Bad times for the woke baes
I note Gavin Riley, number 1 do gooder tweeter, passing off as journalism, has deleted a tweet under the interview. He posted "machete" under it. Now deleted.
Biggest own goal in Irish media for years
Some more tweets and retweets coming out from Shane Hannon and more recently.
One wonders will Newstalk hold onto him given the current climate?
Racism, homophobia, transphobia, making fun of people with disabilities.
He seems like a real class act.
It isn't a comparison. What he said was offensive and one wonders at what age did he grow out of having those views.
I wonder how long before the show do the presenters put on their woke faces ?
They had a piece on last year where they were agreeing with a female footballer that they should get more or less the same money as male footballers, they were saying well you train just as hard, the quality has vastly improved,. No mention of 800 people in a 25,000 stadium, where prices are very low with kids going free, bringing in less sponsors but of course it's not right/ woke to ask them kind of questions,
You just know with a group of lads they're probably taking the piss out of woman's soccer, watching it on YouTube, but then, we're on shortly lads game/woke faces on
The logic would be the same as saying you'd be a hypocrite to be volunteering on your local village tody towns committee if you mention anything about trying to have a common sense approach to check people as much as feasibly possible.
I mean how could you really be concerned about your local community if you suggested that better systems need to be in place to process IP applicants more swiftly?
I didn't know that accepting an offer of a promotion with Spar means you have to support open borders?
One may actually look at it that someone wanting to protect people from attack are looking out for their community, more than those that support bogus asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
Speaking to friends in the media and they would usually only send questions if asked and it would be more a list of possible topics than specific questions. An interviewee can say something that completely changes the direction an interviewer was going to take and possible questions you were going to ask goes out the window. If you're doing an interview and don't want to discuss a topic you raise it beforehand or are have an answer prepared.
Heard other OTB lads saying they never flag questions to anyone before interviews.
If you ask me, the bigger hypocrite is someone who takes money as a brand ambassador for community and diversity campaigns but then espouses values opposite of that on social media.
If she has in her own mind legitimate concerns about immigration fair enough but don’t accept payment for a role that advocates all forms of inclusivity.
I’d have more respect for her if she actually explained her own views and stood by them rather than dodge the question for the sake of keeping a bit of sponsorship money.
The lesson from this is, don’t take a “woke” ambassador role if you don’t agree with the “woke” agenda. Better off becoming a brand ambassador for a car or soft drinks company.
OTB is full of them and there’s a fair few of their supporters on here forever leaping to their defence.
It's not just a whiff of controversy. It's simply having any kind of opinion that doesn't align with their world view.
I do find OTB's wading into political topics annoying. And that's not to say that they can't or shouldn't comment on politics but they dedicate significant portions of the show regularly to political topics of the day. I don't want or need to know their views on Brexit, Ukraine, migration et al but they continue to segue into these areas. It's put me right off.
That and the excessive rugby coverage and fawning over Stephen Kenny.
He probably didn't even realise the irony of using derogatory words against people with learning disabilities, all the while only being able to get enough points to go to UCD
One rule for me, another for thee.
And then people wonder why there's a rise in the right. People are sick of the woke hypocrites.
He was in ucd when he made some of these comments on twitter. He was an adult.
Saying, "going back almost 15 years" isn't true. He's 29.
And he has made a complete fool of himself on lunchtime live.
Why are you still defending him?
Why can't you admit they both did and said silly things on social media and move on???
So he is going to take responsibility for his actions and the actions of his younger self? Going to resign his job then?
Or does tweeting a statement saying "I have to take responsibility for something" actually constitute taking responsibility for it now?
He is the one claiming he has to take responsibility for those past actions now.
No, they claim to be asylum seekers.
You don't tear up travel documents for no reason.
Difficult to reconcile your angle with reality.
One is someone employed in a public facing role by a large organisation with presumably plenty of access to both legal and media experts.
The other is an amateur sportsperson who also works a regular job in a hospital. And a regular job that most on here would probably look down on.
How is it you think it is the latter who has overpaid pr consultants. Plural.
You expect him to leave vile tweets he made as a 16 year old up? That makes zero sense.
He did leave them up though. Unlike Harrington who deleted her one last October almost immediately. It was also addressed at the time and in the media at the time. Your man just takes them down now as it shows him perhaps not to be whatever image he is trying to project now. When they were actually highlighted by the public he was trying to stir up against Harrington.
What were Hannon's tweets?
Also, he absolutely was unprofessional in not flagging the question about her tweet in advance of the interview.
That's just a nice polished statement from someone who received a better education than Kellie. As for what Mr. Shane Hannon really believes, who knows.
Kellie handled the OTB question poorly, mostly because she was out of her comfort zone.
I genuinely think she was appalled by the killing of the French girl but lack of research skills and savy led her to put out that tweet.
Pathetic carry on going back almost 15 years through his tweets to catch him out on something he said when he was an adolescent.
Kellie’s tweet is from 6 months ago and it directly contradicts with what her role as a Spar ambassador is supposed to be which is what she was on the show to discuss.
Anyone equating the tweets from Kellie and Hannon is being incredibly disingenuous.
This fela needs to have a debate on toxic masculinity among young Irish men.
Not sure I’d agree. Just because the OTBd woke baes aren’t as woke the fanbois thought that shouldn’t cloud our judgement of their own past offensivenesses
Why do people keep talking about owning things?
Harrington was the darling of the do gooder liberal type - gay female boxer, working class etc.
It just shows how this outraged do gooder cohort can turn on you with the sniff of controversy.
Whatever about your opinions on Hanson’s tweets. His statement says a lot more in a lot less words than the essay Harringtons overpaid pr consultants pulled together.
If I could back 20 or 25 years and change 1 thing 1 option would be to rid the world of social media, the amount of holes its created for people is unbelievable.
She was ambushed, she appeared for puff piece interview promoting SPAR and had no idea that question was going to be asked, if she had known that sort of question was going to be asked she probably wouldn't have done the interview or had a prepared statement
You expect him to leave vile tweets he made as a 16 year old up? That makes zero sense. I'd want no further association with them. He can't ignore the fact he said them but he can remove himself from those remarks as a teenager from how he is now as an adult.
Kellie Harrington, meanwhile, said in her non-apology that nothing she said was political, which is an outright lie.
There's a big difference between owning what you said as a teenager and acting like you didn't say what you said as a person in your 30s.
And that's her prerogative. However, she said in her statement that she said her original tweet wasn't about a political opinion. That is a lie. We all know what she said.
Also, she wasn't ambushed. She made those public remarks. If you, as a public figure, make remarks in public then you should expect questions on them. She had six months to prepare her answer for this and the best she had was 'be like Elsa and Let It Go'.
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