The Ray Darcy Show - November 14th ****(10:20pm)*****

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

He's AWOL

Sent away for sensitivity training, those programs your colleagues guilty of sexism get sent on.

ThisRegard wrote: »

There was nothing wrong with Sharons interview at all that day, she didn't attack the person they invited on to speak, because the person invited on to speak cancelled at the last minute and hung out a colleague to dry. She asked all the difficult questions on the points that the web summit themselves raised.

It was how she asked the questions and conducted the interview...her attitude from the start was snide and bordering on rude.

ThisRegard wrote: »

We'll disagree. Web summit cut their own rod to beat themselves. She wasn't snide or rude at all.

We will.

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Looks like Pam ran out of the studio and straight into the clutches of George Hook!

The photos look like he has her backed into a corner...'errh..do you know what a good maaauuul is Pamela and I'm not talking rugby..har har har?'

AnonoBoy wrote: »

There's a difference between a news/current affairs interview and an entertainment interview.

One should expect to be asked hard questions on the News. One shouldn't expect to be ridiculed when invited on to an entertainment show.

I'd have slightly more respect if he actually asked hard questions outright and was combative and nitpicking in a direct way. He doesn't even do that, he just is snide and tuts and sighs and almost rolls his eyes at his guests. On his radio show he can cut someone off if he doesn't like them. On the chatshow he can't do that so he just sits there with a big sour puss and says yeah, yeah, under his breath when he doesn't buy what they are saying and then rudely interrupts with the next question to try get the interview over with.

The interview with Neil Strauss was unbearable for this. He obviously saw Strauss as some major misogynist and his contempt was palpable. Strauss wrote a few slimy books in his time, but the idea that he should inspire that kind of reaction was laughable. Maybe this is unfair, but I see this as being indicative of Ray 2.0, post Jenny. He always seems to have to go out of his way to moralise and pontificate on anything related to women's issues as if to show how much of a good man he is. Then when you see how he treats someone like Pamela Anderson, you see it's all an act. Remember the old Ray, and the running joke of salivating over Velcro Girl? The new Ray would tut and roll his eyes at her attire and ask her if her teenage sons defend her honour and whether their friends jack off to her picture.

As was the interview with some guy who voted No in the Marriage Equality Referendum.

He doesn't seem to be able to separate his own views and beliefs from the persona of an entertainment presenter.

I think the most damning thing about the Danny Healy-Rae interview was it showed how much of an intellectual lightweight he is. The way to make Healy-Rae sweat would have been to remain calm and ask the questions, give him the rope and let him hang himself. Instead he started shouting and hung up. I mean, if you can't hold your own against a man whose mouth functions as a sewage disposal unit, what does it say about you. He invited him on so that he could pick apart Healy-Rae's ludicrous proposal, but he wasn't prepared as usual and Healy-Rae outsmarted him, I think. He was able to spin it as city people hating the country way of life and how intolerant they are of traditional Ireland.

And yes, the Healy-Raes dined out for this on weeks. It was the best he could have gotten.