The EU Gets Its Irish Up

As predicted, the EU oligarchy is miffed at those Irish making like good little democrats instead of obedient serfs:

From the minute it became clear that the Irish people had said ‘No’ to the Lisbon Treaty, Irish politicians and commentators lined up to spew bile at the electorate.

Uneducated, racist, ungrateful, parochial, dysfunctional: those are just some of the insults hurled at the 53 per cent of voters who rejected Lisbon. Swearing is not normally allowed in Ireland’s quality papers, but an exception was made after Thursday’s referendum. The Irish Times quoted one Brussels official as saying: ‘Ungrateful bastards. After all the money you got.’

Leo Varadkar, a leading member of the Irish party Fine Gael, accused the ‘No’ campaign of exploiting the xenophobia of the voters. The Irish Times wheeled out Professor Richard Sinnott of University College Dublin, an ‘expert’ on the Irish voter, who explained that the Irish people were somehow incapable of understanding what was at stake in the referendum. Apparently this is a result of Irish people’s low level of education and their lack of confidence in their own ability to grasp ‘complex issues’.

The breathtakingly elitist view that the ‘No’ camp was basically too stupid to understand the Treaty and its implications was expressed everywhere in the media coverage of the result.

As you can notice, it goes without saying that the pro-Lisbon Treaty forces are viewed as being politically and morally legitimate, while any opposition is viewed as being inherently corrupt, ignorant, and quite possibly evil.  What is scary to see is that the European press has largely abdicated its role to question the designs of the EU oligarchy.  For the most part they are acting as agents of the EU establishment, and not as representatives of the people.  This isn't a great surprise, as the influence of government over the press is more accepted in Europe than it is in the United States.  But you can even see once independent newspapers in places like the UK being co-opted by this process. 

Why have the bureaucrats been unable to sell the "new" EU to the people who are actually going to be ruled by it?  The answer given by the EU is, "because more than half the people of Europe are ignorant, racist bastards."  Does the press really find nohing about that answer they could possibly question?