UK Anti-War Politician Galloway on "Big Brother"

Feisty MP George Galloway created quite a stir in the US when he testified in front of Congress, defiantly denying any link to scandal and deriding them for invading Iraq. Galloway made a lot of fans with his rhetoric, though as Andrew Sullivan and others have pointed out, he's very much a fringe figure with stances most of us would have more difficulty supporting (not to mention the jury is still out on whether his hands truly are clean).

Now Galloway has undercut his own seriousness by taking part in "Celebrity Big Brother" -- alongside Dennis Rodman and some singer named Maggot -- while presumably representing his constituents. (BB is a much more popular franchise in the UK than here.)Galloway insists it's just another platform to air his views.

"I will talk about war and peace, about (George) Bush and Blair, about the need for a world based on respect," Galloway said in a statement on his Web site (www.respectcoalition.org).

Can you imagine DeLay on "Survivor" or Ted Kennedy on "The Bachelor?" We already know John Ashcroft would love to go on "American Idol" and sing that lovely song he wrote "On Eagle's Wings." But truly, does this undercut Galloway's seriousness as an anti-war critic or is "BB" just another way of getting his message out?