Irish Mrs. Robinson Bangs Teenager, May Bring Down Government

[Ian David]

Irish Mrs. Robinson Bangs Teenager, May Bring Down Government
Posted by Dan Savage on Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 5:50 PM

A listener in Great Britain—"a straight married Scottish white man in his 40s who wouldn't miss an episode of your podcast"—wrote me last Wednesday to let me know about a brewing scandal in Northern Ireland. "I love when you rip some religious hypocrite a new one at the start of the 'Savage Lovecast,' and just in case you missed it I'm rushing to pass on details of a really lovely instance this side of the Atlantic."

avid wanted to bring the sixty-something Iris Robinson to my attention. She's the wife of Mr. Peter Robinson—the man who just so happens to be the leader of the conservative Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist party. "Monarchy, God, keeping the Catholics down, that sort of thing," says David. Anyhoo: Iris is a deeply religious woman with deep, deep loathing for the gays. Just how loathsome are we? Well...

“There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing children.”

Gay sex—consensual gay sex between adults of legal age—is worse than child rape (the only thing worse!), according to Mrs. Robinson. And gay people are all anti-family, ill, perverse PREDATORS, says Mrs. Robinson, and we're a great big threat to the super sacred institution of marriage. And Mrs. Robinson knows something about the sacred institution of marriage: the sixty-something lady has been married for more than forty years... which makes her marriage more than twice as old as the teenage boy she got caught fucking.


The Robinsons in More Maniacally Happy Days- ACTUAL PHOTO

More:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/01/09/irish-mrs-robinson-bangs-teenager-may-bring-down-government

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/americablog/status/7599341969

[polly7]

1. LOL. That title!

Iris seems just a tad hypocritical ...... glad she got caught.

[RedCloud]

6. Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio?

[seabeyond]

2. i thought europe was soooo hip to that. oh wait, just the men. nt

[Sanity Claws]

3. Please don't call her Irish

She is nothing but an overseas Briton living in lands stolen from the Irish.

I love how the hypocrite got caught. I think I read he was only 18 at the time -- barely legal.

[earth mom]

8. With that logic, no one can be an American because this country was stolen from Native Americans.

edited to add: Guess we should all leave right now because it would be the right and just thing to do.

[TexasProgresive]

9. To be Irish one must be a citizen of the Republic of Ireland

This woman is a citizen of Great Britain/Northern Ireland. She is Northern Irish.

[Sanity Claws]

11. Your eyeballs get a lot of exercise.

Your analogy and logic need some work.
There are Irish -- they live in the Republic of Ireland. They call themselves Irish.
The people in North Ireland are governed by Great Britain. They use a UK passport.
Britain took Northern Ireland as part of the peace treaty that created what was called the Irish Free State, now known as the Republic of Ireland.

Do you know of any American who uses a Navajo or other Indian nation passport?

[earth mom]

13. My grandparents were both born in Northern Ireland and always called themselves Irish.

My dad and his brothers called themselves Irish.

This makes me HALF Irish.

So, sorry, but I won't jump on your bandwagon of hate of the "Northern" Irish. :puke:

[Sanity Claws]

14. Hate?

Where is there hate? I said please don't call her Irish.
Some people like to create problems.

[jberryhill]

22. I've heard there is also an island called Ireland /nt

[Captain Hilts]

21. Thanks, in part, to the Dutch!

[MineralMan]

23. Ya know, that's not the subject of this thread.

Your nitpicking on the subject of who's Irish and who is not is tantamount to hijacking. Why not start your own thread about that subject, and leave this one alone?

[Captain Hilts]

4. She might have done the teenager's dad, too. nt

[Peace Patriot]

5. Yup, that's a winner of a subject line! I just had to look. And, oh boy, another rightwing hypocrit

e goes down!

Saints preserve us!

[LuvNewcastle]

7. I love Dan Savage.

And I hope that old cougar does bring down their nasty government.

[Ian David]

10. I kinda hope she gets divorced so I can bang her next. n/t

[seabeyond]

15. ah damn, what a man. i am gonna just swoon....

rollin eyes.

[Ian David]

24. Hey, at least I wouldn't do her while she's married. I have SOME class.

Not much.

Just SOME.

[LuvNewcastle]

16. lol, I think I see a divorce in her future.

Not that she needs to be divorced to fool around.

[seabeyond]

17. Not that she needs to be divorced to fool around.

obviously

[Ian David]

25. Yeah, that doesn't seem to stop her.

Can you imagine what would happen to some dude who fucked Vladimir Putin's wife?

He'd die a slow death from a condom laced with some radioactive element.

[malaise]

12. Nice title

We had a thread a few days - another hypocrite is exposed

[helderheid]

18. I can has hypocricy? kthxbai. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

19. Here's Irish Central's story on the great possibility of her doing his dad, too....

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Father-and-son-affair-Reports-wife-of-Northern-Irish-leader-had-affair-with-teen-lovers-father-81062717.html

[Ian David]

26. One at a time, or in a threesome? n/t

[spiritual_gunfighter]

20. the schadenfreude is so sweet n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. This is about the money, not his age

Yeah, I know the age difference and the name is funny (hey, I made that joke on Thursday), and the affair shows how she hypocritically picks and chooses the bits of the bible she claims define morality; but this wasn't that big when it was just the affair. People even felt a bit sorry for her, since she apparently tried to kill herself. But this only became politically important when the kickbacks were revealed. And that's why people are talking about Mr. Robinson perhaps going - because he kept quiet about what his wife had tried to do with the money (he wouldn't have to resign because she had an affair, would he?)

So I have to say 'The Stranger' is reporting this hopelessly. It's making it sound like a sex scandal. It's not - it's corruption.

Links to recent articles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8450544.stm
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/iris-robinson-thrown-out-of-dup-after-kirk-mccambley-revelations-14629489.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/10/peter-iris-robinson-scandal

[Tim01]

28. I'd like her phone number. Does anybody have her phone number? nt

[Ian David]

29. UPDATE: Peter Robinson stands aside as First Minister

Peter Robinson stands aside as First Minister
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4220001

[Codeine]

30. She's in her sixties?

She looks great. I'd totally help bring down a government for that.