Let's Not Forget Galloway's Rhetorical KO of Wormtongue Hitchens

[chlamor]

"You’re a drink sodden former-Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway informed him. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink."

Unable to get an insulting question in edgewise, Hitchens, according to Oliver Burkeman of The Guardian, was reduced to hissing "You’re a real thug, aren’t you?" and stalking away.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Have you a link for this one?

I NEED A LINK!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you........

[Kolesar]

2. Do you have that linked somewhere? I need a mood elevator.

"popinjay"

[madhat]

3. I love galloway. n/t

[Tinoire]

4. Link for Chlamor's lovely quote

Galloway and the mother of all invective

Galloway and the mother of all invective

Wednesday May 18, 2005
The Guardian



George Galloway, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, testifies at the Senate subcommittee for homeland security and governmental affairs in Washington. Photograph: Dennis Cook/AP

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George Galloway stormed up to Capitol Hill yesterday morning for the confrontation of his career, firing scatter-shot insults at the senators who had accused him of profiting illegally from Iraqi oil sales.

They were "neo-cons" and "Zionists" and a "pro-war lynch mob", he raged, who belonged to a "lickspittle Republican committee" that was engaged in creating "the mother of all smokescreens".

Before the hearing began, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow even had some scorn left over to bestow generously upon the pro-war writer Christopher Hitchens. "You're a drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway in formed him. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink," he added later, ignoring Mr Hitchens's questions and staring intently ahead. "And you're a drink-soaked ..." Eventually Mr Hitchens gave up. "You're a real thug, aren't you?" he hissed, stalking away.

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But Mr Galloway Goes To Washington had never really been an exercise in clarifying the facts. It was an exercise in giving Norm Coleman, and, by extension, the Bush administration, a black eye - mere days after the bloody nose that the Respect MP took credit for having given Tony Blair. And it went as well as Mr Galloway could have wished.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1486432,00.html?gusrc=rss

[Kolesar]

6. Thank you and thank MADem ... eom

[MADem]

5. For those who cannot do without a LINK, here, in context

with reference to the site of original publication (GUARDIAN) http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE505B.html

He testified before Senator Coleman’s Subcommittee in Washington DC yesterday. On his way into the committee’s chambers, Galloway encountered a media scrum which included the egregious Christopher Hitchens, a former leftist who disgraced himself by noisily supporting the invasion of Iraq. Hitchens’ journalistic stock-in-trade includes, very prominently, the bullying of interviewees. But before he was properly out of his corner, Galloway flattened him with a rhetorical uppercut to the jaw:

"You’re a drink sodden former-Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway informed him. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink."

Unable to get an insulting question in edgewise, Hitchens, according to Oliver Burkeman of The Guardian, was reduced to hissing "You’re a real thug, aren’t you?" and stalking away ("Galloway and the mother of all invective," Guardian Unlimited <18 May 2005>).