# Who would win in a debate, Michael Savage or George Galloway? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853 "2015-07-22T03:58:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ILikeForeignLanguages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc8723/32.png) [@ILikeForeignLanguages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILikeForeignLanguages)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/1 "2015-07-22T03:58:07Z")
Topics may be: Islam, jihad, terrorism, and Islamophobia Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict The War on Terror, the Iraqi War, the Afghanistan War, and the bombing of North Africa Iran and nuclear weapons The Syrian civil war Racism Gun violence in the US US hegemony ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/2 "2015-07-22T04:30:13Z")
I’m pretty sure they’d both claim they’d won. ---
**Author:** ![JVDaly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@JVDaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JVDaly)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/3 "2015-07-22T04:46:23Z")
I’d rather see who’d win in a bareknuckle fight to the death. ---
**Author:** ![Haberdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Haberdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haberdash)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/4 "2015-07-22T04:58:48Z")
Hopefully the roof would cave in. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/5 "2015-07-22T09:37:11Z")
More a request for opinion, really. Let me move that for you. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/6 "2015-07-22T12:18:56Z")
George Galloway would win the debate but it wouldn’t be on the subject you started with. He’s a master at answering a question you never asked, he is also a master at being a first class cunt. A cunt of Piers Morgan stature and I don’t make that comparison lightly. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/7 "2015-07-22T13:33:44Z")
Anyone who didn’t watch. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/8 "2015-07-22T13:42:11Z")
Objectively, probably Galloway. He is indeed a first-class cunt but he does his homework and he’s an experienced rhetorical scrapper. He managed to gain the moral high ground in a stand-off with the US Congress, which says a lot about Congress when you lose the moral high ground to pond scum. But personally I’d be hoping for the roof to fall in too. Even moreso if Piers Morgan is moderating. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/9 "2015-07-22T16:33:46Z")
I’ve heard Michael Savage on the radio twice and wasn’t impressed. And I’ve never heard George Galloway speak. I know he’s a left-wing British politician, so I assume I’d agree with Savage more often than with Galloway. But since Savage strikes me as a bit of a jerk, I wouldn’t particularly want him on my side. ---
**Author:** ![Haberdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Haberdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haberdash)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/10 "2015-07-22T18:27:27Z")
It should be noted that Galloway has a policy against sharing stages with Jews and will get up and leave if informed that Michael Savage is one, which I believe he is by ancestry at least. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/11 "2015-07-22T18:50:07Z")
I had to look up Galloway because I’ve never heard of him before. But Savage, what a piece of work he is. First of all, if he got a PhD from Cal, one would think he has some brains. Listen to his radio show, and you’d never know it. There isn’t a smear against Obama that he isn’t willing to make, there isn’t a rightwing conspiracy theory that he doesn’t buy. I generally listen to a few minutes of his show on my evening commute, up to the point where he says something so insane that I turn him off. Generally I don’t get two blocks. So not knowing Galloway, I give the nod to him based on what I know of Savage. ---
**Author:** ![Haberdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Haberdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haberdash)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/12 "2015-07-22T18:58:02Z")
Galloway is a Muslim supremacist who is most known for being Saddam Hussein’s paid lobbyist in Britain and instigating violence against Jews; even the rest of the extreme left in the UK has had enough of him and found it prudent to declare that he doesn’t speak for their beliefs. Can you just trust that both he and Savage are terrible and not make this about Obama? ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/13 "2015-07-22T19:31:39Z")
Who? ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/14 "2015-07-22T22:04:37Z")
> [@JerrySTL](#): > > Who? If you mean George Galloway - he’s the impressive orator and Islamist prick accurately described upthread. The best example of his work however is when he appeared on the UK Big Brother dressed in lycra, pretending to be a cat, drinking milk from the hand of Rula Lenska (I may be wrong with the details - my mind has tried to suppress the memory). But I’m sure it can be found quite easily on t’internet. ---
**Author:** ![ILikeForeignLanguages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc8723/32.png) [@ILikeForeignLanguages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILikeForeignLanguages)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/15 "2015-07-23T01:40:22Z")
> [@Haberdash](#): > > It should be noted that Galloway has a policy against sharing stages with Jews and will get up and leave if informed that Michael Savage is one, which I believe he is by ancestry at least. No, he has a policy of not sharing stages with Israelis. He is more or less anti-Israel, but swears up and down that he is not anti-Semitic. ---
**Author:** ![Haberdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Haberdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haberdash)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/16 "2015-07-23T01:44:48Z")
No one is obligated to participate in his charade (or to think that discriminating against someone based on nationality is that much better than doing so based on race). George Galloway only exists, politically, as the voice of violent, uncompromising anti-Semitism, and even other people in the anti-Israel movement have come to understand that when he says “Israeli” he means “Jew.” ---
**Author:** ![Hector\_St\_Clare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@Hector\_St\_Clare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hector_St_Clare)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/17 "2015-07-23T04:01:48Z")
> [@Staggerlee](#): > > If you mean George Galloway - he’s the impressive orator and Islamist prick accurately described upthread. The best example of his work however is when he appeared on the UK Big Brother dressed in lycra, pretending to be a cat, drinking milk from the hand of Rula Lenska (I may be wrong with the details - my mind has tried to suppress the memory). > > But I’m sure it can be found quite easily on t’internet. George Galloway is a Roman Catholic, not a Muslim and not an Islamist. He’s sympathetic to various Islamic causes because a good portion of his constituency in Yorkshire was of Subcontinental origin, but I doubt he personally, in his heart of hearts, cares all that much about Islam. ---
**Author:** ![Haberdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Haberdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haberdash)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/18 "2015-07-23T04:08:32Z")
> [@Hector\_St\_Clare](#): > > George Galloway is a Roman Catholic, not a Muslim and not an Islamist. This is not true. George Galloway[converted to Islam in 2000](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100153712/george-galloways-muslim-conversion-why-the-big-secret/). He is, most certainly, an Islamist – a person who believes that a conservative form of Islam should be imposed as law on everyone. That is the only reason he exists in politics. He has no supporters other than Muslim fanatics and no causes other than “behead those who insult Islam/ death to the Jews.” Saying Galloway isn’t an Islamist is like saying Mao isn’t a Communist; it makes no sense that you can even know who the person is without being aware of this fact. ---
**Author:** ![Haberdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Haberdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haberdash)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/19 "2015-07-23T04:20:35Z")
By the way: > [@Hector\_St\_Clare](#): > > He’s sympathetic to various Islamic causes because a good portion of his constituency in Yorkshire was of Subcontinental origin George Galloway is from Scotland. After he converted to fanatical Islam, he went looking for a constituency with a Jewish MP and a substantial population of radicalized Muslims so that he could run the sort of shit-stirring campaign he dreamed of. He moved into Bradford for this reason – you have the order of causation backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853/20 "2015-07-23T04:41:15Z")
Oh, you mean \*Michael \*Savage. Not Dan. That changes things slightly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-win-in-a-debate-michael-savage-or-george-galloway/725853.md?page=2)