This morning Omaniblog made his position clear on Madame Poulet’s blog

  1. Paul O’Mahony (Omaniblog)

    I think it’s utterly disgraceful that this blog [Madame Poulet] should give publicity to the RTE apology. It fuels the situation. Those so-called cartoons of Brian Cowen were an affront.

    Remember his family and friends: do they not have the right to live without having their nearest and dearest depicted in such a disrespectful manner?

    This is our Taoiseach. Our leader. Our first citizen. The person on whom we depend to find a way back for Ireland. And some non-entity has the cruelty to put ink to canvas in a way that draws attention to the figure of our democratically elected Mr Cowen.

    I ask you, was the artist elected? Would the painter be prepared to stand for election in the same constituency as Mr Cowen? Then we’d see what the real Irish people think of both sides.

    As for your blog, Madame, how dare you prolong the embarrassment. You should be ashamed of yourself and I expect nothing less that an apology from you - or else you can be sure I won’t be voting for you next time. You were elected to represent Irish bloggers. As the so-called best in class, don’t you feel any duty to prevent the circulation of ridicule.

    The least you might have done would have been to publish a decent painting of Mr Cowen, who, when clothed, is as fine a figure of a man as Ireland is fortunate to have. You should publish the two side by side so that we, your readers, can see balance in action.

    As for those who call for a day of action, when loads of people who are no good as artists and would never have a painting of their’s ever hung in any decent house would abuse their talent by making further images of the one man we should trust to recover Ireland, words fail me. The plain people of Ireland know their mind. Not one single parish will invite any of those sort of people to exhibit their work.

    It’s time you stopped inflaming the national crisis. RTE should never have apologised. Typical of them, they apologise in order to draw attention to the original offence. You refer to RTE as being craven. Frankly I wouldn’t give a Craven A to anyone of that shower: they are clearly out to get Brian. First publicise the offending cartoons; next apologise for publicising them - and above all preserve the whole sorry incident for posterity.

    I look to the Church to show the right way to deal with this. Do you see any bishop coming out demanding an apology? No, you see dignified, condemnatory silence.

    I wish there was a way in which I could say all this to you without sullying my keyboard. I can tell you I’ve deleted every image of Mr Cowen unclothed, and every image of that smug woman apologising from my hard drive. I wish you would do the same.

  2. on 25 Mar 2009 at 07:24 # Paul O’Mahony (Omaniblog)

    In order to take those disgraceful, pornographic ‘paintings’ out of circulation for ever, I am today launching a public appeal for funds to buy them.

    I’m sure many of your decent readers, if you have any, will be willing to contribute to the purchase fund. I think it a national duty to ensure no future generation sees such filth.

    I have a house with a deep dark cellar, where the paintings could be hung in perpetuity and perhaps, in a gesture of generosity, someone will burn the house down.

    Shortly after, I was outed by 

    Twenty Major

    As for your blog, Madame, how dare you prolong the embarrassment. You should be ashamed of yourself and I expect nothing less that an apology from you - or else you can be sure I won’t be voting for you next time. You were elected to represent Irish bloggers. As the so-called best in class, don’t you feel any duty to prevent the circulation of ridicule.

    You need to get off your high horse. Suzy wasn’t ‘elected’ to do anything and how dare you speak to her or anyone else who has highlighted this issue in that manner. Who are you to slur her readers, or any other blogger who has run with this story? I’m sure Suzy can live without your vote ‘next time’.

    Seriously, you need to step back, take a good look at what you’ve written in the last two comments, and then think about getting some help, because you are quite clearly deranged.