Richard Seymour on Press TV with George Galloway

[BeholdZeus]

Absolutely love Richard. A very good analyst and wise scholar.

[TheFabdulla]

Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Equality, Religious Freedoms. Democratic voting systems.

You get all these (to varying degrees) in the West, They are hardly noticeable in countries governed by Islam. Maybe that's the West's fault as well.

I would die defending these rights and freedoms against an enemy who wants to replace them with Sharia Law

[threecundies]

Galloway is nothing more than a slug who metamorphosed into an even fatter slug; he is a craven, corrupt, toady to tyrants and terrorists; he is also what Glaswegians refer to as a blowhard.

And as for Galloway's political catamite, the Marxist clown Seymour, an archetypal unemployable useless permanent student and Marxist fuckwit who idolizes one of the twentieth century's greatest tyrants (i.e. V. I. Lenin) the less said the better.

Viewing the pair of them together is a visual emetic.

[NietzscheMarx]

I love it. Galloway says Hitchens = "butterfly who metamorphosed back into a slug"

[abdhamidmatsain]

the christians west symbiotically partner with the powerful secularists to spread christianity and subdue others at the same time...

[LIVERLADD]

Press tv is a Iranian islamic regime tv . and Galloway supports that oppressive regime. Galloway runs to any anti western anti American regime no matter how evil they are

[malachy1847]

@LIVERLADD We have to thank both British Imperialism and American Imperialism for the metamorphic changes brought about to Iran and many outher Nation states throughtout the past decades.... which indeed helped create the functioning Theocracies we see there today ...

[TheRivoluzione]

The day the West is willing to "talk" with the Middle East, there will be a chance of peace in this world.

[Eye0fTheStorm]

The day the West stops supporting brutal dictators in the mid-east, stop crushing popular rebellions, stop cia organized political assasinations on popular leaders, stop organizing military coups to overthrow leaders who are against letting western companies loot their countries resources

When those things happen, there will be a chance for peace. Except they won't happen b/c if the west stopped choking the middle-east, it would becoming richer than europe in 30 years with its vast oil wealth

[threecundies]

Watching this video reminds me of Laurel and Hardy; I see Galloway as Oliver Hardy, and Seymour as Stan Laurel. The truth is, of course, no sane sensible person would take the politics or views of either of these clowns seriously. I find it quite amusing that a Marxist-Islamist (Islamism is the new Leninism) should have the gall to write about politically-inspired murder since Marxists of various hues were responsible for most of the carnage and genocide of the 20th Century.

[ChrisEdwards2004]

And Western colonialism/imperialism was NOT responsible for massive carnage in the 19th, 20th and now 21st Centuries, i take it? How many war crimes and massacres was European colonialism responsible for? Nobody bothered to count the dead. It was not Marxists that established the slave trade, wiped out the native Americans or perpetrated the Holocaust. By the way, Churchill thought that "comrade" Stalin was the bees knees--see his war time speeches in Parliament post-1941.

[donkey69donkey69]

love ya georgy.

[irishgeal1]

hitchens gone from a butterfly back to a slug,  priceless.

[LeninRonHubbard]

Galloway's exaggerated Glaswegian accent sounds like a cross between Rab C. Nesbitt and Taggart. The way he says "murrr durrr", as in the liberal defence of "murrr durrr", is a wonder to behold. He is deliberately overdoing his accent in order to bolster his working-class credibility. When he addressed Saddam Hussein, expressing his admiration for the dictator's "indefatigability", it wasn't spoken like a bartender in Maryhill. Galloway is guilty of verbal fraud as well as the political variety.

[muds4u]

ye thats a realy big crime.

[ChrisEdwards2004]

He is from Dundee not Glasgow.

[RepublicOf32]

he isn't from Glasgow you fuckin idiot, he's from Dundee.

[glamfakir]

George G. is from Dundee: He does not have a Glasgow accent....neither does he have a Dundee accent....He has a proud clear Scottish accent and does not speak in dialect. He sounds totally authentic to my Scottish ear, which is entirely in accord with his politics.

[TANDY6688]

good reply :D

[whalefish83]

You're a fucking twat. Just because the man enjoys rolling his r's, you assume you know everything about him politically and socially. It seems like YOU are the class conscious simpleton.

[Air420]

Good interview. You should have put Christopher Hitchens in the tag line, and drawn in all his fan boys. They don't like seeing their guy take a beating, I could hear their screams of agony when Tariq Ali made a fool out of him.

[Irtidad]

Very interesting that he links it all the way back 400 years ago.

Couple issues I had with the interview:

Galloway's rhetoric was very unattractive. I get that you're disgusted with these people, so am I, but to say that they are working for the devil, and to not see the humor in such a statement, is kinda ridiculous.

Also, Seymour says he has a small hope for Obama, even though he criticizes his choices for administration. Why? This seems just to be a cult of personality.

[leninology]

I think the point about 'working for the devil' originates in the debate he and Hitchens had in NY, in which Hitchens recalled that Galloway had praised him for writing like an angel. The 'devil' stuff was an ironic put-down, rather than a literal theological point.

As to Obama, I was a bit too soft on him, but I was trying to get round the obvious enthusiasm that many people have for the guy because of what he represents and point out that the admin will be a hawkish one.

[Irtidad]

Oh, haha, I didn't realize this was you. -10 points to me for not taking 5 seconds to look at the channel description. -_-

I wasn't saying that Galloway meant that comment as a "literal theological point." Ironic put-down or not, he has a pretty long record of using ad hominems and firey rhetoric. I don't view this as a positive thing.

And obviously the point of your book is to dispel the illusions of lefty-liberal sorts, so being "a bit too soft" on Obama here is entirely understandable.

[yington]

Hi leninology

What exactly were George Galloway's in the 1980's when Soviet Russia was at war in Afghanistan ?

Was he for or against the Soviet actions ?

I haven't seen anything he has said in the past that was against this, nor have I seen evidence of any protests against this.

I may be wrong, and wondering if you can elaborate on what his views were ?

I think it's rather important, particularly when he has discussed the changes in other people's opinions, like Hitchens.

Thx

[chrisdabdoub]

@yington he was always against both Soviet and American Intervention in Afghanistan.

[yington]

@chrisdabdoub

And where exactly is the proof that he was against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan ?

Have you actually got any evidence from the time of this ?

Or are you just hoping that by saying it, it becomes true.

[AMRPK]

Very well articulated Richard.

[ephemerol]

thank you george and richard, excellent interview.

[inbrooklyn2008]

Wonderful interview, Richard.

[solomonsmindfield]

Woohoo, you made it. Even had a haircut.

Great interview...