Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich...

BBC News | SCOTLAND | MP stunned at actor's outburst

Bruce Hill points me to the story of Scottish Labour MP George Galloway, who is "taking legal advice" after learning that strange bald character actor John Malkovich has said that Galloway was one of two men he'd like to kill. Even better, the other was... Robert Fisk! Do you think Fisk understands why Malkovich feels this way? "If I were John Malkovich, I'd want to shoot me too."

In the case of Galloway, he appears to be a cretin; he's about to pay a visit to Yasser the Weasel, he's called for a boycott of Israeli goods, and has attacked western policy towards Iraq. And Malkovich didn't bring this up out of the blue; he was asked who'd he'd want to fight to the death, and responded, "I'd rather just shoot them". I'm not advocating actually shooting either man, BTW, but this really appears to be a more or less comic situation, and Galloway's reaction appears pretty typical of his type, the humorless moralist. You find them on both sides.