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Enda Kenny on the cover of Time magazine: 'The Celtic Comeback'

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  • #32
    Lumbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    Time Magazine made Hitler their man of the year in 1938. Stalin won it a few times as well. Says it all.


  • #33
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    Davyhal wrote: »
    Hopefully this article will trick some misinformed foreign multinational into thinking that all is fine and dandy and will set up here! Could get a few jobs at least out of this shocking article!

    Did you read the article?
    Lumbo wrote: »
    Time Magazine made Hitler their man of the year in 1938. Stalin won it a few times as well. Says it all.

    Are you comparing a well-meaning, if bumbling, man from Mayo to two of the great tyrants of the 20th century?


  • #34
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    I think time magazine are playing a role in getting this budget passed and adhered to by the public . This will help the bondholders get paid .
    No journalistic merit just a bit of propaganda for Enda to say " lookit how good Im doing , Im the best leader in Europe . Now who has a spare few quid so I can tax it ".


  • #35
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Stinicker wrote: »
    There is no alternative, who would people prefer Fine Gael or the Fianna Fail traitors who have ruined the country on multiple occasions. Fine Gael being their whipping boys who get to clean up the mess and set-up another boom only for FF to squander it again.

    Ahhh now come on.. I think the current debacle with O'Reilly has finally shown that they are all as corrupt as each other... I've said before that the only reason FG have a half clean record is the fact that they weren't in power.. If they had been closer to the trough during the "boom" they would have been georging themselves on the slops of power just the same as FF did.
    Claiming that they are better than a bad previous government does not make them a GOOD government, its very different.


  • #36
    Lumbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    Sergeant wrote: »
    Did you read the article?



    Are you comparing a well-meaning, if bumbling, man from Mayo to two of the great tyrants of the 20th century?

    Yes




















    :pac:


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  • #37
    AnonoBoy
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    Turns out he's only on the cover in the European edition, not the American one.


  • #38
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Youssef Chippo wrote: »
    Des Bishop?

    He's not really American. Des Bishop is a character created by Larry Daly, a comedian from Wexford.


  • #39
    fabbydabby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭fabbydabby


    Lumbo wrote: »
    Time Magazine made Hitler their man of the year in 1938. Stalin won it a few times as well. Says it all.

    Says what all?

    Vladmir Putin was also man of the year. Winning man of the year does not necessarily mean Time admire you. It's designed to stimulate debate.


  • #40
    Corkfeen
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    Lumbo wrote: »
    Time Magazine made Hitler their man of the year in 1938. Stalin won it a few times as well. Says it all.
    Most influential man of the year if I recall correctly which in itself was correct. They weren't saying he was a good guy....


  • #41
    kupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    Davyhal wrote: »
    Hopefully this article will trick some misinformed foreign multinational into thinking that all is fine and dandy and will set up here! Could get a few jobs at least out of this shocking article!


    ......its all in the game yo.....omar little


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  • #42
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    bbam wrote: »
    Seriously, what have the current government done to recover the country?

    You make it sound like we were clamped by ze Germans


  • #43
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Osama Bin Laden was considered for Man of the year in 2001.

    As Corkfeen says, MOTY is meant to reflect the person who had the greatest impact (positively or negatively) in a given year. Mahatma Ghandi won it one year too. That has absolutely no bearing on Inda being on the cover this month.

    There's been plenty of bitching about the Government, but plenty of evidence that they've halted the freefall the FF government left us. The title of the article is massively premature, but I don't think it's mad to discuss the simple fact that things are looking better now than they were before this government came in.


  • #44
    Lumbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    I've upset Enda fans.

    Sorry AH. Enda is not a monster. He's just a very naughty boy.


  • #45
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Lumbo wrote: »
    I've upset Enda fans.
    No. You just got some facts wrong and you were corrected.


  • #46
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    The good publicity is badly needed. This is a massive turnaround from November 2010 and hopefully it will make business leaders look at Ireland when deciding where to invest. Fair play to Enda, I see the usual moaners have turned up right on cue.


  • #47
    dodohert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭dodohert


    Enda's TM appearance being discussed on David Harvey on 4fm now.


  • #48
    Madam Marie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 85 ✭✭Madam Marie


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPHUeCTl85k


  • #49
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Sappa wrote: »
    Hat a load of crap,obviously timeagazine have never been passed Dublin or bothered to look at the level of debt the Irish nation is in because of idiots like Kenney giving there nod to the bank guarantee.
    Um...that was the previous government: Fianna Failure, remember them?


  • #50
    Lumbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    dvpower wrote: »
    No. You just got some facts wrong and you were corrected.

    No I didn't. Both Hitler and Stalin won Man (Person) of the year. These facts are correct.


  • #51
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    dvpower wrote: »
    No. You just got some facts wrong and you were corrected.

    Has an Enda poster on the bedroom wall ^^ :D


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  • #52
    Monty Burnz
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    Stinicker wrote: »
    The economy is at a bad level for the working person but statistically it ploughing on despite negative headwinds. Once the global recovery begins Ireland will latch onto it quickly and pull the country back. As soon as this happens the stupid Irish electorate will re-elect Fianna Fail so they blow yet another boom.
    Yup, Fianna Failure are waiting in the long grass. They started winding their necks out again criticising the government in the last few weeks.


  • #53
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Lumbo wrote: »
    Time Magazine made Hitler their man of the year in 1938. Stalin won it a few times as well. Says it all.
    Time 'man of the year':
    Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States newsmagazine Time that features and profiles a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."[1]
    Some people seem to think it's a plaudit of some kind. It's not.
    Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize, simply based on many previous selections of admirable people.[5] However Time magazine points out those such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, and Joseph Stalin in 1939 and again in 1942, and the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 have also been granted the title.


  • #54
    whiskeyman
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    First Rosanna, now this.
    More Irish tits on the cover of big publications...


  • #55
    hyperborean
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    This is crazy, how did that dimwit (do I have to back up this statement?) end up on the front time? Is time the new daily mail I wonder/.....


  • #56
    washman3
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    Even the normal blueshirt aplogists that frequent these forums are absent.
    must be seriously embarassed by this one.
    wonder if Time magazine is owned by the Bondholders...:confused::confused:


  • #57
    666irishguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭666irishguy


    washman3 wrote: »
    Even the normal blueshirt aplogists that frequent these forums are absent.
    must be seriously embarassed by this one.
    wonder if Time magazine is owned by the Bondholders...:confused::confused:

    In fairness it was Fianna Fail who sold us out without a fight.


  • #58
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    washman3 wrote: »
    Even the normal blueshirt aplogists that frequent these forums are absent.
    must be seriously embarassed by this one.
    wonder if Time magazine is owned by the Bondholders...:confused::confused:
    Good to see that the resident Fianna Failures are out in force though! ;)


  • #59
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    666irishguy wrote: »
    In fairness it was Fianna Fail who sold us out without a fight.

    without doubt, and hopefully they have been consigned to the dustbin of hostory forever.
    but we elected this present shower on a promise that they WOULD fight, not hide behind the curtains at EU summits...


  • #60
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Turns out he's only on the cover in the European edition, not the American one.

    Nah, neither. its just on the cover of the Mayo edition. :p


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  • #61
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »
    The good publicity is badly needed. This is a massive turnaround from November 2010 and hopefully it will make business leaders look at Ireland when deciding where to invest. Fair play to Enda, I see the usual moaners have turned up right on cue.


    Sounds like you've swallowed the entire jar of pills bud.;)
    this is propaganda of the higest order with an entirely different agenda.
    business leaders/investors/economists will see this from a mile away for what it really is, a cynical ploy from the European elite to maintain the status quo.

    i do wish yo were right though, but even my dog is having a laugh at this one.!!


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