Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger
According to Huffington Post, the following 2010 interview that Michael D. Higgins, the current president of Ireland, did with Boston conservative radio talk show host Michael Graham went viral recently.
SOURCE
Michael D. Higgins, Ireland President, Takes Down Tea Party Pundit Michael Graham (AUDIO ) [Huffington Post]
Reblogged this on SUSAN'S SPACE and commented:
This is too close to home for republicans. Trus an Irishman to call a spade a spade. American media should take a leaf out of his book.
Yep….what the president said….
It’s often a good to have someone from the outside make observations to offer a different perspective.
I especially loved the part where Mr. Higgins called Graham a wanker.
As long as Obama has an idiot running his campaign.
I wrote him at the White House and told him to fire him.
And the Republicans alswys seem to have the most Mom’s apple pie names for their lies, while we only can do stuff like ACA. What does that do for exciting the public?
Feel it tingle in your bones?
Does anyone recall Obama’s campaign start video? The one with the lukewarm folks from “your” neighborhood endorsing him That was what caused me to write my first letter.
It was pure crappola. Any high school media group could do better that that one. Jeeeeaaa. The stupidity, the stupidity….to paraphrase Brando.
Kraaken, as a canvasser for Obama it annoys the heck out of me, to put it nicely, that they are not shouting from the rooftops when each good thing falls into place such as parts of the ACA and screaming out against the lies, removal from context distoritons, etc. Didn’t we learn anything from Kerry and Swift Boat when the dems said the truth is out there we don;t need to do more because people accept and believe the truth. How much longer will we think naivity is the way to run a campaign,?
Although that was in ’63 actually, now that I think of it.
WOW!! He totally controlled the air with the greatest verbal whipping I’ve heard. And I agree with every word.
707, “What a takedown. He did not crudely smack him.
He stripped him, thread by thread, and showed his naked bigotry.”
Well said.
Malisha,
I would like to see you two in action. He was indeed amazing. Never a stop, never a mistake, perfect. They say the Irish have the gift of the gab.
And yes, I remember when Lincoln was a young man’s gateway to a Saturday night of fun and a good meal too.
“a wanker whippin up fear” have to remember that one.
OMG He can rant with ME any day, I’ll rant with him in the mountains, I’ll rant with him in the valleys, on the turf and at the far corners of the earth I will rant with THIS MAN he is at least my equal in the rant and maybe can do me in a time or two (especially if I’m tired or have recently eaten spaghetti).
OMG he is the virtuoso of the righteous rant; he is the Placido Domingo of the right-and-proper political anti-wanker-rant, he is the cat’s pajama! I especially loved the way, once he climbed on top of his prey, he would not allow any interruptions. DID HE BREATHE EVEN ONCE? He is the whale song of the ranters, I’m in LOVE!
Once, long ago, when I was a bartender in New York, I had a customer who could rant like that — though not as good, I admit — but only after three drinks. If he stayed until closing and there were no other customers at the bar I would rant back and forth WITH him and he’d leave me a $5 tip! (Imagine, 1971, that $5 was MONEY back then!)
Gurl,
You can email me at fallingpetals@hushmail.com.
What a takedown. He did not crudely smack him.
He stripped him, thread by thread, and showed his naked bigotry.
The best in months. I might just move to Ireland.
That’s a man ofter my taste. And he has lived the life, walked the American walk and knnws of what he speaks.
Wonder if he can give shots to Barry Obama? Barack needs them.
Wonder if I can learn to say: Sure’n begorra…..???
I have been a Democrat all of my adult life. I find it shameful that it takes the Irish president to say things that should be shouted from the rooftop by Dems in this country. Thank god he DID. Oh, and I’ve never been prouder of my Irish heritage.
He was not President at the time.
Now that he is, he is not allowed to say such things.
He is allowed to think them though.
Gurl,
Did you see my invitation? At Lest we…thread.
Or was I dreamin’? 🙂
This is PRICELESS!!!! I wish more European Heads of State would do this….
What a shame that we can’t have this man running for President….
One of my life’s greatest and bitterest disappointment is to discover that not a single drop of Irish blood courses through my veins — so I am trying to to fill them with Jameson
God love the Irish.