On the Muppets’ Show tonight

by planetparker

Poor Mick Wallace has got into hot piss because he made an off-the-cuff reference to Fine Gael Deputy Mary Mitchell-O’Connor as Miss Piggy. This wasn’t as part of a debate but was picked up on his microphone which he had forgotten to turn off. I include a photograph of Deputy Mitchell-O’Connor and I’m sure some of my readers will see some resemblance. It wasn’t as if he had called  her Thunder Thighs or “Yan fat-arsed bitch  from Cabinteely with the double-barrelled name”. I’m sure she was called much worse names during her time as a teacher. Politicians should stop behaving like ninnies and realise that it’s a contact sport that needs a fairly thick skin. You can’t go crying when someone uses a term you (and possibly most people) might find offensive.  On my blog I have used quite a number of epithets which might cause those of great sensitivity to quail. For example, former taoiseach Brian Cowen wax called Benny, after the dim-witted character on Crossroacds; former tanaiste Mary Coughlan was referred to as Lady Gaga while the obese minister for health was called Mary Hernia, in honour of the condition she would have given her husband had she ever gone down on him in a moment of sexual passion. And let us not forget the public official around here whom I call Whacko Jacko because I know it annoys him.

 But Mick Wallace is probably aware that the Fine Gaelers and comrade comfies of the Labour party are out to get him. They’re hoping that he will be declared bankrupt, and that he will then have to resign his seat producing a by-election, which they have Buckley’s chance of winning.

Q. What’s green and has a taste of pork?
A. Kermit’s finger.

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