The Last Word

PhoneMain · 19-01-2021 10:03pm

This evening Larry Donnelly (whos a great contributor to everything I hear him on!) was on instead of Marion with Cal. It was so refreshing. Good balanced debate with Larry able to admit that Trump probably would have got reelected if it wasnt for Covid and that he may have done some good things (I'm not saying I like Trump but it's refreshing hearing a Democrat saying something positive about him! Marion will never say anything positive about Trump and she will never say anything negative about Biden or Hillary. At least Cal can admit that he doesnt like Trump personally!)
The debate between them was respectful and balanced and was great to hear. Alas, Marion will be back next week.

robo · 20-01-2021 12:46pm

PhoneMain wrote: »

This evening Larry Donnelly (whos a great contributor to everything I hear him on!) was on instead of Marion with Cal. It was so refreshing. Good balanced debate with Larry able to admit that Trump probably would have got reelected if it wasnt for Covid and that he may have done some good things (I'm not saying I like Trump but it's refreshing hearing a Democrat saying something positive about him! Marion will never say anything positive about Trump and she will never say anything negative about Biden or Hillary. At least Cal can admit that he doesnt like Trump personally!)
The debate between them was respectful and balanced and was great to hear. Alas, Marion will be back next week.

I think she is back today for a special on the inauguration

ShagNastii · 22-01-2021 12:14pm

Butson wrote: »

I heard this segment with Roe yesterday, cringe inducing stuff. You would expect it from her and her ilk.
Cooper though, how did he not pull her up on that nonsense.

He's as bad as the rest of them, afraid to call her out incase he gets labelled himself. Or, even worse, he agrees with her.
Either way, that show is gone to the dogs.

TBF Matt is in on it. Roe McD is a bit like Eamonn Dunphy during his peak "Eamonn Dunphy" years. A total self aware parody, they do their thing and people expect nothing more or less. You know the one, Giles and Brady would have given their reasoned bit to Billo and then Dunphy would come in with his sledgehammer to add his 2 cents to the commentary.

During that SATC discussion there was great back and forth between the three other contributors then Roe was rolled out at the end to do her thing. Her rant was basically in the script.

Mad_maxx · 22-01-2021 6:00pm

ShagNastii wrote: »

TBF Matt is in on it. Roe McD is a bit like Eamonn Dunphy during his peak "Eamonn Dunphy" years. A total self aware parody, they do their thing and people expect nothing more or less. You know the one, Giles and Brady would have given their reasoned bit to Billo and then Dunphy would come in with his sledgehammer to add his 2 cents to the commentary.

During that SATC discussion there was great back and forth between the three other contributors then Roe was rolled out at the end to do her thing. Her rant was basically in the script.

the WOKE clergy dont do self awareness or parody , they are at all times earnest and pious

Jayesdiem · 24-01-2021 2:38pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

the WOKE clergy dont do self awareness or parody , they are at all times earnest and pious

The woke clergy. I love it. It really is a religion.

Mad_maxx · 24-01-2021 11:52pm

Jayesdiem wrote: »

The woke clergy. I love it. It really is a religion.

of course it is , it requires no questioning of dogma and a doubtless faith in approved creeds

25-01-2021 12:02am

Jayesdiem wrote: »

The woke clergy. I love it. It really is a religion.

The new Catholic church....and sure they'll eventually all turn on each other

Faugheen · 25-01-2021 9:17pm

The Dermot and Dave segments on the US are much better than what Cooper serves up.

I feel like Marion McKeown and Cal Thomas have been on since Jesus was a child. It’s grown stale.

Dermot and Dave get one of the news people on who clearly has a big interest in US politics. Dermot’s clearly anti-Trump (much like myself) but at least they had a bit of craic with it.

applehunter · 25-01-2021 9:57pm

Faugheen wrote: »

The Dermot and Dave segments on the US are much better than what Cooper serves up.

I feel like Marion McKeown and Cal Thomas have been on since Jesus was a child. It’s grown stale.

Dermot and Dave get one of the news people on who clearly has a big interest in US politics. Dermot’s clearly anti-Trump (much like myself) but at least they had a bit of craic with it.

So you are advocating dumbing down political discussion even more on Irish radio.

Faugheen · 25-01-2021 10:08pm

applehunter wrote: »

So you are advocating dumbing down political discussion even more on Irish radio.

It was far from dumbed down.

US politics and branches of government is extremely complex.

You would know this if you ever heard the segments.

applehunter · 25-01-2021 10:14pm

Faugheen wrote: »

It was far from dumbed down.

US politics and branches of government is extremely complex.

You would know this if you ever heard the segments.

Dermot & Dave do not know more about US Politics than Marion McKeown & Cal Thomas.

I think they are one of the best things on Irish radio but they are not political commentators.

Faugheen · 25-01-2021 10:32pm

applehunter wrote: »

Dermot & Dave do not know more about US Politics than Marion McKeown & Cal Thomas.

I think they are one of the best things on Irish radio but they are not political commentators.

Doesn't mean it was 'dumbed down' as you put it.

Again, listen to the segments before you pass judgement or assumptions.

The Dynamic Word · 25-01-2021 11:03pm

Faugheen wrote: »

The Dermot and Dave segments on the US are much better than what Cooper serves up.

I feel like Marion McKeown and Cal Thomas have been on since Jesus was a child. It’s grown stale.

Dermot and Dave get one of the news people on who clearly has a big interest in US politics. Dermot’s clearly anti-Trump (much like myself) but at least they had a bit of craic with it.

Hi Andrew

applehunter · 26-01-2021 12:05am

Faugheen wrote: »

Doesn't mean it was 'dumbed down' as you put it.

Again, listen to the segments before you pass judgement or assumptions.

Have you a link for the segments.

hotmail.com · 26-01-2021 6:59pm

BPKS wrote: »

On The Last Word last week Matt had his chum Marion McKeown on to go to town on Melania Trump.

At one stage Marion talked about the women's protest in Washington after Trump got the gig and the way many of the women were carrying placards saying "Free Melania".

Marion says she thought that was a load of BS at the time but didn't express that opinion in public.

I had to laugh at that. Basically she was afraid to say what she thought in case her fellow feminists or Woke lefties on twitter ganged up on her for attacking poor defenseless Melania.

But now 4 years later and after the whole crack in Washington a few weeks ago she felt she could speak her mind and lambast the First Lady.

What a hypocrite. And of course her buddy Cooper was of the same mind.

I get the impression Marian has spent the past 4 years watching CNN and has no life outside of Trump.

NIMAN · 26-01-2021 10:08pm

Caught the tail end of the tv slot today, when the female contributor told the guy that he basically wasn't allowed to say a certain song was bad because the money from it is going to charity.

27-01-2021 12:46pm

NIMAN wrote: »

Caught the tail end of the tv slot today, when the female contributor told the guy that he basically wasn't allowed to say a certain song was bad because the money from it is going to charity.

This is the same contributor who supposedly is a tv reviewer and never saw the Wire or Breaking bad and only promotes some silly reality show or in her eyes a "politically correct show"?

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 27-01-2021 3:17pm

Is that the same contributor who was lusting after the Swedish footballers at the World Cup? Nothing wrong with that at all obviously but God help ya if it was the other way around, she'd slaughter ya!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdD3psJwtIk

NIMAN · 27-01-2021 8:19pm

Where have I been?

I honestly only found out listening to TLW that Sinead Cusack is Richard Boyd Barrett mum!

ShagNastii · 28-01-2021 3:29pm

They are the absolute spit of each other.

An interesting story.

NIMAN · 28-01-2021 3:35pm

ShagNastii wrote: »

They are the absolute spit of each other.

An interesting story.

Yeah I read up on it after I heard him say it in the interview.

NIMAN · 29-01-2021 5:57pm

And once again Roe has gone off on an anti-white male rant.

Apparently they are the reason that Reddit has done this thing around GameStop, the reason why conspiracy nuts are wandering round hospitals trying to prove Covid is a hoax.

I am sure there are plenty of non-white males involved in these. But sure why let that get in the way of her hate for white males.

Edit: and yet on this BBC article on the GameStop drama, I am nearly sure I can see a woman/female too!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55843829

Mad_maxx · 30-01-2021 5:55pm

NIMAN wrote: »

And once again Roe has gone off on an anti-white male rant.

Apparently they are the reason that Reddit has done this thing around GameStop, the reason why conspiracy nuts are wandering round hospitals trying to prove Covid is a hoax.

I am sure there are plenty of non-white males involved in these. But sure why let that get in the way of her hate for white males.

Edit: and yet on this BBC article on the GameStop drama, I am nearly sure I can see a woman/female too!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55843829

the guy in Cork ( Tadhg Hickey )matched her in the being annoying stakes with his condescension towards so called working class people

Roe used that dopey slogan " white men " about half a dozen times , imagine if she used the term black men ( or muslim men ) in a similar context ?

NIMAN · 30-01-2021 7:35pm

But she has no issues with any other men in the world, according to her all the ills of the world are due to "white men" only.

The fact she can spout such nonsense totally unchallenged by the host of the show just highlights how much of a SJW Matt Cooper has become.

PhoneMain · 31-01-2021 12:17pm

NIMAN wrote: »

But she has no issues with any other men in the world, according to her all the ills of the world are due to "white men" only.

The fact she can spout such nonsense totally unchallenged by the host of the show just highlights how much of a SJW Matt Cooper has become.

That was infuriating listening to her make that point. It's not just white men who work in financial services. There's plenty of women of all backgrounds and men of all backgrounds. Ditto for users of Reddit. Why she constantly has to use issues to attack white men is infuriating. You can comment on something and not try to make a class war out of it.

Mad_maxx · 31-01-2021 1:12pm

PhoneMain wrote: »

That was infuriating listening to her make that point. It's not just white men who work in financial services. There's plenty of women of all backgrounds and men of all backgrounds. Ditto for users of Reddit. Why she constantly has to use issues to attack white men is infuriating. You can comment on something and not try to make a class war out of it.

Roe is a big child with a D4 accent who thinks peppering her sentences with WOKE soundbites makes her some sort of intellectual

shes a thumping bore without a single original home grown thought in her annoying little head

her inclusion on panels is a damning indictment of the state of media in this country , her kind look like dopes on Twitter , never mind on mainstream radio

PhoneMain · 31-01-2021 1:35pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Roe is a big child with a D4 accent who thinks peppering her sentences with WOKE soundbites makes her some sort of intellectual

shes a thumping bore without a single original home grown thought in her annoying little head

her inclusion on panels is a damning indictment of the state of media in this country , her kind look like dopes on Twitter , never mind on mainstream radio

I had to laugh, she was going on about accent discrimination and she mentioned she'd changed her accent.......big D4 accent on her!!

Well the other eejit on with her wasnt much better. He was playing to the woke crowd as well and kept going with the I'm from Cork spiel as if it hasnt been dont a million times before. Supposed to be a comedian as well.

Actually, the funniest contributor on that segment that I heard in years was Martin Beans Ward. Very down to earth and clued in to whats being going on in the world, very funny and not afraid to take the p1ss out of himself, was very good. It was great to hear someone who wasnt taking themselves or their opinion too seriously.

Cole · 31-01-2021 3:47pm

NIMAN wrote: »

And once again Roe has gone off on an anti-white male rant.

Apparently they are the reason that Reddit has done this thing around GameStop, the reason why conspiracy nuts are wandering round hospitals trying to prove Covid is a hoax.

I am sure there are plenty of non-white males involved in these. But sure why let that get in the way of her hate for white males.

Edit: and yet on this BBC article on the GameStop drama, I am nearly sure I can see a woman/female too!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55843829

I don't usually listen to the show and have never even heard of Roe McDermott before, but I listened back to this. I can't make out the logic of the "white male" point in relation to Gamestop. If it's about platforms like Reddit being a haven for "white males", well I'm struggling on that too...I'm not aware of Reddit being exclusive to one group of people.

It just sounded like someone throwing around buzz terms like "white males" in an attempt to sound relevant to certain social justice issues. Even if these particular issues have some merit, at least she should argue them in a logical and coherent way...but that doesn't seem important these days.

irs · 31-01-2021 5:42pm

I've seen loads of black people on twitter complain about well off white women using "white male" as insult as it's seen as a cynical attempt to cover up for their own position in society.

31-01-2021 8:04pm

irs wrote: »

I've seen loads of black people on twitter complain about well off white women using "white male" as insult as it's seen as a cynical attempt to cover up for their own position in society.

Its so funny when you have the likes of Roe/Louise O'Neill/Una Mullally in the media whinging about their "struggles", when they come from well off families, college/life paid from their privileged families

Mad_maxx · 31-01-2021 10:34pm

Adam Teeny Munchies wrote: »

Its so funny when you have the likes of Roe/Louise O'Neill/Una Mullally in the media whinging about their "struggles", when they come from well off families, college/life paid from their privileged families

they trot out the " white male " soundbites because they know there are no consequences for this kind of discriminatory language

its incredibly cowardly

quintana76 · 01-02-2021 10:12pm

Cole wrote: »

I don't usually listen to the show and have never even heard of Roe McDermott before, but I listened back to this. I can't make out the logic of the "white male" point in relation to Gamestop. If it's about platforms like Reddit being a haven for "white males", well I'm struggling on that too...I'm not aware of Reddit being exclusive to one group of people.

It just sounded like someone throwing around buzz terms like "white males" in an attempt to sound relevant to certain social justice issues. Even if these particular issues have some merit, at least she should argue them in a logical and coherent way...but that doesn't seem important these days.

Gave up listening several years ago. Used to listen on a daily basis for years. Got tired of the listening to 'woke' bulls*** at every turn.
Matt Cooper used to be a half-decent broadcaster before he took the woke shilling. The political bias is also extreme.

Having airheads endlessly attempting to justify their cognitive limitations and lack of knowledge and talent by attacking other groups using wokeness as a vehicle was the final nail in the coffin. The fact that they may have an audience for that crap says something is very 'off' in the state of Ireland.

Don't know why you still bother to listen. I have been at no disadvantage by not doing so. There are better sources and better ways to spend your time. Save yourselves the annoyance.

ButtersSuki · 01-02-2021 10:31pm

CatFromHue · 01-02-2021 11:58pm

quintana76 wrote: »

Matt Cooper used to be a half-decent broadcaster before he took the woke shilling.

I agree but maybe he's just spreading himself too thin.

He has the radio show, the TV show, and has written 3 books over the last 3 or 4 years too.

Flange/Flanders · 25-02-2021 10:11am

Commuicorp is being sold to some media group. I wonder will that be the end of the ban on IT journalists? It'd be great to get the likes of Kimmage back on for the sports and get rid of some of the dross contributors, tho I dont think we'll be lucky enough to get rid of the likes of Jennifer Gannon or Roe McDermott, Matts team will want to keep up the woke agenda.

NIMAN · 25-02-2021 10:29am

The show needs to do something to save it, its a shadow of its former self.

25-02-2021 11:21am

NIMAN wrote: »

The show needs to do something to save it, its a shadow of its former self.

Maybe HRT for Matt?

Butson · 25-02-2021 11:59am

https://gript.ie/zeroleaks-on-their-media-friends-matt-cooper-tries-to-look-impartial/

EverythingGood · 25-02-2021 6:32pm

Flange/Flanders wrote: »

Commuicorp is being sold to some media group. I wonder will that be the end of the ban on IT journalists? It'd be great to get the likes of Kimmage back on for the sports and get rid of some of the dross contributors, tho I dont think we'll be lucky enough to get rid of the likes of Jennifer Gannon or Roe McDermott, Matts team will want to keep up the woke agenda.

Kimmage works for the Indo though, not the Times

robo · 25-02-2021 6:48pm

EverythingGood wrote: »

Kimmage works for the Indo though, not the Times

From what I remember seeing on the tweet machine, Kimmage was pulling away from all Communicorp interviews (TLW and OFTB) in solidarity with his journalistic colleagues.

fryup · 25-02-2021 6:58pm

what's the competition question again? i keep missing it

robo · 25-02-2021 7:08pm

fryup wrote: »

what's the competition question again? i keep missing it

The answer is The Weekend - but it is one of those crowd funding competitions...texts cost €2-3 :rolleyes:

NIMAN · 25-02-2021 7:23pm

Hobbs Financial!!

You'd be a mug to take financial advice from them.

fryup · 26-02-2021 9:56am

NIMAN wrote: »

The show needs to do something to save it, its a shadow of its former self.

its still better than the rte and newstalk offerings at that time slot

statto25 · 26-02-2021 12:48pm

Heard Jennifer Gannon, now identifying as Jenn on Claire Byrne this morning. Is she still on TLW or has she been exiled?

ButtersSuki · 26-02-2021 12:51pm

statto25 wrote: »

Heard Jennifer Gannon, now identifying as Jenn on Claire Byrne this morning. Is she still on TLW or has she been exiled?

:pac:

NIMAN · 26-02-2021 6:02pm

No, she is still a TLW contributor.

Had to laugh at the two just on, telling all the moaners on the internet who got outraged about the Mr Potato Head story to catch themselves and take a good look at themselves if they are getting annoyed by that (I agree of course) but the same two will easily get annoyed and moan in the media if you do or say anything they consider wrong, no matter how trivial it is.

NIMAN · 26-02-2021 6:17pm

So TLW is doing a piece on "loneliness suffered by young people during this lockdown", and instead of getting some young person who is really struggling with loneliness, they wheel out Roe McDermott. Again.

Is she the voice of a generation?

Seems to be an expert of many things. Or is she under contract to be on a certain number of times a week?

NIMAN · 26-02-2021 6:21pm

She's complaining now cos Micheal Martin didn't mention single people in his speech.

And she wants the rules changed so people can get the ride!

NIMAN · 26-02-2021 6:26pm

She must think all us married ones have it great during this pandemic.

I am married with kids and its been a miserable year.

Then complains that women are missing out on IVF treatment cos of Covid. What about life saving operations men are missing out on?
Feck off Roe, pushing your single agenda. Its not like all men are partying their way through the last 12 months.
Its not a gender issue.

And once again Matt fails to challenge a single thing she says. She gets free reign.

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