{"id":550,"date":"2005-05-21T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=550"},"modified":"2005-12-10T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T21:30:30","slug":"trotskyist-popinjay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/trotskyist-popinjay","title":{"rendered":"“Trotskyist popinjay”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Hitchens writes about George Galloway in the Weekly Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We are therefore invited by him to assume that, having earlier acquired a justified reputation for loose bookkeeping in respect of “charities,” he switched sides in Iraq, attached himself to a regime known for giving and receiving bribes, appointed a notorious middleman as his envoy, kept company with the corrupt inner circle of the Baath party, helped organize a vigorous campaign to retain that party in power, and was not a penny piece the better off for it. I think I believe this as readily as any other reasonable and objective person would. If you wish to pursue the matter with Galloway himself, you will have to find the unlisted number for his villa in Portugal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Hitchens writes about George Galloway in the Weekly Standard: We are therefore invited by him to assume that, having earlier acquired a justified reputation for loose bookkeeping in respect of “charities,” he switched sides in Iraq, attached himself to a regime known for giving and receiving bribes, appointed a notorious middleman as his envoy, … <\/p>\n

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