Kenny’s hidden baggage is dangerous in public service broadcasting

We're all on the same page here. There are people who are OK and people who are not OK.

Fine Gael people are OK. They are the people we chum up with on air. They are our sort.

Pat Kenny’s broadcasting has had this tone for as long as I’ve been listening carefully. Before the last election, he seemed to swallow hook, line and sinker the belief put forward by Fine Gael’s Peter Matthews and others that we could default in some strategic way. Now that Fine Gael are in government and doing nothing of the sort he’s moved to their right, or their left, if you prefer. But even if Fine Gael are, in his view, doing the wrong thing, you get the impression he feels they’re the right people doing the wrong thing. He has become the voice of Fine Gael elder lemons who thought they had everything sewn up until the property and banking crash eviscerated their pensions.