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January 25, 2006
The Far Less Amusing Side of George Galloway
All expectations are that George Galloway is about to get voted out of his celebrity house later tonight in Britain.
If so, he'll return to find a video from 1999 of him fawning over Uday Hussein and joking about weight loss and cigars currently making the news. The Sun has an excerpt along with some stills from the video.
Uday Hussein, a serial murderer, rapist and torturer of the cruellest order, was diagnosed by his doctor as both brain damaged - as a result of an assasination attempt - and insane. The entire column from the summer is worth a read.
Galloway will also return to news of a serious investigation for fraud with respect to the oil for food corruption scandal, otherwise known as UNSCAM.
Harry's Place has a transcription of the Galloway/Uday video.
Captain's Quarter's has more on this situation, pointing out that Norm Coleman, Galloway's interlocuter during the Senate Inquiry into Oil for Food, will have the last laugh on their exchange. Coleman made sure to get Galloway lying on the record in simple and straightforward English. He, and the Senate in general, was laughed at at the time by Galloway supporters who assumed that Galloway had given them a rhetorical drubbing. But as wretchard at Belmont Club long ago pointed out, it turns out there was a point to what they were doing.
The tone and manner of Galloway's examination suggested that the Senators were trying to establish a specific point for the record, in the hopes of using Galloway's testimony against him later.
Previous George Galloway posts on Kesher Talk available here.
Alcibiades | 01/25/06 at 10:37 AM | Categories: - Across the Pond
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Re: Glass houses department
MEMRI somehow missed this one:
"A conference which took place yesterday against the establishment of a mixed Arab-Jewish school in Pat, Jerusalem saw harsh attacks made by well-known rabbis. The (ha-mekubal) Rabbi David Bazri said: "The establishment of such a school is a foul, disgraceful deed. You can't mix pure and foul. They are a disease, a disaster, a devil. The Arabs are asses, and the question must be asked, why did God did not create them walking on their fours? The answer is that they need to build and wash. They have no place in our school".
ats | January 25, 2006 12:47 PM
ATS:
You're missing one "small" distinction: the Rabbi's remarks represented, well, the Rabbi, and have not been parroted and embraced by Israeli society, nor Judaism, as a whole.
As opposed to a a terrorist group being "elected" to a "parliament."
Or are you being intentionally obtuse?
hgstern | January 26, 2006 12:04 AM
GG should have been tossed out long ago!!
Paul | January 26, 2006 05:16 AM
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