Gary O'Donoghue
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
Gary O'Donoghue’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Global News Podcast · The Happy Pod: Football while fasting -- Egypt's Ramadan pastime · 29 Mar 2025
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We all know there's a bit of luck in these sorts of things and you've got to take that moment and make sure that you maximise it. My heart was absolutely thudding, I've got to tell you, all night in my chest. We were on air for five or six hours and I think that interview was shared 300 million times. And so you kind of know you're having an impact when the numbers look like that.
I think the other thing I was very glad about, and this was just a consequence of it, is that Getting an accurate account out of what had sort of happened, reporting those facts quickly, sounds very grand, I know, but I do think we helped the way the country processed that at the time.
Yeah, I think so. I mean, look, most of the time my blindness I regard as an inconvenience. Frantically trying to keep up reading stuff, you know, processing information. That all takes a little bit of extra time and a little bit of extra effort and a little bit of extra help. But there are also times, I think, when as a blind person, for whatever reasons, you're a bit less threatening.
It means sometimes you get more of a hearing when you're talking to quote-unquote ordinary people. Now, even in most developed countries, can I say, 70% of blind people of working age are out of work. They don't have a job. So I'm one of the very, very lucky ones, which I remind myself of each morning when I get up.
And if you take, you know, the global south and less developed countries, the position of blind people is incredibly difficult. You know, they are often hidden away. seen sometimes by their villages, communities, societies as a burden, as not really able to contribute. The one thing I really wish is those emails, those text messages, those comments from people all over the world.
who say that it matters that they can see someone in my position. And I hear that all the time. And that is what really keeps me going, that I can reflect to some degree these things are possible for the 300, 400 million blind people around this planet.
Es gab einen riesigen Rücktritt von der Pressekretärin Caroline Leavitt in der Briefung. Sie ging wirklich nach dem Journalisten, der im Zentrum war, Jeffrey Goldberg. Sie sprach über ihn als Trump-Hater, als Sensationalist, als Demokrat. Sie versuchte wirklich, so viel wie möglich, ihn zu schmieren. Und das kam auch von einigen anderen, die in diesem Bereich involviert waren.
Einige von denen in der Intelligenz-Community waren in diesem Chat. J.D.
Vance, der Vizepräsident, hat das gesagt, wie auch Pete Hexeth, der Verteidigungssekretär, der auch im Zentrum ist, weil in den Botschaften, die von den Atlantikern veröffentlicht wurden, er ist derjenige, der viele Details gibt, die sie immer noch behaupten, dass sie nicht klassifiziert wurden, aber es war um die Waffen, die in den Zeiten von Schrecken genutzt wurden, um ein paar Updates zu geben und was in einer ziemlich live Situation passiert ist.
They are fighting hard on this one and I think there is a reason for that in particular, which is that if they give some ground on one of these individuals, then the questions will keep coming on the others and they simply can't afford to lose a whole swathe of senior national security figures like this.
Ich meine, es war ein bisschen wie gestern mit dem äquivalenten Senatsgericht. Obwohl Tulsi Gamba, die Direktorin der Nationalen Intelligenz, ihr Ansatz ein bisschen verändern musste, weil diese Botschaften klarly verschiedene Arme erwähnten. Und das ist etwas, was sie gestern ein bisschen ambiguös war, ob sie diesen Detail gesehen hätte. Wiederum, sie, wie John Ratcliffe, der CIA-Direktor,
Das ist ein Kampf der Willen, wenn man so will. Und es wird abhängen, was die Präsidentin's View ist. Es wird immer abhängen, was die Präsidentin's View ist. Bis jetzt steht er bei diesen Menschen. But he doesn't like bad publicity. That's one more thing we know.
And particularly when it detracts from his agenda and his feeling that these first two months have been enormously successful in terms of dominating the news cycle, flooding the zone, as they put it. This stuff does distract from that.
Es sieht nicht gut aus. Es sieht nicht besonders kompetent aus. Es sieht ein bisschen sensationalistisch aus, wenn ich das Wort benutzen kann. Es sieht ein bisschen wie die Jungs und ihre Spiele aus, wenn man sich die Details anschaut. Es war nicht sehr sauber, war es nicht? Es gab viele Leute, die Emojis zurück und zurück sendeten. Wir sprechen hier über Bomben und Missilien fliegen.
Der andere Risiko für sie ist, dass in Bezug auf Moral in den Armtservice, es viele Leute, viele Ex-Militärtypen in den letzten Tagen gesagt haben, wenn ich das gemacht hätte, wenn ich in der Uniform wäre, hätte ich mich verurteilt. Es ist also ein Gefahr, dass dies die Disziplin im Militär unterbreitet und manche Leute denken, wenn sie es tun können, warum kann ich es nicht?
Er sagt in einem Video-Statement, dass er seine Frau nicht all die Spaß haben wird und er will die Sicherheitssituation dort beobachten. Er geht also zu dieser militärischen Base, die Amerika's most northern base ist, im Nordwesten der Insel, wo sie Missilesurveillance und Spacesurveillance machen.
I think it's slightly out of the blue in the sense that, you know, this was just a video statement that dropped today. I don't know whether it has anything to do with the current news cycle that the administration is in, which is not a good one for them with the security problems over this signal group with the details that were shared with the journalist.
The thing it definitely does is it really raises the temperature, the diplomatic temperature, because he's now the most senior person, senior administration person to make the trip to Greenland. And given Donald Trump's rhetoric about buying it from Denmark or taking it over, this really does up the ante.
When the original trip was announced, Usha Vance was going to go to this dog sled race, which she's not going to, and Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, along with another cabinet member, were also going to go. Und Greenland's Prime Minister at the time said this was an aggressive move. And Greenland has just had some elections. They're in the midst of forming a new government.
And, you know, they are clearly feeling the pressure. So if they think the Second Lady and a couple of cabinet members are an aggressive move, then adding the VP to that mix doesn't really diminish that.
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