Monthly Archives: August 2012

Why is everybody so down on rape? This is what Mike Huckabee (above) wanted to know today, on his radio program, which also featured Rep. Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin as a guest. For instance, did you know that [jazz singer] Ethel Waters was conceived when her mother got raped? Do you know what a world without rape would look like? A world without Ethel Waters, that’s what.

 

Mike Huckabee Would Like to Remind You That Rape Has Created Some Extraordinary People (Gawker)

Kevin Whitty writes:

You know that house in Dundrum [Co Dublin] past the Garda station at the top of the hill? The abandoned house that hosted a few raves back in the day? And when for sale, broadsheet did a piece on it? Well, it’s been sold and work started on it this morning with a bit of tree surgery (above).

Sam Smyth writes:

…I received the first letter from Today FM raising the issue of ending the programme on March 22nd, 2011, the same day that the final report of the Moriarty tribunal was unexpectedly published.

…I asked Mr [Willie] O’Reilly (right) about the status of the letter; he said that it was “as if it hadn’t been written”.

I also spoke to Mr O’Reilly about Denis O’Brien (left) writing to me at my home threatening to sue me personally.

When the controversy over the publishing of the Moriarty tribunal subsided in late summer last year, Mr O’Reilly resurrected the prospect of dropping the Sam Smyth on Sunday programme. The station was doing root and branch change in programming, he said.

Sam Smyth on Sunday was dropped in October last year. It was the only major change in programming on Today FM.

Smyth’s Departure From Today FM (Sam Smyth, irish Times Letters)

Within days of the sacking Willie O’Reilly resigned from Today FM to join RTE in the newly-created position of commercial director. Sam Smyth was replaced by Anton Savage.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)