GEORGE LEE: ENTER THE BANDWAGON
May 7th, 2009 by Conor McCabe
Always I have done my best to keep the public fully informed and up to date about the economy. As danger loomed larger I consistently highlighted the risks of inaction and complacency. These warnings were ignored. Instead the Government chose to portray them as an effort to talk down the economy. It is now too late to warn, too late to turn back the clock, too late to undo the damage that has been done to countless victims of this economic crash. The damage to the economic and social fabric of our country is devastating.” (George Lee, 6 May 2009)
Laughed my ass off at George Lee outing himself as a fucking Blueshirt, especially as we had to listen for years to people telling us what a great impartial commentator he was, but the quote above from his acceptance speech really took the biscuit.
You see, George did his best to keep the public fully informed. (Hear hear.)
BUT…. these warnings WERE IGNORED! (what? Forshame!)
Instead, the government chose to portray his warnings as an effort to talk down the economy. (What? the cads. Boo!)
But now… now, It is now too late to warn, too late to turn back the clock. (Oh! Sob sob.)
So, in order to show those Fianna Fáil fuckers who’s boss, Lee is ready to don Enda Kenny’s CLOAK OF DEATH. He is off to the Dáil to show the world his MARSHALL AERTS, and yell, RUN AT ME THIS WAY, at those who had DARED to MOCK him. (Hell yeah!)
I’m sure George Lee will win - it is Dublin South after all - and especially now that Fianna Fáil have sent a fucking EX-EMPLOYEE OF ANGLO IRISH BANK to stand against him.
Are Fianna Fáil advisors standing around in a room with their underpants over their heads going “blubber blubber blubber blubber blubber” all day?
Anyway. FIANNA FÁIL HAVE IGNORED LEE FOR THE LAST TIME. NOW IT’S PAYBACK TIME.
I hope he brushes up on his maths first, though, as Ireland’s current population of just over 4 million is a figure that is COUNTLESS. Yep. COUNTLESS no less, with COUNTLESS VICTIMS contained within its countable limit. I can picture George working on Moore Street. “How many apples on your stand there George?” “OOHHH COUNTLESS, COUNTLESS apples.” “Well, how many did you put out?” “Overall, 47, but within that figure it is COUNTLESS, YES, COUNTLESS, the amount of apples.”
Oh well. I wonder when The Lee finally shows up in Dáil Eireann and gets to nunchuck Dick Roche’s bollicks to the railings, will the ensuing melee look something like this?
Enjoy.
Conor, I’m not quite sure the point you’re making regarding George and Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a genius. Reared in the traditional styles of Gung Fu he soon felt these formalistic styles were too restrictive. He struggled a lifetime to redefine Gung Fu to the point that he developed his famous ’style of no styles’ - which was more than just synthesis of traditional styles; it was a negation of almost Hegelian brilliance. Even then, the restless Lee (the Bruce guy), was not satisfied. He was concerned not to be trapped in mere negation, not to be trapped in mere opposition to traditional styles. He struggled with this throughout his life - not only in his art (and truly he was an artist), but in his study of philosophy. Along with this he struggled against the bigotry among the ‘elders’ in the US who opposed his teaching Gung Fu to non-chinese and as well as facing the same bigotry from the white community. He met these attacks to his art and his ethnicity with grace and magnanimity. As he explained: “Be formless… shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, and it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
Now tell me - has Lee (the George guy, that is) ever struggled with principles of negation, exploring new forms to give his philosophical content outward expression, has he redrawn lines of engagement and self-exploration? In short, has Lee (the George guy) become water?
It’s true, sifu, apologies. I don’t know if George Lee has ever become water, but have you noticed how he looks like he’s holding in a really watery shit each time he’s talking on camera? Boy, the day when he lets that go, whoosh!
Former broadcaster runs for office. This has happened in Korea and the United States in recent years. I hate right-wingers as much as the next person but in light of the brothers, sons and daughters running for election surely this is a welcome development.
Well, because county and city councilors are completely castrated when it comes to political power - and that´s a political decision dating back to the foundation of the state - people have to use their TDs in Ireland for same. George Lee will have absolutely no stomach for the medical cards and planning permission favours which are the bread and butter of Irish politics. That’s nobody’s individual fault - the problem is systemic. George Lee is going to do fuck-all about that, instead he’ll end up getting eaten alive either by the public or by his “friends” in Fine Gael who are going to hate his parachuting guts, I mean, after all the hard work Leo Varadkar has put in stirring the headlines with his racist bilge and now he’s got a blow-in stealing his light? Tea and scones in the afternoon it won’t be.
No. Fine Gael will use Lee to oust Enda Kenny as leader by presenting a “dream team” of Bruton as leader and George Lee as finance spokesman, then after that he’s meat on a stick. He’s a dead man walking, and the sad git can’t even see it.
We have to see a true reform of local politics before TDs can be allowed to do what they should be doing - that is, dealing with national issues which affect all citizens. George Lee is going to do nothing to change that, no more than Geraldine Kennedy did when she went into politics with the ALL NEW ALL DANCING PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS WHO CHANGED IRISH POLITICS SO MUCH BY MAKING SURE HAUGHEY STAYED IN POWER.
The problem is systemic, and that’s where the reform has to happen.
I look at George Lee and I think of the old adage: you put a donkey on a plane and fly it around the world, it still comes back a donkey.