The Pat Kenny Show

Radio5

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

He was given the job when he got the bullet from the DriveTime. It's sort of like when you want to get rid of the manager, and make him Director Of Football.

Also, the previous political editor Paraic Gallagher had left not long before.

etselbbuns

Simon "My brother is a doctor" Coveney on now.
He is excellent at waffling, saying a lot whilst saying nothing

bloodless_coup

Newstalk should do away with the sound effects.

neris

etselbbuns wrote: »

Simon "My brother is a doctor" Coveney on now.
He is excellent at waffling, saying a lot whilst saying nothing

for a cork man simon doesnt sound very cork or remind us hes from cork every sentence.

ButtersSuki

neris wrote: »

for a cork man simon doesnt sound very cork or remind us hes from cork every sentence.

:pac:

BarryM

Coveney is all that Newstalk ever get for detailed stuff.

However, neither he nor Kenny ever discuss the cash flow aspects of budget changes. It will take quite a while for the stamp duty rise to actually deliver money, meantime the EU controls how much we can borrow against future income.

ButtersSuki

Pascal Donoghue on PK earlier - is it just me or everytime Pascal says "with the greatest respect" that he's being incredibly patronising? I know that's stating the obvious to a degree, and it's hard to out-patronise Pat, but he managed it this morning.

Conservative

I didn't hear everything but glad he put the numerous texts re: the dole to the Minister.

I employ a few people and it makes me sick that they have given more to the wasters on the dole than many working people.

Borderfox

Paschal is patronising at the best of times but to outdo Pat is something else

DeanAustin

Nearly crashed the car a minute ago and I probably shouldn't laugh but...

Jonathan Healy was doing a piece on Ireland's failure to implement the UN bill on Rights for the Disabled. They had a fella called Steven interviewing Finian McGrath. Anyway, interview happens and we later find out Steven is disabled so Chris Donoghue was asking the questions for him. We didn't know it and it cuts back to Healy and he says:

"You didnt know this but Steven is disabled which is why he sounds a bit like Chris Donoghue."

ButtersSuki

DeanAustin wrote: »

Nearly crashed the car a minute ago and I probably shouldn't laugh but...

Jonathan Healy was doing a piece on Ireland's failure to implement the UN bill on Rights for the Disabled. They had a fella called Steven interviewing Finian McGrath. Anyway, interview happens and we later find out Steven is disabled so Chris Donoghue was asking the questions for him. We didn't know it and it cuts back to Healy and he says:

"You didnt know this but Steven is disabled which is why he sounds a bit like Chris Donoghue."

I caught the tail end of that and was wondering WTF did I just miss?

Row-wee Cowan on PK now reviewing bukes and dat. There's an envelope being opened somewhere in the city today that he's missing. :rolleyes:

etselbbuns

Talking shoyte (or 'poo' as they call it) on PK now

ButtersSuki

etselbbuns wrote: »

Talking shoyte (or 'poo' as they call it) on PK now

I can't imagine Pat will ask "wat colour is de shoyte?" a la another radio host......

etselbbuns

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I can't imagine Pat will ask "wat colour is de shoyte?" a la another radio host......

What hue is the manure?
is more like Pat

Quick recovery there from Richard E Grant,he almost said the f word and in the same breath changed it to shagged! Must ring Joe!

quintana76

Pat has really gone into full on anti Trump bore mode. He has become obsessed. He sounds ecstatically excited about the Manafort indictment. He had two interviews on it basically saying the same thing. Partisan interviews with partisan commentators is contrary to his previous professional objectivity.

constitutionus

I wonder if it's what's hitting his audience figs ( he's down 1000 according to a lad in the jlnrs thread)

I view it through a comedic lens ala Eoghan Harris and the shinners but I gotta admit despite him still being the best broadcaster they have there have been days I've heard him say "trump" and switched straight to turbidy.

Which is saying something as I can't stand him.

Every feckin day is pushing it. Newstalk has never attacked a political figure here with such vigor and many of them actually destroyed the country

ThisRegard

Trump is not being attacked. There's nothing discussed or spoken about that isn't true, or not based on Trump's own words.

Ol' Donie

ThisRegard wrote: »

Trump is not being attacked. There's nothing discussed or spoken about that isn't true, or not based on Trump's own words.

If he didn't keep saying offensive ignorant things, Pat wouldn't need to cover them.

Just because it's getting extremely tiresome at this stage, it doesn't mean it should be ignored.

kazamo

Ol' Donie wrote: »

If he didn't keep saying offensive ignorant things, Pat wouldn't need to cover them.

Just because it's getting extremely tiresome at this stage, it doesn't mean it should be ignored.

It shouldn't be ignored, but perhaps not every single comment from Trump needs to be discussed on a daily basis.
I get that 15 hours of current affairs weekly is hard to find but unless someone comes up with a plan to impeach Trump then this becomes very boring radio.

We all know he is a clown, but "oh look, here is what he has said today" segments leads to less listeners.

quintana76

Jonathan (for I am sure it is he) is in for Pat today. He has claimed that he thinks that there is a "coordinated" assault on his sensibilities by a high number of pro Trump texters on his show.
Could this be another manifestation of the media bubble in that he suspects that people who disagree with the 'correct' views of his peers must be part of some coordinated conspiracy. Not just, as is the truth, ordinary people who happen to have a different viewpoint and who seem to be more numerous than he can comprehend within his limited media circle.

Ol' Donie

It's the same few posters in here who jump on anything anyone dares say about Trump's nonsense, so I can see how he might come to that conclusion.

Let me guess: Why isn't he asking about the crooked Hilary supporters? There are only a handful of them!

quintana76

Ol' Donie wrote: »

It's the same few posters in here who jump on anything anyone dares say about Trump's nonsense, so I can see how he might come to that conclusion.

Let me guess: Why isn't he asking about the crooked Hilary supporters? There are only a handful of them!

It is not about Trump per sui. It is about dismissing alternative opinions. Just like when Matt Cooper dismissed all the texters into his show (casting legitimate doubts on the media Halawa narrative) as being racist. This being in the context of admitting that by far the majority of texts were of that viewpoint. Just shows the quantity when they feel they have to read them out.
The approach seems to be if the texts don't fit the media narrative they are either a conspiracy or just pure racism or chauvinism. Therefore they can be dismissed and delegitimised.
The Irish media love the diversity word but sure doesn't practice it when it comes to opinion.

Ol' Donie

Well, that's b*llocks.

Every single day Pat reads out texts from pro Trump people. Every single day.

Harry Palmr

Jonathan Healy is just a one trick pony, regardless of his Anti-Trump views. Tedious fecker altogether.

Grolschevik

Ol' Donie wrote:

Every single day Pat reads out texts from pro Trump people. Every single day.

Different presenter, but so did Cuddihy. He seemed to relish the opportunity to engage with the illiberal texters' ideas.

quintana76

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Well, that's b*llocks.

Every single day Pat reads out texts from pro Trump people. Every single day.

Read what I said. It is a reflection of their quantity that they are impelled to read them out. Making a virtue of an unwanted necessity. Then the texts are dismissed as whatever....

quintana76

quintana76 wrote: »

Jonathan (for I am sure it is he) is in for Pat today. He has claimed that he thinks that there is a "coordinated" assault on his sensibilities by a high number of pro Trump texters on his show.

Did he say 'texters' or was he also referring to social media?

Philip Boucher-Hayes has been highlighting, over social media, a phenomenon where he and other Irish journalists are attracting a substantial amount of fake Twitter followers, many of whom have gone to the trouble of getting phone numbers and registering them to fake twitter accounts.

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/921089989097730048

As Boucher-Hayes has pointed out, it only takes about 100 tweets to get a topic trending in Ireland. We know that organisations use fake Twitter accounts to promote certain narratives on Twitter, be they commercial or political in nature. That's been going on for almost as long as Twitter has been around.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if some pathetic individual, thinking himself to have some spiritual connection with Redneck USA, was abusing social media with fake accounts. Some people literally have that much time on their hands.

quintana76

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Did he say 'texters' or was he also referring to social media?

Philip Boucher-Hayes has been highlighting, over social media, a phenomenon where he and other Irish journalists are attracting a substantial amount of fake Twitter followers, many of whom have gone to the trouble of getting phone numbers and registering them to fake twitter accounts.

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/921089989097730048

As Boucher-Hayes has pointed out, it only takes about 100 tweets to get a topic trending in Ireland. We know that organisations use fake Twitter accounts to promote certain narratives on Twitter, be they commercial or political in nature. That's been going on for almost as long as Twitter has been around.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if some pathetic individual, thinking himself to have some spiritual connection with Redneck USA, was abusing social media with fake accounts. Some people literally have that much time on their hands.

Sorry to disappoint but he said texters.
"pathetic individual, thinking himself to have some spiritual connection with Redneck USA".
Says all I wanted to say really. Just because he has a different opinion to you he is a below contempt 'redneck'.

Grolschevik

It is notable, I think, that many of the Trumpechaun illiberal texters use identical language, for example "lefty liberal snowflakes". Language I have never heard in real life, only in radio texts and on Boards.