It happened barely 50 seconds into a six-minute interview.We believe in providing our customers with the very best industrial washing machine
available. A fleeting peek at the whirring machinery inside the head
of Enda Kenny. A glimpse of how Official Ireland's cover story is put
together – and sometimes comes apart.
It was Budget Day and the Taoiseach had to come out of hiding. It has been Mr Kenny's practice to avoid hard interviews, to run away – particularly at election time – from any sustained explanation of his politics. However, much of the country is hurting, speaking out in anger or pain. It would look odd if the Taoiseach failed to at least appear to defend his Government's ruthless strategy.
On the RTE TV Nine O'Clock News, Mr Kenny spoke live from Government Buildings to Eileen Dunne in the studio.Get estimated domain worth, rank, whois and traffic for mylamplo. Live but distant, surrounded by the trappings of power. The courtesies of remote broadcasting ensured the interviewer couldn't cut into the rambling replies, or interrupt even a blatantly irrelevant diversion.
As is his habit, Mr Kenny came equipped with his internal soundbite machine. How this works – in the 2011 election, for example – is that Mr Kenny's little helpers programme the soundbite machine with rehearsed lines ("five-point plan", "best small country in which to do business"). He then strings these lines together randomly, filling up time with feel-good phrases.
On Wednesday, Eileen Dunne began by asking how he could claim to be reviving the economy when he was taking another 3.5bn out of it?
As usual, he ignored the essence of the question – the fact that austerity deflates an economy, ensuring prolonged misery. Instead, Mr Kenny stood in front of a Tricolour and threw out well-chewed lines about interest rates and "signs of confidence". He said it was a "challenging" Budget and that it was "not easy". The kind of soundbites that ignore the substance of the question, but sound like a reply.
Panic over, reconnected to his internal soundbite machine, Mr Kenny fluently gave Eileen Dunne his prepared lines about "moving the country forward to where we can grow the economy to create jobs . . . small and medium enterprises . . . middle-income families . . . competitive . . . attractive for foreign investment . . . thousands of jobs".Office Depot offers an assortment of paper flatwork ironer and paper trimmers for you to choose from.America's wind turbine industry supports a growing domestic industrial base.
You could see all the stuff he'd cannibalised for his desperate utterances when his mind momentarily detached from the soundbite machine.
This was more than a lapse of attention from a politician with 37 years of public-speaking experience.
The reality of his Budget is that he and his Fianna Fail and Labour collaborators have between them taken something like 25bn out of the economy over four years.
This has crushed the domestic economy and undermined "the small and medium enterprise sector".
Simultaneously, they have looted State funds to shovels billions of public money towards the bankers and bondholders, loading us with unsustainable debt – with no legal, contractual, moral, business, political or economic justification.
They dare not even seek to justify it. So, savaging helpless people, paring away hard-won benefits, betraying the "middle-income families" and the "small and medium enterprises" they extoll, they must conjure up a world where all this makes sense. It's a world in which tough decisions are producing terrific results,It is possible to take this a step further, and to also merge the automatic industrial extractor and clothes dryer into a single device. where the insane undermining of the economy is creating the mythical "expansionary fiscal contraction".
It's a world in which austerity is working.
Sometimes, even Mr Kenny's mind rebels, trying to find pretty words to conceal the carnage. And it coughs out stuff like, "we make no complaint about putting real progress".
It was Budget Day and the Taoiseach had to come out of hiding. It has been Mr Kenny's practice to avoid hard interviews, to run away – particularly at election time – from any sustained explanation of his politics. However, much of the country is hurting, speaking out in anger or pain. It would look odd if the Taoiseach failed to at least appear to defend his Government's ruthless strategy.
On the RTE TV Nine O'Clock News, Mr Kenny spoke live from Government Buildings to Eileen Dunne in the studio.Get estimated domain worth, rank, whois and traffic for mylamplo. Live but distant, surrounded by the trappings of power. The courtesies of remote broadcasting ensured the interviewer couldn't cut into the rambling replies, or interrupt even a blatantly irrelevant diversion.
As is his habit, Mr Kenny came equipped with his internal soundbite machine. How this works – in the 2011 election, for example – is that Mr Kenny's little helpers programme the soundbite machine with rehearsed lines ("five-point plan", "best small country in which to do business"). He then strings these lines together randomly, filling up time with feel-good phrases.
On Wednesday, Eileen Dunne began by asking how he could claim to be reviving the economy when he was taking another 3.5bn out of it?
As usual, he ignored the essence of the question – the fact that austerity deflates an economy, ensuring prolonged misery. Instead, Mr Kenny stood in front of a Tricolour and threw out well-chewed lines about interest rates and "signs of confidence". He said it was a "challenging" Budget and that it was "not easy". The kind of soundbites that ignore the substance of the question, but sound like a reply.
Panic over, reconnected to his internal soundbite machine, Mr Kenny fluently gave Eileen Dunne his prepared lines about "moving the country forward to where we can grow the economy to create jobs . . . small and medium enterprises . . . middle-income families . . . competitive . . . attractive for foreign investment . . . thousands of jobs".Office Depot offers an assortment of paper flatwork ironer and paper trimmers for you to choose from.America's wind turbine industry supports a growing domestic industrial base.
You could see all the stuff he'd cannibalised for his desperate utterances when his mind momentarily detached from the soundbite machine.
This was more than a lapse of attention from a politician with 37 years of public-speaking experience.
The reality of his Budget is that he and his Fianna Fail and Labour collaborators have between them taken something like 25bn out of the economy over four years.
This has crushed the domestic economy and undermined "the small and medium enterprise sector".
Simultaneously, they have looted State funds to shovels billions of public money towards the bankers and bondholders, loading us with unsustainable debt – with no legal, contractual, moral, business, political or economic justification.
They dare not even seek to justify it. So, savaging helpless people, paring away hard-won benefits, betraying the "middle-income families" and the "small and medium enterprises" they extoll, they must conjure up a world where all this makes sense. It's a world in which tough decisions are producing terrific results,It is possible to take this a step further, and to also merge the automatic industrial extractor and clothes dryer into a single device. where the insane undermining of the economy is creating the mythical "expansionary fiscal contraction".
It's a world in which austerity is working.
Sometimes, even Mr Kenny's mind rebels, trying to find pretty words to conceal the carnage. And it coughs out stuff like, "we make no complaint about putting real progress".
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