What A Freakin' Dick!

Kid Various was listening to Mike Malloy fete British MP and all around totalitarian boot-licking schmuck George Galloway the other day, after Galloway testified at a Senate hearing investigating the UN Oil-for-Food scandal. People should listen to Malloy. He's a funny clown.

How else can one take a person who feels that the Democrats in the U.S. Senate are not nearly left-wing enough and that only a man (and The Kid uses that term loosely) like George Galloway (who got kicked out of the Labour party because he's so wacky) represents the true soul of the American people?

Read Hitch on this profile in excrement Galloway:

SUCH SPECULATION TO ONE SIDE, the subcommittee and its staff had a tranche of information on Galloway, and on his record for truthfulness. It would have been a simple matter for them to call him out on a number of things. First of all, and easiest, he had dared to state under oath that he had not been a defender of the Saddam regime. This, from the man who visited Baghdad after the first Gulf war and, addressing Saddam, said: "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability." How's that for lickspittling? And even if you make allowances for emotional public moments, you can't argue with Galloway's own autobiography, blush-makingly entitled I'm Not the Only One, which was published last spring and from which I offer the following extracts:

The state of Kuwait is "clearly a part of the greater Iraqi whole, stolen from the motherland by perfidious Albion." (Kuwait existed long before Iraq had even been named.) "In my experience none of the Ba'ath leaders have displayed any hostility to Jews." The post-Gulf war massacres of Kurds and Shia in 1991 were part of "a civil war that involved massive violence on both sides." Asked about Saddam's palaces after one of his many fraternal visits, he remarked, "Our own head of state has a fair bit of real estate herself." Her Majesty the Queen and her awful brood may take up a lot of room, but it's hardly comparable to one palace per province, built during a time of famine. Discussing Saddam's direct payments to the families of suicide-murderers--the very question he had refused to answer when I asked him--he once again lapsed into accidental accuracy, as with the Stalin comparison, and said that "as the martyred know, he put Iraq's money where his mouth was." That's true enough: It was indeed Iraq's money, if a bit more than Saddam's mouth.

For his shameless perfomance in front of the Senate committee, we confer upon the Right, Honorable George Galloway, the weekly "What A freakin' Dick!" award.



What a freakin' Dick!