today they said

Brian Lenihan (Finance Minister of the Republic of Ireland): "Of course I couldn't tell the truth about the financial situation facing the banks. The whole purpose of being Finance Minister is that you maintain confidence."

James Healy: "Brian Lenihan is an interesting class of liar. He is a liar who claims he lies in order to inspire confidence. He is a liar who when caught in the most abject of lies, attempts to make a virtue out of his lying. He is a liar who believes lying can be a respectable instrument of public polity. His Daddy would be proud. Daddy Lenihan, also a government Minister until satan called him home, was most famous, in a long career of mendaciousness, for denying he ever made certain controversial statements about illegally precipitating elections to a student journalist who had thankfully recorded the controversial statements which Daddy Lenihan had indeed made. Specifically, Daddy Lenihan had spoken to the student journalist about Daddy Lenihan's actions in making improprietous phone calls asking the then President of Ireland Snodgrass T Wildebeest to call a general election. Daddy Lenihan had frankly informed the student journalist while being taped that he had once phoned the President in just such an improprietous attempt to precipitate a general election. When the student journalist reported his remarks, Daddy Lenihan simply denied ever making them. When the student journalist produced the tape of Daddy Lenihan explicitly saying he had phoned the President in an attempt to precipitate a general election, Daddy Lenihan claimed that he might have said something of that nature but that on "mature reflection" he realised the statement was not correct. Ah yes. A lie by any other name is a Lenihan indeed. And the great Lenihan legacy lives on. Daddy Lenihan's other son Conor is also a present incumbent in the Irish parliament as is his sister Mary O'Puke. It is natural enough that Young Lying Brian, the latest Lenihan to inherit a seat in the Irish government, believes like his Daddy that lying is not wrong as long as he has some ulterior motive for his lies. Nay. Young Lying Brian veritably guarantees he will not tell the truth. Okay. Since Brian Lenihan has all but pronounced himself congenitally incapable of telling the truth, I will tell you the truth. Brian Lenihan is spending the Republic of Ireland into penury to cover the gambling losses of Fianna Fail supporters in Fianna Fail's personal bank Anglo Irish Bank. He and his cadre in the corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail party are putting an end to the independent existence of Ireland as a free nation. They are doing so merely to bail out super thieves Sean Fitzpatrick, Somebody Drumm, along with Drumm and Fitzpatrick's close friends, a further coterie of Fianna Fail supporters and their ilk. When these locusts have finished, they will leave not a stone standing upon a stone in our fair nation."

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RTE Commentator: "Sean Fitzpatrick of Anglo Irish Bank was nervous as he realised the true state of his bank's finances."

James Healy: "RTE is wrong on this one. Sean Fitzpatrick was not nervous when he discovered Anglo Irish Bank was about to collapse. Sean Fitzpatrick had always planned to make Anglo Irish Bank collapse. Sean Fitzpatrick had always known the true nature of Anglo Irish Bank's finances. Sean Fitzpatrick's business model was to deliberately run the bank into the ground. From the word go Sean Fitzpatrick was lending himself and his friends thousands of millions of dollars which they could never hope to repay and for which they were effectively offering no security. From the outset Sean Fitzpatrick was asset stripping Anglo Irish Bank of money which he was using Anglo Irish Bank to borrow from other financial institutions. Sean Fitzpatrick was asset stripping Anglo Irish Bank with the express purpose of causing the bank to collapse, and then getting his co-conspirators in the Fianna Fail political party to use States resources to bail it out. The express purpose of provoking the State bail out was so that he and his friends could keep the money they had sequestered through improper loans from Anglo Irish Bank. Once the State was bailing out Anglo Irish Bank, Sean Fitzpatrick and his friends could default on their loans and keep the billions they have stolen. Sean Fitzpatrick's business model was always that Anglo Irish Bank would go bust because it was never under any conceivable circumstances going to be able to reclaim the billions of dollars he and his friends had purloined. Sean Fitzpatrick was only momentarily nervous when he briefly wondered would his allies, in the corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail government, jump ship at the last moment and refuse to use the nation to buy up Sean Fitzpatrick and his friend's gamlbing losses from Anglo Irish Bank. That was the only danger. If Fianna Fail had at the last minute refused to bail out Anglo Irish Bank, which they might have done since it was a niche bank not even in the top three in Ireland and the country's economy would not have been harmed at all had it been allowed to collapse, then Sean Fitzpatrick and his friends would have been left having to pay their own debts. The billions they had stolen would have been seized by the government and used to pay any outstanding creditors who were not themselves involved in Sean Fitzpatrick and his friends' deliberate plans to bankrupt the bank by lending vast sums of money to themselves. In any case because Fianna Fail have chosen to force the entire Irish nation to pay Fianna Fail and Sean Fitzpatrick's gambling debts, Anglo Irish Bank still exists. But it will never do business no matter how many subcompanies Fianna Fail Finance Minister Brian Lying Lenihan splits it into. It exists in name only. Ireland on the other hand may just be finished altogether. I wonder what sort of rulers our new Muslim overlords will make."

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Reverend Ian Paisley: "If sex abuse had been going on in Protestant Churches to the same extent as it was in the Catholic Church, there would have been uproar."

James Healy: "I have some regard for the Reverend Ian Paisley. However. Sex abuse cases within the Protestant Church have massively exceeded the number of cases within the Catholic Church. According to an American survey by Jewish businessman Sam Miller, the cases within the Protestant Church exceed those within the Catholic Church by a factor of at least 500 percent."