelled throughout most of the time that he had to speak. His oratory sounded like Jesse Jackson doing an impression of Groundskeeper Willie and Winston Churchill. He did get a couple of good jabs in, which Hitchens admitted. But on substance, Hitchens slammed him.

How long before we find out that Scott Ritter was on the take as well?


19 posted on 10/26/2005 10:30:29 AM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy (Be not afraid...)
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"How long before we find out that Scott Ritter was on the take as well?"


http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/605fgcob.asp?pg=1


20 posted on 10/29/2005 10:46:30 PM PDT by dervish (no excuses)
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