Unstable guy throws a wobbler on RTE!!!

Darragh29

What ya make of that?!?!?

Villain

You know he might be unstable but he actually had a point

yoshytoshy

I wouldn't like to be trying to get him out of montrose :eek:

Kev_ps3

that was so funny, love the way he kept on at the end:D

cranky bollix

:D:D

Pride Fighter

I did not know whether to laugh or cry. Mad stuff alltogether. I like the frontline but if this happens they may pre-record it which would sanitise it IMO.

Darragh29

Villain wrote: »

You know he might be unstable but he actually had a point

Yeah but he's ready to jump the table, which just diminishes any argument that he might have...

mikeym

Hope someone puts it on youtube. He put pat kenny in his place:D

Villain

Live TV at its best, Kenny didn't do himself any favours by not responding though, although he might yet

Dannyboy83

Pride Fighter wrote: »

I did not know whether to laugh or cry. Mad stuff alltogether. I like the frontline but if this happens they may pre-record it which would sanitise it IMO.

It was very funny to watch, but Yes a good point.
The downside is that we basically lost out on the debate.

Plus his criticisms were below the belt really.

Honestly, if Pat Kenny wasn't tackling these issues on the Frontline, then who else would be doing it?

They wouldn't let David McWilliams do it, Pat Kenny is about the only person who can pull it off.

yoshytoshy

There'll probably be all dublin 4ers in the audience next week:D

Kristopherus

What a lovely addendum to Jack O'Connor's "trophy house" comment last week. Pat The (Very Rich) Plank indeed :D:D:D:D

Darragh29

My first thought after listening to that guy is that is has mental problems. Not because he was roaring his head off, but because he was ranting at both Kenny and Hanafin. It was just an open ended rant, with no particular grievance, other than how much Kenny was paid, which seemed to come at the end of his rant...

Dannyboy83

Remember this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIsIE8iT28

Pat is a magnet to these looney tunes.:D

Het-Field

Anger like this cannot be bought.

Michael O Brien's assessment of the situation was far more damning. The appearence, and some incoherence of the fella was a slight downfall. However, it is necessary to pull RTE up over this.

Its a shame that Mary Hanafin can be given a soapbox to proffer platitudes, while answering nothing in the affirmative. Then we have to move on to Miley Cyrus, who is irrelevant to the crisis, and is of no consequence.

cavedave

This guy was on O'Connell street shouting at Begg (vid here)

He was also pictured in the papers wasn't he?

nesf

Did he have a point? Sure. Did he look like a prize idiot and thus nullify any traction his point would have with reasonable people? Most definitely.

Darragh29

Het-Field wrote: »

Anger like this cannot be bought.

Michael O Brien's assessment of the situation was far more damning. The appearence, and some incoherence of the fella was a slight downfall. However, it is necessary to pull RTE up over this.

Its a shame that Mary Hanafin can be given a soapbox to proffer platitudes, while answering nothing in the affirmative. Then we have to move on to Miley Cyrus, who is irrelevant to the crisis, and is of no consequence.

But I think an open ended erruption like that is just embarrasing... He departed from the debate and implicitly threatened violence to make his point...

Jack O' Connor must be delighted that the spotlight has fallen on someone else now!

Pride Fighter

Frontline psychopath for president:D:D:D

yoshytoshy

It's suprising that the camera stayed on the guy while he shouted ,it almost looked like he was the focus of the shot:)

nesf

cavedave wrote: »

This guy was on O'Connell street shouting at Begg (vid here)

He was also pictured in the papers wasn't he?

Hah! And RTE actually left him in the door... They should fire whoever vets people and if they don't have someone doing that, God love their innocence.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Dannyboy83 wrote: »

It was very funny to watch, but Yes a good point.
The downside is that we basically lost out on the debate.

Plus his criticisms were below the belt really.

Honestly, if Pat Kenny wasn't tackling these issues on the Frontline, then who else would be doing it?

They wouldn't let David McWilliams do it, Pat Kenny is about the only person who can pull it off.

€600,000 for 11 works was a pretty succinct point and not below the belt at all. Cutting social welfare, education and health is an assault on the poorerst people and people who can't afford to pay while Pat Kenny does his unbias act. That is below the belt.

Why do think only RTE can "tackle" these issues?

Darragh29

cavedave wrote: »

This guy was on O'Connell street shouting at Begg (vid here)

He was also pictured in the papers wasn't he?

Lol, well spotted! I'd say the RTE campus is a no drive zone now!!!

nesf

Alan Rouge wrote: »

€600,000 for 11 works was a pretty succinct point and not below the belt at all. Cutting social welfare, education and health is an assault on the poorerst people and people who can't afford to pay while Pat Kenny does his unbias act. That is below the belt.

Why do think only RTE can "tackle" these issues?

The comment about his legal tiff with the neighbours was below the belt. He also cheapened his argument by accusing Kenny of money grubbing and corruption I think.

He had a point, and if he had left it at 600K for 11 hours of work (even though this isn't true I imagine) he'd have done his cause more justice.

ateam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23N_xW4G-WA

Ritchi

Bad quality youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23N_xW4G-WA

Darragh29

Alan Rouge wrote: »

€600,000 for 11 works was a pretty succinct point and not below the belt at all. Cutting social welfare, education and health is an assault on the poorerst people and people who can't afford to pay while Pat Kenny does his unbias act. That is below the belt.

Why do think only RTE can "tackle" these issues?

But didn't be accuse both Hanafin AND Kenny of this 11 hour week??? First he attacked Hanafin for only working an 11 hour week, then he attacked kenny for the exact same thing, this is where I started thinking he was off his head...

Darragh29

yoshytoshy wrote: »

It's suprising that the camera stayed on the guy while he shouted ,it almost looked like he was the focus of the shot:)

I'd say for the first 15-20 seconds, they reckoned they had found the man who had the pulse of the nation, the new national hero, the man who said-it-as-he said-it, a Joe the Plumber character who had the balls to put it up to the minister on live TV and bring the hurt of the nation to just under the nose of the minister, then they realised after 20 seconds that he was clearly off his head and by then it was too late, so time for a commercial break, then change subject...

starbelgrade

Is this still the Politics forum, or am I missing something?

nesf

Yeah, but live TV and all that.. (to be clear, the thread will be left open for a while for the politics geeks to obsess over, if it strays too close to being a ranting & raving thread it'll be closed)

Actually bring back the ranter. He's a lot more topical than the "Oh won't someone please think of the children!" crap...

KetchupKid

Dannyboy83 wrote: »

It was very funny to watch, but Yes a good point.
The downside is that we basically lost out on the debate.

Honestly, if Pat Kenny wasn't tackling these issues on the Frontline, then who else would be doing it?

They wouldn't let David McWilliams do it, Pat Kenny is about the only person who can pull it off.

I agree completely, but he had a lot of good points. My favourite part was when he said something like "I'm going to steal a field from some old woman". It's a pity that he ranted so long, because his initial points were great and I would have loved to have seen The Plank try to answer, but the rant went on so much Pat could just blow him off as a crazy person. Despite that Pat didn't handle it well and it was very uncomfortable.

I wonder if RTE will cut that bit when they repeat the show? If so, I hope it ends up on Youtube.

The strangest part is that he then segued into Hannah Montana, probably the worst segue in RTE history!

dvpower

I missed it. was it Brian Lenihan?

Darragh29

KetchupKid wrote: »

I agree completely, but he had a lot of good points. My favourite part was when he said something like "I'm going to steal a field from some old woman". It's a pity that he ranted so long, because his initial points were great and I would have loved to have seen The Plank try to answer, but the rant went on so much Pat could just blow him off as a crazy person. Despite that Pat didn't handle it well and it was very uncomfortable.

I wonder if RTE will cut that bit when they repeat the show? If so, I hope it ends up on Youtube.

The strangest part is that he then segued into Hannah Montana, probably the worst segue in RTE history!

Have to say on a side point... Kenny on The Late Late Show, a complete plank, unconvincing, unsincere, struggling and basically unwatchable....

Kenny on this platform, I genuinely think that this is his "thing", I could watch it all night...

yoshytoshy

They should rename the show ,cross the line

ateam

TV highlight of the year - hilarious car crash television.

Kenny and RTE had it coming though - the RTE board deserved that bashing not Kenny.

Aquos76

I already put this up in the television forum

vinylrules

I thought Pat handled it pretty well. They could easily have cut to a break but they let the guy rant for quite a while, until he began to repeat himself. If Pat was rattled he certainly didn't show it.

For those who think the guy had some good points - maybe he did but where will this end? Maybe at Croke Park on Saturday someone should rant at the footballers for earning ridiculous amounts of money for kicking a few balls about the place and getting the odd one on target. Or at a U2 show we could have a go at Bono for earning all that tax free money.
Of course most RTE personalites are very well paid - it's the fault of those who pay them e.g. RTE management. I reckon there'll be quite a shock for many of the big names when it comes around to signing the next contract. The money just won't be there.

Anyway, the politics of envy never looks pretty no matter what way you look at it.

nesf

Darragh29 wrote: »

Kenny on this platform, I genuinely think that this is his "thing", I could watch it all night...

He's watchable when it's genuine political stuff, it's disturbing really to see this after years of finding him insufferable in his multitude of "Light Entertainment" programming over the years.

starbelgrade

nesf wrote: »

He's a lot more topical than the "Oh won't someone please think of the children!" crap...

nesf

starbelgrade wrote: »

And thanks to the panel on their views on how we're going to have to start eating our grandparents in order to survive in 2010.

Now, onto the real meaty matter tonight, do you know where your child is and are they having sex? If you can't see them, then they could be doing anything your filthy repressed Catholic guilt ridden mind could imagine. Yes, even the toddlers.

Darragh29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo

Darragh29

Where has this guy been living for the last ten years, we dropped the auld "£" many years ago...

FunnyStuff

very funny stuff, mouth was moving much faster than his brain, the lady beside him managed to keep hear face expressionless, i'd have wet myself

starbelgrade

Darragh29 wrote: »

Where has this guy been living for the last ten years, we dropped the auld "£" many years ago...

I dunno, but he spent them & the previous 10years building up a serious amount of anger! Class stuff!

Darragh29

starbelgrade wrote: »

I dunno, but he spent them & the previous 10years building up a serious amount of anger! Class stuff!

On a serious note though, another poster put up a video of the same lad roaring at David Begg last Friday during the protest march in Dublin...

The last time this happened to Pat Kenny, the offender came back and tried to park a car in Kenny's dressing room...

I'd be worried that your man who went off his rocker tonight is not in control and that kind of anger can drive people to do all sorts of things... It was just an out of control rant, one minute the enemy is Kenny, the next minute it's Hanafin and then it's all about suing some woman over a field...

My money says we haven't seen the last of this lad!

deadhead13

ateam wrote: »

TV highlight of the year - hilarious car crash television.

Kenny and RTE had it coming though - the RTE board deserved that bashing not Kenny.

It reminded me of Eamon Dunphy ranting about Cowen earning more than the US President on the Marian Finucane show earlier in the year. We discover a few months later that Dunphy actually earns more than both of them for his punditry work on RTE.

Pride Fighter

Darragh29 wrote: »

On a serious note though, another poster put up a video of the same lad roaring at David Begg last Friday during the protest march in Dublin...

The last time this happened to Pat Kenny, the offender came back and tried to park a car in Kenny's dressing room...

I'd be worried that your man who went off his rocker tonight is not in control and that kind of anger can drive people to do all sorts of things... It was just an out of control rant, one minute the enemy is Kenny, the next minute it's Hanafin and then it's all about suing some woman over a field...

My money says we haven't seen the last of this lad!

I have heard he has verbally assaulted Richard Dawkins, David Begg and now Pat Kenny. Who is next?

afatbollix

Most Live RTE stuff has a garda or two at it.. something about taking over a live broadcast IRA type of thing suprised they dident shut him up before that...

The amount of crap TV personalitys have to put up with Id only work on TV for 900 grand a year..

brianthebard

vinylrules wrote: »

I thought Pat handled it pretty well. They could easily have cut to a break but they let the guy rant for quite a while, until he began to repeat himself. If Pat was rattled he certainly didn't show it.

srsly? He looked pretty shaken to me and couldn't say anything worthwhile afterwards.

irishultra

what a freakin nut :eek:

watching it live will long live in the memory. thank you you crazy nut, thank you.

ateam

afatbollix wrote: »

Most Live RTE stuff has a garda or two at it.. something about taking over a live broadcast IRA type of thing suprised they dident shut him up before that...

The amount of crap TV personalitys have to put up with Id only work on TV for 900 grand a year..

I think it was good that they allowed him to talk. If it went to an ad, that's censorship.