George Galloway, abuser of metaphors and old saws

Mr. Lickspittle, the angry dwarf goes to Washington, only to engage in "dog wistle" politicking with his zombie-like followers back home.

[Sadaam Hussein’s “mother of all wars”] - «"This group of neocons is involved in the mother of all smokescreens," he said of the committee. "I want to turn the tables on this neo-con, pro-Israel, pro-war, Republican lynch mob."»

«He said earlier: "The truth is I have never bought or sold a drop of oil from Iraq, or sold or bought a drop of oil from anybody.»

[Joe McCarthy]: Omitted by the BBC in text, but not on the air: «I am not nor have I ever been an oil trader»

[Clarence Thomas: “This is a high-tech lynching”] : «MP George Galloway said on Tuesday he would reject charges at a U.S. Senate hearing from a "neo-con ... pro-war, Republican lynch mob" that he profited from the Iraq oil-for-food program.»Covering for him in addition to providing some curious omissions, the BBC stated:

«Mr Galloway, who travelled to Washington in a bid to clear his name, went on the offensive from the beginning of his testimony.»

He is not in Washington to clear his name – he’s here because he can showboat for his robotic supportes back home, and with no legal implications. The very fact that Labour told him to pound sand over his advocacy of the enlisted not acting on orders and turning on their officers is tasteless and possibly criminal in the U.K.

If he’s trying to tap into the American psyche with this silly recycling of political phrases from the U.S., the type that his proponents in the U.K. are rather obsessed with, then he has failed miserably.

Scott Burgess who has much more patience with pets-not-yet-housebroken, and a stomache strong enough for the Galloway's spewem has more.

Goodness, what would we do without Scott?