imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism

Albert Brooks was watching television in his hotel room.
On the screen William Hurt was interviewing someone about Libyan terrorism.
Albert Brooks worked for the same news organisation as William Hurt.
He knew that in a better world he might have been presenting the prime time news programme which William Hurt was presenting.
William Hurt was a good looking guy and could act relaxed in front of camera.
Albert Brooks had once been allowed to try a live broadcast but had frozen up.
Now still watching the screen he phoned in some background information to the news room.
"Tell William that Gadaffy doesn't seem like a psycho in person," he said. "In spite of everything he's done he can project a persona of charm and gravitas. He's actually quite presidential."
Moments later William Hurt interrupts his on air guest to say:
"It's interesting to note that Colonel Gadaffy doesn't always come across as unstable in person. People who've interviewed him remark time and again that he can be persuasive, charming, even presidential."
Albert Brooks sits watching his television.
Albert Brooks murmurs aloud: "My God. I say it here. It comes out there."
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On Saturday in the Irish Times, a journalist styling himself Deaglan De Breadun mentioned the institutionalised left wing bias which has permeated that newspaper for many decades.
He did not use those terms.
But this was his subject.
He was reviewing a book about a leftist terror group in Ireland.
In passing he referred to leading political figures in present day Ireland who had been part of that group.
In passing he referred to at least one senior Irish Times reporter who had been favourably disposed to that group.
In passing he referred to supporters of that group who had controlled significant elements of programming policy at the national broadcaster RTE.
This is the first time even a creeping mention of the Irish Times' decades long pursuance of an arrant supra national leftist agenda, in concert with other leftist infiltrators at the RTE monopoly broadcaster, has found its way into the paper itself.
Yeah.
I say it here and it comes out there.
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I believe Deaglan De Breadun's innocuously styled references, based on my own more lurid allegations, are an attempt to head off a growing concern about what exactly went on in the Irish Times and RTE over the past thirty years.
These segments of his article are minimalist cutesy references to more serious allegations I have made on this blog.
No scandal here folks.
They're gonna pretend we all knew about this all along.
Everyone was in on the joke.
Incidentally, my most salient allegations about the Irish Times and RTE are contained in an article on this website entitled Greatest Scandals Of Irish Journalism.
This article was accessed recently from an Irish Times computer.
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Deaglan De Breadun in his cutesy evocations of what amounts to a massive and malign Soviet sponsored debasement of Irish journalism, never once mentions the Soviet Union or the old Communist Party of Russia.
In my article, which he ripped off, I mentioned the Soviets copiously.
I mean, you couldn't miss the reference.
It was an odd piece of data to omit from Deaglan De Breadun's snow job.
One of my key allegations had also appeared in the Phoenix Magazine.
To wit, that during the Cold War a senior journalist with the Irish Times was known to have assisted the KGB in compiling a list of Irish journalists to be rounded up when the Russians took over Ireland.
This was when the Communists were taking over a new country every couple of years.
China 1949.
Hungary 1956.
Czechoslovakia 1968.
Nicaragua 1979.
Afghanistan 1979.
Iran 1979.
Poland 1980.
It was reasonable for a treacherous Irish Times journalist, hungering for world dictatorship, to hope Ireland might someday make it to the top of the list.
And these are the people who have stood in judgement on the Catholic church.
These miserable traitors.
The Phoenix published the story about the KGB list.
I published it.
Deaglan De Breadan refers to the journalist.
But he don't mention no list.
He talks of the journalist's left wing bias as being an open secret, as though it was a quirk and nothing more sinister.
But he don't make no mention of Soviet Russia.
Irish Times political coverage throughout the Cold War and afterwards, was anti American.
Irish Times coverage of the Catholic Church has been grievously malign.
Irish Times coverage of every conceivable social issue has followed a manipulative agenda designed to promote abortion, condom culture. Judge Liberal's let em out of jail culture, and every other debilitating social trend they could think of.
Irish Times reportage for thirty years has been unreservedly malign.
And now we know why.
If the Irish Times was truly infiltrated by left wing organisations taking orders from a foreign enemy, we need to talk about this openly.
And we need to start undoing the damage these traitors inflicted on our country and our culture.
As for RTE, the national broadcaster, it too was controlled at news and documentary level by individuals with links to Moscow.
I put this allegation to an RTE producer once.
She told me: "It was never that bad. One group had control of news. But a different group had control of documentaries."
Let's be clear. She was referring to groups of Marxists and Maoists who had infiltrated the station and achieved control of output through deception and manipulation. She thought that the fact that these terrorist agents of a foreign power had fallen out with each other meant that plurality had been preserved in the discourse.
That's public service broadcasting Irish style.
I kid you not.
One other item which should be brought into the public domain is the direct links since the 1970's between the terrorist group styling itself the IRA and the old Soviet Union.
My sources in the IRA have told me that from the 1970's, their organisation was taking orders from the KGB.
My IRA source's exact words were: "I thought it was the wrong decision. But Adams and McGuinness and those lads were determined to go to Moscow."
I gotta tell ya gentle travellers of the internet.
If IRA men are telling me this sort of thing down the boozer, you gotta believe the same information is at the very least available to the great Deaglan De Breadun.


Footnote: Congratulations to RTE's former Religious Affairs Correspondent Joe Little who this week has been appointed to the RTE Authority, the powerful and shadowy board of administrators who run the national channel. I note that Joe Little spent his youth around Dublin working for a group styling itself Socialist Worker. According to my sources, Joe Little's favourite psychotic killer during his university years was Chairman Mao. So for the past three decades a Marxist Maoist atheist called Joe Little has stood in judgement on the ancient church, wrinkling up his nose with distaste as he excoriated our ancient religion on the nightly news.. The Marxist Maoist atheist Joe Little spent all these years posing as an objective commentator on Catholic church matters. A servile communist appartchik justifier of Marxist Maoist murder spent all those years parroting platitudes against our beautiful and true religion. And now he's on the board of management. Must have been some ropy moments when the Soviet Union collapsed, eh Joe? But never mind. All you sleeper agents just kept your heads down didn't you, and endured for a darker victory. Hoo boy. Joe Little is now a member of the RTE Authority. He must really think he's ahead of the game. He will repent in hell fire.

(First published 21st September 2009)