Anyone know how last nights' Galloway /Hitches debate went in NYC.

[cyclezealot]

Hitchens the turn coat drunk..Why would one select him to debate Galloway..TV off today.Gotta know. They will be debating in other US cities this coming week.

[cyclezealot]

1. Hitches the turn coat. Now really works for Murdock.

[ReadTomPaine]

2. Here's a link to busy thread about it...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4772770

[applegrove]

3. Galloway is an idiot too.

[rw3204]

5. Why is Galloway an idiot?

Because he made fools of our Congress?

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. The DLC types hate Galloway

Because he tells the truth about the stupidity of the neocon agenda.Just like they hate Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, or anyone else who calls attention to this shit, rather than trying to whitewash it under a "kinder gentler imperialism" like PNAC's PPI division does (which just happens to be in the same office as the DLC.

[0007]

8. Because George Galloway speaks the truth about the crime

cabal?

Galloway made a fool out of Hitchens. All Hitchens could do was resort to slime.

[Agnomen]

4. I flashed on the Moon Unit Zappa/Gordon Liddy

debate road show when I heard this. Hope these two clowns are as entertaining.

[barbaraann]

7. I saw part of it and didn't think the format/moderator were very good.

n/t

[0007]

9. YOU are definitely in the small minority with your opinion.

What kind of format would you had liked to seen? And what's wrong with Amy Goodman? Or was it Galloway's truth about the crime cabal that bugged you?

[barbaraann]

10. I think Galloway is great and I usually like Amy Goodman.

And I can't believe Hitchens is ever given a soapbox other than at a local pub.

However, it seemed like the format just gave the debaters time to talk without forcing resolution to issues or questions. Galloway is so right and Hitchens so wrong that it should have ended with Hitchens promising to withdraw from punditry forever.

Just my opinion.

[0007]

11. You are so right! But you have to admit that it was music to the

ear to hear the truth come out and over the airwaves.

[barbaraann]

12. Yes, but we need better debate formats.

I am still furious over the Presidential debates and how they were weak on revealing truth and thrown to Bush.

[0007]

13. Now I see where you're coming from. And I do agree.

[barbaraann]

14. I'm coming from the "we are right but not perfect" place.

:-)

[cyclezealot]

15. When anyone attacks Amy Goodman they are on my fighting side.

I have Galloway's testimony before the US Senate last Spring..Capitol Hill is not used to a fighter. The man is brillant.

[applegrove]

16. Check this palast link.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=457&row=0