217 Comments

• joanxis | Jul 04, 2012, 10:19 PM EDT

  Of course it's your right not to like the president. That doesn't mean you have to be rude or boorish or decide you don't have to follow protocal when dealing with him. And if you do think you are entitled to be rude, etc. because you don't like him then - shame on you.

• Helen Ferone | Jun 23, 2012, 10:52 AM EDT

  Everyone (including journalists) should be able to express their opinions re: the president. After all, not everyone likes him, and that's our right, isn't it?

• BrianO | Jun 22, 2012, 10:05 AM EDT

  herban, They made a documentary on how to assassinate George Bush, I don't think it was because he was white, I believe Dan Rather produced a fake story about Mr. Bush accusing him of not serving in the national guard, I think he did this because he thought Bush was not smooth or cool enough. But hey its all good natured fun when coming from the left, either character assassination or real assassination, no mean spirited foulmouthed little jerks involved I'm sure.

• seanomelb | Jun 20, 2012, 08:34 PM EDT

  I presume Briano that you believe the rest of the presidents statements are smooth cool and brilliant as you can only nitpick on the mundane.Nice one Herbangoddess you've got Briano on the run.

• maryosullivan | Jun 20, 2012, 02:34 PM EDT

  Herbangoddess; your are correct,of course, and BrianO proves it

• BrianO | Jun 20, 2012, 01:01 PM EDT

  Herbanoddness, First you have a lovely writing style, though I would agree with few of your conclusions. For someone who is smooth, cool, and brilliant, the president makes a lot of mistakes and mis-statements. Simple mistakes such as 57 states, corpsman,speaking austrian, police acting stupidly. To the larger ones, like spreading the wealth around, using czars to usurp the congress, now executive orders to usurp the congress. But hey dictatorships are cool.

• Herbangoddess | Jun 20, 2012, 12:30 PM EDT

  Pickateer, are you that gutsy when you are not hiding behind a computer screen? All presidents are attacked, slandered and maligned. Still, I have not seen in 55 years of watching politics any president spoken of, about or to like this president. I suspect that I have lived more history than you have read. Perhaps it is because Obama he is black -but I think that is just a ruse. Perhaps it is because he is smooth, cool and brilliant after eight years of watching a man who was none of those things. I personally think that we have become a nation of mean spirited, small minded, foul mouthed, greedy little jerks who engage in hate recreationally. We don't seem to have the good judgment to distinguish political opposition from loathing, anymore than we can perceive degrees or shades of hate. Thus we direct a level of a malice at the 44th President that would be more appropriately aimed at a serial killer, a mass murderer or a child molester. That says a hell of a lot more about us than it does about Obama.

• Mousemess | Jun 20, 2012, 11:03 AM EDT

  I dtaobh Neil Munro, mo naire air! Concerning Neil Munro, shame on him!

• pickateer | Jun 20, 2012, 10:52 AM EDT

  Check your historical facts twit! The Liberal press in America did it time and time again to President Reagan, and predictably there was no outcry in the news about their tacky behavior!

• Herbangoddess | Jun 19, 2012, 07:44 PM EDT

  Thank you seanomelb.

• Herbangoddess | Jun 19, 2012, 07:36 PM EDT

  Are you conversant with the English language? I didn’t say Obama was disturbed. I said he was pissed off, and I am glad to see it. I am not a reporter. You might refrain from showing your ignorance and cracking wise about people strange to you. I have just been around long enough to see one or two real reporters at work. I remember the media, both sides of the isle, bending over backward to kiss Bush's rosy red when we went looking for the mythological weapons of mass destruction. I remember those same media humps lowering the bar because he was the kind a guy, "they wanted to have a beer with." Really? Spare me your Bush sniveling. The man was a disaster in the White House. He was an embarrassment to his own party. He is conspicuous by his absence from Romney’s campaign. Even Willard isn’t that thick. As to Munro being terminated - who gives a damn. He is just another empty wagon, and on that day he rattled the loudest. The world is full of them, man. We are all in sensory overload.

• seanomelb | Jun 19, 2012, 07:36 PM EDT

  Enjoyed your article Herbangoddess pithy an too the point

• boydshield | Jun 19, 2012, 06:02 PM EDT

  Align himself with the right? No, Niall, we are not rude, crude, and socially unacceptable as Munro. Quit digging at us, you are sounding too much like the man himself.

• GRIFHEALY | Jun 19, 2012, 04:02 PM EDT

  Such nonsense. You think, because Obama the Great might be disturbed, the man's livelihood should be terminated, makes you a biased reporter yourself. What a hypocrite you are. Maybe you remember how the press acted with Bush. No.....

• Herbangoddess | Jun 19, 2012, 01:59 PM EDT

  I for one am accustomed to asses masquerading as reporters. We have them in the Rose Garden, the Press Room, on T.V. and on the radio. This guy isn't remarkable or unique. The 1st Amendment gives every mouth speaking from inside a sigmoid colon the right to make of fool of its owner. Obama probably knew what he was in for when he ran for president and anticipated being spoken to by shock jocks in cheap suits as if he were the guy who parks their car. So what? Come November the electorate will go to the polls and give Obama the nod for a second term or they won't. What's-his-name will have nothing to do with it. In fact, his slender few seconds of fame will long be gone and he will have sunk back into the public toilet that was once the free press to become just another infomercial performer in a tank full of them. The only thing that I find offensive here is the idea that this person bares any resemblance to a journalist. It is the function of a journalist to report the news, not make it. We haven’t many journalists in America anymore, half a dozen maybe. There is Brian Williams and Sam Donaldson to name two. These men wouldn’t behave like this not because it is rude or offensive or even breaks protocol – but because it is stupid. In the same way it is stupid to drive drunk or take a swing at a cop. The only important thing that really came out of this is that Obama got pissed off. Good for him. I’ve been waiting three years to see him get passed that fear of the angry black man stereotype. The Oval Office is no place for Gandhi or Cary Grant. Lucky Luciano, now there is a thought.

• Bythebay | Jun 19, 2012, 10:43 AM EDT

  Republicans set the heckling standard as the 2000 election returns were being counted in Florida and effectively destroyed the election, making it an illegitimate one.

• BulldogMania | Jun 19, 2012, 09:45 AM EDT

  Union members have been disrupting republican political rallies for decades, while republicans sat back and allowed this orchestrated nonsense to go on. NO MORE folks! Obama will be heckled EVERYWHERE he goes this election cycle. The republicans have finally organized and plan to answer back, shout for shout. I can't wait to watch the liberal media meltdown. They've remained silent for decades when it was done to republicans...wanna bet they go ballistic when it's done to their creation - Obama.

• IronMountainMovies | Jun 19, 2012, 09:43 AM EDT

  Not a lover of the nut jobs in the Tea Party or America's right but it seems to me that the whole reason America is in such a mess from Iraq to Afghanistan and beyond, is because the protocols you speak of Niall, were adhered to far too much by a compliant and obedient media. A president should be fearful of the fourth estate, not manage it.

• weeknocky | Jun 18, 2012, 11:13 PM EDT

  Writing history seems to be the fad of the present generation. So some reporter asked a question and upset the president. Did he commit a crime? No. The only thing he did was tick off "Mr. Never had a job but knows how to run your life" Obama. Sorry, I don't find this behavior unacceptable when the president is ignoring the constitution to make a political play.

• BrianO | Jun 18, 2012, 07:14 PM EDT

  jmchrstal, you might want to subscribe to the daily caller before you cancel your subscribtion.

• jmchrystal | Jun 18, 2012, 05:32 PM EDT

  I was so discussed at this low class act, I cancelled my subscription with the DAILY CALLER. Maybe if enough people did this they get the hint that acting like a Murdock publication wont do!

• newyorklass | Jun 18, 2012, 05:27 PM EDT

  Wow -- people just can't let politics take a backseat to protocol. I don't give two hoots who is speaking.....there is such a thing as manners. I don't care that that jerk is Irish or anything other than. Does one who's speaking appreciate being interrupted until they are finished speaking???? I would think it's just common courtesy -- no matter who is speaking or where it takes place.... at least that's what I taught my child, and I hope she will always remember that. Get over yourselves.

• Stevekeefe | Jun 18, 2012, 05:19 PM EDT

  Irish Center has more than enough home grown political and economic problems (in Ireland) to focus on...so, frankly, mind your own damn business.

• sharlot | Jun 18, 2012, 03:04 PM EDT

  Would you say the same if George W. Bush was President? I don't think so--

• borefield | Jun 18, 2012, 02:39 PM EDT

  IrishLM, I agree with your observations, Irish Central has become a mouthpiece for The Obama re-election. It truly is sickening. Obama and his crew as well as Michell have no interest in the Irish, Irish Americans or have an inclination to assist the Irish community in any way. Wake up Niall, you are hurting your own people. All your journalists are left wing biased small minded people. I am seriously thinking of opting out of this web site.

• BulldogMania | Jun 18, 2012, 02:11 PM EDT

  HYPOCRITE ALERT! Reporters did this to President Bush and other republican presidents all the time and everyone thought it was fine. This guy is a national hero...he had the guts to stand up to the lies and distortions of the Obama clan. God bless him!

• VonLiebenitz | Jun 18, 2012, 01:42 PM EDT

  Fair play to him while he,s at it why does,nt he ask Obama to justify the passing of the N>D>A>A that allows the systematic detention and questioning of anybody including american citizens without a shred of proof.Or the proposed TPP which we only heaed about through a supposed leak(more like a litmus test to see how many people are asleep and awake and to see how they respond to corporations getting a huge increase in protection from government interference and rights to resources anywhere in international waters.This man is a hero in my book.What about the journalistic code of providing neutral an unbiased coverage of issues?Well then why does,nt the main stream media report the real news and not just crap about the latest celebrity or racist drivel about an intervention in Syria to protect those oil pipelines?Or any coverage of the occupy movement? A huge global movement yet it gets no coverage whatsoever?.Ah the indignation of the main stream media about this issue just shows which side your really on.The leaders of the world are systematic failing their electorate.Hard questions need to be asked and to be answered.If you cant then move fool then get out of the way.

• rainbowbrew | Jun 18, 2012, 11:31 AM EDT

  As far as Obama stripping hte constitution and Bof Rights I find a progaganda statement by the GOP. The GOP did us in with the Patriot Act which had been the argued and not passed Drug war act. Also ROPers have reduced the 4th amendment to shreads ie the police can take anything they want in a raid, and they are not the judge or jury. Sorry I have seen more destruction of the paper that is supposed to lead us by the GOP than anybody. fake wars on people called the Drug war was started by the GOP. The prohibition of some drugs was a GOP plot to gain more money for the owners of the Pharmas and oil companies. henry Ford buiilt a Hemp car and was going to run it on hemp fuel (alcohol), but the GOP engineering a fail alcohol prohibition to keep the fermentation of alcohol and thus lead us away from that to oil. Sorry the GOP has hurt too many people through the drug war and I would not vote for their evil ways.

• redhand32 | Jun 18, 2012, 10:33 AM EDT

  He's the right guy for the right wing uncouth, wears his ignorance as a badge of honor !

• redhand32 | Jun 18, 2012, 10:32 AM EDT

  This (for want of a better word) "journalist" is simply embedded in the right wing nut "ignorance is a badge of honor" uncouthness and lack of class, and civil respect by the extreme right wing nut Tea Bag, 2nd Amendment solution 'Don't Tread on Me' White Entitlement crowd (i.e. "I've got mine; go get yours lazy black welfarers and brown skinned immigrants") which collectively and individually regard anyone who can spell their signs correctly, had post HS education as "elitist." This "news" person works very well for all the Ford F150 drivin, flag waving, Creationist believing, global warming and other science denying, "hom skooling" Fox "News" bedroom butinsky, Patriot Act Civil Liberties, put the military on the streets with indefinite detention because it makes us safe believing, cut spending during recessions slopeheads. For the rest of us who go beyond lookin at the purty pictures and read the text too, he's not so good.

• redhand32 | Jun 18, 2012, 09:50 AM EDT

  Too bad he didn't throw a shoe.

• jamieLM | Jun 18, 2012, 09:34 AM EDT

  I just wonder if you'd have been so outraged if someone had heckled a Pres. Romney? Or would you have ignored it or justified it in some way? I'll be glad when the election is over because this website has become "Irish Pro-Obama Central" and is becoming not much more than a daily political ad for Obama. I get that you and others worship the ground he walks on, but I'm already receiving enough political info, ad nauseum, from TV and other sources about the candidates. I don't need to read it here from such biased columnists. Btw: I'm a registered Ind. and I'll decide who to vote for without any advice from IC.

• knugent15 | Jun 18, 2012, 09:27 AM EDT

  I think you should be fired for being to biased! Somehow I doubt you would feel the same way if a reported did the same to a Republican president, which we will hopefully have this time next year!

• maryosullivan | Jun 18, 2012, 09:12 AM EDT

  The howling from Bush when an Irish reporter posted a picture of him in his undershirt went all the way to the Irish Embassy. Eartha Kitt was blacklisted for years for asking civil question of Lady Bird Johnson. Racism - isn't it grand, so long as it's not directed at you

• BrianO | Jun 18, 2012, 08:30 AM EDT

  the hard part when reading the comments is to determine which are paid for by the the obama campaign or just communist loyalists.

• BrianO | Jun 18, 2012, 08:23 AM EDT

  @eiriamach, Why attack Gdaaugherty so much, he gave examples, sometimes the truth hurts, you site Boehner as if he stood up to Obama and didn't pass a debt ceiling bill, but he has again and again. What is the point of putting limits on the debt if there is not at least going to be debate before you ignore it?

• eiriamach | Jun 18, 2012, 06:47 AM EDT

  GDaughterty, it's wearying to read through the poured-out hatred in comments like yours. Deal in facts, not name-calling, fuzzy generalizations, and bitter feelings. "You have no concept of democracy"-- where's your support for that accusation (facts, statistics, quotations)? Oh, wait, accusations like that one CANNOT be supported. No stack of facts, however high, can add up to proof for such wild claims. So you feel free to indulge in wildly emotive language. It contributes NOTHING to any useful discussion; it shifts to attack mode instead. It's a pity. You also write, "since 2008 the left has set out to divide this country and destroy the GOP." Mitch McConnell's "number-one priority" of making Obama a one-term president, along with the White House's many fruitless attempts to work out debt-ceiling compromises with Boehner, show just the opposite of your statement. But facts don't matter at all to you, right? They don't even exist in your hate-warped universe? Just as you think you need nothing to support your attacks, you think nothing counts as evidence on the other side. Wrong.

• GDaugherty | Jun 18, 2012, 03:49 AM EDT

  Seanomelb- You have just parroted everything leftist propaganda has been saying about the GOP since 2008, yet, you accuse others of buying into propaganda? You say the GOP has no concept of democracy, but truth be told, you have no concept of democracy or the GOP. The left says the GOP is racist, yet, the left is obsessed with the Presidents skin color. You think terms like "The Food Stamp President" are racist, because in your racist little mind, Food Stamps are only for minorities. You say the GOP wants to destroy the opposition, however, since 2008 the left has set out to divide this country and destroy the GOP; the msm, Hollywood, and even most magazine publications cater to the left, yet, the few news sources that may lean moderate or right, the left wants banned (ie. this very artical!). You say the GOP are facists, yet, the left has the richest people in the world, the elite of the elite, involved in their politics, supporting anti-conservative publications, and even getting involved in government, delegating what size soda people should be allowed to drink, telling us turkey sandwiches aren't allowed in school lunches because they don't meet FDA guidlines. Herd people into camps? That already happened, by executive order of Democratic President Franklin D Roosevelt. Who appologised for it? Republican President Ronald Reagan. Why were the Japanese interned? Predjudice, hystera and a failure of political leadership; Hmmm, sounds like a lot of the comments being posted by the leftists.

• Collette2 | Jun 18, 2012, 02:43 AM EDT

  I agree with you Niall O'Dowd.

• johnymac60 | Jun 17, 2012, 08:15 PM EDT

  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!. That's right - everyone has the right to speak - unless you disagree with O'Dowd. Wise up you idiot.

• seanomelb | Jun 17, 2012, 07:50 PM EDT

  The racist GOP supporters have no concept of democracy or fair play. Their idea of democracy is to destroy any opposition to there extreme right wing views and maybe herd all others into camps. They are nothing but middle of the road fascists been fed a load of crap by the Fox/GOP propaganda channel.FOUR MORE YEARS.

• MotherIrish | Jun 17, 2012, 06:51 PM EDT

  Oh - I just think that hte guy giving away America again should be fired. He is so often rude, thinks he is this Imperial Majesty and the reporter should be given a raise

• Bythebay | Jun 17, 2012, 05:45 PM EDT

  wdwrkr371, if that's the best you can do, go back to sleep.

• joyfulone | Jun 17, 2012, 05:02 PM EDT

  all of the presidents get heckled. it comes with the territory. this president is the biggest cry baby we have had in office.

• Scrivner | Jun 17, 2012, 04:52 PM EDT

  Nail O'Dowdy, please remember that, in a republic, ther should be no royalty. If protocol says that you should bow down to the leader, a freeman is free to ignore it! The question Munro repeated ('cause it was not answered by his Highness) was pertinent and deserved more than a "shut up and sit down" reply. The first amendment to the US Constitution protects both you and this little guy. Only true fascists would object.

• Irishboy1952 | Jun 17, 2012, 04:41 PM EDT

  I disagree. This President only answer softball questions, that he already knows that is going to ask. It was refreshing to see a media member, throw a hardball question to him. I think, as a person, he is a scum bag, a theft and a liar. But I respect the Office, not the man. If this was Bush, (41 or 43), it would be on this site, "Irish Journalist, asked the President of the USA a tough question." Oh, for the record, I am a Register Democrat who will vote for whomever runs against this idiot. He thinks he Hitler...

• wdwrkr371 | Jun 17, 2012, 04:36 PM EDT

  Bythebay = Absolute amadan

• Woodsidemom2 | Jun 17, 2012, 03:23 PM EDT

  The Office of the President Should be respected at ALL times. Mr. Munro was wrong for becoming the story instead of reporting it. The news media should be fair and IMPARTIAL. Remember that Mr. O'Dowd. Your liberal bias is showing!

• GLENBEIGHNATIVE | Jun 17, 2012, 03:17 PM EDT

  Well we are going "FORWARD"...in 5 months we'll have a NEW PRESIDENT...and we can save America..from "O" BLAME O.... no more holder Eire will be FREE from the center to the SEA so will the USA Leaks, fast & Furious crisis in EUROPE and Rodney King Is RIP

• Bythebay | Jun 17, 2012, 02:41 PM EDT

  Where was security, out looking for prostitutes? Bush had the likes of Munro removed ASAP. No doubt Munro, if he's actually employed, will get a raise for this from his Conservative handlers.

• EphraimKibbey | Jun 17, 2012, 01:07 PM EDT

  @IrishAndProud - I agree with you 100% on the name calling. It is a waste of comment space on the servers and just raises everyones blood pressure. However I do not agree with you on the illegal immigration issue as the jobs they take are not ones wanted by U.S. citizens. Look at what happened to the crops in the southern states where they cracked down on worker status. The illegals either went home or to less strict states but no citizens applied for the picking jobs even in this economy. The crops rotted and we all end up paying more at the grocery. The logical thing to do is have a guest worker program but no one will touch it with a ten foot pole. My earlier point was that the Dream Act was and is supported by a number of republicans. While Romney said during the primary debates that he would veto it, he more recently has been supporting Rubio's version. It is hard to tell what he really believes in if anything so you need to be as concerned with the GOP positions on this as much as with the President's if it is your deciding issue.

• Ajreaper | Jun 17, 2012, 12:50 PM EDT

  Political differences and/or opinions do not excuse one from being a professional and using good manners.

• lokionline | Jun 17, 2012, 12:12 PM EDT

  I wonder if Neil Munro reads Irish Central? What are the odds do you think?
  
  . On the off-chance that he might, and he just might... allow me the opportunity as a fellow alumnus of UCD to observe that even at the L&H, known for it's boisterous atmosphere, it would have been considered inexcusable to interrupt a speaker during a formal address until that speaker was finished and questions called for.
  
  Neil me old chum, you are letting us all down.

• BrianO | Jun 17, 2012, 12:12 PM EDT

  How do you ask a question of the King?

• irishpjk | Jun 17, 2012, 12:03 PM EDT

  What was the question? Then we can decide if he was out of line or not.

• irishpjk | Jun 17, 2012, 12:03 PM EDT

  What the hell was the question he asked? Then we can decide if he was or was not out of line.

• VirginiaMae | Jun 17, 2012, 11:26 AM EDT

  Thank You Eamonn you said exactly how I feel. This President has never been for the people of the United States nor will he be unless it fits his agenda. How could anyone who is coming to America feel this is a good thing when they came here the right way, and this President is wanting to give those who came here illegally to stay here because the grownups brought them in the first place. They are still here illegally no matter how they got here. He is only doing it for the Votes and nothing else. When elections are over This Prsident will forget all about these kids and everyone else.

• bogsidebunny | Jun 17, 2012, 11:17 AM EDT

  It's just a prime example of the Irish cultural infantile, throw-a-tantrum bully syndrome. Any Irish person who doesn't agree with your ideology or opinion will cut across you when you're speaking and verbally bully you. In this case Obama told your man to shut up. I'm certainly not an Obama fan but in this case he should have had the secret service handcuff the guy and drag him away!

• McNamara31 | Jun 17, 2012, 11:10 AM EDT

  jfoynyc Great Post

• ciaradexy | Jun 17, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT

  Curitiba, irish people are not allpying for these jobs even though there are recruitment drives in universities here. They are going abroad as we always have and always will. The uneducated you are talking about did not go for the unskilled jobs so the migrants did. We have the highest minimum wage in the EU and they still didnt bother applying for these jobs. Fair play to the migrants who did.

• Andrew007 | Jun 17, 2012, 06:45 AM EDT

  I agree Niall, this gobshite should get a clip around the bloody ears (I'd probably give him a Drill Sergeant-type stern warning for a first blunder like this, the 2nd time he'd wear my size 11s). Emergencies excepted, journalists are there to report the news, not to make the news - regardless of who is President.

• IrishAndProud | Jun 17, 2012, 06:44 AM EDT

  harrybyrnes, I don't care what you think about me because that is entirely irrelevant. My posts are clearly irritating you to no end, but when all you do in reply is take silly, personal cheap shots instead of argue the points, it only makes YOU look the fool, and no one else. Anyway, I'm very heartened to see so many of my fellow Irish as well as others supporting commons sense here and calling Niall on this kind of article. That really is encouraging.

• EamonnDublin | Jun 17, 2012, 06:01 AM EDT

  It ill behoves Niall O'Dowd to protest about "cheap shot journalism", when almost on a daily basis, his own "Irish Central" indulges to a high degree in that very thing about the Republicans and the Catholic church. "Irish Central" is "Left Wing Liberal Progressive" and. as such, tells us, for example, that the Catholic church should change with the times - allow same sex marriage, allow women priests, etc. Surely, if Mr. O'Dowd believes the former, he should also believe that American politicians and politics should change with the times, and allow the president of the United States to be openly challenged in his policies or lack of them. When somebody such as President (God Help Us) Obama is making such a total hames of his job and the country, surely it is well past the time to call him out on it - whenever and wherever the opportunity arises. And what better place and time than when he is reading from his prompter, pontificating about what should be done and why he will do it by dictatorial means if he so wishes. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

• borefield | Jun 17, 2012, 05:36 AM EDT

  If this guy shouted out his question to Bush the main stream media and you Niall would give it a pass without a doubt. Why do you defend and patronize him?, he has been the worst President in my memory, he does nothing for the Irish and in truth does not like them. Michelle despises them from her Chicago days. When reporters and media pander and cover for him I don't see your umbrage at work. I will agree with you on one count, bad manners and rudeness is always a negative. Happy Father's Day.

• JimCowan | Jun 17, 2012, 05:36 AM EDT

  Obama is the most politically arrogant hypocrite ever!

• harrybyrnes | Jun 17, 2012, 05:31 AM EDT

  I am real Irish, and I am not proud to have this imbicle, "Irishandproud" masquerade as belonging to my Nation, could the site please change his name to Gobshite, whitch he trully is

• IrishAndProud | Jun 17, 2012, 05:09 AM EDT

  Ephraim, anything that rewards illegal aliens (or their offspring) both A) encourages more potential illegals to enter and B) moves them on a path toward legitimacy and citizenship -- neither of which they possess (rightly so). If someone breaks and enters into your home or property and then has a baby there, should you be forced to consider that person part of your family? This whole thing is insane, and no, there is NO guarantee that Hispanics will be rewarded with citizenship for breaking and entering (something the Irish DID...NOT...DO, and it is insulting to compare the two). Far too many Americans oppose this kind of thinking to just have such a thing assured; it is a slap in the face to all who legally immigrated (or whose ancestors did), and to black Americans in particular, who've been hardest hit (with unemployment) in this Obama economy and whose jobs the illegals take (in addition to the rest of us, too -- whites, LEGAL hispanics, everybody).

• KatieMurphy | Jun 17, 2012, 04:03 AM EDT

  Commentators calling obama hitler and stalin - thats a new low from the tea party freakouts Actually, maybe they are following the German pope who in 2009 UNexcommunicated Bishop Williamson, a holocaust denier http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/world/europe/25pope.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

• GDaugherty | Jun 17, 2012, 03:56 AM EDT

  Here's somthing interesting I found on Wikipedia: The website markets itself as a website for the global Irish diaspora; the website claims that it is visited by Irish people around the world. [6] Niall O'Dowd, at the website's launch, said that the purpose of the website was to: “[Call] out to the global Irish – wherever they may be — to come home to this very special place. On IrishCentral.com, our worldwide audience will be able to discover or rediscover their Irishness, to connect again to their special and wondrous heritage. We are hoping to do what has never been done before: use the power of the Internet to create a home for the global Irish." So, what is it Niall? Create a home for the global Irish, or hear the same crap we can get from CNN, MSNBC, Talking Points Memo, Think Progress, alternet etc.

• ZipZampor | Jun 17, 2012, 02:09 AM EDT

  He has become a dictator and he should be heckled. Now, he should be impeached and then removed from office. He is not much better than Hitler or Stalin.

• EphraimKibbey | Jun 17, 2012, 12:28 AM EDT

  @IrishAndProud - Don't have a heart attack! You are accusing Obama of something he did not do. His executive order does not grant anyone citizenship, it provides a TWO YEAR WORK VISA to those brought here by their parents as children, who are under thirty and have no criminal record. The current Dream Act WOULD provide a path to citizenship if passed by congress. That Dream Act would have been law in 2010 but the GOP in the senate filabustered it and Reid only had a 55 vote majority for it not the 60 votes needed to overcome the filabuster. Rubio is working on his own GOP Dream Act so that one can be passed by the current congress without Obama or the Dems getting any credit for it. It has been a bipartisan goal since McCain introduced the idea years ago. It will become a law through constitutional channels in your lifetime. As the Irish overcame the Nativists in the 19th century by political organization and numbers so will the Latinos overcome them in the 21st century.

• joanxis | Jun 16, 2012, 11:49 PM EDT

  What all of you who think Munro is a hero don't understand is - during a press conference - no matter who is president - journalists do not interrupt the president while he is still speaking. You can hate the president all you want, but you can't change the protocall of presidential conferences that have always been in place. Go get 'em seanomelb, McNamara, and all of you other intelligent and fair minded people who actually know the issues and speak the truth!

• seanomelb | Jun 16, 2012, 11:29 PM EDT

  katieherk tissues are on special in the super market.On the other hand you better by kitchen towels for your crocodile tears.

• IrishAndProud | Jun 16, 2012, 11:28 PM EDT

  An Irish-born journalist does the unthinkable with Barack Obama: he commits a random act of actual JOURNALISM -- you know, challenging the Almighty's illegal dictate that illegal aliens be granted citizenship (a position the overwhelming majority of Americans share) -- and all Niall O'Dowd can do is ridicule him? Niall, you're a fool...and speaking of your repeated attempts throughout this article to make majority conservatism appear as if it's a fringe, there are VERY few people as fringy or nutty-left-wing as Cahir O'Dougherty...or you yourself (though not quite as acidy or consistently as Cahir, who is anything but normal). To criticize this person who dared to question Obama whilst your OWN website is full to the armpits with some of the characters you have here smacks of a wee bit of hypocrisy (if you'll pardon my Irish understatement).

• jfoynyc | Jun 16, 2012, 11:26 PM EDT

  Alright! Please tell us what President has been shown disrespect in the personal way the first black President of the United States has been. Abroad he has brought respect for the U.S. back after the decline during the former two-term Administration. Time for us to appreciate him and his effort to restore this country to what we all naively think it is but is not anymore. Luckily the Great Hunger was in a different era. Luckily those who did not go to England in the past century found a welcome, a job and opportunity here. Once the Republican party splits up and we have sane, well-intentioned politicians on both sides of the aisle who are willing to marginalize the ideologues, gun toters, bigots and obstructionists, then we can go back to moving forward a la old principles. Till then, Alas! True Republicans Unite!

• branagh | Jun 16, 2012, 11:20 PM EDT

  DEPORT this super A-hole! The problem-will Ireland have him and in any case he might plead threats to his safety in Ireland. A compromise-DEPORT him to IRAN or AZERBAIJAHN. What a low-life!

• Getlin2 | Jun 16, 2012, 10:28 PM EDT

  He should be given a medal. Niall O'Dowd should be fired for being an Obama propagandist. Watch yourself if this wannabe Hitler/Stalin is reelected it may be the last free election in our country.

• pebopeep | Jun 16, 2012, 10:00 PM EDT

  If this guy was heckling Bush this guy would not write a word about it. Another Irish Commie

• MerleAZ | Jun 16, 2012, 09:51 PM EDT

  All political,concerned only about Latino votes. Created a new class of US residents. The last time we had an immigration amnesty very, very few illegals applied. My Arizona son paid out-of-state tuition to go to school in Calif. Why should students without visas pay less than my US born son? Do you realize in Arizona this was not about going to college, but how much tuition a student without a visa (papers) should pay?? Illegals attend our universities now. They are coached by their instructors and the ACLU on how to avoid out-of-state tuition. I've attended the ACLU meetings to see for myself what goes on. Do you know how many students without visas are here from Asia?? They have a name for this, it is so common, "parachute kids". - look that one up. This kids get sent to the US, not with family, just farmed out to who know who. I work in the travel industry. Do you know know how many women fly into LA or Detroit and then fly back to the Middle East with a new baby, US citizen? This is a whole industry. I'm just glad someone would ask questions. Someone needs to go after these parents who leave their kids in Mexico and then pay members of gun/drug/human smuggling cartels to drag kids thru the desert. There is a whole underside to this. To use this grief and misery to get votes is obscene. Come spend time on the border with me. See for yourself. It is about time someone got rude.

• carlow98 | Jun 16, 2012, 09:43 PM EDT

  forflann...Roosevelt did not get the U.S. out of the Depression. In fact many of Roosevelt's programs made the Depression worse. World War II catapulted the U.S. out of the Depression.

• SingleDonald | Jun 16, 2012, 09:19 PM EDT

  I have to agree! I remember the 1st President George Bush, being rudely interrupted by a young man. It was over the ostensibly slow progress of finding a cure for H.I.V. This character then announced that he was under 25, to which President Bush replied, "I can see that"!! Whether we like or dislike the president, we should always give him respect, when attending a press conference, or other gathering, where he speaks.

• ePHraimAg | Jun 16, 2012, 09:14 PM EDT

  Journalism Has for sure made its etiquette These Days with interjections and Media Hackings. If You Know that Presidents lie as even Did Sir Winston Churchill did state, then please ask questions that Bring Truth to THe Table and expose The Lie. PLease Be a Gentleman, Yes I know, even that is difficult to Do even if givin' the same opportunity. Yes, We can all Be angry on the unfounded cover-ups.

• katieherk | Jun 16, 2012, 09:10 PM EDT

  Typical double standard, Niall! I'm so sick and tired of the constant criticism of conservatives. If it were Bush and someone did that, oh, boy, it would be wonderful. When are you and the rest of the libs gonna wake up and see what this so called king is doing to our country. It is illegal to begin with!! I hope they sue the pants off him. and oh, yes, OMG... OBAMA MUST GOK!!!

• katieherk | Jun 16, 2012, 08:53 PM EDT

  Niall, Why don't you write a letter of apology on behalf of Munro to your hero? By the way, did you get a chance to read Edward Klein's "Amateur" yet?

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 08:48 PM EDT

  cottsay... Sadly, the GOP conservatives consider rudeness a quality.

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 08:47 PM EDT

  itsgpgo....Did you write for Obama to help all Irish immigrants? How many suns do you see from your planet? SPOOKY!

• cottsay | Jun 16, 2012, 08:37 PM EDT

  Parliament? We are not talking about a spirited debated between two political parties that are following protocol-we are talking about a reporter interrupting a presidential news conference to shout his views when all he has to do is wait for the president to finish like everyone else.

• Dubnorth | Jun 16, 2012, 08:36 PM EDT

  Funny but I don't seem to remember you condeming the guy who threw his shoes at Bush, but Bush was a Republican , so that's all right. Reckon you feel he should have gotton journalist of the year for that. Obamas actions are likely unconstitutional. He needs to remember he is a President not a king. By the way how was the shindig at Sarah Jessica Parkers house. $80,000 a couple. Lots of working class people there I bet. Obozo, sorry Obama really is in touch with the average American.

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 08:26 PM EDT

  forflann There's very little coverage about Rupert in the states. Hardly any of the FOX viewers really know the extent of Murdochs connection to Fox or the corruption charges he is facing in London or that Fox is run by an ex Nixon operative: Roger Ailes. When you know who is behind the Fox message and how that family has attempted to manipulated the political message in other countries why would anyone choose such a source for their news? That's why "fair and balanced" is an utter farce.

• Byrne P | Jun 16, 2012, 08:22 PM EDT

  It's a pity you are unable to hide your obvious Left-wing views when covering any story.

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 08:15 PM EDT

  1CelticYankee That's my point exactly. McCain was asked about his certificate of his Panama birth and they moved on. With Obama it was never enough; even when he released it the conservatives to this day go on and on about it. Why...because they continue to discredit this president and paint him as someone who is not authentically American and not to be trusted. Complete smear and distortion.

• BippyBellito | Jun 16, 2012, 08:14 PM EDT

  You've got it wrong! Obama deserves to be Fired! He's an Incompetent Fraud that has no business occupying The White House.

• hus4154 | Jun 16, 2012, 08:12 PM EDT

  Did you complain when Bush got heckled? Thought not....

• seanomelb | Jun 16, 2012, 08:07 PM EDT

  Donaldson never interjected half way through any presidents speech.He waited until the president finished and then became vocal.The difference between Munro and Donaldson is Munro acted like a rabble rouser. Munro and his ilk including his boss #ucker Carlson and the rest of the right media cannot get over the fact that the American people elected a black American as POTUS. They continuously send out their subliminal anti black rhetoric and wring their collective hands in false righteousness when they are accused of been racist.

• Faith20 | Jun 16, 2012, 08:07 PM EDT

  Oh, baloney. Isn't this the same president who bypassed Congress and made free speech verboten unless we're far away from him or anyone like him? Now even the press doesn't have free speech (not that that's such a surprise given the current state of the media). This is a time-honored tradition in our country, as it is in any democracy. Our government was based upon the British form of government, sans royalty (seems Obama missed that 'sans'). Have you ever seen Parliament in action? Have we suddenly developed amnesia about the way the media works--or should? The president had no right to rebuke the press. Watch some of those videos from the Kennedy era, Mr. Obama. President Kennedy handled a lot worse with a lot more class. But then he didn't put his hands all over the Queen of England, either.

• cottsay | Jun 16, 2012, 08:03 PM EDT

  Carlow- i don't remember Sam Donaldson interrupting Reagan during a speech. Maybe during a Q and A after. But in any event, I was glad to see both Shep Smith and Chris Wallace of Fox News saying this behavior was outrageous and Munro should have his press pass yanked. There is no question that this tool is trying to make a name for himself and his outfit and that this was disrespectful to the OFFICE. Regardless of who is serving at the time. Who is this punk to interrupt a presidential news conference?

• carlow98 | Jun 16, 2012, 07:37 PM EDT

  Dear Mr. O'Dowd, It is difficult to gage from your picture at the top of the article just how old you are. However, I am guessing your age as late 30's to early 40's; but who knows when that picture was taken. Because of your age you probably don't remember watching Sam Donaldson interupting President Reagan. Mr. Donaldson of course doesn't liken his actions to those of Mr. Munro. However, Mr. Donaldson's take on how he acted years ago should not be accepted on face value. I suggest that you go back to footage of Sam Donaldson and President Regan and take a look for yourself. With age comes wisdom; and with wisdom comes the knowledge that you need to do your homework before you start flinging arrows on who should or should not keep their job. Point #2 - perhaps neither Mr. Munro nor Mr. Donaldson were the picture of politeness. Point # 3 All sections of the media need to stop being the fifth column and get back to asking the tough questions of our government and politicians.

• rebel999 | Jun 16, 2012, 07:21 PM EDT

  It's obvious that the Republicans show no respect what so ever for President Obama in any way since he was President. The Republicans try to pass themselves off as Christians yet behave like the Devils disciples. You are only a spirit, derived from God, inhibiting a magnificent body, gifted to live on a beautiful paradise we call Earth! Beware of the devil for the devil works in mysterious ways. The devil makes itself appear as if it is doing good even as it does bad. Capitalism is a favorite tool of the devil. The devil uses capitalism to make people do the devils chores like stealing, lying, cruelty, selfishness, inconsiderate and other bad character traits. Mitt Romney and the Republicans are extreme money hungry, selfish inconsiderate capitalists who lie,cheat and steal from others . President Obama and the Democrats are a different kind of capitalists You voters must decide if you want to be a devil’s capitalist or a capitalist that God can be proud of, the kind of capitalist that Jesus would of been! Read My Better America Plan for more about this.

• seanomelb | Jun 16, 2012, 06:43 PM EDT

  The right wing stooges are out defending the indefensible and piggish manners of Munro. He's a clone of his piggish boss that right wing #ucker Carlson.

• katiemac | Jun 16, 2012, 06:31 PM EDT

  Yeah, yeah, yeah we get it, Niall. You feel that only liberal, lickspittle journalists like yourself should be employed. Some of us think it is even poorer manners to ignore the 3 branch system of government and impose your will upon the people through executive orders.

• shanfrina | Jun 16, 2012, 06:27 PM EDT

  ... Agreed! As an international, award-winning Print-Journalist of 39 yrs. in the mainstream-&-gay media on both U.S. coasts, this kind of unprofessionalism is-NOT-representative of 99% of hard-working press worldwide! Politics has-NO-place in thee credible-media-outlets. This incident-SPEAKS-volumes about the amateurish publication Munro's employed by!

• lajollajan | Jun 16, 2012, 06:25 PM EDT

  This was not ignorance! He is not royalty. Unfortunately our Press bows and scrapes to him and doesn't ask questions that the electorate or at least some of them, want answered. He would have chosen a few journalists with pre-ordained questions and than said 'thank you' and left. HIP HIP HOORAY!! FOR THIS COURAGEOUS JOURNALIST. He knows what journalism IS. A Faithful American VOter

• Bythebay | Jun 16, 2012, 06:25 PM EDT

  pegmckpt, I didnt say he was born and raised American. He emigrated to the US, he's now American. He chose the US over Ireland. He shouldn't be called an Irish journalist because he isn't one.

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 06:00 PM EDT

  judiron So your point is ...ignorance is justified? This is where conservative redneck style politics has taken the American political system.If you disagree just disrespect and shout down the president, If you disagree, obstruct any progress for the America people just to defeat this president. Pathetic.

• malpaso2001 | Jun 16, 2012, 05:32 PM EDT

  Another fine piece of "yellow journalism" O'Dowd. Your buddy in the black house spent four years teaching constitutional law before his current gig, and the next four ripping it to shreds. With journalists like you watching out for us we have nothing to fear from the "great one", because you will always ask the tough questions..."the Bulls or the Heat this year Mr President"...Head these word everyone: "To announce that there should be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Teddy roosevelt

• kilgara | Jun 16, 2012, 05:26 PM EDT

  NYCSheridan, I'm sure my ancestors would have seen as clearly as I that Obummer and his crew are doing serious, probably irrepairable damage to this great republic.Look at the arrest records on once mostly bucolic Long Island . What percentage are illegals? As for your ancestors I'm positive that they would delight in disowning such a horses' arse as yourself and are quite ashamed that you even carry the name Sheridan.

• dingle999 | Jun 16, 2012, 05:25 PM EDT

  IrishAndProud out of interest ever been to Ireland?

• IrishAndProud | Jun 16, 2012, 05:22 PM EDT

  If the situation was reversed, and a conservative Republican president was 'heckled' by a far-LEFT Irish journalist over, say, a war overseas, Niall would be singing his praises right now (as would approx. half of Irish Central, since they're kook-left, also) -- oh, that's right...they DID heckle such a President, for nearly eight straigh years. But let a far-left president with no majority support on anything try to legalize border-violators and law-breakers (directly in the face of the overwhelming American majority who DESPISES what he did, yesterday) be heckled by a RIGHT-wing Irish journalist (which btw falls under free speech, last I knew) and you're calling for his proverbial head. Fortunately, Obama -- the most non-Irish President out of all 44 -- will be the one who's jobless come November...so this silly non-issue will all be done and done, soon enough. The American majority supports this Irish journalist, not Barack Obama.

• IrishAndProud | Jun 16, 2012, 05:15 PM EDT

  Well, well, well, another far-left hypocrite. And I'm talking to YOU, Niall O'Dowd. You are a FAR...LEFT...HYPOCRITE. If the situation was reversed, and a conservative Republican president was 'heckled' by a far-LEFT Irish journalist over, say, a war overseas, you'd be singing his praises right now (as would approx. half of Irish Central, since they're kook-left, also) -- oh, that's right...they DID heckle such a President, for nearly eight straigh years. But let a far-left president with no majority support on anything try to legalize border-violators and law-breakers (directly in the face of the overwhelming American majority who DESPISES what he did, yesterday) be heckled by a RIGHT-wing Irish journalist (which btw falls under free speech, last I knew) and you're calling for his proverbial head. Fortunately, Obama -- the most non-Irish President out of all 44 -- will be the one who's jobless come November...so this silly non-issue will all be done and done, soon enough. The American majority supports this Irish journalist, not Barack Obama.

• judiron | Jun 16, 2012, 05:05 PM EDT

  I think you don't understand that in USA we believe in free speach. As for interupting you can do that when you have no respect for the speaker, and more than 50% of us have no respect for him.

• Cavanlass | Jun 16, 2012, 04:47 PM EDT

  Guess why my link to the deportation is not being shown?

• CharlieM | Jun 16, 2012, 04:38 PM EDT

  Fire him? The lad should be given a medal for calling out the Chicago empty-suit. What respect does a pol (the real twit here) merit who doesn't know the difference between a sodomite shack-up and real marriage.?

• garbo55 | Jun 16, 2012, 04:35 PM EDT

  McNamara31 Obama haw not ended the war, and because he says we killed Osama that did not end the war. The fighting continues as we speak,and as far as Osama being killed where is the proof, no pictures were released and they claim the buried him at sea. We only have Obama's word and any politicians word with no evidence is mute...

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 04:17 PM EDT

  Obama bashers talk the Fox style prop about Obama being a socialist when in fact the DOW is up 60% in his first three years as president, even beating out Reagan’s first term gains of only 30%. As for your GOP they come now where close to Clinton’s gains of 111% in 1997. The GOP knows one thing..…how to “ run up” the country’s debt and then convince you the other guy did it and you’re falling for it hook, line and sinker. Obama ended Bush’s wars, saved the American auto industry and tried to give people with pre existing conditions healthcare. This is reality; the other socialist, birther stuff is just redneck entertainment on FOX.

• Cavanlass | Jun 16, 2012, 04:14 PM EDT

  OK, did you all see where Niall Munro was deported Sat morning? Is this what happens to people who DARE to ask the big O a question? Free speech?

• NYCsheridan | Jun 16, 2012, 03:58 PM EDT

  Kilgara, that's just what they said when your ancestors came here from Ireland. You should be ashamed of yourself...no doubt your forebears are rolling in their graves over your stupidity..

• NYCsheridan | Jun 16, 2012, 03:56 PM EDT

  Apchaney, do us all a favor and STFU, moron. Nobody in the Press Corps ever heckled Bush while he was giving a speech. Most people have more class than this lout, and, apparently, you.

• irelandmusic | Jun 16, 2012, 03:40 PM EDT

  I agree he has no CLASS and showed how immature he is.

• apchaney | Jun 16, 2012, 03:39 PM EDT

  Dear left winger. Keep on protecting your leader. I never remember you rasing this issue when George W. was The President. You are typical two faced radical liberal. Please go back to Europe.

• BrianO | Jun 16, 2012, 03:18 PM EDT

  Ephraimkibbey, how is the cool aid these days, Since your god obama deems a law to pass then let it be so, the "dream act" stalls because the checks and balances that is the congress will not pass it. To bypass the congress is to dictate the law. You are blind and I fear for you as with all who trust so blindly.

• Springfield9 | Jun 16, 2012, 03:16 PM EDT

  So what ..... he'll lose his press pass and end up doing Obits.

• itsgpgo | Jun 16, 2012, 03:01 PM EDT

  Always Remember the Famine ...

• itsgpgo | Jun 16, 2012, 02:57 PM EDT

  I can only pray for the poor Irish Catholics, that the church forgot about,...etc...now the Rich Irish Catholics are now Bourgeois

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 02:55 PM EDT

  kilgara You talk about "FACTS" then spin untruths. FACTS clearly show our country is in this condition because of two unpaid wars, tax cut, and a financial collapse caused by the weakening of financial regulations (debt to savings ratio's) during the GOP reign. No one other than God could turn around in three years what GWB left after his eight. That's Fact!

• itsgpgo | Jun 16, 2012, 02:54 PM EDT

  You are so right, the Irish sellout problem...they become the have's while we become the have not's...they always forget where they came from...

• alisaann | Jun 16, 2012, 02:51 PM EDT

  he was RUDE and i'm sure who ever he works for would have TOLD him the rules....you WAIT until the president is FINISHED, before asking your question....there is NO EXCUSE for what he did....you may NOT like a president, but you BY GOD....RESPECT THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. ALISA

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 02:48 PM EDT

  Danno states:..."The right wing "Nativists"... Brilliant! !!....That's exactly what "they are" and also the disgraced crew of Irish sellouts on Fox including Hannity and O'Reilly as well.

• itsgpgo | Jun 16, 2012, 02:48 PM EDT

  I am second generation Irish in this great country, if racism hurts in America it will hurt everywhere...there are people in America that hurt Blacks, Jews, and Irish catholics...

• kilgara | Jun 16, 2012, 02:44 PM EDT

  We should be focusing on the FACT that Obummers'edict is another step into turning this once great country into a third-world sinkhole.

• itsgpgo | Jun 16, 2012, 02:43 PM EDT

  The reporter should have used have used his head instead of his ass, Irish people have more class than ignorance...therefor Go Obama forever, and help all the Irish immigrants in America, and elsewhere...Obama forever...

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 02:42 PM EDT

  EphraimKibbey Well said and true!

• peterson | Jun 16, 2012, 02:41 PM EDT

  Obama is full of "cheap shots" also !!

• Nicoletta | Jun 16, 2012, 02:40 PM EDT

  btw, I absolutely agree with the Great I Am on this issue. It's one thing at least that's he's got right.

• Nicoletta | Jun 16, 2012, 02:38 PM EDT

  No after all, we can't have anyone expressing an opposing view to the Great I Am, now can we?

• peterson | Jun 16, 2012, 02:37 PM EDT

  Look at all the "cheap shots" that obumma has made. My hat is off to the reporter !

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 02:36 PM EDT

  PhlutiePhan states : Obama is "too big for his britches" Well Masta, most of us don't think like you.

• mike4819 | Jun 16, 2012, 02:34 PM EDT

  Great youtube vids..."The Man behind Obama" also "The Men behind Obama" must see.

• Floridian | Jun 16, 2012, 02:26 PM EDT

  Reporters are supposed to ask questions, even to the point of rudeness. As for the supposed "social rules" to the contrary, why should reporters -- or citizens for that matter -- show deference to a President who announces yet again that he will ignore his constitutional duty to enforce the law?

• EphraimKibbey | Jun 16, 2012, 01:59 PM EDT

  Part II - As to the constitutionality of his executive order, the executive branch enforces the laws and that is what this order concerns. He is not MAKING law. He is choosing to not deport children and young adults while the Dream Act is stalled by the majority of republicans in congress. Compare the 95 constitutional lawyers who wrote to the President ENCOURAGING him to take this action to the couple of lawyers in W's employ who thought his expansion of executive powers were legal when most outside legal authorities said what he did was unconstitutional. W followed in Nixon's footsteps - "If the president does it, it is legal." GO OBAMA! FOUR MORE YEARS!

• mike4819 | Jun 16, 2012, 01:57 PM EDT

  (Good Obama joke...I stole).. So a Muslim,A Marxist, and an Old Pot head, Walk into a Bar...... Bartender asks...So Mr.Obama, What'll it be? (chuckle)

• EphraimKibbey | Jun 16, 2012, 01:56 PM EDT

  Part I - Our President is brilliant! I am soooo proud of the way he has kept our economy growing in spite of the GOP's attempt to destroy the U.S. in order to make him a one term President. Now he is doing an end run on the Dream Act deniers. He handled this guy perfectly and came out shining. Most of the time, when he gets interrupted during his speeches, its with "I love you!" to which he replies "I love you back!" Its nice to see he can handle the GOP idiots with equal finesse. Did you see the size of the crowd in Cleveland for his speech compared to the size of Romney's in Cincy? Did you see the smiles on the faces of Obama's group compared to the frowns on the Romney folk?

• mike4819 | Jun 16, 2012, 01:47 PM EDT

  It was a bit rude, (Could have waited a second) However it didn't look like the bamster was taking questions, so I'm Glad he got it in. Great and relevent question that Soros puppet Barry would NOT like to answer!! Hope Munro sticks around and keeps making him un-comfortable!

• Danno | Jun 16, 2012, 01:30 PM EDT

  I sincerely doubt that this fellow Munro has a drop of "real" Irish blood in him. If he did, he would never deny any man the right to an honest days work to support himself and his family. Everywhere you look, immigrants are doing the jobs American born men just will not do. The working man should have the right to go wherever there is work on this planet. The right wing "Nativists" did their best to keep the Irish out of the USA years ago. Sadly, that mentality is still with us. Munro...hmmm, I believe that to be Scots Irish. Probably, never did a days labor in his life.

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 01:27 PM EDT

  WOW..EamonnDublin....have you ever hit it right. Thank you sir for posting the truth. We need you over here :)

• EamonnDublin | Jun 16, 2012, 01:08 PM EDT

  Come on you guys! The United States deserves better than Obama. He is not a good president, he has failed utterly to deliver on his promises, he is now turning more and more into a dictator. I would have thought that most of the pre-election adulation would have been lost by now - that the people who elected him had realised the huge mistake they made. You elected a man with no relevant background, no experience to speak of, no good ideas for the future of the States. All he could do was give an excellent oration via a visual aid. He then proceeded to surround himself with people who are so far to the Left that they are indistinguishable from communists - some of them ARE communists! And now he is showing all the signs of wanting to be a dictator. But still, you want to keep him, for four more years. Time to wake up baby, before you are all sailing up the Swanee without a paddle - or a military, or an economy, or anything like the great society that you have been and still are. Is that REALLY what you want? No? Well, for your own sake, and the sake of Western civilization, WAKE UP, PLEASE!! Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

• Skibberrean | Jun 16, 2012, 01:02 PM EDT

  DITTO CAVANLASS!!!!!!!

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 12:54 PM EDT

  Lucia826....Great post...well written! Bravo! Frosty38...well you have written another bad post. Michelle Malkin is a great American blogger and she hits it right on pretty much every single time. Obama wants everyone to have a good life...are you kidding? He is much more into the 'movie star' life than the average American. What has he done for you? I'm listening.....

• Gaelicpiper | Jun 16, 2012, 12:51 PM EDT

  Thank you Munro- with unemployment at the current levels, some one needed to confront this dictator. This is supposed to a Nation of Laws- not a third world cess pool run by a tin-horn!!

• J.D.McCaffrey | Jun 16, 2012, 12:48 PM EDT

  As a reporter with three decades reporting the news, and as any reporter, or even every copy boy, knows, the job of a reporter is to report the news -- not to become part of it. Munro's egregious act of bad manners was not only obnoxious and childish, he was not doing his job. He was not reporting the news, he was trying to become part of the event. When he tells us he thought the press conference was over, it is the lamest excuse any reporter ever used. He was in a televised event, so it's obvious to me, he wanted to please his right-wing constituency, including his boss, the transparent right-wing fool Tucker Carlton, by insulting Obama publicly. Munro should have his press credentials revoked. The first amendment gives us the right to criticize government without retribution, not to try to upstage them at press conferences, and if we forget that, the press credentials for future events should not be issued. Munro is a boor and should not be offered the dignity have being invited back.

• Frosty38 | Jun 16, 2012, 12:48 PM EDT

  I m sorry for writing such a bad post. I was upset. Here is the real one We now have a President who cares and want everyone to have a good life. what i wanted to say was that he has not had any shoes thorn at him. Plus you should be really upset at that awful Michele Malkin talking about the first lady on TV remember Hillary on about the book she wrote, That awful women show be tossed off FOX NEwS oh wait that a good station for her

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 12:47 PM EDT

  Lucia826....

• Nicomax | Jun 16, 2012, 12:44 PM EDT

  Just after the 2006 election, Bush held a news conference to announce the 'surge' in Iraq. Those supporting this so-called reporter's interruption yesterday should agree that someone six years ago should have shouted out, "How many more Americans will die in this 'surge, Mr President?"

• Yankee724 | Jun 16, 2012, 12:39 PM EDT

  Obama will get respect when he earns it, which will be when hell freezes over. Looks like from his photo,O'Dowd is probing for his brain--good luck on that. Americans do things a bit differently here than in Ireland, so please, just butt out. We have enough trouble getting rid of this Muslim Socialist in the White House, thank you!

• Frosty38 | Jun 16, 2012, 12:36 PM EDT

  I think because we now have a President that is well schooled and well dressed and a family man. They don't know what to do. I'm Irish and I did not that man was, He was not raised in ireland he more english. he has not had shoes throw at him

• bear022013 | Jun 16, 2012, 12:35 PM EDT

  Munro should be given an AWARD.Why do you ppeople not wake up. Obama is a puppet who is told what to do by the ELITE AMERICAN/BRITISH ANGLOS and no Irish Catholics need apply..GET IT.

• forflann | Jun 16, 2012, 12:30 PM EDT

  What school of journalism did this man graduate from, The Rurpert Murdock college? When FDR was elected Hoover wouldn't even shake his hand. Unemployment was a shocking level, how long did it take for Roosevld to get us out of that Republican mess, Mick the Brick. Try helping out at a food pantry, seniors, unemployed, veterns who can't find a job...who do THEY blame? The congress that refuses to move, "untill after the election" to try to take more power away from those who want to do constructive measures. Talk about Harry Truman's "do nothing 80 th. congress" This bunch is far worse. At one time we were glad to take anyone from a foreign land, when we needed help to develope this country. The only real 100% percent Americans are the tribes people, who have been treated as badly as enemies in their own land. The wonderful state of Arizona did not grat voting rights to Indians until the 20 th. century.

• BrianO | Jun 16, 2012, 12:29 PM EDT

  You leftist are such sheep, without the separation of powers there is only dictatorship. The smoke screen of manners in reporting covers the crime that is taking place. Beware leftist special interest for once these protections are gone you will not be needed or tolerated. Not a threat, a prediction.

• pegmckpt | Jun 16, 2012, 12:26 PM EDT

  @Bythebay--with that accent, Munro is not a born and raised American--if what he says is true that he's a cold war bridegroom, he married into US citizenship, if anything

• irishgenebuf | Jun 16, 2012, 12:26 PM EDT

  I wonder who is the moron who is holding the microphone.

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 12:25 PM EDT

  slainte9...Now that England owns Ireland...yes..it is true, many have gone to the left. BBC Ireland has had a great influence. You may like to know though...that politically, only the old timers from the JFK era still hang to the far left. The youth here are starting to see Obama for who he is....was a hard lesson to learn. He will not get nearly the vote he did last time.

• pegmckpt | Jun 16, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT

  don't know the disrespectful fool should be fired, but I do LOVE the irony of his (last) question heard as the President walks away, "What about the American worker who is unemployed?" I wonder does Mr Munro lose any sleep over taking a job from an American reporter? Doubt it. funny guy, he is!

• Lucia826 | Jun 16, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT

  Obviously the writer of this piece of claptrap does not much about journalism or journalists. First of all, the ethics code is NOT involved here. How many times do reporters shout out questions to a U.S. president? It is what they do...hoping to get some kind of answer. That is the point of the U.S. and why we live here and ZEALOUSLY GUARD our freedoms, even though BHO would like to turn the U.S. into a socialist dump. This is why we have the Bill of Rights as the first part of the U.S. Constitution. He was within his rights to interrupt and BHO should have given him an answer. I guess BHO thinks he is Castro or Putin or Chavez. By the way, there are no licenses or special rules to BE a journalist. There are citizen journalists, bloggers, freelancers and those employed by outlets. Please print stuff AFTER you check the info. Here in the U.S., we don't much care what they opine, do, believe in other countries---just as other countries don't care about us. So, basically--SHUTTY!!!

• irishgenebuf | Jun 16, 2012, 12:15 PM EDT

  It is always fun to see right wing bigots on all shores show their ignorance. Thanks, Irish Central, for taking a position for civility.

• Bythebay | Jun 16, 2012, 12:11 PM EDT

  Have to laugh at the English wannabe O'Dowd's snide remark about King's College. He'd have gone there in a heartbeat if he had the academic qualifications and money to do it, old chap. He couldn't make the grade though.

• pickateer | Jun 16, 2012, 12:08 PM EDT

  Follow-up stories reveal the reporter thought he was finished speaking, and was asking why is he breaking the law and violating the Constitution. This sorry excuse for a president has no respect for this country, its people or the Constitution and sadly the Democrats are not doing anything because he belongs to that party. They know that if he is impeached they will be out of power for the next 20 to 30 years and don't want to kill their cash cow advantage@

• Bythebay | Jun 16, 2012, 12:02 PM EDT

  Munro is American. He's associated with an onlne opinion website.

• slainte9 | Jun 16, 2012, 11:59 AM EDT

  Bush or Obama, respect the President of the United States. Pull his and his company's press passes. Obama has more Irish-Americans in his Cabinet than any Republican, by the way.

• PhlutiePhan | Jun 16, 2012, 11:54 AM EDT

  McNamara31: I guess that you are mad because you were kicked out of McNamara's band. You are now putting "band aids" over any criticism of Obimini and declaring it racism. Of course, Munro was over the top. Nevertheless, a radical world socialist who is beoming too big for his britches is not good for the American political process. When someone's core constituency is "radical women, non whites, & non heterosexuals" and puts down the working class, then someone better get radical and start asking some questions.

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 11:53 AM EDT

  Mr. O'Dowd should be writing for the BBC..would fit right in. I do know people there, need any contacts Mr. O'Dowd? In the meantime...Mr. Obama will get respect when he deserves it. I have never seen one man make such a mess of things...ever! Can't wait till November.

• Bythebay | Jun 16, 2012, 11:51 AM EDT

  cavanlass, Niall O'Dowd does NOT live in Ireland, he emigrated to the US decades ago.

• Michael F Brenn | Jun 16, 2012, 11:46 AM EDT

  The Irish Central article on the so-called 'cheap shot' about questioner of President Obama is predictable. The Irish Central element is so in love with Obama that it is not able to report his many faults. At a time when many states are experiencing 20% real unemployment Irish Central articles and columnists push to increase these problems by their anti-native American propaganda so illegal aliens are fostered and cherished to take our jobs. SHAME! Mick The Brick St Petersburg, Florida

• 1CelticYankee | Jun 16, 2012, 11:41 AM EDT

  Re: McNamara31 asking about McCain's birth certificate . . . yes, John McCain's birth certificate was questioned and he was correctly declared a proper candidate - he was born, I believe, in the Panama Canal Zone while his father was stationed there as an officer in the U.S. Navy . . . and BOTH of McCain's parents were American CITIZENS !!!

• AengusOg | Jun 16, 2012, 11:37 AM EDT

  The President was interrupted. Heckled is used as an attention-grabbing headline. See full 9 minutes on YouTube and draw your own conclusions.

• lokionline | Jun 16, 2012, 11:31 AM EDT

  Good comment jamthecat.
  
  It would be nice to see conversations like this conducted at something a little more adult than the school yard taunts and the "I know you are, so what am I" comments that make a mockery of discourse.

• Linda Landers | Jun 16, 2012, 11:31 AM EDT

  Not proud to be Irish with this man's behavior. Arrogance is always an ugly trait, and disrespect its unsightly cohort.

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 11:28 AM EDT

  dublinduke Never happened.Donaldson always waited to the conclusion.

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 11:26 AM EDT

  loveapint.."When liberals heckled a Republican, you call it free speech. typical double standard of the brain dead left." Tell me just one time a so called liberal broke into the middle of a presidential speech. And don't tell me Donaldson because it never happened.Conservative journalist acting in this way are pandering to their "good ole boy base" and everyone knows it.It was the same during the GOP primaries; pandering to the worst and lowest in their party.

• jerrydonovan | Jun 16, 2012, 11:26 AM EDT

  The real election campaigning nornally doesn't begin until after labor day.However President O'Bama is already causing panic in the right wing ranks.Has he no shame?All I can say is,"pile it on Mr President".This so called journalist was asking about the unemployed.Isuggest that he ask the republicans in congress about the O'Bama job bill that they are holding up.What about the funding for the unemployed that the republicans keep trying to terminate?

• jamthecat | Jun 16, 2012, 11:26 AM EDT

  I can't believe I'm agreeing with Niall O'Dowd, but he's absolutely right. And those making comments supporting Munro's childish behavior or using it to bash Obama are just as immature and ill-mannered. Bush was treated with kid gloves by the press in comparison to Obama, and every one of you knows it, and I say this as a Liberal who's been extremely disappointed in President and his extremely conservative administration. That you aren't adult enough to acknowledge that is a sad comment on your own behaviors, no one else's.

• lokionline | Jun 16, 2012, 11:24 AM EDT

  Disrespect is ugly and it doesn't matter who does it or who did it before...

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 11:20 AM EDT

  Opoets99 "mistreated"....When did they ever ask to see McCain's birth certificate?

• loveapint | Jun 16, 2012, 11:18 AM EDT

  When liberals heckled a Republican, you call it free speech. typical double standard of the brain dead left.

• dublinduke | Jun 16, 2012, 11:16 AM EDT

  Hmmm I don't recall the same sense of rage directed at Sam Donaldson who did this to Pres. Bush quite frequently when he was in office.

• Ratslayer | Jun 16, 2012, 11:13 AM EDT

  What the hell is a so-called ``conservative journalist" ?? Any journalist who calls himself con or liberal is a totally freaking idiot who should be thrown out of the profession. Period.

• BrianO | Jun 16, 2012, 11:13 AM EDT

  Is everyone blind. The emporor not only is naked but is defecating all over the U.S constitution and you worry about a question being asked of him. Obama is not the congress and has no powers in the U.S to do what he is attempting to do, it is illegal, and immoral. How do you saps who paid close to 20 grand and followed all the rules to become legal citizens feel.

• Opoets99 | Jun 16, 2012, 11:09 AM EDT

  I did not hear you complaining when George Bush was mistreated by the lib press every day for 8 years. Oh, I forgot, Obama is the smartest man who ever lived and we should bow down in his highness's presence.

• McNamara31 | Jun 16, 2012, 11:01 AM EDT

  Disrespect has been a tactic used by the conservatives from the very beginning of the Obama presidency. They treat this president like no other with such rudeness and the outright intention to paint this president as “not one of us”. The same people who are the first to attempt to quote the “founding fathers” have no respect for the rules of “civil” government, and truly intend to opt the message as was done by the ignorant Joe Wilson during the presidential address to the nation, or this presidential speech at the White house. Neill Munro is nothing more that another self serving opportunist who thought more of himself than what is truly necessary for good journalism or governess. The conservatives within the GOP have brought this country to a standstill with total obstruction, have their ignorant attack dogs in place to distract from the governments business of the day, and continue to line their coffers with 100’s of million in donations from those who want only to achieve greater greed through deregulation of oil and coal while paying their CEO’s with the money taken from middle class healthcare and pension funds. The GOP Conservative’s are nothing more than the “Old South Style Politics” complete with obvious racism towards this president and a need to make the American Middle Class nothing more than non union workers on their corporate plantations.

• 1CelticYankee | Jun 16, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT

  Re: DrMcHugh . . . you sir need a proctologist if you think obama's health care plan and planned distruction of American capitalism makes him a good president! You are correct that George W. Bush 43 was a failure as a president, but he sure as hell didn't facilitate the 'end of America' If you're actually a physician and support 'obama-care' you're one of the disillusioned few & probably a voting member of the AMA(?) I've several board-certified physicians in my family and they're ALL against 'obama-care'! After you visit the proctologist of your choice, you'll hopefully realize that we need to end 'base-line' budgeting, shrink the federal government and allow the states the rights protected for them under the Constitution. If you're unfamiliar with it, then visit the Hillsdale College website. As for jobs returning to America, we need to offer 'amnesty' for the major corporations to bring money and jobs home ( greatly lower corporate taxes) and eliminate the loopholes allowing them to take jobs overseas while still getting tax breaks = only give tax breaks to corporations who built, etc. within the USA. And yes, G.E. needs to pay a hell of a lot of taxes! (by the way, the 'rich' are already paying w-a-y more than their 'fair share' of taxes so leave them alone = their investments will rebuild American jobs, production and wealth after we vote out obama and the rest of his socialist sycophants.

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 10:58 AM EDT

  Maryosullivan....it was the white vote that got him elected...so jump off the race card garbage..it does not work. As a rule..only racist use the race card. DrMcHugh...what kind of a doctor are you? Surely not one who cares for the sick. There is NOT ONE doctor in the US (unless under Obamas thumb) that is behind his health care plan. Do you not read all reports? We have two doctors in the family...they fear for the people! 83 % of the doctors are thinking of leaving if it comes into place. FACT. I doubt very much that you are a doctor at all.

• irishbob | Jun 16, 2012, 10:50 AM EDT

  The only reason Obama signed this law was to ensure he got more votes. Does it really surprise anyway that would sign this law by bypassing Congress? Obama thinks he can do anything, even bypass Congress, and nobody will stop him.If he is reelected, America is in REAL trouble that it will never be able to correct.

• pmaceinri | Jun 16, 2012, 10:49 AM EDT

  Niall O'Dowd is right. This guy is an obnoxious, ill-mannered, boorish jerk. He's also a right-wing bigot, but whether he or the President came from the left or the right is neither here nor there - this is the behaviour of a prat. It makes it all the worse that he's a foreigner, and Irish at that.

• marcpcoleman | Jun 16, 2012, 10:48 AM EDT

  Would you say the same if Bush had been heckled? Just askin'....

• Kendall | Jun 16, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT

  Yet if he heckled a Republican you would praise him.

• DrMcHugh | Jun 16, 2012, 10:42 AM EDT

  As a physician, I have great respect for President Obama and for all he is trying to do to improve the coordination of patient care and for creating incentives for the wealthy corporations to return jobs to the US. It is sad that Mr Munroe acted as he did. In the end, the American people will get the government that they deserve. As an American, I do not want to return to the days of President Bush, where wealthy corporations moved so many jobs overseas and our middle-class was destroyed. The wealthy have not cared about how poorly the middle-class have been doing, since the wealthy have continued to make profits. Where is the shame of the Republican party in Congress, when they refuse to have the rich pay their fair share of taxes? Why would anyone in the middle-class want to vote these people into office again? The Republican party continues to be the party of NO. I was a Republican in the past, but became an independent when I saw the terrible mess the Bush policies left our country in. President Obama has done a remarkable job so far, despite the obstructionism of the Republican party and the obstructionism of the Catholic Bishops.

• maryosullivan | Jun 16, 2012, 10:36 AM EDT

  Anyone recall Eartha Kitt [sp?] When she posed a quite civil question to Lady Bird Johnson many years ago, the American public was so aghast that Ms Kitt couldn't find work for years.A black woman daring to question the lady of the manor ???? what could she be thinking? The boorishness of the slurs that have been hurled at Africans/Americans [Obama included] should make all American cringe. I wonder why African/Amers. has been docile for so long. I suspect they won't be so for ever

• DrTrelawney | Jun 16, 2012, 10:34 AM EDT

  In what possible sense does attending King's College, London make you an "upper-class twit"?

• 1CelticYankee | Jun 16, 2012, 10:27 AM EDT

  Niall O'Dowd is a disgrace to Ireland, Irish journalists and sane people throughout the world. Obama, clearly to worst president in American history (yes, worse than Jimmy Carter or Lyndon Johnson) and is only given a free pass because he's America's 1st black president. FIRST, he'd said last year that he couldn't bypass the Congress on this issue and grant amnesty by fiat , and SECOND its clearly an election ploy by a desperate man to be re-elected. As for "disrespect" . . . remember how the TV Talking Heads used to question Reagan, George H.W. Bush 41 and George W. Bush 43. In light of Obama's contradicting himself - or 'flip-flopping' for youse dumb Irishers, it was responsible journalism. This adds over 800,000 to a workforce with more than 11% unemployment (yes, people don't disappear after running out of 'unemployment' = the dole) and is the 1st step letting 'illegals' to vote = the only hope barack husein obama (-kardashian) has to be re-elected... Of course you're entitled to your opinion, and the right to prove yourself an ignorant ass!

• Skibberrean | Jun 16, 2012, 10:25 AM EDT

  It was totally refreshing to see someone ......FINALLY.... ask the fraud tht sits in our White House a real question and not placate to all the liberal bias. The timiming may have been off, but my hat is off to Neil Munro. Maybe if all the media in Obama's back pocket would start asking....REAL...questions for a change the American public might be educated as to what Obama is really after. After all folks...."I CAN BE MORE FLEXIBLE AFTER I AM RE-ELECTED"! Very scary!!!!!

• jackinnj | Jun 16, 2012, 10:25 AM EDT

  The frustration with Obama is owing to the very few pressers he's had in which journalists are allowed to ask questions. So far under 100 -- compared with over 400 for each of Bush and Clinton. OB likes the very stage-managed interview, and he's very thin-skinned.

• AengusOg | Jun 16, 2012, 10:24 AM EDT

  Having just watched the President's almost 9 minute address, it is fair to say that Mr. Munro was guilty of one interruption at the 4:41 mark. It came a split second after the President's emphatic, "It's the right thing to do!" The President chastised him and continued, uninterrupted, to the end of the speech. No questions were taken, however the President did respond directly to Munro before he left the podium. The President wasn't badgered, he was interrupted. Draw your own conclusions by viewing the incident. Youtube Q5CWMJMJ75E.

• Cavanlass | Jun 16, 2012, 10:24 AM EDT

  Maybe if you lived here in the USA you'd feel differently, Niall. It would be easy to respect the office of the president if the president respected the office itself. How interesting is that the others who attempt to speak their minds are shouted down and yet Mr O expects to be treated as sacrosanct? Mr O is destoying this country and deserves no respect. He should be booted out. Don't forget how O went to Europe before his "enthronement" and stood in front of the crowd and said "I am the One". The reporter who asked questions should be applouded.

• eiriamach | Jun 16, 2012, 10:23 AM EDT

  I oppose censorship even when people are extremely rude, as Munro was. President Obama handled the incident well. In a tough way, he deferred the question until he'd finished with his explanation. Then he took Munro's question FIRST, briefly chastised him for the way he had interrupted an organized press meeting, and then USED Munro's question to highlight an important American value. Among credentialed colleagues in journalism, Munro is washed up! If the far-right picks him up, his media exposure will be brief because, like so many on the extremes, he has only angry attitudes and ideology to offer, 'same old memes, over-simplifications, and slogans, nothing of substance, no arguments, facts, or analysis. In politics, most of us ignore the blather and seek out substance--the work of real journalists. I hope enough substance finds its way through the mounting ideological din by election time.

• aobrien1 | Jun 16, 2012, 10:21 AM EDT

  I bet you wouldn't be making the same complaint if it were some leftie heckling George Bush!

• aobrien1 | Jun 16, 2012, 10:06 AM EDT

  Tucker carlson runs the web news site Daily caller that mr. Munroe works for. Mr Munroes job was to get answers from the speech. There where no questions taken from the president after the speech. So since he yelled a question directed at a president who is dictating legislation that is deemed keckling? As I watch the U.S. Constitution being pissed on by this president I am supposed to be upset that a reporter asks a question. Go ahead fire all the contrary reporters, better yet throw them in prison, or have them hung.

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 10:06 AM EDT

  rsr8247 .....really like what you posted...and you are right!

• ColleenMcVeety | Jun 16, 2012, 10:02 AM EDT

  Very few people respect Mr. Obama....unless you are a BONEHEAD....so mind your own business. You are so far left...what you write is actually comical.

• torbreezy | Jun 16, 2012, 09:58 AM EDT

  Let the record show that Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Congressman who "spoke truth to power" by uttering "You lie!" to President Obama as he spoke to the Congress has since been proven to be correct in his assertion. Moreover, Mr. Munro may have been influenced by watching too many "episodes" of the "Question Time" wherein the British Prime Minister is challenged to defend his policies. Would that we had a "Question Time" to permit such challenging questions of our President rather than the "soft balls" served by a subservient press corps.

• J.D.McCaffrey | Jun 16, 2012, 09:57 AM EDT

  I write with the perspective of having worked as a reporter for 28 years for two American metropolitan daily newspapers, and I say without hesitation that Munro was wrong, flat wrong, and his excuses are obviously lies and self-serving. His behavior was an embarrassment to all reporters. He knew damned well he was being boorish and obnoxious. If he didn't know, he shouldn't have been there. And his boss, Tucker Carlson, a laughable excuse for a journalist, coming to Munro's defense, compounds the sin. Unfortunately the right-wing knew-jerk reaction has already set up a deafening din. Send Munro back to writing obits. He evidently missed several important part of his training.

• Jung Woman | Jun 16, 2012, 09:43 AM EDT

  How embarrassing! Regardless of any political agenda - this is an absolute disgrace to the sterling character of most journalists - Irish or not! Shame on him. I want to know who the guy is holding the mic to this guy's mug! Clearly - they were in cahoots!

• racallahan | Jun 16, 2012, 09:40 AM EDT

  Though I am absolutely no fan of the Dear Leader......he was completely out of line. I must assume the being a complete butthole is now a major course in journalism school???!!!

• rsr8247 | Jun 16, 2012, 09:35 AM EDT

  Thank you for your fair and balanced commentary Mr. O'Dowd. It balances warmly with all of the times in the past when you condemned the left-wing journalists for heckling Pres. Bush when he was making a speech. I'm glad I don't PAY for reading this paper anymore!!!

• dev4 | Jun 16, 2012, 09:32 AM EDT

  somebody has to ask questions the rest of the press are all in the tank for obama.

• Curitiba | Jun 16, 2012, 09:19 AM EDT

  Ciara: you are making the incorrect assumption that everybody in Ireland is as well educated as you. They're not. Just like everywhere else, you get people who did not make it as far as university because they are better at working with their hands. I'm sure you're going to say Irish people don't want to clean toilets, but they will if they can live on the wages and they're better off than on the dole. You know things have gone too far when foreigners like Munro start saying that there is something wrong with American immigration policy. As for the engineer thing, could these firms not recruit direct from Irish universities and train graduates to their particular requirements? Or is it a case of they only want to recruit people trained at some foreign company's expense, they are too tight to train them themselves?

• ciaradexy | Jun 16, 2012, 09:04 AM EDT

  or they could stay here on the dole! Its entirely up to them. yet again there are engineering companies advertising for staff here and irish are not applying for these jobs so yet again, we will need foreigners to take them.

• ciaradexy | Jun 16, 2012, 09:02 AM EDT

  Curitiba, those 'highly skilled' people could stay here and work in restaurants or clean toilets like all those foreigners are doing but the irish chose not to. they chose to go abroad and work in their chosen fields rather than do the low paid unskilled work. No one here HAS to emigrate.

• ciaradexy | Jun 16, 2012, 08:44 AM EDT

  A foreigner in the US complaining about foreigners taking jobs from Americans. Oh the irony!

• Curitiba | Jun 16, 2012, 08:36 AM EDT

  How is this "cheap shot journalism"? He did his job, he asked the difficult questions. Or are journalists supposed to only ask fawning questions that pander the the politician's ego? Can Obama not justify his policy, is that why he did not want to answer the question? A pity journalists in Ireland do not have such guts, it was left to some poor old pensioner from to ask Kenny exactly why he was exporting so many highly skilled people.