Make way for the man with big balls, courage, strength and indefatigability

There's a Bill Hicks routine (track 4 on the Arizona Bay album - you can hear a little sample of it on Amazon) about how the officers accused of beating up Rodney King got acquitted - 'well, if you play the tape backwards you see us helping King off the ground and sending him on his way' and that sort of thing. I get the feeling that George Galloway's lawyer may have been listening to it while he tried to think of a strategy for the libel trial against the Telegraph:

Mr Rampton said Mr Galloway had only met Saddam on two occasions.

"The first time was in 1994 when, as he himself freely admits, he put his foot in his mouth by making some remarks which were open to interpretation - and needless to say were interpreted - as some kind of fawning praise for Saddam Hussein's personal courage and strength.

"It wasn't what he meant to say, it was not in his mind to say, because he had no respect or admiration for Saddam Hussein whatsoever."

Jesus, what balls!