George Galloway is back
George Galloway's Bradford West win is latest victory in flamboyant career
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/30/george-galloway-bradford-west-career
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Defending himself, Galloway threw down the gauntlet to the US senate committee, who had drafted the report and flew to the US to accuse senators of manufacturing "the mother of all smokescreens".
"I am here today – but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever having written to me or telephoned me, without any contact with me whatsoever – and you call that justice," he said.
While on the steps of the US Congress, he even managed to silence the late essayist and debater Christopher Hitchens with one his most memorable put-downs, declaring him to be a "drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay".
Earlier this year he accepted £25,000 in damages from News Group Newspapers after it admitted that the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had intercepted messages left on his mobile phone.
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I'll never forget that Senate Committee hearing 
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He would not last a week here on DU because he calls things as he sees them. The call outs of the BS around here would get him banned.
And speaking of banned, "The List"
s) of supposedly banned words would surely grow longer.
