Liberal paper publishes favorable article on George Galloway

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The Memphis Flyer, our local 'alternative' newspaper published an article that referred to George Galloway as an "honorable" man and a "role model".

http://www.memphisflyer.com/content.asp?ArticleID=6&ID=7377

I have written a letter to them in response:

Dear Editor,

Charley Reese’s article “Galloway’s Way” published on May 27 is below your standards of integrity.

The article praises George Galloway as “being an honorable role model”, when he is nothing of the sort.  He is an admitted far-left extremist with disturbing ties to dictatorial regimes that violate fundamental human rights.

Mr. Galloway was expelled from the British Labour Party in May 2003 for “bringing the Labour Party into disrepute through behavior that is prejudicial or grossly detrimental to the Party”  This action occurred after a meeting between Galloway and Saddam where the member of Parliament was giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This wasn’t his first rise in support of the Iraqi dictator.  In 1994, he had another meeting with Saddam and hailed him saying “Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.”

Iraq isn’t the only brutal dictatorship that Mr. Galloway sympathizes with, he said in a 2002 interview with the Guardian newspaper that he supported the USSR and considers it’s collapse to be the “biggest catastrophe of (his) life”.  An investigation by BBC’s Newsnight program found that he had received payments of £195,000 (about $350,000) to give favaborale coverage of the Pakistani regime of Benazir Bhutto, which at the time was financially assisting the Taliban.

In 2005, he carpetbagged his way from Scotland all the way to the inner-city London district of Bethennial, Green, and Bow.   Galloway inflamed the latent anti-semitic racial tensions in the area to defeat Oona King, a black Jewish Labour Party member.

I suppose that’s what passes for “honorable” in today’s anti-war left.  I hope its not what passes for “honorable” in the Memphis Flyer.

[Jake]

Sickening really

[opebo]

I agree with the MemphisFlyer.  Who are you to call someone 'dishonourable' or 'extremist' just because they disagree with you, htmldon?

[Democratic Hawk]

Nice work , Don

Dave

[Joe Republic]

Good work Don.  But it's certainly not characteristic of the entire anti-war left to praise Galloway.  I'm pretty sure most people actually find him embarrassing.  This paper was obviously an exception.

[opebo]

Good work Don.  But it's certainly not characteristic of the entire anti-war left to praise Galloway.  I'm pretty sure most people actually find him embarrassing.  This paper was obviously an exception.

Why would he be embarrassing?

[Storebought]

Good work Don.  But it's certainly not characteristic of the entire anti-war left to praise Galloway.  I'm pretty sure most people actually find him embarrassing.  This paper was obviously an exception.

Why would he be embarrassing?

Because Galloway is an unholy combination of Al Sharpton and Groundskeeper Willie..

[ATFFL]

Good work Don.  But it's certainly not characteristic of the entire anti-war left to praise Galloway.  I'm pretty sure most people actually find him embarrassing.  This paper was obviously an exception.

Why would he be embarrassing?

Because Galloway is an unholy combination of Al Sharpton and Groundskeeper Willie..

That one is going to keep me laughing for a while.

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Whoops, didn't mean to edit away the old post.

Galloway has said what really needed to be said about the war. That money is chump change to all of the corporate giveways scandals involving the Bush adminstration in Iraq, particularly Halliburton.

It's amazing how only the news that is favorable to the Bush adminstration seems to reach some people. I bet you didn't know the Busha adminstration has been closely connected to the Iraq oil for food scandal that has been used to bash the UN?

http://spiderleaf.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/21/15592/2665

[Democratic Hawk]

Good work Don.  But it's certainly not characteristic of the entire anti-war left to praise Galloway.  I'm pretty sure most people actually find him embarrassing.  This paper was obviously an exception.

Why would he be embarrassing?

Because he's George 'Saddam's Ass Wiper' Galloway - that's why he is embarassing. He was such an illuminary in the House of Commons that I'd never even heard of him 'til his opposition to Iraq

Dave

[Cubby]

What I can't figure out is how can Oona King be black AND Jewish? Did she convert?

And its hypocritical how the conservatives are so supportive of King and yet are so dismissive of her peers in this country Sheila Jackson Lee, Stepahnie Tubbs Jones,etc. The only reason you care about Oona King at all is because she supported the war in Iraq.

[Joe Republic]

And also perhaps because she was the only chance they had to keep Galloway out of Parliament?

[Peter]

He was such an illuminary in the House of Commons that I'd never even heard of him 'til his opposition to Iraq

Surely you must have heard the "I salute ...." speech on TV before that?

[they don't love you like i love you]

What I can't figure out is how can Oona King be black AND Jewish? Did she convert?

ever heard of the Beta Israel?

[opebo]

Good work Don.  But it's certainly not characteristic of the entire anti-war left to praise Galloway.  I'm pretty sure most people actually find him embarrassing.  This paper was obviously an exception.

Why would he be embarrassing?

Because he's George 'Saddam's Ass Wiper' Galloway - that's why he is embarassing. He was such an illuminary in the House of Commons that I'd never even heard of him 'til his opposition to Iraq

Dave

Well, I have nothing against him for involvement with Saddam - as it turns out it Saddam had done nothig at all - it was the other fellow who was causing the problem.  And of course most of Parliament were 'Bush's Ass Wipers' - of course you don't mind that.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And of course most of Parliament were 'Bush's Ass Wipers' .

Ever considered the possibility that people with an opposing view to you might be sincere about it?

[opebo]

And of course most of Parliament were 'Bush's Ass Wipers' .

Ever considered the possibility that people with an opposing view to you might be sincere about it?

That is certainly possible.  As is sincerity on Galloway's part.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

As is sincerity on Galloway's part.

Hahahaha! That's actually very, very funny

Good joke. It *is* a joke... right?

[opebo]

As is sincerity on Galloway's part.

Hahahaha! That's actually very, very funny

Good joke. It *is* a joke... right?

No.  But to be honest I'm indifferent about his sincerity as he says all the right things, voted well, etc.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

But to be honest I'm indifferent about his sincerity

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"I salute your courage, your etc. etc. etc."

"The collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst day in my life"

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He's never in Parliament. Last Parliament he had one of the worst (it may have been *the* worst) attendence records of any M.P. I don't think he's actually turned up to the current Parliament yet.

[opebo]

as he says all the right things,

"I salute your courage, your etc. etc. etc."

"The collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst day in my life"

What's wrong with that?  The Soviet Union had a lot of drawbacks, but it made a useful counterweight to American aggression internationally.

[Rob]

He's a raving Communist. Labour made the right decision in expelling that psychopath from their ranks.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

He's a raving Communist.

And a hypocrital one at that. Spends all his time in a villa in Portugal and has what could be called a taste for the high life.

Horrible irony is the fact that the last official Communist M.P for an East End seat (who represented Stepney Mile End from 1945 until 1950) won his seat because of his pro-Jewish, pro-Zionist views (Stepney still had a large Jewish population back then. Mostly all gone to Ilford now)...

[CARLHAYDEN]

Good work Don.  But it's certainly not characteristic of the entire anti-war left to praise Galloway.  I'm pretty sure most people actually find him embarrassing.  This paper was obviously an exception.

Why would he be embarrassing?

Because Galloway is an unholy combination of Al Sharpton and Groundskeeper Willie..

I object to the slur. 

I kind of like Groundskeeper Willie.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Even I don't like Galloway. He strikes me as a total opportunist and attention seeker.