Millions Watch as Galloway Pussies Out

The Repect Party MP, who last year lambasted the United States Senate over the war in Iraq, crouched on all fours, purring and licking imaginary milk from the hands of the actress Rula Lenska....

He further angered conservative Muslims, who make up the bulk of his support, when he told his housemates, including glamour models, entertainers and minor pop stars, that his favourite pursuits were sex and sunbathing.

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A public that voted for Galloway's blustering and evasive tirade before the US Senate as "favourite moment" of 2004 is entitled to have such people in its face.

MORE: Galloway, a fierce critic of the Iraq war who also has been accused by investigators of benefiting from that nation's oil-for-food program, has had a ready answer for those who say he never should have gone on the show. (During his stint on it, he is incommunicado, although he continues to draw his Parliament salary.)

"I am doing it for the Palestinians," he said....