Galloway in Amman

[faceless]

Here's GG in Amman sometime in the last week or two - I'm not sure exactly when but it contains some powerful rhetoric without doubt... I'm in the process of editing the audio down to remove the live translation.

[nekokate]

Interesting that the only people who laugh at his wry jokes are the English speaking members of the audience. They cheer and two seconds later when the Arabic translation is made... studied silence. Maybe his sort of irony doesn't translate too well.

I wish we had the full video, too, instead of the edit by Selective Memri.

[faceless]

I was wondering if the people who were listening to the translation could hear the words more literally, rather than with the relish that Mr G gives them, so were more thoughtful about it. I've noticed that myself while watching movies with subtitles.

I just noticed that the date of the recording is right there in the screenshot... doh.

[faceless]

Melanie Phillips - always on the ball...

To suggest that something someone said in a foreign country about another foreign country could be actionable here shows the depth of her attempts to smear and attack anyone who doesn't love and admire Israel.

[nekokate]

"How can a man who incites mass murder be an MP?" Erm, Melanie... Make a cup of tea, love, this is going to be a long history lesson.

[faceless]

I left a comment on that blog - it wasn't posted of course... maybe I should have licked her arse instead of kicking it.

I saw some blog where a student has written to Gordon Brown to complain about the 'incitement of terrorism' in Galloway's speech. It seems that Galloway wins again purely by getting these people to fall out of their trees...

[mickyv]

Well GG was certainly not holding back here, naming Levi & Blair as “crooks” & even praising Saddam. Thanks for the Spectator link Faceless, I’ve managed to get a couple of comments through (Mac) to put the GG Haters on the defensive about Mad Mel !

[nekokate]

He didn't praise Saddam. And why would you be impressed by that even if he did?

He just said his name will be remembered long after Blair was gone - and in the part of the world he was addressing that's just a plain fact.

[mickyv]

Perhaps I should have put quotes around “praise” as I was mimicking what Phillips & her fellow GG Haters are stating, and to be fair he does put Saddam up in the stars right next to Nasser, who he indeed did praise in the same sentence.

But tell me where did I say that I was impressed or otherwise, if he had praised Saddam ?

[nekokate]

I must have mis-interpreted your tone. It read as though you were rubbing your hands together with glee. You should have taken the quotation marks from crooks and draped them over praised, yea. Since Blair and Levy are crooks ;)

[mickyv]

No probs Kate. The only glee I get from this is sticking it to the other side. Yes they are indeed crooks at best, but I suspect that he couldn't say it back in the UK.

BTW I like your "long remembered.. in that part of the World" line, I may have need of using it myself if you don't mind !

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