Quiet evening

The BBC license fee should be shared equally with all the UK commercial broadcasters. Why? Because the BBC doesn't offer objective news analysis nor does "auntie" have an exclusive on presenting what passes for public service broadcasting. Read the latest BBC bullocks here.

You didn't click on the link? I'm actually glad this time.

Well, huh. "CBS news president has been replaced" from little green footballs, just to be consistent, here's the link. By the way, US or UK, broadcasters cannot peddle their fallacious stories without some kind of come upppance these days, I'm just saying.

At the Westminster Society of Cogers tonight I got to read out a few delicious quotes from Christopher Hitchens' wonderful Slate article which you can read in it's entirety here.

"This report, which comes with a vast archive of supporting material...contains the "smoking gun" evidence that Galloway, along with his wife (she certainly was in 2000) and his chief business associate were consistent profiteers from Sodhim Hussein's regime and its criminal exploitation of the "Oil for Food" program."

Someone, I don't remember who, stood up and said something along the lines of "isn't it likely that the CIA has mocked up documents to support this belief?"

What, tons of "authenticated documents from Iraqi ministries, implicating "Zureikat...Genon...Sevan.....Merimee....Pasqua....Zhirinovsky..." and yes, small fry Galloway?

Nope, I don't think so. Here's Christopher Hitchens' final sentence:

"I wonder if anyone of those who furnished him a platform will now have the grace to admit that they were hosting a man who is not just a pimp for fascism but one of its prostitutes as well".

Never let it be said that a bit of alcohol clouded an intelligent writer's judgment when it comes to corrupt supporters of fascist dictators.