Times Online’s Daniel Finklestein had a TV debate with George Galloway on the Iraq War. And if the final poll shows that Galloway’s anti-war side won the poll war, Galloway lost the image war.
Finklestein notes that the tally on the screen was actually wrong: it was 34-66. But Galloway seemed to have one thing on his mind: Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel...(And of course in no way is he even slightly anti semitic). CLICK HERE and for details and the link and to the Sky News link to the debate.’
P.S.: I know quite a few Jewish friends and relatives who oppose the war who would shake their heads in disgust if they saw these clips of Galloway.
UPDATE: Galloway is normally quite assertive (which is actually a plus on TV, which likes controversy and passion). A reader on Finklestein’s post gives THIS CLIP of Galloway facing a tough BBC post-2005-election interviewer.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, writes a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.