Galloway vs. Hitchens
British MP George Galloway recently debated former liberal Christopher Hitchens in NYC on September 14, and it was quite a showdown. Tempers flared on both sides as Hitchens defended his decision to support the Iraq War in the face of blistering attacks from Galloway:
You start off being the liberal mouthpiece of one of the most reactionary governments this country has ever seen on the subject of war. You say you’ve got your own liberal reasons for doing so, and you end up an apologist and a mouthpiece for those miserable, malevolent incompetents who couldn’t even pick up the bodies of their own citizens in New Orleans in the aftermath of a hurricane.
That’s where it ends. That’s where it ends. You end up a mouthpiece and an apologist for the Bush family whose matriarch, you want to talk about racism? What about Barbara Bush? What about Barbara Bush who took a look at the poor, huddled, masses in the Astrodome and told us they’d never had it so good? Who told us they were better off than they’d ever been. Underprivileged people, now in an Astrodome, the only problem with whom she said was that so many of them wanted to stay in Texas. You know, Hitchens, you’re a court jester. You’re a court jester.
Not at Camelot, like other ridiculous other former liberals before you, but at the court of the Bourbon Bushes. Barbara Bush, the Marie Antoinette of modern-day American politics.
Advantage: Galloway. Hitchens, while a master of polite and eloquent rhetoric, offered nothing but the usual neo-con grab bag of talking points. Galloway nailed him repeatedly on his hypocritical stances.
View the entire video here. Keep in mind this debate is two hours long; set aside time for it. It’s well worth the watch.
