Kevin Myers: "arsehole agus "gobshíte" extraordinaire

Rebelheart

What a self-pitying melodramatic sensitive little soul is our hero Kevin Myers. When he's not on defending the British Empire and condemning the Irish for fighting it, he finds somebody to rant about. A very resourceful little man indeed.
Go to Newstalk here - http://media.newstalk.ie/listenback/ - then George Hook, Archive, click Part '2' and go to 11.35 for the start. Myers was asked this afternoon would he help Hook if Hook were being beaten up on the street. Myers said 'No'. Jump to 14.35 and he starts giving out when a texter suggested that if it were Kevin Myers who was being beaten up he, the texter, would jump in and help (the beaters, obviously). hehe.

Anyway, jump on to 21.02 and Myers goes ballistic about mo dhuine, our texting friend who said he'd jump in to help hammer ten shades of shíte out of poor Myers.

Here's Caoimhín, the little drama queen, in full flight:

"What we have got [in Ireland] are the nicest people in Europe ....And that doesn't include gobshítes like that man who you were referring to earlier on who thinks it's funny to make jokes about people attacking me because, George, they have attacked me [here, take a hanky] and because of stuff like that I have been under armed guard [Jaysas, I'm in tears anois] and I'm not going to lay down and allow people to make jokes about my welfare....and it's very clever and very snide for people like him who are anonymous little arsehole gobshíte like him [blah, blah, blah]....So I'm not going to lie down, and allow people like him, gobshítes like him, to threaten me or make jokes about threats to me [blah blah blah] "

Hook was laughing his heart out by the end of this one. It was great radio! Up there with his McCririck one earlier in the week. Whatever you might say about all these rightwing lunatics - they are entertaining!

Cool story bro!

Blackhorse Slim

I once read an article by Myers - I can't remember what it was, but he came across as ignorant and completely lacking in any intelligence or wit. I haven't read anything else by him since. Whenever I hear his name or his voice on Newstalk I switch over to Matt Cooper.

Biggins

...anyway in other news, Jordan has big boobies!

Mr Benevolent

Rebelheart wrote: »

they are entertaining!

That's the point. Who takes Myers seriously? He's paid to have wildy controversial opinions.

bleg

How many boards.ie posters work in Newstalk.

Everyday we have people coming on spouting about this show and that and how it's great radio.

JuliusCaesar

Rebelheart wrote: »

What a self-pitying melodramatic sensitive little soul is our hero Kevin Myers. ....... Whatever you might say about all these rightwing lunatics - they are entertaining!

and annoying! I was so glad when he left the Irish Times and I no longer had to avert my eyes from the Irishman's Diary. He's easier to ignore in the Indo. I'd help them beat him up - if only to stop him inflicting his opinions on the public. At least I don't do that....er...:o

Nforce

Biggins wrote: »

...anyway in other news, Jordan has big bobbies!

Whatever about her bobbies...she has massive t!ts too.:D Speaking of which...back to Mr Myers! :P

bleg

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

Cool story bro!

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Biggins

Nforce wrote: »

Whatever about her boobies...she has massive t!ts too.:D Speaking of which...back to Mr Myers! :P

But he has none!
Life is not fair. We might love him then? :pac:

PS: yep - he's a plank sometimes!

jiltloop

He certainly isn't unintelligent, he can be quite astute and tells things like they are and I do respect some of his opinions but I think also he can overstep the mark and make a fool of himself. At least he isn't some ridiculously PC politican. He speaks his mind without beating around the bush so I do have a certain amount of respect for him.
Also lastly I must state that I don't realy care that much and I wouldn't jump in to save him from a hiding.

Paparazzo

Myres job is to wind people up. He's good at it.

ejmaztec

At least he keeps his gob shut in those Halloween movies.

My name is URL

Heard it earlier.. I lol'd. He sure is sensitive for someone that's so outspoken about other people.

Not fond of him myself. He's a whiny bitch whenever he's on Newstalk

Dudess

jiltloop wrote: »

He certainly isn't unintelligent, he can be quite astute

I did agree with him once on "right to die with dignity" discussion. He made some good points.

and tells things like they are and I do respect some of his opinions but I think also he can overstep the mark and make a fool of himself. At least he isn't some ridiculously PC politican. He speaks his mind without beating around the bush so I do have a certain amount of respect for him.

"Telling things like they are", "speaking your mind without beating around the bush" seem to be disproportionately deified. It's not that admirable - lots of people do it, not just those on the right. I'd prefer a ridiculously PC politician to him too. And I wouldn't consider a lot of his spewings to be anything other than attention-seeking.

pooch90

ejmaztec wrote: »

At least he keeps his gob shut in those Halloween movies.

Think you mean Mike dearie

sorrywhat

He's on Matt Cooper every now an then. Like many other posters have said, in this thread and in others, he's paid to be an annoying twat. He says the things people dont want to hear or probably wont agree with.

But seriously fcuk off me radio.

cullen5998

I'd prefer to look at a big picture of Brussel sprouts in the Independent instead of his column

billybigunz

I caught this on the radio. He made a right fool of himself, completely missed the tone of the piece.

Rebelheart

bleg wrote: »

How many boards.ie posters work in Newstalk.

Everyday we have people coming on spouting about this show and that and how it's great radio.

Bleg, are you not just getting a bit paranoid there? Like very many people I happen to listen to the radio on the way home. The more educated and informative discussions are almost always on Mary Wilson's Drivetime -one of which I set up a thread about here. You can learn something on RTÉ's Drivetime. You can get insight and philosophy from Joe O Connor or Olivia O Leary on the same programme.


In contrast, Hook tends to have more entertaining nutjob types, some transparently so like Michael Graham, others like Myers who are so eternally miserable and "mawled by the situation" (to quote the Cruiser) you can look at your own life and be happier about it. He's a grade A gobshíte, as pitiable as he is misguided. But I got a great laugh from his latest contribution this afternoon to intellectual life in Ireland.

billybigunz

Newstalk is streets ahead of the rest Bleg, hence the positive comments.

bleg

woah take it easy, it was a light hearted comment. if i want serious radio discussion i'll go to the radio forum

MarchDub

That ending to the discussion sounds bizarre...seemingly sudden change in mood and a fixation. I can just see Myers in the same mood when he pens some of his ferocious anti-Irish screeds.

Sisko

I don't see friday on the ops link, only thursday etc.

Rebelheart

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

and annoying! I was so glad when he left the Irish Times and I no longer had to avert my eyes from the Irishman's Diary. He's easier to ignore in the Indo. I'd help them beat him up - if only to stop him inflicting his opinions on the public. At least I don't do that....er...:o

Not to put too fine a point on it but I wouldn't wipe me arse with anything owned by Tony O'Reilly and run by people like Aengus Fanning and Eoghan Harris's ex-wife. Rags, all of them. The Irish Times rose ineffably the day that ceolán Myers departed. It's a great pity that they imported somebody from Independent Newspapers at the same time, Miriam Lord, a total product of the Terry Keane school of tabloidesque journalism. A definite lowering of the tone.

MarchDub

Sisko wrote: »

I don't see friday on the ops link, only thursday etc.

You have to scroll down. Oddly, it was on the bottom of the list when I went in to it.

stovelid

I disagree, sometimes virulently, with about 80% of what Myers says, but find him at least entertaining and thought-provoking which only proves that he is fulfilling his job as a paid liberal-baiter, whether in the INDO, or as a cat-amongst-the-liberal pigeons when he was at the Times.

I really enjoyed his book about his time as a journalist in Belfast in the 70s which is actually relatively (surprisingly) balanced and beautifully written.

aDeener

i think he his hilarious even when i am disagreeing with him. he is the ultimate troll, that people keep falling for time after time.

Rebelheart

Confab wrote: »

That's the point. Who takes Myers seriously? He's paid to have wildy controversial opinions.

Eoghan Harris, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Robin Bury and the ghost of Conor Cruise O'Brien?

ascanbe

Myers is forever scoring handsome victories against thin-skinned 'liberals' of his own imagining in his ridiculous columns; at least last time i bothered to read him he was.
So it' particularly amusing that practically every time i've heard him on the radio he has become hysterical at the merest hint of an insult towards him.

lugha

stovelid wrote: »

I disagree, sometimes virulently, with about 80% of what Myers says, but find him at least entertaining and thought-provoking which only proves that he is fulfilling his job as a paid liberal-baiter, whether in the INDO, or as a cat-amongst-the-liberal pigeons when he was at the Times.

I really enjoyed his book about his time as a journalist in Belfast in the 70s which is actually relatively (surprisingly) balanced.

I am always amazed at the number of people who spout their guff about how much they are repulsed by all things Myers, and yet seem to be practically a walking encyclopedia of everything he ever writes or says. :pac:
The term "sneaking regarders" comes to mind, if the curiser hadn't already used it for something else.

Dudess

lugha wrote: »

I am always amazed at the number of people who spout their guff about how much they are repulsed by all things Myers

Except he didn't?

lugha

Dudess wrote: »

Except he didn't?

You don't think "arsehole agus gob****e" doesn't convey the message that the Rebel is less than impressed with the musings of Kevin?

Dudess

Sorry, thought you meant stovelid as you quoted him.

billybigunz

Dudess wrote: »

Sorry, thought you meant stovelid as you quoted him.

Get back in your box.

ascanbe

lugha wrote: »

I am always amazed at the number of people who spout their guff about how much they are repulsed by all things Myers, and yet seem to be practically a walking encyclopedia of everything he ever writes or says. :pac:
The term "sneaking regarders" comes to mind, if the curiser hadn't already used it for something else.

Well, if someone is going to 'spout guff' about someone they are 'repulsed' by, the least they could do is have their homework done; they don't want to be like Myers, after all.
I occassionally, when the subject arises, will proclaim my dislike for Myers; but i'm far from a walking encyclopedia on him.
If you live in Ireland and are remotely interested in current affairs then you will come across the 'work' of Myers now and again; unless you are studiously avoiding it.
His modus operandi is so well established at this stage, you wouldn't even have to keep abreast of him to know his take on any given subject.

Rebelheart

lugha wrote: »

I am always amazed at the number of people who spout their guff about how much they are repulsed by all things Myers, and yet seem to be practically a walking encyclopedia of everything he ever writes or says. :pac:
The term "sneaking regarders" comes to mind, if the curiser hadn't already used it for something else.

Lugha, this should be basic. The only reason I can say without equivocation that Myers (or anybody else) is a gobshíte is if I've read/listened to his musings. The same sort of informed thinking underlies the views of most thinking people. It would be a bit silly to hold somebody in contempt if you don't know what it is he or she stands for etc. Know your enemy, and all that.

Next time, please do some remedial thinking before in effect glorifying ignorance as the basis of opinion forming.

lugha

ascanbe wrote: »

Well, if someone is going to 'spout guff' about someone they are 'repulsed' by, the least they could do is have their homework done; they don't want to be like Myers, after all.

They could just ignore him, that's pretty much what I do with someone whose opinions I don't respect. It's not as if he matters, he doesn't have any power and I would think negligible or no influence.

No, Kevin is a clever boy. He has mastered the trick of managing to rile people left, right and center (though mostly left :P) but does it in such a way that his victims cannot help themselves and keep talking the bait. Eamon Dunphy managed to do the same thing in the past.

Rebelheart

lugha wrote: »

They could just ignore him, that's pretty much what I do with someone whose opinions I don't respect. It's not as if he matters, he doesn't have any power and I would think negligible or no influence.

No, Kevin is a clever boy. He has mastered the trick of managing to rile people left, right and center (though mostly left :P) but does it in such a way that his victims cannot help themselves and keep talking the bait. Eamon Dunphy managed to do the same thing in the past.

Why ignore him when we now live in a pluralist society and we can appreciate him for what he really is, not what we want him to be....

Dudess

Pissing people off is his aim though, so threads like this: mission accomplished.

Rebelheart

lugha wrote: »

They could just ignore him, that's pretty much what I do with someone whose opinions I don't respect. It's not as if he matters, he doesn't have any power and I would think negligible or no influence.

No, Kevin is a clever boy. He has mastered the trick of managing to rile people left, right and center (though mostly left :P) but does it in such a way that his victims cannot help themselves and keep talking the bait. Eamon Dunphy managed to do the same thing in the past.

He also hasn't added to the net worth of Irish literature, political discourse or, well, anything else. At least people like Fintan O'Toole, while often annoying, have made contributions to this society - e.g. his Beef Tribunal and public policy researches. Myers has added nothing. And that's the one significant context for all his ramblings.

starbelgrade

I like Kevin Myers. So nah, nah, nah.

pirelli

Rebelheart wrote: »

He also hasn't added to the net worth of Irish literature, political discourse or, well, anything else.

Rebel,

Which one is it in the archive, What date in march. It's not in the march 18th segment.

pirelli

Biggins

Its Myers being Myers.

Can we get back to Jordans boobies?

lugha

Dudess wrote: »

Pissing people off is his aim though, so threads like this: mission accomplished.

Exactly. This is his talent. The obvious course of action to take if you think someone is perpetually talking scutter is to ignore them. I don't know how he does it, but he manages to hold his detractors captive.
I'm sure many of them would have similar disdain for the considered musings of say the Healy-Rae dynasty (a much more potent and important force) but they largely ignore that they say. But Jackie and the boys don't have the KM factor. :pac:

bonerm

jiltloop wrote: »

he can be quite astute

...if by "stute" you mean "cúnt".

starbelgrade

Biggins wrote: »

Its Myers being Myers.

Can we get back to Jordans boobies?

What have Kevin Myers & Jordans boobies got in common?

They are both self inflated.

Biggins

starbelgrade wrote: »

What have Kevin Myers & Jordans boobies got in common?
They are both self inflated.

See - everything is related! :pac:

stovelid

starbelgrade wrote: »

What have Kevin Myers & Jordans boobies got in common?

Both torturous to Reid?

ascanbe

lugha wrote: »

They could just ignore him, that's pretty much what I do with someone whose opinions I don't respect. It's not as if he matters, he doesn't have any power and I would think negligible or no influence.

No, Kevin is a clever boy. He has mastered the trick of managing to rile people left, right and center (though mostly left :P) but does it in such a way that his victims cannot help themselves and keep talking the bait. Eamon Dunphy managed to do the same thing in the past.

I wrote that 'if' someone is going to continually write about him, they may as well be well-informed.
I agree, though, that people like him thrive off attention and if someone hates what he stands for they'd be better off ignoring him.

lugha

starbelgrade wrote: »

What have Kevin Myers & Jordans boobies got in common?

They are both self inflated.

Ah, but everyone want to talk about Kevin's big one and not Katie's two big ones, despite the best efforts of Biggins :pac:.
Again I say, this is the man's talent :cool:.