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    #4592
    WhatNowForUs?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭WhatNowForUs?


    Kurz wrote: »
    George Hook now completely slating Barack Obama and saying "good riddance, bring on Romney!"

    Every other week Hook is singing the praises of Obama and the Democrats. What a joke of a broadcaster.


    You have got to be joking me. I have never heard him say a good word about Obama.


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    #4593
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    WhatNowForUs? wrote: »
    Kurz wrote: »
    George Hook now completely slating Barack Obama and saying "good riddance, bring on Romney!"

    Every other week Hook is singing the praises of Obama and the Democrats. What a joke of a broadcaster.


    You have got to be joking me. I have never heard him say a good word about Obama.


    Remember Obama's inauguration?
    Hook was practically blubbering into the mic. It was arse kissing taken to new levels - even by Hook's standards.


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    #4594
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Heroditas wrote: »
    Remember Obama's inauguration?
    Hook was practically blubbering into the mic. It was arse kissing taken to new levels - even by Hook's standards.

    Three years ago?


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    #4595
    Koloman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Koloman


    Kurz wrote: »
    Every other week Hook is singing the praises of Obama and the Democrats. What a joke of a broadcaster.

    He often says Obama has been a disappointment. Just listen to his conversations with Michael Graham and you will hear that.


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    #4596
    WhatNowForUs?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭WhatNowForUs?


    Heroditas wrote: »
    WhatNowForUs? wrote: »
    Kurz wrote: »
    George Hook now completely slating Barack Obama and saying "good riddance, bring on Romney!"

    Every other week Hook is singing the praises of Obama and the Democrats. What a joke of a broadcaster.


    You have got to be joking me. I have never heard him say a good word about Obama.


    Remember Obama's inauguration?
    Hook was practically blubbering into the mic. It was arse kissing taken to new levels - even by Hook's standards.

    He was blubbering into the mic for the one and only reason that he was invited to the occasion.
    He had nothing good to say about Obama and complained non stop about how good everybody thought Obama was as a speaker.


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    #4597
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    If I remember correctly, Hook secured a great broadcast position for the inauguration through Ted Kennedy's people. Relentless ass kissing probably had something to do with it.


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    #4598
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Jonathan Healy just said Toblerone as rhyming slang for "on your own" to an American (who to his credit didn't pause to wonder!)


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    #4599
    bamboozle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭bamboozle


    risteard7 wrote: »
    just to let people know who may not have heard, Tom jones, van morrison and Bobby womack are playing in marlay park on the 25th of august

    pints before hand in the Leopardstown Inn??

    can never understand how a pub can run so many adds on the radio


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    #4600
    JonathanAnon
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    woops wrong thread.


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    #4601
    risteard7
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭risteard7


    bamboozle wrote: »
    risteard7 wrote: »
    just to let people know who may not have heard, Tom jones, van morrison and Bobby womack are playing in marlay park on the 25th of august

    pints before hand in the Leopardstown Inn??

    can never understand how a pub can run so many adds on the radio
    Yea and we can eat in greens restaurant then have a drink in the carousal cocktail bar

    Oh I listen to newstalk way to much!


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    #4602
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    The backslapping and Arse licking between Hook and Dunne on a Saturday morning is unreal.
    Hook spitting and blabbering into the mic, and Dunne describing every song as "beautiful" "amazing" "inspiring" "gorgeous". And the fake laugh as he's talking and agreeing with everything that Hook says.


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    #4603
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I think they work well.I enjoy thier spot on Saturday morning.


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    #4604
    wnolan1992
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    kneemos wrote: »
    I think they work well.I enjoy thier spot on Saturday morning.

    +1. I find it one of the better slots on the Sit-In. I generally enjoy Tom's perspective on music.


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    #4605
    JonathanAnon
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    I've had enough of Newtalk's resident creep Brendan Keenan.. Another Jim Power, got it all wrong and still giving advice...


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    #4606
    risteard7
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭risteard7


    Will someone please tell john drennan he
    Is not funny! He wont even give his opinion on something without trying to be "witty" every time.

    John you are not funny


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    #4607
    Imhof Tank
    Registered Users Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    risteard7 wrote: »
    Will someone please tell john drennan he
    Is not funny! He wont even give his opinion on something without trying to be "witty" every time.

    John you are not funny

    Thats just his shtick - his articles for the Sindo are tounge in cheek - like Miriam Lord in the Irish Times.

    If you want a straight laced opinion piece, get someone else on - dont expect Drenan to change.


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    #4608
    JonathanAnon
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    Imhof Tank wrote: »
    If you want a straight laced opinion piece, get someone else on - dont expect Drenan to change.

    It's the same with Michael O'Regan on The Sunday Show.. Trying to be funny all the time, really cringe worthy nonsense.... He's actually worse than John Murray.


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    #4609
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Michael Graham will be co hosting with Hook from Galway today. Should be entertaining. :D


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    #4610
    GSF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭GSF


    Gotta laugh at the NewsTalk vox pop on the Quinns and the guy who says about Peter Darragh Quinn "he's a young guy and sure maybe he isnt into the prison thing and you gotta respect that" :eek: Better than any other comedy on the radio


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    #4611
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users Posts: 6,877 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Good piece on maeve binchy


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    #4612
    mike65
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    Ian Guider on his tod today - only two hours but still any number of "th" sounds went missing in action.


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    #4613
    DB21
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    It's incredibly petty to insult someone's enunciation, in my opinion.


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    #4614
    el diablo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭el diablo


    DB21 wrote: »
    It's incredibly petty to insult someone's enunciation, in my opinion.

    No it's not. If you're on national radio it should be a requirement that you can speak properly.

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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    #4615
    wnolan1992
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Anyone hear that "Other Voices" documentary on at 12pm today? "Who Killed Bill?" or something.

    Was weird, at first I thought it was an interesting style, to do it all as if it was being reported live, but increasingly I found myself getting irked by the "reporters", who just came across as cheesy 1920's reporters who were taking it on themselves to solve the case.
    And the way it ended, after building up throughout the hour as if they were going to reveal the killer, to devote less than a minute to say "Yeah, it went unsolved, but they think it X who killed him by accident." was rather hollow.

    Opinions?


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    #4616
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Michael Graham is being a bigger a$$hole than usual right now.


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    #4617
    ootbitb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ootbitb


    George's top three film stars...Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Lassie..:D


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    #4618
    coonecb1
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    Michael Cliffords voice........something about it......just turns my stomach :(


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    #4619
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,037 ✭✭✭✭neris


    That vox pop that henry was doing on breakfast in london was cringeworthy. Whos the guy standing in for chris? Hes desperate.


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    #4620
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    neris wrote: »
    That vox pop that henry was doing on breakfast in london was cringeworthy.

    it's on now again. what's so cringeworthy about it?


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    #4621
    ootbitb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ootbitb


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Anyone hear that "Other Voices" documentary on at 12pm today? "Who Killed Bill?" or something.

    Was weird, at first I thought it was an interesting style, to do it all as if it was being reported live, but increasingly I found myself getting irked by the "reporters", who just came across as cheesy 1920's reporters who were taking it on themselves to solve the case.
    And the way it ended, after building up throughout the hour as if they were going to reveal the killer, to devote less than a minute to say "Yeah, it went unsolved, but they think it X who killed him by accident." was rather hollow.

    Opinions?

    was on earlier this year on another bank holiday...much cheaper than double time for someone.


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