Leo Varadkar story in The Village??? - Mod Notes and banned Users in OP updated 16/05

One of the main reasons of hate for Twitter is the fact that the narrative can't be controlled.

So you don't think it's all about controlling the narrative ?. Talking about false things been portrayed as fact, just ask RTE who have had to pay out a few times. The Sean Gallagher incident on the presidential debate springs to mind.

Who are these posters, can you quote them and what they said?

He was probably warned about the optics but Leo being Leo he didn't give a ****. I also think it's possible that the person who leaked the story about the jet did it on purpose so as to detract from Leo attending the festival in the UK.

Here we are again.

More made up conspiracies.

Nothing has been detracted, everyone is aware of the picture and him at the festival.

Rent fee lads, rent free.

I said it's possible, sure anything is possible these days, especially when it concerns Leo. I remember late last year people on here claiming Leakgate was over blown and nothing to see here. Guess what it hasn't gone away so as I said before anything is possible.

Social Media is here to stay, it is different to mainstream media in that it has no editor, so you have to be your own.

Like any breaking news story it got commented on, there are examples of this all over this site. Nobody was taking it as fact though, that I seen.

And I am not aware of a single person here or on Twitter that believes it now.

Fair attempt all day to try and exonerate Varadkar on the basis of it. But on the story goes.

What we got was a stellar example of what any journalist or newspaper/TV programme should do when a source turns out to be bad. A full unequivocal retraction and apology.

Would that our established media do the same. As I said earlier, on this very forum, you will find people who still believe stories that are speculative and unproven that came from the 'hallowed moral bastion' of the print media.

So you cant do it, surprise, surprise <rollyeyes>. Not one poster here posted that Varadkar was definitely on the government jet. You were asked to provide quotes by posters saying it and you couldnt do it, now why is that?

Right up there with the Paddy Cosgrave "dead nurse" story.

or Leo's corpse one?

You are one of the posters having a huff about people commenting on a story as it was breaking.

I suspect all this is because it was Leo and the concern about social media is not real.

Most people have accepted social media for what it is and don't take anything as fact until it is confirmed.

Maybe this source had not let him down before so he went with it.

The Leo Defence Team are like a broken record in the way they all repeat the same phrases over and over again. Sometimes they pick a new phrase and run with that for a while, but I have to laugh when I hear the 'rent free' one. I imagine, like me 95% of the posters couldn't be bothered giving a 2nd thought to Leo most a lot of the time, but only do when Leo makes some f*ck up or does something that is really sticking his fingers up at the rest of us. Which, if you go back to since he became FG Leader, is quite a lot of times.

But it seems in their minds he can do no wrong. Literally. I imagine a giant poster of Leo in the wall of their mind, along with their favourite Leo movie quotes and Kylie playing in the background. Unhealthy blind following. The idea of mindlessly following anybody, but particularly somebody so crap is utterly mind boggling to me.

Rent free? Have a long hard look in the mirror, You may get a better picture of where he is living 'rent free'.

I know this won't stop the FG lot from using the phrase over and over and over again for another week or two until they come up with another, but like the angry, sexist, misogynistic, racist etc..previous repetitions It shows that they have no argument, no comeback, and are incapable of even trying to say something constructive. Like the lad who stood in the school playground with his tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth, only capable of 'derrrr'.. Monotonous noise.

How many journalists wouldn't be working at all if that was the case?

If it had turned out to be true and he didn't report it, he'd be facing the 'you are in the wrong job' stuff too.

There are stories published all the time that are not based on fact but speculation and there are posters here that pile onto them like the proverbial flies around you know what.

I do love the way they pretend they don't and head for the high moral ground when it's Leo.