Britain - Galloway ITV Tantrum

Poor old Geroge Galloway just can't get any RESPECT these days. Iraqis shun him, Muslims attack him, his Palestinian wife is divorcing him and now the washed up politician threw a tantrum, called the hosts "liars" and stormed off the ITV (UK) lunchtime news program.

GEORGE GALLOWAY, the former Labour MP, yesterday stormed off a news show, denouncing the interview as a "set-up".

The former Glasgow Kelvin MP, who started his own anti-war party Respect, told the ITV lunchtime news presenters that they were "liars".

Mr Galloway, who is trying to unseat Labour candidate Oona King from Bethnal Green and Bow, was furious at the suggestion that he was a supporter of Saddam Hussein as an 11-year-old clip was shown of him telling the former Iraqi dictator: "I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."

Mr Galloway said he had already explained himself 11 years ago and stressed that he had been referring to the courage of the Iraqi people.

He claimed the interview had deliberately been "teed-up", adding: "You are a bunch of liars; everybody knows you are a bunch of liars.

I say, not very sporting of you old chap. Stiff upper lib and all that rot, eh?

Interestingly, there is not a mention of this on the BBC website.
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