“It’s hard not to think that many will have missed out on tonight’s debate after switching the station during Yates’ rabid opening half an hour,” writes TVsCarlKinsella. vmtvdebate
With seven candidates on the stage, you'd expect that these old political rivals would be at each other's throats.
But whose voice is that? Which candidate is that I hear yelling? That doesn't sound like Leo. That doesn't sound like Micheál. Wait a minute. I know that voice. That's no candidate. That'sIf you've ever watched an American political debate, you'll know that sometimes debates have two or three moderators, where the moderators take turns on asking about different topics. Yates and his co-host Matt Cooper struggled with that ballet.
But it wasn't just that the interruptions were loud, and frequent. It's that they also betrayed a way of thinking that was inherently unhelpful to a debate about the state of the nation.Yates borrowed Leo Varadkar's own soundbite on Sinn Féin, and opined that their policies are analogous to those of Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom.
When Solidarity TD Mick Barry called for the possibility of a strike in February, Yates said:"That's what you stand for, isn't it? Street politics!" The programme immediately cut to a break, depriving Barry of any right to respond. Unprofessionalism aside, it was also just a strange thing to pull Barry up on.
Turning his gaze to Catherine Murphy, Yates asked if"the left" had any concerns about providing people with an incentive to work. It seemed, at times, as though he was representing the concerns of his own one-man constituency. When Yates teasingly cajoled Green Leader Eamon Ryan on which other party leader he"liked the most," Ryan snapped and said"Sorry Ivan, this is more important than that." It didn't get in Yates' way when he came to the ad-break, when he quipped about who Eamon would be"coupling up" when"Love Island" returned.
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