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I'm pondering reactions to George Galloway winning Bethnal Green from Oona King; just about everything I've seen or read is treating him as Teh Eval OMG!!!
OK, he's opportunistic and it's certainly possible to spin his choice of Bethnal Green as carpetbagging; he's a politician, it's what they do. Did people expect him to choose a low profile seat where he had no chance of ousting an entrenched MP who didn't support the war? Oona King may be black, a woman and vastly more visually pleasing than Galloway, but she's still a Blair poodle.
I've no reason to doubt that he's an utter cunt either but, again, so what? Is he worse than (say) Jack Straw, who it seems colluded actively in the creation of "evidence" and associated spin to sell a war that had already been committed to, and who apparently and at best turns a blind eye to the use of "information" extracted under torture and who, it's been suggested, may be aware of the outsourcing of torture to a variety of middle eastern countries?
The BBC is Tessa Jowell's bitch on these matters, post Hutton (witness their, errm, coverage of Craig Murray's campaign in Blackburn), but I really don't understand why so much vitriol is poured on Galloway, and particularly so in contrast with establishment figures of at least equal vileness.
OK, he's opportunistic and it's certainly possible to spin his choice of Bethnal Green as carpetbagging; he's a politician, it's what they do. Did people expect him to choose a low profile seat where he had no chance of ousting an entrenched MP who didn't support the war? Oona King may be black, a woman and vastly more visually pleasing than Galloway, but she's still a Blair poodle.
I've no reason to doubt that he's an utter cunt either but, again, so what? Is he worse than (say) Jack Straw, who it seems colluded actively in the creation of "evidence" and associated spin to sell a war that had already been committed to, and who apparently and at best turns a blind eye to the use of "information" extracted under torture and who, it's been suggested, may be aware of the outsourcing of torture to a variety of middle eastern countries?
The BBC is Tessa Jowell's bitch on these matters, post Hutton (witness their, errm, coverage of Craig Murray's campaign in Blackburn), but I really don't understand why so much vitriol is poured on Galloway, and particularly so in contrast with establishment figures of at least equal vileness.