"George Galloway has signed up to present a fortnightly show for al-Mayadeen, a new Arab television channel said to be linked to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad."*
Two questions occur as relevant ones for him to be asked:
1. You said earlier this year that Assad must go now. Are you going to put this point on your new show, every time you talk?
2. If the politics of this station are pro-Assad, do you really think it is appropriate to be appearing on such a station?
Two questions occur as relevant ones for him to be asked:
1. You said earlier this year that Assad must go now. Are you going to put this point on your new show, every time you talk?
2. If the politics of this station are pro-Assad, do you really think it is appropriate to be appearing on such a station?
Syria is not Iran. At first when I saw people compare this to his work with Press TV, I was tempted to care no more about this than I did about that (which did include objecting to the station allowing a Holocaust denier to propagate his views, but not to get worked up that they employed Galloway). But Iran is still a country targeted hypocritically by the most powerful countries, while Syria is a country where politically now there is only one over-arching question; and if you are financially tied to the wrong side of that as a propagandist you deserve to lose Respect.**
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/…/tv-stations-george-galloway-jul…
**I'd still tend to say that if he was working for the Hezbollah TV station that would be reasonable, depending on what he actually said on there, as Hezbollah is not the Syrian government.
**I'd still tend to say that if he was working for the Hezbollah TV station that would be reasonable, depending on what he actually said on there, as Hezbollah is not the Syrian government.
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