Thursday, September 15, 2005
first reflections on Hitch v Galloway
It's late and perhaps tomorrow morning i'm going to regret staying up to watch the Christopher Hitchens v George Galloway debate, but here are a few brief thoughts.
First of all i'll be open about my bias from the outset: As corrupt, sexist anti-semites who lick the boots of fascists go I tend to dislike Galloway more than most (I guess it's because he was my constituency MP for a time and i've got first hand experience of the man and his ways.) As for the debate - I don't think Galloway addressed a single point that Hitchens made all night instead prefering to wildly distort what Hitchens had said previously. For example: according to Galloway because Hitch supports the cause of Saad Eddin Ibrahim (a JAILED democratic activist in Egypt imprisoned for the crime of monitoring elections) that means he supports the regime that stuck the poor guy in jail! Then there was the apologia for fascist terror in Iraq and elsewhere - there can now be NO doubt (as if they ever was) what side of the fence Galloway sits on this subject - it was nauseating. There were of course some members of the audience who bayed and whooped like a bunch of drunken frat boys at a pantomine whenever Galloway made any points and who in turn kept trying to interupt Hitchens while he was speaking, but thankfully that didn't spoil the dismantling of the corrupt Dundonian Ba'athist. In the words of a semi unreconstructed Glaswegian (and proud of it): Hitch tore Gorgeous George a new arsehole tonight - so much so the shitebag wanted the debate to end earlier than planned because it was "running out of steam".
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Some background reading to debate:
George Galloway is Gruesome, not Gorgeous
Whats Left?
First of all i'll be open about my bias from the outset: As corrupt, sexist anti-semites who lick the boots of fascists go I tend to dislike Galloway more than most (I guess it's because he was my constituency MP for a time and i've got first hand experience of the man and his ways.) As for the debate - I don't think Galloway addressed a single point that Hitchens made all night instead prefering to wildly distort what Hitchens had said previously. For example: according to Galloway because Hitch supports the cause of Saad Eddin Ibrahim (a JAILED democratic activist in Egypt imprisoned for the crime of monitoring elections) that means he supports the regime that stuck the poor guy in jail! Then there was the apologia for fascist terror in Iraq and elsewhere - there can now be NO doubt (as if they ever was) what side of the fence Galloway sits on this subject - it was nauseating. There were of course some members of the audience who bayed and whooped like a bunch of drunken frat boys at a pantomine whenever Galloway made any points and who in turn kept trying to interupt Hitchens while he was speaking, but thankfully that didn't spoil the dismantling of the corrupt Dundonian Ba'athist. In the words of a semi unreconstructed Glaswegian (and proud of it): Hitch tore Gorgeous George a new arsehole tonight - so much so the shitebag wanted the debate to end earlier than planned because it was "running out of steam".
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Some background reading to debate:
George Galloway is Gruesome, not Gorgeous
Whats Left?
