| Fred Blassie would have been proud of that one.
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Posted on 05/23/2005 6:48:14 AM PDT by Valin
Gorgeous George How a Stalin-admiring Saddam Hussein loyalist wowed the media and won the hearts of the adolescent American left.
AS AN ADOLESCENT, I regularly watched professional wrestling on television. Showing early geek tendencies, I usually enjoyed the ring-side interviews more than the matches themselves. My favorite interviews were the ones where a villain with a thick foreign accent hurled invective at America, attacked the manliness and lineage of his next good-guy foe, and denied committing the dirty deeds witnessed by the television audience the previous week. Whether the foreign villain was named Fritz von Erich, Ivan Koloff, or Professor Tanaka, the critique of America usually centered on the same theme--decadence. Minority groups such as blacks and Jews could not be attacked directly, but if a racist or anti-semitic subtext seeped through, that was okay.
Not all villains remained bad forever, and those who reformed could expect extra rough treatment from their former comrades. Wrestler reformation always occurred dramatically. In the middle of a match, a villain would suddenly join forces with a former antagonist, and the two "strange bedfellows" would subdue, for example, an over-the-top foreigner.
Last week, Washington was treated to a performance worthy of the old World Wrestling Federation. The featured player, George Galloway, even carries the nickname of the man who invented the modern wrestling villain, Gorgeous George. Physically, Galloway has patented one of the classic bad-guy wrestler looks, the perfectly-attired well-tailored ruffian. Then there's that Scottish accent, at its best when delivering the sneering insult. As when, on his way into the "arena," Galloway called fellow Brit and former "comrade" on the left, Christopher Hitchens, a "drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay." "Classy" Fred Blassie would have been proud of that one.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
You must read Hitchens reply.
Link please. Thank you.
Where can we find that?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/641kyjkk.asp
Hitchen's response is superb.
| Fred Blassie would have been proud of that one.
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Thankyou for the link.
Schtick - thats all he has.
You're welcome :)
Hitchens was on Galloway like a Saudi on a maid.
LOL! I hold Mr. Hitchens in MUCH higher esteem than that.
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Galloway is a pencil-necked geek.