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FF political broadcast via the Late Late show

  • 25-11-2011 9:45pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭donkey balls


    Was flicking through the tv channels when they announced that mehole martin will be on one year after the IMF decided to visit us, there was hardly a round of applause from the audience looks like they did'nt bring the party faithfull with them.:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    Was flicking through the tv channels when they announced that mehole martin will be on one year after the IMF decided to visit us, there was hardly a round of applause from the audience looks like they did'nt bring the party faithfull with them.:rolleyes:

    They did. Those four people you heard clapping? That's the remains of Fianna Fail.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭bonzos


    Just like when mammy o rourke was rolled out to defend john odonghue....what a f*cking sick joke on the taxpayers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭donkey balls


    leggo wrote: »
    They did. Those four people you heard clapping? That's the remains of Fianna Fail.

    I thought I heard a few claps but also what sounded like a drowned out booing.:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Permabear wrote: »
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    Hmmm...not sure if ironic...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭Byron85


    Permabear wrote: »
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    Relying on the state to provide you with a service are we Permabear?? Tut tut. Uncle Milty would be displeased. ;)


    What did Martin have to say anyway? Not that it matters. It seems the Euro is heading south fast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭donkey balls


    He was last on the show so the questions were fairly rushed not enough time to ask manyof the questions I would like to have heared he was going on about some conference he was at down in Cork I think about the new generation of FF coming through etc.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    That show has been a FF publicity vehicle since it started.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,637 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    JustinDee wrote: »
    That show has been a FF publicity vehicle since it started.

    Yawn - you do realize that the leaders of all the political parties have been interviewed in the past, and will be interviewed again in the future?

    RTE are required to show balance in coverage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    Yawn - you do realize that the leaders of all the political parties have been interviewed in the past, and will be interviewed again in the future?

    RTE are required to show balance in coverage.

    Yet, do they?

    The 2 part piece on Cowen, which singled him for the blame, rather than FF.

    On the same night, Mary O'Rourke's nice chat with Aine Lawlor - and she also talks rubbish on several other RTE programmes, too.

    At least viewers in the US are not forced to pay for the propaganda from FOX and MSNBC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    I saw the clown Meehole, shouting at Enda Kenny the other day in the Dail, accusing EK of frightening people with all the talk of benefit cuts and so on. I had to laugh at the pretend outrage from Meehole, its like he just woke up after 11 years in Government......when he did not shout at all. What a fraud. Poor RTE still have not come to terms with FF not being in office so make do with giving it every opportunity to appear on TV. Recently we had O'Rourke on one to one, Ahern with Murphy, Meehole with the other FF stalwart on the dire LL show. Pathetic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 792 ✭✭✭juuge


    Nice to think though that the next leader of Fianna Fail hasn't been born yet!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Yawn - you do realize that the leaders of all the political parties have been interviewed in the past, and will be interviewed again in the future?

    RTE are required to show balance in coverage.

    An impossible task TBH and one they don't really seem to take too seriously either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    Yawn - you do realize that the leaders of all the political parties have been interviewed in the past, and will be interviewed again in the future?

    RTE are required to show balance in coverage.
    There's no "balance" if an entire show is dedicated to Albert Reynolds with the likes of Joe Dolan telling the audience that they're looking at the next Taoiseach, six months before a leadership challenge...for example


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭ILikeBananas


    Yet, do they?

    The 2 part piece on Cowen, which singled him for the blame, rather than FF.

    On the same night, Mary O'Rourke's nice chat with Aine Lawlor - and she also talks rubbish on several other RTE programmes, too.

    Not to mention the rapid attacks by Tubridy of other leaders when they were on as guests and the inexplicable entire show devoted to FF when their poll numbers plummeted last year before the election.

    Edit: that last one may have been the Frontline (still RTE though)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    Not to mention the rapid attacks by Tubridy of other leaders when they were on as guests and the inexplicable entire show devoted to FF when their poll numbers plummeted last year before the election.

    Edit: that last one may have been the Frontline (still RTE though)

    Don't forget the grovelling cringing apology to Biffo over the paintings of him......and how apt the works were, after what followed the paintings were positively flattering.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭jasonc5432


    leggo wrote: »
    They did. Those four people you heard clapping? That's the remains of Fianna Fail.

    I hope youre right


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