The Last Word

All that fandango · 13-05-2020 7:39pm

technocrat wrote:

The current host is well past the 'use by' date!

Absolutely. Matt is a complete pain in the hole to listen to now. I roll my eyes everytime I hear him mention Trump. Yes Matt we know you hate Trump, must you remind us every chance you get? A bit cringe and pathetic for a grown man to be so bitter. Are the likes of him not supposed to be impartial? Why does he get a free pass?

technocrat · 13-05-2020 7:51pm

All that fandango wrote: »

Absolutely. Matt is a complete pain in the hole to listen to now. I roll my eyes everytime I hear him mention Trump. Yes Matt we know you hate Trump, must you remind us every chance you get? A bit cringe and pathetic for a grown man to be so bitter. Are the likes of him not supposed to be impartial? Why does he get a free pass?

Matt's hate list include:

Trump
Boris
Banks
Successful RICH business people
Builders
Catholics
The Goverment - unless it's far left.

pjohnson · 13-05-2020 7:54pm

Christ I forgot what this thread was like re. Echo chamber :pac:

dominatinMC · 13-05-2020 8:08pm

pjohnson wrote: »

Christ I forgot what this thread was like re. Echo chamber :pac:

You may not conform to the general sentiment on here, but at least you are free to express your view on that - which is more than can be said for the actual show, ironically enough.

yosser hughes · 13-05-2020 8:16pm

I think a lot of the content and direction this show and others have taken, is producer driven and the likes of Matt or Pat Kenny on Newstalk, don't give as much of a shyte as they used to, to bother changing direction.
I listened to TLW in the past but haven't in a few years now. Life's too short and with internet radio, there's no reason to confine yourself to the domestic choices.

newcavanman · 13-05-2020 8:36pm

I remember when TLW originally began. There are plenty of times, i absolutely cannot stand Dunphy and his hypocritical attitudes to things, but, boy oh boy, it was a cracking show. If the debate was good, then everything, news, ads, the lot went out the door. I remember one evening, the 6 O'Clock news was broadcast at 6.20.
One evening he interviewed Andrew Morton, who hadwritten a book about Diana. When the book was published, months before, he decried the author as a muck raker, but when he had him on the show he gave him a soft interview complimenting the so called brilliant book. I texted in, as did quite a few listeners, and Dunphy did a full Mea Culpa, acknowledging his mistake.
You certainly wouldnt get the like of that from the current host

djemba djemba · 13-05-2020 9:07pm

newcavanman wrote: »

I remember when TLW originally began. There are plenty of times, i absolutely cannot stand Dunphy and his hypocritical attitudes to things, but, boy oh boy, it was a cracking show. If the debate was good, then everything, news, ads, the lot went out the door. I remember one evening, the 6 O'Clock news was broadcast at 6.20.
One evening he interviewed Andrew Morton, who hadwritten a book about Diana. When the book was published, months before, he decried the author as a muck raker, but when he had him on the show he gave him a soft interview complimenting the so called brilliant book. I texted in, as did quite a few listeners, and Dunphy did a full Mea Culpa, acknowledging his mistake.
You certainly wouldnt get the like of that from the current host

Funny now the news or whatever they call it lasts 20 minutes

BPKS · 14-05-2020 8:41am

newcavanman wrote: »

I remember when TLW originally began. There are plenty of times, i absolutely cannot stand Dunphy and his hypocritical attitudes to things, but, boy oh boy, it was a cracking show. If the debate was good, then everything, news, ads, the lot went out the door. I remember one evening, the 6 O'Clock news was broadcast at 6.20.
One evening he interviewed Andrew Morton, who hadwritten a book about Diana. When the book was published, months before, he decried the author as a muck raker, but when he had him on the show he gave him a soft interview complimenting the so called brilliant book. I texted in, as did quite a few listeners, and Dunphy did a full Mea Culpa, acknowledging his mistake.
You certainly wouldnt get the like of that from the current host

In the early 00s you had Dunphy (with Navan Man, Drunken Politician and Fr Wishy Washy) on The Last Word.

You had Sam Smyth on the Sunday morning show.

Now you have Matt Cooper (with the 5 at 5 and 6 at 6) on The Last Word.

You have Mario Rosenstock on the Sunday morning show.

And on Newstalk you have Ciara Kelly instead of George Hook.

Sums it up really.

djemba djemba · 14-05-2020 8:57am

BPKS wrote: »

In the early 00s you had Dunphy (with Navan Man, Drunken Politician and Fr Wishy Washy) on The Last Word.

You had Sam Smyth on the Sunday morning show.

Now you have Matt Cooper (with the 5 at 5 and 6 at 6) on The Last Word.

You have Mario Rosenstock on the Sunday morning show.

And on Newstalk you have Ciara Kelly instead of George Hook.

Sums it up really.

Just to add to Sam Smyth, you had contributions from Ed Hayes also. Now we have someone from the journal.

Maybe we are wrong and that is what people want. If that is the case I don't want to be right.

dominatinMC · 14-05-2020 9:02am

djemba djemba wrote: »

Just to add to Sam Smyth, you had contributions from Ed Hayes also. Now we have someone from the journal.

Maybe we are wrong and that is what people want. If that is the case I don't want to be right.

Addle · 19-05-2020 12:34am

Has Mat mentioned The Last Dance on Netflix at all?
Just wondering what he makes of it given his denis Rodman experience.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 26-05-2020 3:17pm

i've stopped listening to the last word for one simple reason. the amount of ads. nothing to do with liberal bias or anything

Butson · 27-05-2020 7:26pm

Agree with all the sentiments above.
Matt is of course entitled to his opinion like everybody else, but surely there should be some sense of impartiality when interviewing guests or chairing a debate.
The treatment of Cal Thomas each week was scandalous (I stopped listening a few months back).
The regular contributers then. Woke FM. The lady who does the TV recommendations. Jesus, painful. Doesn't pick shows on their merits, all about the feminist angle.

NIMAN · 02-06-2020 5:33pm

They are about to talk about us "losing the run of ourselves re: Covid restrictions over the bank holiday weekend".

They surely have to say the march shouldn't have happened in this piece?

Edit: nothing so far....about house parties and how 50 participants could become 20,000 cases in 50 days.

No mention now many cases a crowd of 5,000 could become?

Edit: finally got a mention by the presenter.

jay0109 · 02-06-2020 7:30pm

It got a one line mention. That was it. And that was the same across the day on radio....Media have no interest in making an issue of this or previewing round 2 next Saturday which will no doubt be a bigger affair

BPKS · 02-06-2020 8:03pm

jay0109 wrote: »

It got a one line mention. That was it. And that was the same across the day on radio....Media have no interest in making an issue of this or previewing round 2 next Saturday which will no doubt be a bigger affair

It worries me that we have a media that turns a blind eye to this march just because they are afraid of being accused of something by criticising it.

NIMAN · 02-06-2020 8:05pm

BPKS wrote: »

It worries me that we have a media that turns a blind eye to this march just because they are afraid of being accused of something by criticising it.

And it's even sadder cos they would have the backing of the majority. Perhaps silent majority but majority all the same.

But afraid to annoy a few thousand sjw folk , in case they get bad social media comments.

ButtersSuki · 02-06-2020 8:15pm

I just know Woke McDernott is at home tonight wondering how he can make the march more about him.

jay0109 · 02-06-2020 9:32pm

NIMAN wrote: »

And it's even sadder cos they would have the backing of the majority. Perhaps silent majority but majority all the same.

But afraid to annoy a few thousand sjw folk , in case they get bad social media comments.

They're not afraid at all. They fully support the SJW's and will ignore anything that could be deemed as negative against them

PhoneMain · 03-06-2020 2:51pm

jay0109 wrote: »

They're not afraid at all. They fully support the SJW's and will ignore anything that could be deemed as negative against them

This is the case with loads in the Irish media. All woke liberals with no respect for anyone elses opinions. Especially prevalent in Today FM, RTE, the indo and Irish Times. At least the likes of Ivan Yates doesn't go with group think, unlike our Matt

Jayesdiem · 03-06-2020 5:35pm

PhoneMain wrote: »

This is the case with loads in the Irish media. All woke liberals with no respect for anyone elses opinions. Especially prevalent in Today FM, RTE, the indo and Irish Times. At least the likes of Ivan Yates doesn't go with group think, unlike our Matt

Yates is the best but you forgot to name his own station, Newstalk. Probably the most woke of all our media outlets.

Jayesdiem · 19-06-2020 9:18pm

I switched off The Last Word for the final time tonight. The left leaning woke agenda of the programme has become too much for me to bare. I can’t continually expose myself to a media outlet that tells me that the things I believe do not represent the “correct” beliefs. You have your Jennifer Gannons and Roe McDermotts but few people ever mention the name Damien McLoughlin and this guy is just hard to listen to. So very hard. He’s an academic so that’s the first red flag but tonight this man was disgusted with UK MP Dominic Raab who gave a reasoned rationale as to why he would not like to take the knee. He was pretty much abused for abstaining from what is an optional show of support for the Black Lives Matter cause. In no way did I think this was compulsory but unfortunately, this is the road we are going down. Conform to the mob or it will consume you. Tonight, the Last Word was deleted from my podcast library.

hotmail.com · 19-06-2020 9:23pm

Matt Cooper is perhaps the worst at importing British and American culture wars and playing them out with arguments on Irish radio.

He's only too happy to have extreme opinions on the air to whip up anger with the aim of improving ratings.

This has slowly crept into Irish media the last few years and Matt is the worst offender. He then tries to come across as a responsible broadcaster. All rubbish.

jay0109 · 19-06-2020 9:28pm

That was me done also when I heard this was coming on

Larissa Nolan,
@bazashmawy
and
@EbunJoseph1
join us to debate the issue of racism on TV.

Hamsterchops · 19-06-2020 10:19pm

Always fascinated by the way Matt talks....

From the back of his throat, in particular words beginning with the ch sound highlight what I'm talking about.

That's all.

dominatinMC · 19-06-2020 10:56pm

Jayesdiem wrote: »

I switched off The Last Word for the final time tonight. The left leaning woke agenda of the programme has become too much for me to bare. I can’t continually expose myself to a media outlet that tells me that the things I believe do not represent the “correct” beliefs. You have your Jennifer Gannons and Roe McDermotts but few people ever mention the name Damien McLoughlin and this guy is just hard to listen to. So very hard. He’s an academic so that’s the first red flag but tonight this man was disgusted with UK MP Dominic Raab who gave a reasoned rationale as to why he would not like to take the knee. He was pretty much abused for abstaining from what is an optional show of support for the Black Lives Matter cause. In no way did I think this was compulsory but unfortunately, this is the road we are going down. Conform to the mob or it will consume you. Tonight, the Last Word was deleted from my podcast library.

Better late than never I guess

I gave up on TLW a while ago, but still follow this thread to keep an eye on proceedings. You actually raised an interesting point, which is probably for a wider debate, but how has this Twitter "mob" gained such prominence, and who has appointed them the arbiters of good and evil...a good old fashioned rational debate (remember those with opposing views) is a rarity these days

pjohnson · 19-06-2020 10:59pm

I did think the racism discussion would upset some of this threads regulars alright

dominatinMC · 19-06-2020 11:02pm

pjohnson wrote: »

I did think the racism discussion would upset some of this threads regulars alright

Oh ya, sure we're all racists. We know that by now, they've told us enough for it to eventually sink in

Jayesdiem · 20-06-2020 6:44am

pjohnson wrote: »

I did think the racism discussion would upset some of this threads regulars alright

But you’re missing the point and that is the problem with this type of biased radio show. You’ll have to point out where I criticised the show for talking about racism. How could any rational person criticise a current affairs show for discussing arguably THE current affair right now in racism? Please understand this: the guest Damien McLoughlin spoke of Dominic Raab’s preference not to kneel and because it wasn’t aligned to his own clearly-expressed morals, decided that this man was something akin to the devil. Here is my opinion: Raab clearly has reservations about the purpose and integrity of this kneeling craze and puts little faith in its ability to achieve real change. He therefore abstained because he is not in agreement with it. Those, apparently, are the facts of the matter which I explained without even mentioning the term ‘racist’. But these bull-headed imbeciles come on the show and fall over themselves to express the opinion that will gain them the most social capital with a woke and gullible listenership, the irony of that being I would guess that the majority of listeners are moderate, rational people who don’t view the world through woke goggles. It’s not just this incident which has me deleting the show. I’ve listened for years and I’ve finally had enough of it. From Jennifer Gannon’s weekly pick of feminist-centric shows of sexually assaulted women to Matt’s extraordinary propensity to mispronounce even the simplest and well-known names, I’m out. The show is garbage.

Heckler · 20-06-2020 6:52am

I like Matt and the Last Word in general but by christ the man cannot pronounce his ths for ****e.

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