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Kevin Myers: "arsehole agus "gobshíte" extraordinaire

  • 19-03-2010 11:26PM
    #1
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭


    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!


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    Cool story bro!


  • #3
    Blackhorse Slim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭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.


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


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


  • #5
    Mr Benevolent
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    Rebelheart wrote: »
    they are entertaining!

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


  • #6
    bleg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    JuliusCaesar
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    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


  • #8
    Nforce
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    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


  • #9
    bleg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭bleg


    Rojomcdojo wrote: »
    Cool story bro!


    http://surfingbeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Cool-Dog-Hey-Cool-story-bro41.jpg


  • #10
    Biggins
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    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!


  • #11
    jiltloop
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    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.


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  • #12
    Paparazzo
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    Myres job is to wind people up. He's good at it.


  • #13
    ejmaztec
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    At least he keeps his gob shut in those Halloween movies.


  • #14
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #15
    Dudess
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    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.


  • #16
    pooch90
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    At least he keeps his gob shut in those Halloween movies.

    Think you mean Mike dearie


  • #17
    sorrywhat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    cullen5998
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    I'd prefer to look at a big picture of Brussel sprouts in the Independent instead of his column


  • #19
    billybigunz
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    I caught this on the radio. He made a right fool of himself, completely missed the tone of the piece.


  • #20
    Rebelheart
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    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.


  • #21
    billybigunz
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    Newstalk is streets ahead of the rest Bleg, hence the positive comments.


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  • #22
    bleg
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    woah take it easy, it was a light hearted comment. if i want serious radio discussion i'll go to the radio forum


  • #23
    MarchDub
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    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.


  • #24
    Sisko
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    I don't see friday on the ops link, only thursday etc. :confused:


  • #25
    Rebelheart
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    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.


  • #26
    MarchDub
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    Sisko wrote: »
    I don't see friday on the ops link, only thursday etc. :confused:

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


  • #27
    stovelid
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    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.


  • #28
    aDeener
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    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.


  • #29
    Rebelheart
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    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?


  • #30
    ascanbe
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    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.


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  • #31
    lugha
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    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. ;)


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