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Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

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    #182
    Claude Burgundy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭Claude Burgundy


    I missed yesterday.................was Paulo back ?


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    #183
    PopePalpatine
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    Nope.


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    #184
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Bosco's voice is worse than nails on a blackboard


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    #185
    PopePalpatine
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    Is there any point in saying "No Paolo" any more?


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    #186
    davef1000
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    #JeSuisPaolo


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    #187
    qweerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭qweerty


    davef1000 wrote: »
    #JeSuisPaolo

    Great, you can tell us why you're never on any more!


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    #188
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    It is strange how they've never addressed the Paolo situation on air, I imagine there has been a flood of emails and texts into the show inquiring of his whereabouts.

    I hope he's just busy with other things and it's not something like an illness.


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    #189
    Claude Burgundy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭Claude Burgundy


    I don't believe they mentioned David Coleman when he left the parenting slot so its nothing new.

    Shows move on and evolve and very seldom do they mention the people/slots that are dropped or changed.


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    #190
    LostinBlanch
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    Moncrieff fawning all over Nora Owen now. It's sickening how servile he is to "his betters".

    Of course there'll be no awkward or challenging texts while she is on. Though he may pull his old schtick of reading one out later on and saying that's a good question but sorry I only saw it now and she's gone. Yeah right.


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    #191
    serfboard
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    LostinBlanch wrote: »
    he may pull his old schtick of reading one out later on and saying that's a good question but sorry I only saw it now and she's gone. Yeah right.
    Jees man, yer awful cynical.

    You could be right, mind ... and if you are, then Sean's awful cynical (and/or hypocritical).


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    #192
    Pinturicchio
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    LostinBlanch wrote: »
    Moncrieff fawning all over Nora Owen now. It's sickening how servile he is to "his betters".

    Of course there'll be no awkward or challenging texts while she is on. Though he may pull his old schtick of reading one out later on and saying that's a good question but sorry I only saw it now and she's gone. Yeah right.

    In fairness he always fawns over the guest in that first half hour. There are never any difficult questions. It's obviously part of the deal for coming on that part of the show.


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    #193
    CatFromHue
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It is strange how they've never addressed the Paolo situation on air, I imagine there has been a flood of emails and texts into the show inquiring of his whereabouts.

    I hope he's just busy with other things and it's not something like an illness.

    Unfortunately I think it's illness.

    I think he has on going kidney problems and on The Restaurant in TV3 he did look ill.


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    #194
    ballsymchugh
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    Pinturicchio wrote: »
    In fairness he always fawns over the guest in that first half hour. There are never any difficult questions. It's obviously part of the deal for coming on that part of the show.

    i think it's great the way it's done. he just sits back and lets them dig their own hole. ronan mullen and ivana bacik always cancel each other out with their respective nonsense, but ruth coppinger was just let dig a hole so deep that she'll never get out of it.


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    #195
    serfboard
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    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    i think it's great the way it's done. he just sits back and lets them dig their own hole.
    There are two ways to interview people who you might consider pompous, arrogant or just plain wrong. One is to challenge or hector them, Vincent Brown style. The other is to let them waffle on, and to deliberately feed them, such that they'll go to ever greater levels of ridiculousness. And with the latter approach, sometimes an ego is so big, that the guest doesn't realise it is happening.


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    #196
    PopePalpatine
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    Stephen Donnelly is talking a lot of sense, it's a shame it's unlikely there'll be someone in my constituency like him.


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    #197
    serfboard
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    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Stephen Donnelly is talking a lot of sense, it's a shame it's unlikely there'll be someone in my constituency like him.
    What about yourself, your holiness? ;)

    After all, Donnelly got elected himself without a party machine.


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    #198
    Claude Burgundy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭Claude Burgundy


    Ok,

    We have to all agree that Paulo has been taken by aliens and is longer on this planet !


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    #199
    PopePalpatine
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    serfboard wrote: »
    What about yourself, your holiness? ;)

    After all, Donnelly got elected himself without a party machine.

    I don't have the time, money, or public speaking skills.


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    #200
    RayM
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    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Stephen Donnelly is talking a lot of sense, it's a shame it's unlikely there'll be someone in my constituency like him.

    I live in his constituency, and he's really good on local issues too. He's like the perfect TD.


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    #201
    Heroditas
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    RayM wrote: »
    I live in his constituency, and he's really good on local issues too. He's like the perfect TD.


    I was in college with him.
    A genuinely nice guy but I would have never in a million years seen him as a potential TD! He's done well.


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    #202
    Uno my Uno.
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭Uno my Uno.


    Ian O'Doherty was on for the first half hour. As usual he spouted a load of claptrap all while pretending to be right on and liberal. Today he had his attention turned to the recent "Beach Body Ads" from the London Underground. Essentially he said that everyone was getting upset over nothing, that people should have a thicker skin and that people have the right to get their "knickers in a twist" but really they were just jealous because the model in the Ad was hotter then them.

    I know he just says this stuff to be controversial but it annoys me the way Sean lets him away with it because Sean finds him amusing (Although he did press him on a few things today.). Aside from the Fact that the Ad in question is likely photoshopped beyond all recognition and thus Is nt a genuine body for people to be envious of, the message of the ad is disgusting (ie don't take your clothes off in public unless you are at peak physical attractiveness), something O'Doherty conveniently ignores prefering to paint those opposed to the ad as jealous prudes who hate women's bodies.

    What do others thing of O'Doherty and the way Moncrieff handles him. I usually turn it off when O'Doherty is on but it was Funny Friday on the other side which never fails to make me cry.


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    #203
    tommyboy2222
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    Uno my Uno. wrote: »
    Ian O'Doherty was on for the first half hour. As usual he spouted a load of claptrap all while pretending to be right on and liberal. Today he had his attention turned to the recent "Beach Body Ads" from the London Underground. Essentially he said that everyone was getting upset over nothing, that people should have a thicker skin and that people have the right to get their "knickers in a twist" but really they were just jealous because the model in the Ad was hotter then them.

    I know he just says this stuff to be controversial but it annoys me the way Sean lets him away with it because Sean finds him amusing (Although he did press him on a few things today.). Aside from the Fact that the Ad in question is likely photoshopped beyond all recognition and thus Is nt a genuine body for people to be envious of, the message of the ad is disgusting (ie don't take your clothes off in public unless you are at peak physical attractiveness), something O'Doherty conveniently ignores prefering to paint those opposed to the ad as jealous prudes who hate women's bodies.

    What do others thing of O'Doherty and the way Moncrieff handles him. I usually turn it off when O'Doherty is on but it was Funny Friday on the other side which never fails to make me cry.

    Ian O'Doherty is a breath of fresh air. I knew the Twitter feminists would freak out when he was on. It's rare to find someone on the radio who doesn't tow the PC line. Even presenters I like like Moncreiff and Matt Cooper are terrified over ever disagreeing with SJW/Feminist guests and allow them to spout their nonsense unquestioningly.

    Everybody these days seems to think they are special flowers and their opinions are important somehow. They can't have a thought without having to share it online with their "followers". They pretend to be outraged over such trivial issues. They complain when a cat is killed in a storyline in a fictional tv show !!!! There are a lot of morons out their and social media has given them a voice.

    Health supplement company use attractive model in poster advertisements. Cue faux outrage !!!!

    Funny, I never saw everydaysexism hastags on any David Beckham posters.


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    #204
    Uno my Uno.
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭Uno my Uno.


    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    Ian O'Doherty is a breath of fresh air.

    He spouts the same sihte people like him have been spouting for years, its hardly a breath of fresh air.
    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    I knew the Twitter feminists would freak out when he was on. It's rare to find someone on the radio who doesn't tow the PC line. Even presenters I like like Moncreiff and Matt Cooper are terrified over ever disagreeing with SJW/Feminist guests and allow them to spout their nonsense unquestioningly.

    Using the term feminist as an insult is possibly the most misogynistic and sexist thing I have ever heard.

    For what its worth I don't consider myself a Feminist, twitter or otherwise.
    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    Everybody these days seems to think they are special flowers and their opinions are important somehow. They can't have a thought without having to share it online with their "followers". They pretend to be outraged over such trivial issues. They complain when a cat is killed in a storyline in a fictional tv show !!!! There are a lot of morons out their and social media has given them a voice.

    I am not a special flower, I have no followers, this is only a trivial issue for those who who don't have to deal with it.
    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    Health supplement company use attractive model in poster advertisements. Cue faux outrage !!!!

    I don't think the outrage is in anyway faux. I think it is entirely legitimate
    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    Funny, I never saw everydaysexism hastags on any David Beckham posters.

    If you think pictures of David Beckham in his underpants are sexist, you don't understand what sexism is


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    #205
    tommyboy2222
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    So when you said you wanted to know what people thought of Ian O'Doherty , it was only people who agreed with you ?

    How did you infer I was using feminist as an insult ? I'm sure a lot of the people who were annoyed with him today would describe themselves as such.

    Ads have always used more attractive people. Why should it cause offense ?

    Anyway we can agree to disagree. You misandrist :)


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    #206
    Uno my Uno.
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭Uno my Uno.


    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    So when you said you wanted to know what people thought of Ian O'Doherty , it was only people who agreed with you ?

    I asked for your opinion, I got it and I have disagreed with it.
    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    How did you infer I was using feminist as an insult ? I'm sure a lot of the people who were annoyed with him today would describe themselves as such.

    The part where you refered to "Feminists spouting their nonsense" raises the inference that you used it as an insult.
    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    Ads have always used more attractive people. Why should it cause offense ?

    It's not because they use more attractive people that they are offensive it is the effect of the ad and the message of the ad that are offensive. The ad in question have the effect of objectifying women's bodies (which David Beckham's Ads don't) and send the message that if you are woman you should not wear beach wear unless your body is at an unobtainable level of of attractiveness as if it anyones business what an individual person chooses to wear.
    tommyboy2222 wrote: »
    Anyway we can agree to disagree. You misandrist :)

    I'm no misandrist either! ;)


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    #207
    hullaballoo
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    Moderator: Ok, that's all we have time for today, we'll have to leave this discussion parked.

    Thanks.


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    #208
    Uno my Uno.
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭Uno my Uno.


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    Moderator: Ok, that's all we have time for today, we'll have to leave this discussion parked.

    Thanks.

    Yeah that got a bit Off Topic there, apologies:o:o:o


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    #209
    CountyHurler
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    I find Ian O'Doherty a breath of fresh air as well... Particularly on a station like Newstalk where everything is so painfully politically correct... He is a brave guy to say what he says, and I can only presume that he gets dogs abuse from the liberals


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    #210
    PopePalpatine
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    Bullies aren't a breath of fresh air. He gets what he gives to anyone who happens not to be a straight white guy.


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    #211
    kneemos
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    CountyHurler wrote: »
    I find Ian O'Doherty a breath of fresh air as well... Particularly on a station like Newstalk where everything is so painfully politically correct... He is a brave guy to say what he says, and I can only presume that he gets dogs abuse from the liberals

    Wouldn't accuse Newstalk of political correctness.
    Yates.
    Hook.
    Moncrief.


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