Blowing away The Mother of All Smirkscreens

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Since Dick Durbin has apologized publically for something that he didn’t do, the opinions are flying fast and furious. What he actually said was true-- how it was misinterpreted is adding fuel to the fire of the Right Wing Smokescreen Brigade.

What if in this situation, a Senator under fire were to face the billowing clouds of obfuscation with a strong and steady stream of clarity? Although there are some who think that to “have balls” is a universal cure-all, perhaps more could be accomplished with the firm application of a crisp Scots accent.

George Galloway stood up to his accusers in the Senate armed with wit and lucidity. He showed Congress the only way to disentangle from the madness of the Neo-Con Spin Machine. Since the U.S. no longer has a tradition of statesmanship and oratory, it will take some practice getting up to speed.

Today the Randi Rhodes Show replayed an interview with Mr. Galloway, who referred to actions of the Bush administration as "immoral, illegal and ineffective." "You get the very outcome that your leaders tell you their policies are meant to avoid."

He referred to the current state of affairs as an "argent matta"-- sorry, "urgent matter." Even without a brogue or the honeyed shushes of Sean Connery, words stripped down to their essence are the only way to counter Rovian doublethink and mercenary "framing."

A deep humanity and humor emerges with simplicity. Barack Obama had the whole country jumping up and down when he stood at the DNC and made the radical statement that there was a time we thought of ourselves as a NATION! Mercy!

Gorgeous George:
 
"You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever written to me or telephoned me, without any attempt to contact me whatsoever. And you call that justice.
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"As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.
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"I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and Americans governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. I used to demonstrate outside the Iraqi embassy when British and American officials were going in and doing commerce.
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"I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.

“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

....Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.
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"Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance of your own Government."

[rodeodance]

1. as others have said--the message--is lost--which is how prisoners are

or are not being treated--and the effects of this treatment on our troops around the world.

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3. Galloway provided examples of effective communications

for whatever message may be front and center.

I quote him to show the simplicity and focused quality of his statements.

I propose that lucidity trumps duplicity and has more power than "balls."

I imagine that Sen. Durbin could have stood up and skewered his attackers on The Hill and at home and on the airwaves, by reiterating what he DID and DID NOT say. The opportunity was missed.

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2. Reading this again...

just reminds of how effective it could be to have Mr. Galloway come around more often

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4. We gotta get Gallowized

Gallowised up

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5. Excellent post !!

I think I will be able to hear him saying those words in my head forever.

What an impact words can make.