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Nelson Mandela and RTEs death watch

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  • #122
    HIB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭HIB


    Anyone else kind of pissed off with the blatant hypocrisy of politicians this week.

    Mandela is a hero. A 'great light' who 'became synonymous with the pursuit of dignity and freedom across the globe.' (Enda Kenny)

    Gerry Adams, of course, is the devil. His comments - 'nauseating'. The people who voted for him - misguided idiots/war mongering savages.

    I can't help wondering if he would be less 'nauseating' if his party wasn't gaining support so rapidly.


  • #123
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    People on the news, he was a gentle soul wouldn't hurt anyone.

    I said it before the majority on this country cannot think for themselves or look at things themselves, they rely on the media to do their thinking.

    Sheep.


  • #124
    T-K-O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    Tell us again


  • #125
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    SkyNews reporter live at a Joburg mourning scene harassing people laying flowers at a gate who are clearly weeping and don't want to talk. :(


  • #126
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #127
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an extended PrimeTime special with Miriam


  • #128
    For Reals
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,964 ✭✭✭For Reals


    I want to hear how Twink feels about Mandela's passing.


  • #129
    sue_me
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 ✭sue_me


    mandella was a great man

    the endless eulogising however on rte since yesterday evening has become extremely tedious , I realise the guy is viewed as a secular saint by liberals but their is such a thing as overkill


  • #130
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    .jacksparrow. wrote: »
    People on the news, he was a gentle soul wouldn't hurt anyone.

    I said it before the majority on this country cannot think for themselves or look at things themselves, they rely on the media to do their thinking.

    Sheep.

    he was in jail, while his people fought a hard and bitter war. then he took the credit for the actions of the people including his wife that put his name up in lights, then to try and give himself some of image of peace, he shafted is wife and the people who stood by him, what did he do for his people. That is the question. War is war, the people that fought for the ANC fought hard, but the the great one is a man of peace. Cop on he is a puppet for the elite, and people that die are shot by soft bullets.


  • #131
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    When news of Mandela's passing broke I stopped viewing and listening to RTE

    Figure we will be subjected to 2 weeks or so of OTT Mandela related stuff


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  • #132
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #133
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    BBC receives 1,350 complaints about 'excessive' coverage of Mandela's death
    Jeez, if the Beeb overdoes it, than what does Rté do?


  • #134
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Lol, when I think of the excessive coverage Mandela's death is getting I just can't help but imagine the episode of the Simpson when Homer is accused of sexual harassment.

    I Fully expect reporters to be talking about like this soon.

    "Here we are at Nelson Mandela's house in Johannesburg, South Africa. Over here we have a tree which we believe Mandela once sat in, probably during better days we don't know. Over to the right is a flower Mandela once watered. Now we see a door, which Mandela used to walk through to enter his house. But we aren't allowed in at this particular time so we'll just continuing peering through the windows trying to get footage of the family and talking about other trivial things about Mandela"


  • #135
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    Did anyone see The Week in Politics yesterday, where the unfailingly crass RTE played the music of Paul Simon (boycott breaker) at the end, over the closing images of Mandela?


  • #136
    Mr.Micro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    HansHolzel wrote: »
    Did anyone see The Week in Politics yesterday, where the unfailingly crass RTE played the music of Paul Simon (boycott breaker) at the end, over the closing images of Mandela?

    Don't expect class from RTE.


  • #137
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'm so sick and tired of hearing about Nelson Mandela. The whole thing is turning into a 3 ring circus that feels as though it's being milked ad naseum. The sooner they bury him and stop having round the clock news coverage of it the better.


  • #138
    philstar
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    all this deity towards the man is a bit tiresome, you'd swear he was an angel

    i'm sure channel 4 dispatches will have an alternative view on Mandela lined up...

    Mandela:The Dark Side


  • #139
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    philstar wrote: »
    all this deity towards the man is a bit tiresome, you'd swear he was an angel
    i'm sure channel 4 dispatches will have an alternative view on Mandela lined up...
    Mandela:The Dark Side
    It will be one minute long. :P

    Another six days till his funeral.
    How will the media keep finding new angles? There is only so much you can say.


  • #140
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    philstar wrote: »
    all this deity towards the man is a bit tiresome, you'd swear he was an angel

    i'm sure channel 4 dispatches will have an alternative view on Mandela lined up...

    Mandela:The Dark Side

    Up north, the Orange bwanas will give you that other version for free. Makes them look better (they think).


  • #141
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Who will the first one out of the ANC, to start publishing the $hit, before this carnival is over, we will start to get the story about not upsetting the apple tart, as one of our great leaders used to say


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  • #142
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    There was an interview with some guy on Sky news this morning talking about how there would be lots of stone and bronze statues made of Mandela. I couldn't help thinking the money would be better spent on the starving Africans that we don't see, except on adverts. Shush, nobody mention the famine victims,Aids victims or orphans scavenging on rubbish dumps, it might spoil the party.


  • #143
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    If anyone wants an independent view of the present South Africa, google articles by Rian Malan. You won't always agree with him but he's independent, fearless and can spot bullsh*t a mile off. Plus he did write My Traitor's Heart.


  • #144
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    philstar wrote: »
    all this deity towards the man is a bit tiresome, you'd swear he was an angel

    i'm sure channel 4 dispatches will have an alternative view on Mandela lined up...

    Mandela:The Dark Side

    He was a shameless womaniser, would hit on women in front of his wife/their partner, 3 wives was it? Children here and there, very African attitude to fatherhood.


  • #145
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    His friendship with Gadhaffi is very unpalatable. Fighting for black people under the sickening atrocities of apartheid was something he did that should never be underestimated, plus his admirable forgiving attitude, but he was not the perfect saint he's being eulogised as.
    Nobody is perfect but not everyone would be friends with Colonel Gadhaffi either.


  • #146
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    His friendship with Gadhaffi is very unpalatable. Fighting for black people under the sickening atrocities of apartheid was something he did that should never be underestimated, plus his admirable forgiving attitude, but he was not the perfect saint he's being eulogised as.
    Nobody is perfect but not everyone would be friends with Colonel Gadhaffi either.

    Yes because it is completely unthinkable that two Pan-African, anti-Imperialist leftist leaders from comparably impoverished backgrounds who were born into societies where the ingenious populations were ruled by European's and treated as sub human, could ever be friends...

    Then you have things like Gaddafi's attempts to promote the idea of a pan-african gold based currency, his plans for launching African owned communications satellites and his proposals to build more "great man made rivers" throughout Africa to ensure that everyone on the continent has access to water and it's not hard to understand why someone like Mandela would be a friend of Gaddafi.


    But sure it's easier to just paint Gaddafi as a mad genocidal dictator, because that's what the media and our leaders in the west want us to believe. Which is funny because it wasn't all that long ago that Tony Blair, Sarkozy, Bush and the rest were giving him rimjobs and calling him their "brother leader" in exchange for cheap oil going one way and removal of sanctions going Libya's way.

    Funny that one of the first infrastructural projects to be attacked in the NATO bombardment wasn't air bases or military instillations but a ****ing irrigation project which was designed to make Libya food independent.


  • #147
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Yes because it is completely unthinkable that two Pan-African, anti-Imperialist leftist leaders from comparably impoverished backgrounds who were born into societies where the ingenious populations were ruled by European's and treated as sub human, could ever be friends.

    But Mandela was born privileged, his family were traitors to their own and rewarded by the British as such, Nelson's pop was caught with his hand in the jar, still the British were kind to Nelson, you hardly think he achieved a legal education in the bush?


  • #148
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Yep, Gaddafi was a mad dictator, based on this alone.


  • #149
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Anyone watching the service in the stadium?
    Every time the camera cuts to Jacob Zuma, the crowd boos loudly.
    It is hilarious!

    Danish PM (Gucci Helle) sitting next to Obama trying to almost hump him


  • #150
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Crowds in the stadium are now chanting and singing making it impossible to hear the incredibly boring speeches.


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  • #151
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Obama shakes hands with Raul Castro of Cuba.
    Wow.


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