Posted on 06/26/2004 4:09:11 PM PDT by areafiftyone
THE White House has lodged a complaint with the Irish Embassy in Washington over RTE journalist Carole Coleman's interview with US President George Bush. And it is believed the President's staff have now withdrawn from an exclusive interview which was to have been given to RTE this morning by First Lady Laura Bush. It is understood that both RTE and the Department of Foreign Affairs were aware of the exclusive arrangement, scheduled for 11am today. However, when RTE put Ms Coleman's name forward as interviewer, they were told Mrs Bush would no longer be available. The Irish Independent learned last night that the White House told Ms Coleman that she interrupted the president unnecessarily and was disrespectful. She also received a call from the White House in which she was admonished for her tone. And it emerged last night that presidential staff suggested to Ms Coleman as she went into the interview that she ask him a question on the outfit that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern wore to the G8 summit.
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Noted and corrected. Thanks!
The difference between the Irish and Irish Americans?
Americans of Irish descent have something the Irish do not. Abe Lincolns said it best:
When they look through that old Declaration of Independence, they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are.
Chicago, July 10, 1858
I thought the article alluded to it being a bullet-proof vest due to his unpopularity there.
The BBC authored the snippy article in the earlier link.
Well, I sure hope this is true. I'm sick of the media getting to stomp on us while we smile politely and pretend it's not happening. Make them take some responsibility for their attitude, and this attitude might change - or at least go back to being politely hidden.
What do you mean by that?
Good call! I don't recall how I did that -- but, I thought I was posting in the "wmd attack in bagdad" thread. Apologies.
That's okay, I thought I was just really dense and not understanding!
Let us not forget, if the first Irish had not come to this country they would have starved to death, because of the potato famine. Most everyone who immigrated to these United States shores came because of war, famine, no work in their country of birth, escaping political problems or for the ALL MIGHTY DOLLAR. Yes and each group has made a niche for themselves and that is one reason this country is so great. We are like the most wonderful vegetable stew anyone has ever made, the Irish are the potatoes.
Potato famine -pogh ma thoen! - there was plenty of food in Ireland - get a clue here!
The Irish Holocaust
When Irish eyes are smiling, all the world seems bright and gay. Queer peckerheads, the lot of them.
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