Posts Tagged Under brian cowen

November 6th, 2009

Satire? And Some Music

I really like the song, but I’m not sure about the video. Worth watching though. Bill Coleman is a Cork singer/songwriter. His new single, Welcome to the Breakdown,  is all about getting laid off and spending the ill-gotten-gains recording and making music. Worse things he could be doing, I guess. The video features “Brian Cowen, [...]

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April 1st, 2009

Biffo stylee…

I saw Rick posted Picturegate, The Movie over at his place earlier and thought of this. It’s by the same makers, similar in style but more epic in scope. It’s shocking, it’s dramatic, it’s real… The Brian Cowen Story

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March 25th, 2009

The Taoiseach has no clothes and RTE has no balls: the Brian Cowen Nude Caricature

Government pressure on RTE to redact reports on the Brian Cowen nude paintings is an attack on our right to titter at those in power.

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March 23rd, 2009

Biffo Takes A Dump In The National Gallery

So who is the mystery hero artist who managed a coup at the National Gallery on Saturday, sneaking in and displaying their satirical work of our beloved Taoiseach? The unknown renegade artist displayed a portrait of Biffo in all his glory, sitting on the loo with a roll of toilet paper in his hand. It [...]

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March 15th, 2009

The flabby hand of Government in the mouth of Satire

Public Inquiry and The Irish Bulletin are both covering RTE’s editorial decision to tone down Nob Nation’s pieces on our buffoonish Taoiseach Brian Cowen. Satire is what keeps right minded people from going insane during regimes of inadequacy. I submit that the Daily Show and Colbert Report sustained the mental health of America during the [...]

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