Street-fighting man. posted by Richard Seymour

Well, you can watch Galloway's whole testimony here . From The Guardian this morning, I see Galloway had a few words for Christopher Hitchens:

Before the hearing began, the 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 informed 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.

Hitchens is probably the only person in the world with a bigger ego than Galloway, so I can only imagine that the Hitch was indeed in some state simply to skulk off like that. But I've seen how Hitchens treats the public and those who disagree with him - he condescends to and humiliates them. So, he's not a thug? What's the old saying about physicians and healing? Hitchens himself gives Galloway credit , although his recounting of the incident rather makes himself out to be the passive recipient of Galloway's scorn rather than the provocateur.

Anyway, according to the Beeb papers hail fighting Galloway . I daresay this is largely fed by resentment about US politicians impugning an elected British politician. However, there is no question about this fact: yet another attempt to divide the antiwar Left has floundered. Galloway has been the lightning rod for these attacks, yet through his street-fighting skills, acquired on the streets and while climbing greasy pole in the Scottish Labour Party, he has ripped the floor out of every one of them. He has shown that they have nothing - no reliable evidence, no points that anyone could take seriously, and no moral basis to criticise someone who was trying to stop the sanctions and the war that followed.

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