Fuck you RTE and fuck you John Gormley
Posted on | November 12, 2007 | 39 Comments
I love the way RTE are saying there was nothing sinister about the decision to drop a cancer specialist from the Late, Late Show on Friday night. For those outside Ireland the Late, Late is the most widely watched chat show in the country and there reason there was a cancer specialist due on was because people in Ireland are being told they don’t have cancer when they actually do.
As you can imagine people are rather upset by this. An RTE spokesman said there was ‘absolutely no outside pressure’ claiming the reason Professor John Crown was dropped from the panel was to achieve balance on the discussion panel.
This is the same RTE that with ‘absolutely no outside pressure’ settled with FF deputy Beverly Cooper (Flynn). She owed them something like €2.4m in costs after a failed libel action yet RTE accepted less than half that. Remember, RTE is partially funded by the TV licence fee which means they let her away with money that the rest of us will have to pay.
The fact is that what Professor John Crown had to say would have deeply embarrassed an government already shamed by the farcical state of the health service. Not that they would have accepted any responsibility, they just didn’t want any more bad press. A little bit of persuasion by people in the right places could certainly have blocked his appearance.
I mean, if people in the right places can persuade them to accept less than half of a €2.4m settlement then stopping one man appearing on a chat show is a piece of piss.
Professor Crown says he’s ‘worn out’ but ‘I probably won’t stop talking, this is the toll that one pays for public advocacy’.
Fair play to him. I hope he does keep talking and I hope he causes as much trouble and hassle as is needed to start putting things right.
Update: Is the fact that RTE are looking for government approval to increase the licence fee a factor? Does the Pope shit in the woods? Is Phil Collins a cunt?
Moving away from that can I also say a big fuck off to John Gormless, the Green party cunt. Apparently he’s going to increase tax on bigger cars because that’s about all he can fucking do. He can’t be heard speaking out against the pay increase scandal, you don’t hear him or his party criticising the goverment about the health service or the Taoiseach’s bluster and belligerence in the Dail or any of their other failings about things which actually matter, but he’s stomping down his environmentally friendly road with by increasing car tax. Good man, we don’t pay enough fucking tax as it is and this, of course, will help stop global warming, won’t it?
No it fucking won’t. People will drive the same cars, they’ll just have less money in their pockets doing so. The only positive thing I can think of is that if the Greens continue the way they are then by the time the next election comes around we might see them as close to extinction as some rare tiger or the giant panda. And there’d be no breeding in captivity for those cunts. I’ll laugh my head off if they die out. Wankers.
Futher reading: Fianna Fail’s 50 ways to laugh at voters – via That’s Ireland.
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November 12th, 2007 @ 10:08 am
It’s all a bit Nazi isn’t it? I would have thought that after the Late Late there would be some kind of backlash but then again this is the same public who saw nothing wrong with Susie Long dying in brutal conditions.
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:08 am
Aye Shitebags the lot of them, though greens are tasty if you steam them first.
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:20 am
I think this matter should be settled in the ring. Let’s arm the Professor with some rusty scalpels and give Harney a few of her reform reports to throw back at him and let them knock twelve bells out of each other.
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:24 am
Hardly a fair fight is it?
She’s got 500lbs on him.
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:27 am
Why don’t you interview John Crown for your blog Twenty and let him say all that he has to?
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:29 am
I second that, and also fuck that about the tax, folk already pay higher road tax if you drive a higher engined car. What escapes me is why?
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:32 am
He’d be better off talking to publications with rather more audience than mine, Jack.
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:35 am
This, Twenty, is the same country that still has blood on their hands because of Shannon, the same country that voted in a bunch of thieves again, the same country that gave 5 seats to a facist, murderous party.
If we don’t rise up or get angry over the above, who the fuck is going to cry over a few people whos lives have been fucked by the health service?
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:43 am
Jesus I don’t know Twenty, you have a habit of cropping up in some unusual places, i.e. Wikipedia, The Sunday Times and you have a book coming out for fucks sake. How many more readers do you need before you can accept that you are widely read and cannot be censored like RTE?
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:47 am
I had heard on the radio this weekend that your esteemed leader Mr Bertie Ahern, had allegedley made some very threatening language towards Professor Crown. Anyway Pat “lick arse” Kenny would never have asked any serious questions. I hope Professor Crown goes to the press and screws Bertie Over.
As to Gormley, the cabbage eating cunt weasel will do nothing serious politically for fear of jeopardising his parties position.
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:49 am
Sure Jack, but he’d be better off talking to a national newspaper or radio station that’s not RTE, that’s all I’m saying.
November 12th, 2007 @ 10:52 am
Fair nuff Twenty, I just thought that Prof. Crown would have an even better platform on your blog where he could say exactly what he wanted.
@Pish: The only position the Green Party have now is doggystyle at the end of Berties cock!
November 12th, 2007 @ 11:16 am
Prof. Crown did quite a frank and honest interview with Newstalk yesterday morning. He made some good points, including expressing his concern at what information about him may have been contained in the briefing noted Bertie uses in the Dáil, under priveledge naturally.
November 12th, 2007 @ 11:57 am
[quote]The only positive thing I can think of is that if the Greens continue the way they are then by the time the next election comes around we might see them as close to extinction as some rare tiger or the giant panda.[qoute/]
I wouldnt be so sure i.e. the P fuckin Ds, i rest my case.
November 12th, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
ha ha, that was hilarious
November 12th, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
I reckon if a Giant Panda was put forward as a candidate I would vote for it
1) Giant Pandas are cheaper to employ, a few bamboo shoots and you are sorted
2) Giant Pandas are less objectionable than most politicians
3) Giant Pandas are less likely to take backhanders from developers
4) I would shag a Giant Panda
On the other hand a ravenous tiger might make more sense in the Dáil, bit of a clearout would be favourite, and the survivors would get to see first hand what a cuntish mess the Health Service is in.
November 12th, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
Re: Update. The penny has dropped now, how much will you bet that we get a €4 hike in license fee very soon?
I just sent you a mail Twenty summarising this government’s achievements thus ffar. When you see it broken down and summarised it stinks.
November 12th, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
Post it for us to read jack.
November 12th, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
Nah too long for a comment
November 12th, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
I’ve seen that list Jack, it makes for good reading.
November 12th, 2007 @ 1:12 pm
The government appoints the RTE board. Including pals of Minister Harmey like S O’Byrnes. Geddit?
RTE has played dead for governments and ministers for years – if a minister of government representative is unavailable or ‘unavailable’ to appear, RTE cancels the debate or neutralises/cancels critical participation on air in order to achieve ‘balance’. It’s the ass-licking approach. Instead they should give good advance notice of the programme to all potential participants and put an empty chair in the studio with the minister’s name on it if they refuse to participate.
November 12th, 2007 @ 1:15 pm
I think the whole tv licence thing is secretly a way for the government to keep up with Mary Harney’s ever increasing food tab. She’s getting larger with each year, there’s no denying that, and so are our taxes…2+2=4, no?
November 12th, 2007 @ 3:05 pm
Cheers for the source on that one Twenty.
November 12th, 2007 @ 3:05 pm
Leave Phil Alone!
November 12th, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
I knew John Gormley when he was a dope smoking student type. I bet he is singing this ditty in the shower..
The working class can kiss my ass
I got the foremans Job at last
All the rest who are on the dole
Can stick the Red Flag up their hole…
Vote John Gormley and Eamon Ryan
PS The only thing green about these two is the slime they producing whilst sitting in their state Mercedes..
November 12th, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
Fianna Fail is a disaster. In the “What makes us so special” post, someone responded with:
“Surely the reason they left this country was that they were sick of the unending shite that goes with living here? So instead of trying to make it better they fucked off, and left the rest of us to sort it out. Well good luck to them!! They can stay fucked off!!”
I’ll, eh, stay fucked off, thanks very much.
November 12th, 2007 @ 6:11 pm
Groucho, you don’t steam shit, you flush it.
all radicals suck.
November 12th, 2007 @ 6:43 pm
I heard somewhere that newborn baby pandas resemble “screaming periods”.
Can anyone confirm this?
November 12th, 2007 @ 8:49 pm
On November 12th, 2007 at 10:35 am woowoo said:
” This, Twenty, is the same country that still has blood on their hands because of Shannon, the same country that voted in a bunch of thieves again, the same country that gave 5 seats to a facist, murderous party.”
The last time I looked, there were only 2 PDs in the Dail
November 12th, 2007 @ 9:06 pm
Ever since the good old glory days of Jack Lynch, every fucker has been whining and complaining about those FF cunts and how they’re a shower of gangsters and they’re holding the country to ransom. And no fucker does anything about it except whinge. Sorry folks – no knight in shining armour, no champion of the people waiting to lead the country to the promised land. Just you and your vote. Stop fucking complaining for 30 years and stand for election! Vote the cunts out! Form an effective political opposition!
November 12th, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
what now? I was just going to have some tea and a half a double decker I didnt eat earlier.
November 12th, 2007 @ 9:14 pm
Tomorrow is fine.
November 12th, 2007 @ 11:32 pm
I already don’t vote for them.
What do I do?
November 13th, 2007 @ 1:22 am
don’t vote for them more.
rte1 and 2 off the air at the moment. think they’ve been dropped to balance out the amount of shite on the telly.
November 13th, 2007 @ 2:32 pm
yup, fuck RTE and fuck the greens.
At least TG4 has the occasion good film, RTE just has shit.
The greens are fucking pussies.
I wish there was decent party to vote for.
The closest i can get is Labour, and they’re too soft.
but fuck it.
November 14th, 2007 @ 9:15 pm
Sighs. Yes – fuck it. The ubiquitous last word.
November 17th, 2007 @ 9:02 pm
absolutly, fuckem, they will have some time getting a tv licence fee outta me!!!!!
December 6th, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
Open letter to John Gormley
I am one of of the many people who have entered into commitments to buy a new car in the new year.This car is “Green Friendly” with CO2 emissions of only 138K/G.People who entered into such commitments prior to the Budget and ordered environmentally friendly cars should get the same treatment in January 2008 as those buying in July 2008.Our reward will be that with the reduction in VRT our 2008 cars will devalue by 9% overnight in July.If the Minister and the Government are serious about doing something about reducing they will bring the commencement date forward to January 2008.I accept that paperwork etc could not be in place by then. Nothing to stop the current VRT rates to be applied until such time as facilities are in place to collect the reducd rates.A refund then could be given to those people who purchased qualifying cars from January 2008 up to that date. Also most new cars are purchased in the first half of the year. Lets get serious about this
Pothole Suffering Motorist
September 17th, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
Thank fuck for this blog, not found another that contains such a truth and humour mix.
Greens decided to spend 4billion on roads and 2 billion on public transport….arse about face.
Public service is wrapped in cotton wool at tax payers expense.
Being a bribe taking arsehole is greeted with applause.
It’s fucked up, so many greedy bastards all trying to rip others off.
All this wealth gain has to be paid for.
That 150,000 euro gain on house price has to be paid by some unfortunate, who has over stated their income just to get a roof over their heads and signed up for 40 years of debt toboot.