Poor little Normie Coleman got Gallowayed.

Hope our Democratic leaders and the marionettes operated by corporate media bosses sat up and took notes today. If any of them started practicing Galloway`s cut-the-crap approach, this country and everyone in it would be better off.

Galloway drilled Coleman with a noteworthy combination of cold, black stares and words coated with a healthy slab of contempt. Poor little Normie couldn`t take it so the testimony had to be cut short. For the Coleman fans out there, don`t despair. I hear he`s going to be a guest with red, white and blue Lou Dobbs tonight. Maybe Coleman will explain to the country how wussies in the Democratic Party are stirring up trouble in the once-peaceful Uzbeckistan.

I`d give anything to see some of our party leaders take a cue from Galloway and just rip through the lies like there`s no tomorrow. No talking points, no fake gentility, just have a whack at them. Republicans wouldn`t know what hit them, since they`re so used to the opposition cowering like a herd of black sheep.

Galloway gave us a masterful example of how to deal with chronic bullying by Republican thugs. Step One: Bend their poisoned arrow into a boomerang and send it right back. Step Two: Don`t flinch.

He called the lying cheating murderers what they are - LYING CHEATING MURDERERS!!!

n/t

:D

What annoyed me though was Keith Olbermann's reference that Galloway was like a 'Zel Miller' with an accent. Typical MSM...dismissing the truth as crazy somehow. I found it particularly disappointing from Keith.

Please, please, please, please, please....

Oh, it's lovely.

And Norm Coleman thinks he can get Galloway on LYING TO CONGRESS????? After what GEORGE DID???? So cute.

And Norm Coleman thinks he can get Galloway on LYING TO CONGRESS?????

I saw that. I literally laughed out loud when he said it. Yeah, maybe in Normie Coleman's upside-down Alice-in-Wonderland world. What a fool; a complete and utter fool. I'm sure Galloway must be laughing his head off at Big Bad Coleman.


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I have, up close and personal. He's about 5 feet tall and about 100 pounds, wet (I hope with sweat). Napoleon complex, anyone?

Sleeze must be a genetic trait in their family

and then on MSRNC. Can't stomach Faux, but they probably are calling him a terraist®.


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And that accent somehow makes him even more convincing. How great it was to hear him telling off this "Norm Coleman" creature, who appears to be a jerk.

He IS a jerk. A classic empty-suit yes-men if there ever was one. I remeber when he was a democratt, I didn't even like him much then. If not for the death of Paul Wellstone that hack would be political rubbish on the heap of history.

As it is....well, I can hardly wait to vote against him a third time (once was when he lost the governor's race).

because the Wellstone memorial was so "politicized". These were people who voted for Wellstone. Have you found that to be the case or do I know some weirdos?


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Perhaps it was Mondale's stale beltway flavor more than Norm's nonexistent charisma. Goes to show you what having a strong, independent streak does to an uncommitted electorate. Let hope we see more Wellstones soon.

but that's what they said. I report, you decide.


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but I'm sure they're out there. When I heard about the plane crash I nearly threw up. I knew that was probably gonna be the thing that gave * complete power.

I actually missed the infamous memorial service (I didn't have tv at the time) but I knew the right wing was gonna spin that for all it was worth.

If Franken runs, he'll mop the floor with Coleman.

I'm moving to MN


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was so moved..I was an emotional wreck when Paul, his wife, daughter and the other members of his team were killed in that plane crash..how dare the fascists turn something beautiful into barking their heads off about it.

They were the ones who should be condemned but the media went right along with them..surprised?

Honoring the life and vision of the Wellstones with something that was political reflects the fact that political activism was a huge part of their lives. It was their real friends and family who were involved - they obviously both had an enormous amount of love and respect for the Wellstones. (People who booed Lott were rude, but his Democratic colleagues supposedly immediately apologized to Lott.)

I was shocked when the MSM followed talk radio in condemning the mourners. But the same MSM cheered the Republican hate fest and were amused by people wearing purple heart bandages to mock the severity of Kerry's wounds (although the majority of them probably have less shrapnel in their bodies than he). That Lott was booed pales in comparison.

It definetly paled!

And now that they see what a schmuck he is, this is their excuse. Or maybe it simply was their excuse, at the time.

How many people who backed Wellstone would switch to Coleman? Get real!

:-(

you can hear Sean Connery as the old wise cop on the Untouchables giving the corrupt police commissioner holy hell!

THIS IS THE TONE THAT WE NEED. PERIOD! this guy said truth for truth and addressed every lie as a lie and nothing more! Blunt, frank, and Factual! Hit em' hard and fast ! We need to do this from here to 2006 & 2008!

Coleman then Galloway

Galloway got last word with help

fantastic shape.

Norm got his ASS handed to him.

Welch bombs McCarthy.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html>

Welch had the entire U.S. Army at his back...

Wow.

How about any other donations from oil and other corp donors????

to run this country for a while. Yoohoo, Mr. Galloway, about that little mess back in 1776, no hard feelings, OK?

smackdown of Joe McCarthy.

The difference, of course, is that Norm Coleman is a pipsqueak while McCarthy was bigger than life - taking McCarthy down meant something. A Coleman comedown is a very short trip.

Know what I mean, Vern?

and turned up defending himself from behind the skirts of his sychophantic corporate media pals.

:headbang:
rocknation

Yeah, I know--naming a kitty after someone may not be as great as having a bridge or a street named after you--but it's my tribute to these amazing man!

Finally, someone speaking the truth and making no apologies!

Galloway's words remind me that we have NO ONE speaking the truth in this country anymore. Why is that??

It's so odd! It's as if the Dems have been tranquilized.

We have the truth on our side! All we would have to do is speak the truth and look everyone straight in the eye and tell it like it is--without flinching!

Galloway begs the question---Where are all of the Galloways in America?

...are running our nation, and he had the courage to say exactly that.

Poor normie. Career-killer performance.

The dems should definitely take their cue from Galloway. No nonsense truth telling.

Of course, then they'll have to clean up their dirty little corporate shill act too.

"Mosaic' 2night. Galloway was featured on the German broadcast as well as many ME networks. Iranian anchor was particularly hard hitting on quoting the 'neocon' phrase. Galloway was around the worls w/ his performance in the Senate.

is a flaming asshole!!!

I just watched the whole hearing on BBC and Levin came off as a bush apologist. He was worse than Coleman.

GOD DAMN DEMOCRAT WIMPS!!!!!

and that if they found out that they "disagreed" with where the money came from they'd give it back?

C'mon, Levin, you can do better than that. Lying down with LIARS makes you one too, it appears.

there have been small news items where politicians have done just that. For state races, it happens all the time here in NJ. You may say that it is to avert a scandal that might ensue if they didn't, but it might also be that the candidate's money people accepted money that was sent in and didn't have any reasons to question it. (The need for money in campaigns really does create a huge potential land mine for candidates.)

Galloway was incredible in his indictment of the Bush administration, but he really did (successfully) avoid answering the Senators' questions. Levin appeared to be hitting harder then Coleman mainly because he is smart and a very very competent lawyer. Galloway's points that they are ignoring the broader problem (everything done to Iraq since 1990) and that they are not going after all people who benefited from the oil for food program are the key questions - but the Senators' questions dealt with Galloway's possible profit.

Galloway was remarkably successful in dominating the hearing and getting his own agenda out. Given the relative power, this is stunning. It was possible largely because of Coleman's incompetence. (He looked weak, unintelligent, and smarmy in several televised Foreign Relations committee meetings as well - where Biden, Kerry, and Boxer seem to routinely (and easily) destroy anything he says.)
Levin was doing his job when he questioned Galloway attempting to get straight answers to specific questions and to maintain control of the hearing.

Galloway gave a powerful indictment of the US actions in Iraq. He has been a victim of forged documents in the past and he may have done nothing more than accept political and charitable contributions from a long time supporter who apparently may have been involved in oil for food, but Levin's asking his questions was not wrong and Galloway could use them to clear his name. (The charges against him fade to insignificance vs the charges he makes vs Bush).

This was OUTSTANDING. He got was he had coming to him FOR A LONG TIME!!!!! I can't stand Coleman. He's a JERK AND OUT FOR HIMSELF. I can't wait for the revolution, hopefully Galloway will come back and be a speaker at the rally.


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he said being lectured by Norm Coleman about ethics is akin to being told to sit up straight by the hunchback of Notre Dame (or something like that . . . I was laughing so hard I missed some of it).

I got to see Galloway later on charlie rose and charlie was being his typical hard ass if someone wasn't following bushline..Galloway was giving much better than he got, though!

I remember Galloway saying something about the "Mother of All Smokescreens"!!

And just before that I saw a repeat on Jon Stewart..about blair and his election. Totally cracked me up! God he's funny! Jon that is.

and I swear, if she had a phallus, he would have kissed it.

I love the way he tried to spin Galloway, and Galloway just unloaded on his sorry ass.

Rose--"so when Iraq erupted into chaos you felt . . .?"

Galloway--"how I felt was utterly irrelevant. The Iraqi people will determine their destiny just the way the Anti-War movement and I said they would."

Rose--"you came off as being angry."

Galloway--"when I think of the one million people killed under sanctions, most of them women and children, that's makes me angry as hell. When I think of the 100,000 Iraqis and the 1600 soldiers killed, that makes me angry as hell."

Rose--stunned silence . . .

*****

Go back to kissing Republican ass, Charlie. That's what you know and love . . .

in the debates, I wish we could have had George Galloway in Kerrys ear for the froeign policy debate

Wah, wah, wah.