Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s “Rest is Politics” is the pod in question.
Who cares, really. The man is an idiot regardless and only got elected because he wasn’t Trump. The sooner he’s gone the better.
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God he’s embarrassing, he just thinks that’s what you’re supposed to say as “an Irishman”. Why do so many Americans treat nationality like a cosplay?
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Wait until he finds out Biden is an Anglo-Saxon name.
I’m English and I don’t blame him if he did say that.
Trump said Grab them by the pussy.
Bojo said Picaninnies with watermelon smiles.
Another rich twat who says twattish things.
The sooner they’re all in the bin the better.
The man is a geriatric senile old fart so it probably happened.
The whole American need to find some tenuous link to an nationality they are far removed from is so ridiculous.
At best it is cringe and annoying, like when Americans with some distant Scottish immigrant ancestor in the 19th Century belive that are some sort of celtic warrior, babble about their clans and spout rubbish about being related to Robert the Bruce. At worst it can be dangerous and lead to Americans donating to terrorist causes like the IRA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAID) . In the example of President Joe Biden, his attitude to wards Europe and the UK seems steeped in the exaggerated but dated folklore of Irish grudge, and revealing in photo opportunities with a terrorist like Gerry Adams.
Most sensible English people hate the English too, the only thing that offends me in this is the usual American thing of saying “I’m Irish”, no, you’re not.
He also sang a powerful rendition of Come Out Ye Black and Tans.
I know there’s little to gain in pointing this out every time, but it’s an utterly sensationalist headline.
“Explosive podcast”? “Rant”? It’s neither of those things. He made an off-hand comment years ago that could easily be read as screwing around.
Haha, he’s more English than Irish, but that’s good old fashioned American ignorance for you.
I mean, he’s an improvement over Trump but only just.
He can hate the English all he wants. But the US still need the ‘English’ the back US foreign policy and their wars.
I mean at times I hate the English too. Some are lazy, bone idol.
> “When we were briefing him on Iraq in the mid to late 2000s. One of my friends came in to brief him and came out completely shocked because she’d gone in to try and explain the Sunni-Shia dimension in Iraq and he, then Vice President to Obama, said: ‘I completely understand the situation. They hate each other. I’m Irish. I hate the English.’ And that was his absolutely off the cuff normal comment back in the 2000s,” he said.
Sounds like he was cracking a joke to me
Wait till you read what he’s said about black people
Ha! Jokes on him as the English are natural enemies with other English. Just like English and Scots or English and Welsh or English and the damn bloody french or English and other English. Damn English, they ruined England!
To be fair everyone “hates” the English but it’s a stereotypical lazy view almost like sport rivalry or banter rather than actual xenophobia.
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Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s “Rest is Politics” is the pod in question.
Who cares, really. The man is an idiot regardless and only got elected because he wasn’t Trump. The sooner he’s gone the better.
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God he’s embarrassing, he just thinks that’s what you’re supposed to say as “an Irishman”. Why do so many Americans treat nationality like a cosplay?
[removed]
Wait until he finds out Biden is an Anglo-Saxon name.
I’m English and I don’t blame him if he did say that.
Trump said Grab them by the pussy.
Bojo said Picaninnies with watermelon smiles.
Another rich twat who says twattish things.
The sooner they’re all in the bin the better.
The man is a geriatric senile old fart so it probably happened.
The whole American need to find some tenuous link to an nationality they are far removed from is so ridiculous.
At best it is cringe and annoying, like when Americans with some distant Scottish immigrant ancestor in the 19th Century belive that are some sort of celtic warrior, babble about their clans and spout rubbish about being related to Robert the Bruce. At worst it can be dangerous and lead to Americans donating to terrorist causes like the IRA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAID) . In the example of President Joe Biden, his attitude to wards Europe and the UK seems steeped in the exaggerated but dated folklore of Irish grudge, and revealing in photo opportunities with a terrorist like Gerry Adams.
Most sensible English people hate the English too, the only thing that offends me in this is the usual American thing of saying “I’m Irish”, no, you’re not.
He also sang a powerful rendition of Come Out Ye Black and Tans.
I know there’s little to gain in pointing this out every time, but it’s an utterly sensationalist headline.
“Explosive podcast”? “Rant”? It’s neither of those things. He made an off-hand comment years ago that could easily be read as screwing around.
Haha, he’s more English than Irish, but that’s good old fashioned American ignorance for you.
I mean, he’s an improvement over Trump but only just.
He can hate the English all he wants. But the US still need the ‘English’ the back US foreign policy and their wars.
I mean at times I hate the English too. Some are lazy, bone idol.
> “When we were briefing him on Iraq in the mid to late 2000s. One of my friends came in to brief him and came out completely shocked because she’d gone in to try and explain the Sunni-Shia dimension in Iraq and he, then Vice President to Obama, said: ‘I completely understand the situation. They hate each other. I’m Irish. I hate the English.’ And that was his absolutely off the cuff normal comment back in the 2000s,” he said.
Sounds like he was cracking a joke to me
Wait till you read what he’s said about black people
Ha! Jokes on him as the English are natural enemies with other English. Just like English and Scots or English and Welsh or English and the damn bloody french or English and other English. Damn English, they ruined England!
To be fair everyone “hates” the English but it’s a stereotypical lazy view almost like sport rivalry or banter rather than actual xenophobia.