Dawkins' Bulldogs

Following Richard Dawkins' appearance on last Friday's episode of The Late Late Show, a segment one could hardly call an "interview", given the complete lack of structure, pertinent questions and a bizarrely hostile attitude on the part of host Ryan Tubridy, I cynically expected to see the Irish blogosphere light up in support of that chinless wonder and his petty attempts to ambush his guest. Imagine my delight then in perusing boards.ie yesterday evening to find that quite the opposite had occurred and a healthy dose of outrage had been stirred up on behalf of Dr. Dawkins and his mistreatment at the hands of RTÉ. Some choice comments:

- "That'll teach me to stay in watching the Late Late Show on a Friday... Cringeworthy"

- "Creationism rules in Irish Society!"

- "What a useless interview. 90% of it was about his LAST book, for the sole purpose of stirring some ****!"

- "His attitude was condescending, but do you blame him? Tubridy questioned him about a topic that doesn't relate to his new book, he spent 90% of the interview talking about that topic; Dawkins was there to promote and talk about his new book, not his book of three years ago. If I were Richard, I'd have been annoyed too, and I'm sure that annoyance would have evinced itself as condescension"

- "Firstly, he did nothing but talk about the topic of "The God Delusion" and not [Dawkins'] new book. Secondly, he had done zero research, had clearly never read a word written by the man and as far as I could tell, all he knew was that 'some english bloke who didn't believe in God' was coming on the show. His questions were inept and lacking any substance. His posture was defensive and dismissive. He had a constant smirk on his face and not once did he attempt to actually dig deep into any of the questions instead asking retarded questions like 'have you thought about your funeral' and asking him to speculate what humans will look like millions of years from now. His linguistic repertoire was laughable forcing phrases into the chaps mouth like 'easter bunny' later using the term to mock the man's argument.
Then to top it off, he decided to ask for a show of hands of those who believe in God as if his pathetic audience of 100 people were some sort of credible source on theological matters... Oh look 95% of Irish retards say they believe in God ergo God exists!"

- "Aside from the whole "Irish people are very gullible" debate, it's Tubridy's interviewing technique that completely lacks any kind of finesse"

- "Dawkins was perfectly respectful. The priest was perfectly respectful. Tubridy hijacked the interview to try and kick up a storm (thankfully his plan failed miserably). The interview was not supposed to be about the God Delusion. The interview was supposed to be about Evolution and the book "The Greatest Show on Earth". It was an absolute joke"

- "Tubridy was unbelievably childish in his questioning and came across as deluded as the audience. What should have been an engaging debate on evolution, Darwin, religion and the beauty of the natural world turned into a village hall kerfuffle about the easter bunny"

- ""So whats the Vatican?? Toy Town?" Well if that's not a defensive believer talking I don't know what is. I really thought Tubridy was a bright, intelligent guy who would love the opportunity to have someone like Richard Dawkins on the show. Looks like he's just another ratings whore who knows how to play into the hands of his largely middle-aged Catholic television audience"

Lovely to see that the infidels of Ireland are speaking out on behalf of Dr. Dawkins and quite right too, but it's such a pity that we couldn't have been better represented in that studio audience. Come back soon Richard, we don't all hate you!