Rabbitte shooting messenger with attack on political media

THE hubris of Communication Minister Pat Rabbitte, who recently lambasted the quality of political journalism in this country, would be a lot easier to take seriously if the nation hadn’t been lumbered with such a headline-grabbing array of greedy and grasping incompetents in Leinster House for at least the last 30 years.

Displaying an impressive aversion to irony, the hoity-toity minister said coverage of politicians’ exploits in national newspapers amounted to an indecorous “race to the bottom”, and said the “impression is abroad” that any intrepid reporter who wanted to write a story that surpassed the level of banal “tittle-tattle” would immediately be handed their P45.

“Nowhere has the standard dropped so much as in the coverage of politics,” he sniffed, in case there was any lingering doubt about the import of his comments among the idiot political journalists tasked with covering his speech.