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Peter Casey believes Travellers should not be recognised as an ethnic minority
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FrancieBrady wrote: »This is just more mythmaking.
Casey was a whimpering mess on Aine Lawlor's radio show when he said that he did not want to be elected President on the basis of his traveller comments.
How much more evidence of a 'row back' do you need? He doubled down on that when he said his comments on travellers did not, in his opinion, get him his votes.
When questioned on what extra rights SEMS gave travellers, he was shambolic, stuttering out 'benefits' to a panel who gleefully tore him a new one.
But so enamoured is his support, they can joyfully ignore the lack of back up.
Crikey Francie...Casey really HAS gotten under your skin has'nt he ?
Or perhaps it's not actually Casey himself,but the 342,000 individuals who gave him a first preference vote,even with his,panel supplied "new one".
I wonder how the preferences would have worked out...perhaps that might have put matters right ? ...almost ?.......kinda ?.......
Mind you,you have the knack of pulling the right word out of the ether....
JOYFULLY
Worth basking in.......begins at 2%,and barely ten days later out of de bluez hit's 21%...........Ode to JOY,Francie a chairde...ode to JOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMoMen, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay (1812-1889)
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Spanish Eyes wrote: »Casey will be silenced by our wonderfully impartial media.
They have been told to silence him, and they will. RTE I'm watching you.
By far and away the most satisfying element to the Casey campaign,is just how it caught-out the mainstream Irish Media,particularly the RTE-IrishTimes axis of weevil.
That 20% figure,342,000 First Preference votes....has really presented them with the most difficult of conundrums possible....how to retain their credibility and maintain a pretence of informing,and reflecting the views of their readers/viewers/listeners.
One only has to peep into the vast fiery,doom laden conflagration,that is Fintan O Toole's vista of Post Casey Ireland,to see how wrong they called it,not for the first time either,BUT the first time they have been found out....:)
There's only one way to recover from this,for the sitting Media tenants,and that is to comprehensively rewrite histry....a process which,I imagine,is already in hand Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay (1812-1889)
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Crikey Francie...Casey really HAS gotten under your skin has'nt he ?
Or perhaps it's not actually Casey himself,but the 342,000 individuals who gave him a first preference vote,even with his,panel supplied "new one".
I wonder how the preferences would have worked out...perhaps that might have put matters right ? ...almost ?.......kinda ?.......
Mind you,you have the knack of pulling the right word out of the ether....
JOYFULLY
Worth basking in.......begins at 2%,and barely ten days later out of de bluez hit's 21%...........Ode to JOY,Francie a chairde...ode to JOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
And some people know how easy that is to do, because it has historic resonances. Get on a populist hate pulpit and start preaching = easy votes.
I require my media to be critical of such stunts btw. So no surprise here when they are.0 -
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By far and away the most satisfying element to the Casey campaign,is just how it caught-out the mainstream Irish Media,particularly the RTE-IrishTimes axis of weevil.
That 20% figure,342,000 First Preference votes....has really presented them with the most difficult of conundrums possible....how to retain their credibility and maintain a pretence of informing,and reflecting the views of their readers/viewers/listeners.
One only has to peep into the vast fiery,doom laden conflagration,that is Fintan O Toole's vista of Post Casey Ireland,to see how wrong they called it,not for the first time either,BUT the first time they have been found out....:)
There's only one way to recover from this,for the sitting Media tenants,and that is to comprehensively rewrite histry....a process which,I imagine,is already in hand
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FrancieBrady wrote: »And some people know how easy that is to do, because it has historic resonances. Get on a populist hate pulpit and start preaching = easy votes.
I require my media to be critical of such stunts btw. So no surprise here when they are.
He really did'nt have much opportunity for "Preaching" though,did he ?
He never mentioned this "Hate" thing you and others,constantly reference.
He posed questions,that were being whispered throughout the country,and when the media thought their microphones had malfunctioned,he went and repeated the questions.
Perhaps unsurprisingly,the same media then,as you suggest went into "critical" mode,without really having anything concrete to be critical about.
Now,a critical media may well be your media,but I prefer an investigative approach initially before taking any decision to criticise or support.
Peter Casey ain't no messiah,hell,he is'nt even serious enough to be a "real" Politician,he's only a Millionaire,Billionaire or whatever,and thus guaranteed to have provided a constitutional crisis when the first PBP Ministers rocked up to collect their Seals of Office.....jeepers,how close we came to having some REAL Craic in the Country !!!!
Populist hate Pulpit,yea,right....this populist stuff must be popular then,is it ?
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay (1812-1889)
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By far and away the most satisfying element to the Casey campaign,is just how it caught-out the mainstream Irish Media,particularly the RTE-IrishTimes axis of weevil.
That 20% figure,342,000 First Preference votes....has really presented them with the most difficult of conundrums possible....how to retain their credibility and maintain a pretence of informing,and reflecting the views of their readers/viewers/listeners.
One only has to peep into the vast fiery,doom laden conflagration,that is Fintan O Toole's vista of Post Casey Ireland,to see how wrong they called it,not for the first time either,BUT the first time they have been found out....:)
There's only one way to recover from this,for the sitting Media tenants,and that is to comprehensively rewrite histry....a process which,I imagine,is already in hand
It would have been great to also see the numbers of second and third preferences he may have got too. Pity the tallymen were not about...
If MDH had got sub 50% we would have been into transfers.....0 -
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I'm sure those judges have enough interaction with travellers at workIt will never happen, too many influential people including judges living in the area.
The council wont buy houses up either because they are too expensive so you can buy a property and be confident that the council arent going to install anti social tenants beside you.
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