Diplomat blames Irish media for hatred of America

[Kellanved]

...
Retired American diplomat George Dempsey has claimed sections of the Irish press and broadcasters share the responsibility for what happened in New York and Washington DC on 9/11. In an exclusive extract from his memoirs published next month, the former head of the United States Embassy's political section in Dublin has also launched a bitter critique of Irish foreign policy.

On the Irish media's response to the attacks, Dempsey said: 'Let us be clear about this. The Irish media, in general, bear their share of the responsibility for what happened in the United States. For far too long in this country there has been a prevailing view, which denigrates and condemns and even vilifies American foreign policy. Many of these venomous falsehoods - such as claims that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed in the Gulf war - have continued to spill out over Irish airwaves this last week. The hatred of America, which drove the suicidal terrorists, doesn't flourish in a global vacuum.'

He claimed that Irish columnists appeared to blame the United States itself for the terrorist attacks rather than Osama bin Laden's Islamist network.

Dempsey, who served as a senior US diplomat in Dublin between 1988 and 1992, singled out the Irish Times and RTE in particular for what he described as 'witless pandering to Arab irrationality and intransigence'.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1212721,00.html

Sorry, but :wtf:

[acmavm]

1. Another nutcase heard from.

.

[saigon68]

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own PRIVATE MERCENARY AIR FORCE




to do WHATEVER under the sun it does..




THERE WOULD BE NO MERCENARY THUGS ACTING LIKE RAMBO WITHOUT THIS
PATHETIC LITTLE MAN

[bobthedrummer]

25. This is a historic point, these TRAITOROUS FUCKERS WENT FOR IT ALL

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

[peacetalksforall]

2. It may be simply a case where Irishpeople are

able to spot bull and hypocrisy quickly = and comment nearly as quickly.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

3. What the hec k?

I can't stomach the fact that idiots like that cretin are part of the diplomatic corps. Just another reason for the world to have hated the U.S. before the atrocities of the past couple of years.

[SanFranciscoDemocrat]

5. Ireland? IRELAND?

For fuck's sake. Did someone drop the Blarney Stone on this guy's head?

[Don_G]

4. Do You Mean

That the lazy, Catholic or Prodestant left-wing Irish Reporters lack the energy or resources to convince the ever lovin' Baptist Bible thumpers in the US otherwise?

[Dover]

6. This country is experiencing some karma, and it aint pretty

Not that we don't have a very good side too, but it's time to embrace our shadow as well.

[NuttyFluffers]

7. Can we say "stretching"?

i am having a very difficult time, being a (i'd like to think) logical being, to even entertain this sort of reasoning. whee, saudi and egyptians get in airplanes, destroy several of our buildings, and somehow it's the irish media's fault? wow... profound. it's like superhuman to take such jumps to conclusions. this dude is a supervillain, capable of leaping huge universes of sanity in a single bound, spins faster than a tornado, speaks in tongues...

[lolly]

8. 88-92

Bush I appointee.

'Nuff said?

[Kellanved]

10. my thoughts exactly

Someone should nominate him for Conservative Idiots list.

[leesa]

9. Too Funny! We all know how big a force the Irish media is in the world!

[amber dog democrat]

12. And lest we forget, Iceland is also culpable

for what happened on 9/11. Have we ever heard anything supportive coming from Iceland? I should say not.

[fearnobush]

20. It's not, but many Irish Americans are very Pro-Life and vote

exclusively on that issue. My family for example, vote this way, however, the people of Ireland, my cousins accross the big pond tell us that we're crazy to vote for * . He reputation in Ireland is almost as bad as ours is of Saddam, and now, it will only get worse.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Oh No - Now we have to rename everything Irish "Freedom" too?

Freedom Spring soap
Freedom Whiskey
"When Freedom Eyes Are Smiling"

[Citizen Daryl]

13. GOP = The Party For Children Who Refused To Grow Up

Okay, seriously. Republicans have gone off the deep end. They don't want to accept responsibility for anything. Everything is always someone else's fault. Isn't this textbook behaviour for every single spoiled rotten little brat that has gotten it's way for far too long? It's time we take the big toys away from them and stand them in the corner.

[NYC]

14. Blame the publicity,

not the actions.

[dflprincess]

16. So now, instead of saying Kerry looks "too French"

they can whine his last name sounds "too Irish". (Come to think of it, so does mine.)

[CHIMO]

17. Where

Is the Iraqi casualty list?
Gulf war, sanctions and Iraqi freedom. What have the casualties been?

[True_Blue]

18. This sounds more like an 'Onion' headline

You've got to be kidding me...the Irish? LOL!!! I think I need a :beer:

[ithacan]

19. yes of course Al Qaeda's main source of info on the US is the Irish Times.

:eyes:

This guy is pathetic. And in denial.

[Pale_Rider]

21. A fecking eejit ...

... who was frustrated in his attempts to direct Irish media expressions.During the war protests in Shannon, the Irish government (another group of high-minded eejits) was loath to have any expression of anti-Americanism in fear that the Bush Administration who pull out American business in Ireland.

I say go to work with Faux News you fecking eejit.

[Steven_S]

22. Well, Gooooolly,

and all this time I thought it was those homer sexshuls and lez-beens that brung this down on us. dang heathen fornicators.

The right rev'rund says it hisself.

[Darranar]

23. Ah, vile free speech!

Dissent against the great American Imperial Power must not be tolerated.

[happynewyear]

24. No Irish Need Apply ...

That's right, when all else fails, blame it on the Irish! :grr: :grr:

They better look in the mirror closely for they are the ones that are at fault.

What will be next? U.S. Out of Ireland? :nuke: :grr:

[daleo]

26. He has morphed from Ussama to Ossama to O'sama

Aye, it's Seamus O'sama who's to blame.

[riverwalker]

27. Irish have a passion for justice

and injustice "makes them crazy" (the Billy Jack of our planet) ;) They are always far ahead of us, in more ways than one.