Pat Kenny Show...

[HP]

Did anyone catch the show this morning?

Seems he had the party leaders on for a phone in. I just managed to hear the last few minutes of Bertie explaining the Health Service comment (rather badly) but perhaps he did better in the earlier bits.

[Iarmhi Gael]

This has being going on snce start of last week.

Ahern was in today and did nothing special. Followed it since the start and can not say who was the best.

Adams spoke well on some tough questions, Kenny did well. On Fact everyone did well

[HP]

aaahhh... I just tuned in for the last bit and assumed that he'd had them all in today.

I saw the UTV insight program last night and Ahern's assertion that if the viewers had heard the whole interview they wouldn't think that he had meant "Health and Education" are periphery issues
was a blatant lie.

Ahern implied that the sneaky producers had taken a long interview and cut it to make him look bad. But anyone who saw the program (probaly not too many alas) would have seen that it was his own unprompted throwaway remark.

[enby]

The format was brutal. Callers would ask demanding enough questions, leaders would spoof in reply and callers would not be allowed follow up as a pliant (Pat) Kenny moved on to next caller.
For example Ahern was asked today how, if Rainbow would be such a disaster as repeatedly touted by FF, he could go into opposition and let them in rather than coalescing with SF. He completely ignored the question in his "answer" and Kenny sat idly by