Yes- Rule 1, keep the shinners down.
Also, it wasnât a complaint, it was a whine. A complaint by press release is a whine.
Come to think of it - there always seems to be whining when there are questions or opinions that donât fit their agenda.
Would you say SF disproportionally attract whiners or is it that they convert them to whiners in there?
Thatâs a whine too!
Vincent picked the wrong crowd for shinner bashing
Imelda very good
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Gerryâs campaign manager
Vinnie B is hilarious. He slaps all parties and candidates around equally!
OâDowd getting slapped down there. ,
No mercy.
Doesnât matter to him, heâll bash away anyway.
This ff woman is disgusting.
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The direct democracy guy is very angry.
He just killed this independent ex fg fella. But heâll be back.
He slated the poor fucker.
Whatâs with all the breaks fuck sake. Things are only heating up and then there is a break. Vincent wasted so much time on slab Murphy. Fucking stupid
Dublin west tomorrow night. That should be interesting. I wonder will Leo and Joan turn up?
That last fella, the sf councillor is a top quality nut job, i know him a bit. Spoke well there though.
She really should. Not that itâll help much.
On the topic of media bias against Sinn Fein, Gene Kerrigan wrote a good article some weeks back on the topic and about the differing reactions to what politicians say based purely on who said it.
His conclusion is that there is a concerted effort from the political and media establishment to delegitimise the views of anybody outside of mainstream, establishment, âacceptableâ politics - which means Sinn Fein, the Anti-Austerity Alliance and various other left-wing politicians.
Weâve already seen political policing used against Clare Daly and Mick Wallace. Those who donât think thereâs a deliberate hatchet job policy against both Sinn Fein and the wider left (or âfar-leftâ as they are almost exclusively called in the media) donât know how the world works. Itâs sometimes subtle, sometimes not so subtle, itâs sometimes not even deliberate, but itâs there and itâs real because to the vast majority of people working in the media, the politics of Sinn Fein and the wider left is the politics of âthe otherâ, a politics they simply cannot comprehend. The vast majority can only comprehend whatâs in their own bubble. Itâs not just an Irish thing. That was clearly demonstrated when Jeremy Corbynâs candidacy in the Labour leadership election was greeted first with amusement, then curiosity, then smug ridicule, then fear, then paranoia, then outright hostility and lies, even by papers who are supposedly on the âleftâ such as the Guardian and the Independent.
For several years mainstream opinion formers in the media in such outlets as Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and Newstalk were telling us the country was crying out for a new right-wing party. George Hookâs battle cry was that we needed an âIrish Tea Partyâ. We have that âIrish Tea Partyâ now. Itâs called Renua. And itâs polling at 1%. They cannot comprehend.
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Gemma OâDohertyâs blacklisting is all the proof needed of the inherent bias towards establishment politics in the Irish media.
Never mess with those who should not be messed with, eh?
Journalists in Ireland arenât supposed to uncover the truth. Theyâre supposed to chuckle along politely at shit, âendearingâ anecdotes about PJ Mara on the Marian Finucane show.
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