President Bush is interviewed by Carole Coleman of RTE.
Posted on 06/25/2004 6:49:45 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
President Bush is interviewed by Carole Coleman of RTE.
If you see this interview, you'll likely notice a hostility and rudeness toward the President. He apparently was interrupted a number of times. Reporters or interviewers who want answers, especially from heads of state, do not interrupt. Reporters who are smug, self-important and without class generally do interrupt.
The Embassy of Ireland is not to blame for this person's rudeness...I merely used the embassy as the resource to find her attention. Irish FREEPers (or anyone else), if you're offended by this attitude, feel free to contact Ms. Coleman. Here is the information. She is a correspondent in Washington (apparently following the President back to Ireland) for RTE.
Carole Coleman
2000 M Street NW
Suite 315
Washington DC 20036
Tel: (202) 467-5933
Fax: (202) 467-5937
C-Span ran it eariler, don't know if/when they will again. She was so rude and you could just feel her hatred of the President. Practically calling him stupid in that every one in the world knew Bush made a mistake, why couldn't he see it????
I spend a good deal of time in Limerick on company business. I have not run into anyone who is openly critical of the war in Iraq. Most honestly appreciate that Saddam is gone and that they did not have to do it themselves.
A ping for my favorite Irish lady.
Very thoughtful of you to post this information.
Considering RTE plays in many Irish neighborhood bars in NYC, we can start there.
The little bitch didn't realize the ethnic group with the greatest loss of life were the Irish. Fireman, cops, insurance brokers and traders.
Meant "on 9|11" regarding lose of life.
For those who can't wait to contact her, a more direct number is 202-288-6138.
"Osama bin Laden. You can kiss my royal Irish *ss."
BTTT
Eh, she's sounds like the crapload of liberal rude reporterettes we have here in the states.
The Irish I know support the President, but then all the good Irish I know became Americans.
The Helen Thomas of Ireland?
I just watched this entire interview. The President's answers were thoughtful, precise, and honest. He is a better public speaker than he was 4 years ago, and I look forward to the debates.
Unlike Gore, he has improved with time.
BTW, I was working with another RTE corr. today, and we spoke about Ms. Coleman.
Suffice it to say, that the colleague (relying on my help today, incidentally), was of the same opinion as me, re:Carol Coleman.
When I said to my RTE friend: 'I must be the only journalist in the country who likes President Bush, and is prepared to give him a fair go'
She said: 'You like him? Why?'
I said: 'He says what he means, and he means what he says. We're too indoctrinated in this country with wishy-washy bullshit, political innuendo. We criticise someone who doesn't give us the perfect Oxford dictionary soundbite, but can tolerate double standards in political life. Yeah! I like him!'
She said: 'Ok, but what about Carol?'
I said: 'Don't like her. I thought Mark Little (previous RTE Washington corr) was commie-biased, but Carol Coleman wears her hatred of America on her face'
She said: 'I have to agree with you. I don't think she likes the job'
I said: 'No shit, Sherlock'
(and from there, I went on to help her out in getting her news broadcast ready for 6 pm., because, I felt sorry for her. ....which indicates, that RTE need to employ women who know how to do the job! eh? *S*)
Let us know if you need references.
Hopefully George will teach Bertie how to talk, as well as run a country, as for that c*** Carole Coleman, perhaps the Yanks could lend us Ann Coulter (she could find out whether she's related to singer Phil Coulter), and tear Coleman asunder, the big dirty Trot.
RTE = Radicals, Terrorists & Eurocrats
The President tells Coleman "Let me finish..." at least five or six times. That is as close to confrontation as he gets.
Here, in a nutshell, is the entire ideological confrontation between the USA and the liberal-socialist axis. Socialists articulate their pathological reactions to momentary impressions using loaded language calculated infer the worst possible image of the USA, and instead of unambiguous disdain, confronting the premises and refuting the conclusions as any good teacher would with a disruptive student radical, Bush tries to picture us as the nicest people you'd ever want to meet.
This affability presumes several premises, the most obvious being, "Hey, why are you upset at us for? We agree on basically the same things. We're here to help the least fortunate. We are the most altruistic nation on Earth, we're spending 15 billion dollars on AIDS..." etcetera, ad nauseum.
Bush and the GOP don't get it. When two groups who share the same basic premise compete, the most zealous always wins. By assenting to the same basic premises of liberal-socialism, Bush loses even before the contest begins.
One cannot make friends with these people. The Euro-scum despise the basic ideology of this country, they despise the Declaration, and Bush is unable to articulate what the principles of this country are, much less confront and refute their enemies.
Instead, he tries to lay a burden on their hearts through affability, in the hopes, I guess, that they finally make their way to the altar in contrite humility while the choir plays "Just As I Am."
Would Reagan have stood for this Euro-scum crap?
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