60 Comments

• Monsoonman | Sep 05, 2010, 10:06 PM EDT

  LOL Lad! Now you have the spirit! People should learn to resolve their differences without lawyers...arm everyone! It's a much more polite society that way.

• seanomelbourne | Sep 05, 2010, 07:29 PM EDT

  As we say in Aus whats the difference between a lawyer and a catfish? One's a bottom dweller the other is a fish

• Monsoonman | Sep 05, 2010, 12:49 PM EDT

  I'm talking about the attorney general of the us lad....You are talking of litigation in epic proportions, on a scale only seen in the usa. Like I said, we have so many lawyers, when walking the beaches in louisiana and alabama we would find oiled lawyers washing up on the surfline after the oil rig explosion....I wouldn't wish that on the rest of the world, let the pals/idf/iraqis solve their problems the old fashioned way, its cleaner.

• seanomelbourne | Sep 04, 2010, 08:34 PM EDT

  Well said Monsoonman! But let's be fair minded and honourable.Can innocent Iraqi civilians sue G.I.s for their loss ? Can Palestinians sue Israeli soldiers for bulldozing their houses,If your statement is "fair and balanced" I'm with you.

• Monsoonman | Sep 04, 2010, 12:57 PM EDT

  Instead of eric holder suing his own countrymen for trying to uphold the laws of the United States, how about if he sues the estates of the hijackers of the aircraft on 911 and gets those assets to award to the victims of 911?

• seanomelbourne | Sep 03, 2010, 11:53 PM EDT

  Maloney when you have something interesting to say I will listen.

• Monsoonman | Sep 02, 2010, 08:22 PM EDT

  ...Responders Bill? someone want to explain exactly what that does? Aren't the firefighters, police already covered for on the job mishaps? Or am I missing something here?

• maloney | Sep 02, 2010, 06:52 PM EDT

  seanome...letting your freak flag fly. Thats righteous thank you very much

• maloney | Sep 02, 2010, 06:48 PM EDT

  Brendan...believe it or not, I whole heartedly agree. But he's still a weiner

• BrendanPKeane | Sep 02, 2010, 02:00 AM EDT

  maloney: If Weiner comes through on the Responders Bill, I'll be good to him.

• seanomelbourne | Sep 01, 2010, 07:46 PM EDT

  Mr.Keane you should have known that the Obama haters would castigate you with spiteful words,they would probably castigate you with blows if the could. Their self righteous weeping and gnashing of teeth trying so hard not to appear racist or bigoted. They fail.

• maloney | Sep 01, 2010, 07:26 PM EDT

  Brendan...You fiddle playing fool. Be careful that the Weiner doesn't get you..

• BrendanPKeane | Sep 01, 2010, 04:01 PM EDT

  pflynn70: cranky old bastard

• pflynn70 | Sep 01, 2010, 03:20 PM EDT

  Brendon, As usual, you have been playing with your "fiddle" way to much. Get your facts staright read more, no one cares about your liberal agenda.

• Monsoonman | Sep 01, 2010, 10:00 AM EDT

  What is obama hiding? It makes it more suspicious when he pays attorneys to keep his past sealed from scrutiny. If the press was at all legitimate they would be investigating this 24/7 and should have long before the presidential elections. Brendan you fancy yourself as some sort of jorurnalist, don't you have a curiosity as to why obama is keeping his past such a secret? Why don't you put your fiddle down and do some investigative journalism? Who knows you might get famous and end up working for a legitimate organization like Fox News.

• chesapeake | Sep 01, 2010, 09:29 AM EDT

  First if all, Obama doesn't have political style and he really doesn't understand the average American. His rhetoric no longer inspires (outside of the mainstream media, that is). He was created by a small group of left-wing radical advisors; and was promoted by left-wing media types. His fellow Democrats followed blindly to do his bidding, leaving the constitition in tatters. Could Ireland deal with a moslem president? Could that person really understand what the Irish are about? This is what we are contending with in Obama... a Moslem pretending to be a Christian. It really matters that he hasn't made his legal birth certificate or his grades/thesis public. Damn it, it is America's right to know.

• BrendanPKeane | Sep 01, 2010, 01:36 AM EDT

  Monsoonman: For example, I was the only one calling out (really giving-it) to the Democrats for killing the 9/11 Responders Bill. I have argued with lots of "liberal media" types. But think what you want, you're a block of wood. http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/jon-stewart-on-low-ground-at-ground-zero-defending-weiners-911-rant-100145164.html

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 09:45 PM EDT

  Monsoonman: I defended republican Peter King against Anthony Weiner's slurs, and his game at hiding what the Dems did on the 9/11 Responders Bill, for example. http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/jon-stewart-on-low-ground-at-ground-zero-defending-weiners-911-rant-100145164.html

• Monsoonman | Aug 31, 2010, 08:11 PM EDT

  Brendan lad, you want to give us a breakdown of your criticisms of anything conservative/liberal...By my swag, you are at a 95/5 ratio. I think you criticized obama once because he wasn't liberal enough and if I am not mistaken you criticized nancy Pelosis botox injections several months ago, but that is about it. Everything before and after that was slamming everything conservative. Please check my figures but I think I am pretty close.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 07:53 PM EDT

  On Beck's promotion of virulently anti-Catholic clerics: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 07:51 PM EDT

  Celtica43: I'm independent. I've criticized Democrats far more than Republicans, without really caring which party the politician I was skewering was on. Think what you want and use as many exclamation points and capital letters as you feel necessary to fortify your reasoning.

• Celtica43 | Aug 31, 2010, 05:33 PM EDT

  Brendan, I find it difficult to believe you "independent" about much. If not a registered Dem, you surely support them in every election. You are clearly left of center on just about everything. IC needs to have a few more objective opinions. Totally agree with IRISHANDPROUD re BO and his group who are definitely doing a four year stint as opposed to eight yrs!!!!

• IrishAndProud | Aug 31, 2010, 05:20 PM EDT

  No, Brendan, I DON'T think Glen Beck in in contempt of me. He's given no indication of that and I give him the benefit of the doubt...made easier by the fact that he is in agreement with the majority of the people. Further, even if he does secretly harbor 'contempt' of those he claims to be for, he nonetheless holds no public office, and therefore no sway of power -- he cannot compel or tell anyone anywhere what to do, and if people don't like him, they can simply turn the tv dial to 'off.' Obama and his party, on the other hand, ARE governing against the will of the people, every single day, on literally every single issue. When people with power not only govern against the popular will continuously but also slander, name-call, bait, taunt and insult them at the same time, THAT is by definition CONTEMPT, in the fullest measure of the word and then some. Beck isn't doing any of that.

• maloney | Aug 31, 2010, 05:15 PM EDT

  brendan keane...to your charge, I plead guilty, and right proud of it. It doesn't change the facts. The USA current government is full of liars, traitors, marxists, facists & other misc. trash. I find nothing wrong with being happy about another dead cockroach

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 03:25 PM EDT

  maloney: You're all schadenfreude.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 03:23 PM EDT

  maloney: If what you say is true, turning to Beck for leadership is unjustified. It's the TV.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 03:21 PM EDT

  manhattan: I didn't say Beck was out to get Obama because he was Black, I said he wanted to get Sarah Palin elected. This was just a simple political rally, planned for a year, like a Broadway show. You liked the show. Big deal.

• maloney | Aug 31, 2010, 02:53 PM EDT

  The Keane edge is as dull as ever. barry obama's inspirational rhetoric has been shown to be all lies. He & the rest of his traitors have been exposed. The America's have finally sharpened their edge. Time to take out the trash.

• maloney | Aug 31, 2010, 01:09 PM EDT

  barry obama, nancy, harry & barney along with irish central are unhappy with the awakening of the American people. you haven't seen anything yet. wait til nov. 2010 & 2012 when you will be unemployed & I.C. will really be whining. Bow to the all powerful Beck & Palin

• manhattan | Aug 31, 2010, 12:58 PM EDT

  I'm no fan of Glenn Beck or Palin but I object to the insults from you and the left accusing them as out to get Obama because he is black. If they ever called Obama what Bush was called you might have a point. Any American has the right to speak out when they don't agree with the people leading the country that is our right as Americans.Also, if we object to the Mosque being built near ground zero, we are racists. When did Martin Luther King own the Lincoln Memorial because it was the anniversary of his speech? And you wonder why a Glenn Beck has a large following and getting bigger. The silent majority are no more.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 12:35 PM EDT

  Celtic43: I'm an independent, like most people. I have damned both democrats and republicans alike. I'm much more critical of democrats, really, because they're in power.

• Celtica43 | Aug 31, 2010, 12:09 PM EDT

  Can't you get off the left wing stuff and show a little impartiality. Just once a month or so would be a start.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 11:08 AM EDT

  Monsoonman: "principles before personalities" good man.

• Monsoonman | Aug 31, 2010, 11:02 AM EDT

  Brendan me boy...As you go through life you start to recognize, if you are aware, that all human beings have feet of clay. I set no human on a pedestal or make no one my spiritual leader. But that came after years of seasoning and watching those I put on a pedestal disappoint me with their human weaknesses. So I have morphed into a belief that says principles before personalities...May I recommend you tune into Dr. Phil for a little anonymous self help work? He has an episode coming up on Munchausens disease by proxy that you may find to be of particular interest...and it may be of great help to your readers who suffer from serious debilitation's at times.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 10:49 AM EDT

  Monsoonman: come on man, don't be so sensitive. If you want to make Glenn Beck your spiritual leader, go right ahead. I'm just saying why I would not: Goldline, Mormonism etc. And please spare us your academic psycho babble about Addled models and other catch-all diagnoses.

• Monsoonman | Aug 31, 2010, 10:25 AM EDT

  Brendan your comments on Beck fit the Adlerian model of how you actually feel about yourself. As a young liberal you are intellectually superior to the rest of the sweating masses, sans real life experiences, but you know what's best for the rest of us.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 09:37 AM EDT

  IrishAndProud: "who condescend to them." I think you've hit on the feeling of the rebellion. But do you really think Glenn Beck doesn't look down on you? Do you really think he's not completely in contempt of you too?

• hancock | Aug 30, 2010, 10:37 PM EDT

  Obama is an incompetent who is going down the drain no matter what you Irish think.

• IrishAndProud | Aug 30, 2010, 10:00 PM EDT

  "Glenn Beck is an ass hat and would have been a good member of the Nazi propaganda machine" Yeah...Beck should have told that to the Orthodox Rabbi who spoke at his event...or to the majority of Americans, who are now so disgusted with Obama and his ilk (who condescend to them exactly the way RobbCobb just has) that they now back the GOP over the Dems in the generic ballot by 10 points, the largest spread ever in the history of Gallup. Guess the American people are just stupid, right? It's pretty hard to pretend you're on the people's side -- let alone that the GOP could in any way be mounting a serious challenge to Obama (which it is) -- without also badmouthing the American majority, which now opposes Obama on every single major issue. His backers can no longer point to any majority support, because they no longer have it. Boo hoo.

• RobbCobb | Aug 30, 2010, 09:22 PM EDT

  Kudos to Obama and the Democrats for trying to piece together the nation and its shattered economy after eight years of corruption, cronysim, nepotism, scandal and largess at the hands of the Repulican party. Instead of trying to make things right, the Republicans continue to try and subvert every effort to correct the problems that they are largely responsible for creating. They should thank their lucky stars that McCain and Palin weren't elected or they'd be stuck trying to spin their failures and pin it on the Democrats. Obama should have just stepped aside and said "Here - you made the mess, now you clean it up." Sad thing is our nation and economy couldn't handle another bogus war and more corruption and largess. It would have truly killed it.

• RobbCobb | Aug 30, 2010, 09:09 PM EDT

  Glenn Beck is an ass hat and would have been a good member of the Nazi propaganda machine. The people that follow and support him seem to lose all sense of thinking for themselves. I've seen freer thinking sheep with more individuality and common sense.

• IrishAndProud | Aug 30, 2010, 09:08 PM EDT

  Oh, and Brendan...Obama has already lost virtually all of his 'inspirational rhetoric' on his own, by himself. Have you seen his standing with the public, lately? They just aren't impressed with 'inspirational rhetoric' anymore -- because rhetoric is all it's been. They want substance -- and Obama doesn't have any. Palin and Beck didn't do it to him...he's destroyed himself.

• IrishAndProud | Aug 30, 2010, 08:57 PM EDT

  BTW Brendan (since certain of the media are hawking about the 'overwhelmingly white' crowd at this thing), I noticed there's been not a word about the overwhelmingly BLACK crowd that attended the tiny-by-comparison Al Sharpton counter-rally that same day...you know, the rally the Education Secretary Arne Duncan put an email out to all his employees 'inviting' them to attend, it's been revealed. How much yelling and screaming do you think there'd have been if a Bush cabinet member had told HIS people to attend a conservative rally? Talk about double standards. Hell, just imagine the uproar if a conservative president had said he 'didn't watch' the Million Man March, like Obama did with this thing (which any photo's taken at is peak show a comparable size)? The media would have whooped themselves into a craze frenzy like a bunch of hyper pirannhas.

• hancock | Aug 30, 2010, 08:52 PM EDT

  God help Ireland if this bunch ever run anything.

• Monsoonman | Aug 30, 2010, 08:28 PM EDT

  Hey Brendan, who funds Irish Central? Is there any George Soros money in there? Don't you think Irish Central staff is overwhelmingly left if you are capable of seeing clearly. Don't you think at least a few permanent editors who are right or at least centrist should be added? Not all Irish are liberal left, there are many who are center and right of center. Irish Central should reflect that make up and respect its patrons. The bds and obama worship you guys display is getting a bit hackneyed.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 30, 2010, 08:12 PM EDT

  saratoga: When fascism comes to America it will be shielded by ministers that want to get in on this tithe promise Beck is making.

• IrishAndProud | Aug 30, 2010, 07:45 PM EDT

  And no, Brendan, I don't work for Fox, nor do I even watch it. Do you work for CBS, ABC, NBC and/or CNN?

• IrishAndProud | Aug 30, 2010, 07:43 PM EDT

  Correction: Alveda King is MLK's niece, not his daughter. But I'm glad she attended.

• IrishAndProud | Aug 30, 2010, 07:41 PM EDT

  Madeleine, you can't seriously be broadbrushing everyone at that rally as being Xtian. Firstly Beck himself is a Mormon (not widely regarded as mainstream Xtian, if at all) and there were plenty of non-Xtians and Jews, as well. Besides, what's wrong with Xtians? Are you prejudiced against them? You cannot call yourself tolerant and yet make posts like you've just made, because it's contradictory. BTW I'm not a Xtian or a Palin fan, myself (so please do not stereotype further, in response).

• Monsoonman | Aug 30, 2010, 07:04 PM EDT

  The socialists are starting to get a bit hysterical and are enlisting any means they can to get rid of glen Beck: The Huffington Post has resorted to offering $100,000 for a Glenn Beck sex tape or 'anything' that will get him off the air....Kind of reminds me when another democrat party stalwart, Larry Flynt offered 100,000 to anyone who had dirt on any of the congressman who were involved in clintons impeachment.

• TexasGal | Aug 30, 2010, 06:37 PM EDT

  THANK GOD FOR GLENN BECK AND THE RESTORE HONOR RALLY. And as far as a bold stunt Obama is full of them but it will not do him any good because the people are coming together and we with Gods help will vote that nut-job Obama and his freaks out

• Madeleine | Aug 30, 2010, 06:19 PM EDT

  Heyy, I'm white and i dont' buy into Glen Beck, I can't stand Sarah Palin she is such an opportunist, You could be rallying for toilet paper and if she thought it was popular she would be there with that screeching voice. I really wasn't sure what Beck was doing there, I didn't get what he was trying to say either, he was preaching to the wrong audience, they were all Christians to begin with, they really didn't understand why he was doing that either.

• Mairin67 | Aug 30, 2010, 06:06 PM EDT

  Beck and Palin.....run folks, run for your lives!

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 30, 2010, 06:04 PM EDT

  patrick1945: Yes Patrick, everything about the rally was good, except Glenn Beck. The Pied Piper's music is lovely. But the fecker playing the tune is leading ye all off a cliff. He's a charlatan, proven, who has convinced excellent excellent people to follow him to evil.

• patrick1945 | Aug 30, 2010, 04:02 PM EDT

  Beck and his rally was aimed at what is good and hopeful in America. This article and most the media is always running down America. The current President even presents America in a negative light. This article is just preconceived notions. Try setting your likes and dislikes aside and writing an honest and factual article. No speculation. Then if you must present your interpretation of the event do so. But just don't start out negative and stay that way. I'm sure there were some positives about the rally or it wouldn't have had such a large crowd in attendance.

• saratoga | Aug 30, 2010, 03:59 PM EDT

  When fascism comes to America it will wrapped in Sharia Law.

• BrendanPKeane | Aug 30, 2010, 03:48 PM EDT

  IrishAndProud: remove what I said about lots and lots of white people, and the other criticisms are much more damning. IrishAndProud, you work for Fox?

• IrishAndProud | Aug 30, 2010, 02:50 PM EDT

  I repeat my post from the other thread about this D.C. rally (by Patrick Roberts), and it is as follows: Personally, I stand with Ron Miller -- one of the many blacks who attended this in fact racially diverse gathering in Washington -- and who said [BEGIN QUOTE]: "Those naysayers who compare us to the Ku Klux Klan are despicable...by making such a ludicrous comparison, they have revealed themselves to be morally bankrupt, so they no longer warrant a hearing from Americans of good will." [END QUOTE] Oh, incidentally, MLK's daughter Alveda was there, and also addressed the crowd -- by reading her father's famous speech from that same location. Now THAT's reaching out. The race-baiting left wingers who chuck their nonsense on this post (and virtually all of whom are white, I'd guess...and some of whom are not even in the USA and maybe never have been) are NOT reaching out -- not even remotely -- nor are they even interested.

• McNamara31 | Aug 30, 2010, 01:12 PM EDT

  Kevinhayes... You make a very solid point that was clearly obvious with "Karl Rove" (GOP campaign strategist) when he used the American Evangelicals to usher George Bush into office. It amazes me, that these same people, who have no hesitancy financially pillaging the middle class, cutting funding to the poor, the unemployed, the children and the sick, "get religion", when they want to motivate people to the polls.

• kevinhayes | Aug 30, 2010, 10:36 AM EDT

  The whole thing seemed very subdued to me and rather boring - lots of god-bothering double talk and muted militarism. It was unfortunate, from a pure spectacle viewpoint, that the sheep had been ordered to dial it back so much. Nevertheless I still had that creepy feeling of "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross" - Sinclair Lewis.