There's a link to the video of this sad travesty somewhere on FR today -- dunno where.
Posted on 01/14/2006 9:32:26 PM PST by Pikamax
'Galloway can no longer count on the indulgence of polite society'
Nick Cohen Sunday January 15, 2006 The Observer
The first series of Big Brother in 2000 drew a long howl of disgust from the British intelligentsia. Martin Amis said it proved that meritocracy was dead - because 'now you can become famous without having any talent by abasing yourself on a TV nerdothon'.
Writers as diverse as James Hawes and Ben Elton wrote state-of-the-nation novels about contestants who will do anything to please the peeping Tom producers and their creepy audiences. I lost count of the newspaper pundits who said the show encapsulated everything that was sinister in modern life, and may well have said it myself.
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nerdothon
Sorry but nerds never did anything to merit being compared with contestants on Big Brother.
One of my dogs may have though, if we're talking about what happens in public.
There's a link to the video of this sad travesty somewhere on FR today -- dunno where.
Right.
He picked that constituency because he thought he could win it, and he did.
He could care less about his constituents, it's all about "me".
Scum.
From the Hitchens/Galloway debate 9/16/2005:
Hitchens to Galloway:
"...To hear him speak, you would think, would you not, that he was a pacifist, that he defines himself as anti-war. Now how can this be said, in good conscience, by someone who has just, standing by the side of the dictator of Syria, on the 30th of July, referred to the 154 heroic operations conducted in Iraq by the so-called resistance, or the resistance that is run as we know by a senior bin Ladenist and by many of the former secret police of the Baathist regime? How can someone say, and say they're anti-war and they care about casualties that they praise the 154 operations a day?"
So, he's all poised to fit in with the liberal elitists of the U.S.? Sounds like a match made in heaven. No, wait. Maybe hell. God has a special place for people like Galloway and uber-liberals of his ilk. You know who are are!
Respect MP's stunt draws jeers from opponents and alarms supporters
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