One doesn’t need to take the piss out of Willie O’Dea. One only need point him out and explain who he is and what he does to get a laugh from anyone with half a brain. He is such a ridiculous man even Fianna Fail know it. He’s been in Government since 1982 and spent 22 years there before they gave him a minister’s position. And the Minister of Defence in Ireland is like the minister of snow in Saudi Arabia. And he had to resign from that position in furore of stupidity and single-mindedness. He’s an embarrassing fool. Like the embarrassing Irish parent who think they’re funny and wonders why the kids have all emigrated and don’t call except to ask about tickets for the final.
His trademark out of touch with reality Irishness popped up in the Late Late show on Friday. I didn’t see it because I’ve better things to be doing with my life, such as folding underpants and walking to the shops for tobacco, but I saw it reported in the Limerick Leader, which in my opinion isn’t too far from the Willie O’Dea school of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Here’s the quote:
Tweets and breaking ranks with the party line are corroding the Government, he said, urging that the Green party should be told to stop tweeting.
Deputy O’Dea said Government ministers should be focusing on serious matters at hand – such as rising levels of unemployment – and not be “tweeting and twittering and blogging.”
First off ‘Breaking ranks’ with Government or party lines is what democracy is based on.
Secondly ‘breaking ranks with the party line is corroding Government’ would be true if ‘breaking ranks’ meant corruption, look-the-other-way regulation and the ‘blame it on de Leeemen Bruders’ excuse. Something seems to be missing from the rationality of Willie’s statement. Namely rationality.
Who is going to tell the Green Party to stop using Twitter? Sorry lads, but Government policy, you’re not allowed post stuff on Twitter. Ok, we’ll just release press statements of 140 characters. Or we’ll put it up on Facebook. Or we’ll just pay a homeless man to tattoo his forehead. You know I hear in Iran they want to ban Twitter too.
Government ministers should not be “tweeting and twittering and blogging” is exactly the kind of statement you expect from a gorilla looking for votes among the classes of moron who fear change, hate the greens because they make them feel guilty about throwing landfill waste into their brown bins and think twittering is for twits (and who think it’s humourous to say so). Willie O’Dea is so out of touch with reality it’s painful to watch. It’s like watching your friend go back with the ex who’s cheated on him ten times. It’s the belief in the world that was and not the world that is. It’s the Ireland where politicians apologise for breaking the law, say it was a mistake and then say it was all the fault of the media anyway.
This is one depressing fucking country to live in. Hopefully I’ll be gone within the fortnight.
Nice one!