Posted on 10/31/2005 5:57:23 PM PST by aculeus
UNDER-FIRE MP George Galloway is in talks to have a Hollywood movie made about his life.
The Scot - who is facing claims that he took cash from Saddam Hussein - has met with US actor and director Sean Penn to discuss the project.
Galloway sidekick Ron McKay is also to feature in the film,which documents their early days in Dundee through to their infamous meetings with the Iraqi dictator.
Film chiefs hope to cash in on Galloway's popularity since he blasted the US Senate over Iraq.
McKay, a writer who shares a flat with Galloway in London, said"Sean Penn took us to his mansion and we all had a good laugh - George and Sean really hit it off.
"I have suggested Danny de Vito plays George and George Clooney plays me. I have no idea how serious it is though - we're both a bit busy with other things."
Galloway is under criminal investigation over allegations that he lied to the US Senate when he denied benefitting from Saddam's oil-for-food programme.
Senate committee chairman Norm Coleman has referred the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow to the US Department of Justice and federal prosecutors The committee also sent a copy of their report to Sir Phillip Marr, the standards commissioner for the House of Commons.
The report claims Galloway's now-estranged wife received £84,000 from oil allocations and the Mariam charity he set up got £248,000 from the same source.
There is no suggestion Galloway benefited personally from Iraqi oil, but if he is found guilty of perjury, he could face up to five years in jail.
Last night, a defiant Galloway said: "I call for and beg them to charge me with perjury.
"The perjurers and liars are all in the White House and the Senate. All I say is, I will see them in court
Don't know many straight guys Galloway's age that have male flat mates.
I'd stay tuned... the end of the script isn't written yet.
slug meets thug wannabe
Wow, a human POS making money off other people's suffering by having a movie made about his mediocre, criminal life. And it stars Sean Penn, another human POS! Anybody that goes to see this when it's made deserves to be punched in the gut.
Galloway is an absolutely repugnant, evil human being. No wonder he and Penn are enamored with each other...
I don't think we know the ending yet. But I hope it ends with him in prison.
Well, now you know where the expression, "thick as thieves", comes from...
Traitor, thief, liar - and queer, too! What a shock!
I bet if you walked into the room when they were together, the evil would be literally palpable.
No, I'm not kidding.
I think this one ends with a beheading.
bump
It would be much better if he played himself. On the other hand, that might be hard to do while sitting in jail.
here we go again
It's not even liptstick on a pig. Sean Penn is slime. Imagine slimey leftists acting the pafts of slimey leftists.
Monday, September 19, 2005 Tie-Dyed in the Wool: Perhaps being a liberal really can lower one's intelligence. Case in point: as we all know, Jane Fonda has been planning to mount an anti-war tour with British MP George Galloway and Sean Penn in a vegetable oil-powered bus -- and she believes she's helping. Galloway is almost a self-caricature, more Roderick Spode than Oswald Mosley, a brute who is a swaggering bravo to democratically-elected leaders and an obsequious lickspittle to tyrants; he mustered enough bluster to lecture the Senate for its "neocon" leanings, but praised the "Zen-like calm" of Saddam. Fonda will be forever tarred by the images of her looking through the sights of an NVA anti-aircraft gun and her later charges that POWs claiming torture by NVA captors were "hypocrites and liars." And Sean Penn -- well, the less said about his visits to Iraq, the better, and his time in New Orleans, though not entirely unhelpful, was more about self-aggrandizement than selfless charity. But they're helping.
Sean Penn and George Galloway.
As Oscar Levant once said about another coupling "How high can you stoop?"
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