Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

A copy and paste quote from ButtersSuki from a thread in After Hours re who is biggest chancer in Ireland

“I'm not going to read 10 pages but it has to be Joe Duffy. A man who can barely speak English, who seems to adore butchering the language he does it so frequently and takes pride in his "unique" pronunciations, yet has written three "bukes". Styles himself as a man of the people, yet is as far from the salt of the earth “working class man with a working class work ethic" (a quote he trots out regularly) he portrays himself as as is possible in an Irish context. Cites Larkin as his hero yet is apparently ignorant of the fact that Larkin would turn in his grave were he to think of the hard shift Joe puts in a week/month/year. "Earns" more in 20 hours than a nurse does in a year yet tries to make out like he understands their plight, whilst also paying less tax in a year than a ward of those very same burses due to his bogus self-employment arrangement with RTE. Is as subtle as a brick in his own blatant self-promotion and the shameless shilling of his own wares, and is possibly the least modest public figure I've ever encountered (incl. McGregor). He's also recently laughably tried to climb on the woke bandwagon, but lacks the intellectual capacity to understand the subtlety and nuance of that movement and inevitably comes across as a blundering nincompoop when trying to be PC. He also frequently "loses the rag" on air when presented with an opinion he doesn't agree with or understand, further highlighting his unsuitably for the role he is in, and his sheer unprofessionalism. Promoted and rewarded far beyond any apparent talent or intellectual ability purely due to being in the right place at the right time and somewhat of a token appointment in the first place. And that's before I even talk of the misery, sickness, and death fetishes he indulges himself in on an almost daily basis (when he bothers to turn up of course) at the taxpayers expense. A truly sickening and embarrassing parasite of an individual.”

Post edited by ButtersSuki on November 28

We were a very quaint nation not very long ago.