If that is a repeat of last night I told that Hitchins destroyed Galloway.
That is why I would consider it entertaining.
We watched Hitchens/Galloway debate on C-Span last night. It was torture listening to Dundee's finest lying his head off about the faked Iraqi death figures in Lancet, his own involvement in the Oil for Food Scandal, and his friendship with Saddam.
He praised Cindy Sheehan (mother/goddess) and George Soros's Move-On.org, and called President Bush a stupid, war-mongering right-wing dirty rotten ....., and so on. Tony Blair was not spared. He attacked Barbara Bush, calling her the Marie Antoinette of modern day politics for her remarks about the New Orleans' evacuees in the Houston Astrodome. He heaped personal abuse onto Hitchens head and played to a claque of America-hating goons in the audience that whooped and screamed and clapped the more virulent his attacks on America and the West became.
Galloway had recently returned from Syria where he had stood on a public platform and listened, apparently with approval, to Assad describe the one hundred and forty-five Syrian terrorist attacks against the Iraqi people that Assad had launched.
When Hitchens called him on this, giving the figure as slightly lower or higher than one hundred forty five, Galloway, with mincing aplomb, said "one hundred forty-five."
This seemed to take Hitchens breath away, the utter cynicism Galloway's correction revealed, and seeing this, Galloway smirked at him and at the audience, considering his correction a debating triumph of sorts.
The debate was held at Baruch college in New York City; the audience appeared to be earnest, socialist, left-wing and predominantly Jewish, which would not be unusual for this venue. What was unusual was the rabid anti-Israel/America claque sent into transports of ulalating joy at Galloway's seething hatred of Israel and America.
At one point Galloway, addressing the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, began what sounded like an almost masturbatory incantation recalling the planes loaded with passengers coming "out of a clear blue sky; but it wasn't a clear blue sky but a filthy swamp of despair that America had created..." At this point, the stunned sudience seemed to gather its wits and began booing Galloway's use of the Left's cliche excuse for allowing our enemies to destroy us. We deserve it. The booing did not quite drown out the ecstatic cheering of the claque.
Hitchens remarked that Galloway had chosen the wrong city in which to justify that attack.
But later Galloway brought the audience to its feet in a standing ovation by saying that because our troops were in Iraq we had none here to rescue Americans from the hurricane or "pick up the dead bodies of your fellow Americans."
When Hitchens tried to explain that there were National Guard troops in Louisiana, but that the President could not deploy them without the permission of the Governor of Louisiana who withheld that permission, he was jeered. "But it's in the Constitution." More cries of disbelief. Our Constitution is probably the most feared and detested document to the Left, which is why they never rest in their attempts to destroy it.
The claque attempted to shout down Hitchens, but he prevailed and told them that they could not silence him even with "your zoo noises."
I've left out a lot. I'll be looking for a transcript and if I find one I'll send you the link.
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