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September 18, 2005

Hitch On Galloway Debate

UPDATE/Bumped For Serendipity: For those who missed it, the debate is being rebroadcast on CSPAN2 right f'n' now. Just started at 12pm ET.

It should keep you busy until the 1:07 kickoffs. Thanks to Alex.

Substance aside, Galloway was hot, hectoring, and Hitleresque, while Hitchens managed to remain puckish, ironic, and cool.

Even when he was hinting that the idea of beating the shit out of Galloway would not greatly displease him, he managed to do so in a calm way.

Recap of the debate: Hitchens levied proveable and serious charges against Galloway. Galloway responded chiefly with lunkheaded personal attacks.

In point of fact, having quoted Mr Galloway's recent speech in Damascus ("The Syrian people are fortunate in having Bashar al-Assad as their leader") and having further pointed out that Mr Assad decided not to show his face in New York last week, as the UN investigation into the murder of Rafik Hariri rolled up more and more Syrian agents, I was given a full answer by being told that I had metamorphosed back from a butterfly into a slug, with a consequent trail of slime in my wake. I did not have the lepidopteral presence of mind to point out, at that moment, that butterflies pupate from sturdy and furry caterpillars.

Hitchens made the point several times that these sorts of insults are "fun knockaround stuff," but really have little to do with the actual discussion at hand. But that's all Galloway had, really, and he just kept playing to the cheap seats occupied by rabid fire-breathing retards.


posted by Ace at 12:08 PM
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I'm pretty sure that the C-SPAN2 rebroadcast of this event is starting in, oh, about two minutes or so (9AM PDT, 12 noon EDT). That's what the on-line schedule said, anyway.

Posted by: Alex on September 18, 2005 12:00 PM

Did Galloway produce one non emotional protest the whole time? Did he make one logical or intellegent arguement? God I listened, now I feel I need to shower. Thank G-d this man was not a politician during WW2.

Posted by: Scott on September 18, 2005 01:05 PM

I wish he had been. He'd have been jailed or hanged.

Posted by: ace on September 18, 2005 01:20 PM

CSPAN2 will run this again Monday morning, 5:20 AM EDT

Posted by: TerryH on September 18, 2005 02:09 PM

I watched it to get a better feel of what happened. Just like it sounded, GKW was short on facts although he kept stating lies as if they were fact to get the crowd fired up.

Posted by: Silk on September 18, 2005 05:56 PM

Galloway refers to the insurgents as "Freedom Fighters"? Why is he not persona non grata? Who knows what he might pass on to the insurgents?

Posted by: Duhggee on September 18, 2005 06:18 PM

"Who knows what he might pass on to the insurgents?"

after watching the debate, I'd say one of the first things he'd pass on would be an incredibly painful STD.

Posted by: on September 18, 2005 07:50 PM

Did anyone else notice Hitch was shaking a little bit? His hands weren't as steady as I would imagine they should be.

I'm guessing it was either a lack of or too much of a few of his favorite indulgences.

Anyway, he was really good, and Galloway was abysmal.

Posted by: cranky-d on September 19, 2005 12:03 AM

"rabid fire-breathing retards"

As opposed to OUR haiku-spouting, D&D-obsessed polite retards?

All in all, I think this is a win for the right. As they say in the Hong Kong cinema: "Our retard-fu will defeat your retard-fu!"

Posted by: Russ from Winterset on September 19, 2005 11:00 AM
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