awec wrote: » Child on the late late just promised everyone in the audience a gaff when he grows up and becomes a builder. Good deal that.
Deleted User wrote: » Newstalk is a real mongrel channel. Seems to be courting the right now but would have been one of the more liberal channels much of the last decade. I think it's a terrible idea. The guy is a spoofer. He took a situation with a lot of anger between two distinctive communities and tried to drag it into the gutter for the sake of an already failed presidential bid. It takes a wicked kind of vanity to consciously stir and then stoke an issue just to make you look slightly better than your rich acquaintances that are also competing for the same prize. There was a contempt to his comments after the campaign and a sincere bitterness that I'm convinced has lost him a lot of that 23% he pissed on the curtains to earn. I reckon this has a decent chance of alienating a lot of Newstalk listeners, it certainly has for me. Worse though, it gives Casey a platform from which to launch a legitimate political career in the lead up to the next general. For Newstalk this fills the grumpy, older, tell it like it is, right wing, white male advocate, George Hook spot. Hook was just too toxic for the station to stand by and in his attempts to alienate and offend large parts of society (for the amusement of a few) he ended up burning his wings and crashing out of media with a permanently tarnished reputation. I'd say he gets filthy looks in public, probably a fair bit of support at times too sadly enough. Newstalk obviously feel there is still a market for that type of personality - but much like George, I suspect that they are flying too close to the sun for their own good with Casey. My hope is that this fails quickly, but lasts just long enough to similarly tarnish Casey's reputation.
CatFromHue wrote: » I'm not sure Newstalk is courting the right. I don't listen to Breakfast but Ciara Kelly, Moncreiff, and OTB have nothing to do with the right. Pat Kenny is neutral and Yates is just a big WUM to everyone no matter what their political allegiance is. The only thing you can trust Yates to actually care about is calling how elections will go and horse racing :pac: I'm not sure the relevance of saying Hook is white, the country is over 90% whit,. 2% Asian, 1% Black, 1% Traveller, the rest not stated. I know it's popular say people who we don't like are right wing but Hook was very much pro gay marriage and as far as I know pro choice too or at least not pro life. So why do you say he's right wing? In general I don't think he alienated large part of the country either. What he said on rape was silly but a lot of people, not a minority, had the same view and are disgusted he lost his job over it. Which kind of reinforces that Newstalk aren't courting the right. As for Casey I dunno why anyone would give him a TV or radio job, he can barely string a sentence together!
CatFromHue wrote: » People I talk to on my travels around Ireland
Deleted User wrote: » What he said about rape wasn't silly, it was abhorrent. Yes, we all need to be mindful of dangers - but that in no way mitigates or excuses a rapist, nor is rape in anyway a justifiable punishment for a women trusting a man she shouldn't. Regardless of the case it was about, it's an awful toxic mindset and far worse than 'silly'. His comments on cyclists are similarly ridiculous and do nothing to reduce tension and dangers on the road. I read somewhere that the week after he called cyclists nazi's - there were two cyclists killed on the roads. The defence counsel representing one of those drivers a few months back made similar comments trying to blame the cycling - albeit the enquiry rested the entire blame on the driver. He may say things in belief that there are no consequences, but he is very much responsible for spreading a lot of negativity which reinforces attitudes that blame women for wearing frilly knickers. My comment on skin colour was a bit of an Americanisation, but young to middle aged somewhat angry white men are typically the target audience for right wing media personalities. I obviously don't have your insights from travelling around Ireland talking to people about their opinions of George, but my circle of friends and acquaintances would be very familiar with him from rugby and Newstalk (some were coached by him in rugby) and each and every one of them have gone from tolerating him a few years ago, to dismissing him as his rugby commentary soured on certain personalities to actively disliking him over his rhetoric towards women and other groups. I don't know a single person who isn't glad he is off the air.
Mookie Blaylock wrote: » Ireland getting a decent enough group for the 2020 euros... Switzerland.. Denmark, and Georgia so far....edit..and gibraltar ...we missed all the big guns Feel sorry for Norn Iron... Germany and Holland
Zzippy wrote: » Denmark, who like, beat us 5-0 last year? Oh... yay!
CatFromHue wrote: » The Journal have one of their fact check articles up about the story yesterday about HSE workers being banned from using words like "pet" and "love". It turns out they are not banned. It really shows how many outlets don't bother with the actual truth and just go with what will fill the paper or airwaves.
Squidgy Black wrote: » The only crowd I've ever heard say they disagreed with Hook being sacked is the same crowd who says everything is "pc gone mad".
molloyjh wrote: » While I wouldn't be one of the "PC gone mad" brigade, this banning of the song Baby It's Cold Outside really does seem to be "PC gone mad". It really reminds me of A Time To Kill. The defences medical expert gets trashed due to the quashed statutory rape charges. It sounds really bad and the expert looks awful for it. But in the closing arguments we learn that he was only a few months older than the girl in question and the two went on to get married and are still married when the court case is taking place. The context utterly changes the perception of the incident. This song is from a Hollywood musical from the 40s which tells the story of a first date between a couple. They have a good time, she decides she wants to leave, he tries to convince her not to. The song never says what happens next. But in the film, she leaves and he doesn't react badly to it at all. The long and the short of it is that they continue to see each other and eventually get married. And yet somehow this song is deemed to be inappropriate. All because of 1 line from what I can tell ("Say what's in this drink"). What the song is actually about and the entire context behind it and it's very reason for existing all seem irrelevant. Instead what matters is what people project onto the song now. It's just bizarre.
Squidgy Black wrote: » Have you seen the latest PETA campaign? To stop using anti-animal language. They want phrases like "kill two birds with one stone", "bring home the bacon", "flog a dead horse", "take the bull by the horns" to be "socially unacceptable".
sydthebeat wrote: » Hilarious
troyzer wrote: » As a young, millennial hard core lefty can I just make it clear that this kind of PC ****e is madness. A lot of older people associate people like me with this movement, please don't. I do believe in some things which would be considered PC, but this is going too far.
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