{"id":499,"date":"2005-05-18T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/18\/george-g-vs-george-b\/"},"modified":"2005-05-18T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T16:19:00","slug":"george-g-vs-george-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/george-g-vs-george-b\/","title":{"rendered":"George G. vs. George B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you like about George Galloway &#8211; and I frequently do &#8211; he turned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/0518iraq-oil18.html\">a largely impressive performance<\/a> in front of the Americans yesterday. <a href=\"http:\/\/chickyog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/galloways-humour.html\">Chicken Yoghurt has a good take<\/a>, while Martin Stabe has a <a href=\"'http:\/\/www.martinstabe.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/gorgeous_roundu.php\">roundup of US blog reactions<\/a>, a particular highlight of which is this little gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We won the Revolutionary War fergossake. This shouldn&#8217;t be so hard.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Respectites <a href=\"http:\/\/deadmenleft.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/bash-bash-sorted.html\">Meaders<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/leninology.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/street-fighting-man.html\">Lenin<\/a> seem to have been enjoying themselves &#8211; even <a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.bloghouse.net\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/fat_lady_not_yet_singing.php\">Harry&#8217;s Place<\/a> had to admit George put on a good show, but it seems that the folk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/s\/nypost\/20050518\/cm_nypost\/punypolscowerbeforeaproterrorbully\/nc:742\">New York Post<\/a> weren&#8217;t quite as impressed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;SOMEBODY, please inject our senators with a heavy dose of testosterone.<br \/>\n&#8220;Maybe then they&#8217;ll be able to deal with thugs and bullies like George Galloway.<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;He insulted our administration. He decried the war against terror.<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;It gets worse.<br \/>\n&#8220;As he hijacked Congress to unleash his outrageous, insulting tirade, our senators did not pipe up.<br \/>\n&#8220;Rather, they assumed the look of frightened little boys caught with pants around their ankles, nervously awaiting punishment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say again &#8211; heh!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.org\/English\/News\/2005-05\/18\/article02.shtml\">IslamOnline have a good press roundup<\/a> for those who fancy some other reactions.<\/p>\n<p>The only question now is will he ever get a chance to go off on a similar rant in the House of Commons, or will he (as I suspect) somehow fail to catch the Speaker&#8217;s eye?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you like about George Galloway &#8211; and I frequently do &#8211; he turned in a largely impressive performance in front of the Americans yesterday. Chicken Yoghurt has a good take, while Martin Stabe has a roundup of US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/george-g-vs-george-b\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}