Galloway, King of Lies, and Friend of the Taliban, at it again
The ever truthful and modest Mr George Galloway, quoted in yesterday’s (4th March) Morning Star (front page lead: ‘PRINCE OF LIES’), on the subject of media coverage of arch-parasite Harry Windsor’s deployment in Afghanistan:
“This carefully choreographed propaganda coup by the Ministry of Defence is now unravelling.
“Last Thursday, when I criticised the media’s collusion with the MoD on the BBC Question Time programme, I seemed dangerously out on a limb.
“But, just a few days later, relatives of those killed in Afghanistan are themselves speaking out over this sanitised recruitment exercise by the BBC and the rest of the British media.”
Right, then: Galloway’s statement is so full of half-truths, self-aggrandizement, misrepresentation and evasion, that it’s worth deconstructing it right now, before this Stalinist expert on re-writing history gets away with falsifying the record:
1/ I saw last Thursday’s Question Time. Galloway attacked the British media, not for having published details of Harry’s presence in Afghanistan as some sort of “propaganda coup”, BUT FOR AGREEING TO HUSH IT UP…precisely the opposite of what he’s now bleating about. Even a professional liar, cheat and scoundrel like you, can’t have it both ways, Mr Galloway!
2/ Incidentally, Galloway’s first words on the subject (on Question Time) were: “Of course, Prince Harry’s presence (in Afghanistan -JD) is admirable.”
3/ Galloway cites the relatives of “those (British service personnel -JD) killed in Afghanistan” to, supposedly support his own pro-Taliban stance. In fact, the relatives who have spoken out most certainly do not support the Taliban, and would be horrified to know that their words were being used by a Taliban-supporter like Galloway. They, in fact have been objecting to the lack of money spent on equipment for British troops. Even in the Star article itself, the father (Anthony Phillipson) of a British squaddie killed in Helmand province, is reported as saying that he held the MoD responsible for his son’s death (because troops had not been supplied with the latest night-vision equipment), but the department had been “starved of cash” by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown. In other words, not enough money had been spent on the defence budget – a strange argument for a so-called “communist” publication to make, and a quite different case (almost the opposite, in fact) from that which Mr Galloway seeks to make.
4/ Mind you, the one true statement that Galloway did make on Question Time was “the Taliban are no enemies of mine”: once again, this loathsome scumbag demonstrates that wherever there is tyranny, fascism, racism and oppression in the world…so long as it does not eminate from the ‘West’…he will support it; even the Taliban, for gawd’s sake. And most certainly those splendid capitalists, the Chinese ruling class.
(Hat tip to the Sots for that link to the Galloway piece on China)
NB: for some sensible commentary on this issue:
