Joe Coleman is a Disgusting Fraud, but a good Fraud.

By fatmammycat

Ugh, it’s everywhere now and I am disgusted and annoyed with people.  It’s the fucking moving statues all over again. Uber stigmata riddled huckster Christine Gallagher must Be KICKING herself she didn’t think of this one, Matrix be damned.

Not content with ‘reluctantly’ appearing on Newstalk yesterday, humble mystic and penniless healer, clairvoyant ( nope, scrap that, he’s moved away from that one for the time being) ‘channel for love’ all round woo master Joe Coleman was ‘reluctantly’ interviewed by the Irish Times yesterday.

Explaining his mighty induction to the power of woo, Joe said, “I’m a channel for love, and I’m a channel for God”. He claims he has “never gone public before” on his ability to see apparitions, which dates back to 1986. “I was in hospital having an operation – I broke my ankle – and I died under anaesthetic. I left my body and I went to heaven, where I saw my father who had passed away, and my son, and Our Lady and Jesus and Archangel Michael.”

Why not the whole fucking choir of angels to welcome him over to the other side, lining the heavenly pathway doing jazz hands. I mean they can’t be that busy if everyone turns out for some old coot from Ballyfermot. Forget war and famine and millions suffering, old Joe’s on his way.

Did Joe die under anaesthetic? Have a hospital confirmed this? Did they apply the paddles? Massage his black heart? Well? Surely that would be easy to verify.

I like how in the Times piece Joe, master-but humble- manipulator is moved to ponder if the Bishop Neary- an open critic- understands the people like blessed Joe does, seeing as how,  ” he’s hiding behind his closed doors in his big house where he lives.”

Aw be the holy dee, shure nothing speaks louder to the poor ould plain speaking people of Ireland than a dig at the landed gentry in their big houses, while poor old humble Joe in his little teach is only doing his best to spread love and channel it from on heavenly high through his little hands, them ould bishops in their fancy houses couldn’t possibly understand at all at all.

The whole piece is a one sided homage to the fucking out-and-out stupidity of Irish people when it comes to religion. The most specious reasoning of Joe’s sudden -but reluctant- rise to visionary of the entire church, world and restaurant at the end of the universe came from  sociologist Eugene Hynes  who just HAPPENS to have a bit of an agenda, as he is  ” Associate Professor of Sociology at Kettering University. Michigan, and the author of Knock, The Virgin’s Apparition in Nineteenth-century Ireland , published this year.”

“As a sociologist, what interests Hynes most about the claims Coleman is making is the fact that people are paying so much attention to them. “He has to have some credibility or people wouldn’t be paying attention to him. You could have someone stand up in O’Connell Street and say they’d seen the Virgin Mary and people would ignore them. But he is not being ignored. Why is that?”

BUZZ wrong, he needs no credibility because like Haughty living on an island and wearing French hand made shirt while telling the country they are living above their means,  no one challenges Joe Coleman’s bullshit. He is given free rein to- reluctantly- lie, fudge, make shit up and vomit out his messages all over the camp. It is hard not to have heard of the snake oil soaked twat as he is going about ‘reluctanly’ giving interviews all over the place, being ALLOWED by the irish media to make all sorts of bogus claims and falsehoods, such as he has cured cancer and he can distant cure people over the bloody phone!!!!

He also claims there were ‘cures’ at Knock the day of the miracle of the  fucking sun coming out and going behind clouds! Who are these legion of the cured? Where are they? What were they cured of? Where are their medical records, Joe must have them since he can say LIVE ON AIR that these people were cured. He can say LIVE ON AIR – albeit most reluctantly- that up to 20,000 people witnessed the ‘miracle of the dancing sun’ despite the no show of the virgin and most reports saying a scant 5000 people-half of them Mary bothering tinkers- were there.

It beggars belief that this kind of huckster gets any air-time at all, but he’s a bald-faced liar, probably delusional, and since the country is going through a recession people like to flail about clinging to superstitious bollocks. His stock is high, next year folk will wake up with a Mary sized hangover and go, ‘jaysus remember all that shite about Knock’ and laugh guiltily, like they do about the moving statues. Joe in the mean time will have doubled, tripled, one millionified, his ‘humble healing practice’ and ah god bless the little shit, maybe he can afford a little car to go with his little healing room, in his little house, in his little world.

The virgin is wearry wearry angwwy. Joe says. Yeah, I don’t blame her, I’d be fucked off too if some ‘ humble spiritual healer’ was abusing my name in a bid for money wealth and glory.

Joe Coleman, I am against you. And I cannot WAIT for Saturday 31st for YET ANOTHER no show of your very best friend Mary. Maybe then you can sink back into the shtink hole you creepy-crawled out of and take your woo riddled bollocks with you.

UPDATE- He also engages in a Animal telepathy. well  COLOUR ME SURPRISED!

75 Responses to “Joe Coleman is a Disgusting Fraud, but a good Fraud.”

  1. househusband Says:

    More about Joe Coleman here – http://ballyhaunis.blogs.ie/2009/10/28/halloween-trick-or-treat-at-knock/
    Apparently he had his own 96FM radio show in 2007 and he also predicts that the lost city of Atlantis will rise in 2012. Can’t wait!

  2. fatmammycat Says:

    Well well well Househusband, it appears the humble and relutant Joe is a bit of a god damned spoofer. I would LIKE to say I an surprised, but find I cannot.
    http://ballyer.net/2007/12/no-ordinary-joe/

    Interesting reading, and I thank you. Roll on sauturday!

  3. Twenty Major Says:

    Your point about the media is spot on. If he was on the radio yesterday then anyone with half a brain could have torn him to shreds.

    What a shame it was that simpering cunt, Keane.

  4. fatmammycat Says:

    This annoys me too, he’s allowed to witter on unchallenged. People hear him talking and think there might be something in it because no one seems to have the balls to demand evidence- actual evidence for ANY of his claims. He had a fucking radio show for marmalade’s sake, yet he likes to pretend his humble self is reluctant to deal with the meedja.
    Balls.

  5. morgor Says:

    And I cannot WAIT for Saturday 31st for YET ANOTHER no show of your very best friend Mary.

    But it’s irrelevant what happens, because if nothing happens it’s because mary was too angry . . . like he said.

    If a cloud appears then it will be claimed to look like jesus’s ankle or something.

    Anyone who believes in this shit should be fed to bears.

  6. Medbh Says:

    All these ankle references are doing my head in.

    Loved the jazz hands part, FMC.
    Great rant.

  7. Fatmammycat Says:

    heh, oh she’s coming all right, Morgot 3 pm satdee. No mistake. Bring your rosery.
    Medbh, I just bought a grandfather shirt. I swear to you it’s like the eighties all over again/

  8. Fat Sparrow Says:

    It’s the fucking moving statues all over again.

    Oooh, I loved that Dr. Who episode!

    Why not the whole fucking choir of angels to welcome him over to the other side, lining the heavenly pathway doing jazz hands.

    Because if there’s jazz there, it can’t possibly be heaven.

    So, what I’m getting from this post is, there’s a whole lotta money to be made in Ireland… Right then, the day after Hallowe’en I’m checking the clearance section for costumes so I can pick out my woo peddling outfit. I used to be in sales, so this woo peddling should be a piece of piss.

  9. fatmammycat Says:

    Baby, if you can do humble the money is there for the taking!

  10. Drawfirst Says:

    Are we following the american route now? When the traditional religions become to boring, demanding of time etc , all that replace them are whatever con-persons might be waiting in the wings. Offer the people what they want to hear, some excitement, some music, some casting out demons and you’ve got yourself a fine income.

    • Audrey O'Shea Says:

      I beg your pardon, but there are plenty of Americans who honor the traditional religions and follow them rightously. We too scoff at people who take advantage of the people’s trust to gain a buck or two.

    • Fat Sparrow Says:

      Offer the people what they want to hear, some excitement, some music, some casting out demons and you’ve got yourself a fine income.

      I’m sorry, but was that not the MO of the Catholic Church from the Inquisition to the 1800’s? You can’t blame us revolting colonials for everything!

    • Drawfirst Says:

      There were no casting out of demons, we just burned em, human and all.
      The whole mass thing was in Latin,and the gregorian chant would put a coked up X factor contestant to sleep.

      Then it really got boring when they started taking it all to seriously…!

      There might be a lot of trad. religious in the US, but its also a hotbed of what has now been officially termed “woo” on this blog.

      • fatmammycat Says:

        Magic underwear, hubbard, Phelps, I would say so!

      • Audrey O'Shea Says:

        As with most places, there is good and bad here… but lots of good that is seldom ever seen on the sensationalistic media channels

      • Fatmammycat Says:

        That’s always the way though Audrey, and usually the bad are the ones that make the most noise and try to get the most attention, there is no doubt in my mind that a lot of religious people are good folk who live good and admirable lives, it’s the hucksters and bigots and out and out hate mongers I dislike. Old Humble Joe here, with his clinic and his press releases is nothing more than a cheap fraudster on the make, it does not matter to him one whit if he causes damage or harm once he’s bringing in the money. He’s turned an Irish obsession with Mary into his cash cow.

  11. fatmammycat Says:

    He’s a huckster, and those shady fuckers have lived among us from the dawn of time. They’ve got to wait for all the ducks to line up to make a buck though, this one has been trading on all sorts of woo for years, but now that there has been a recession and the Irish branch of the CC is exposed as a black hole through various reports, Joe Coleman has crawled out from his stink hole to offer ’solace’ and guidance to the spiritually gullible. He’s a bottom feeder, the very vilest of the charlatans. I despise people like this man.
    Why the Irish media are complicit in this charade I have no idea.

  12. Medbh Says:

    What’s a grandfather shirt?
    One of those oversized button ups?

    A new clothing shop opened up nearby causing me to stop dead in my tracks and drool over the coat in the window. Mr. M’s out out town so the temptation to go in is killing me.

  13. fatmammycat Says:

    A sort of collarless affair that you wear with a belt, think Ringwald.
    Ohh, what’s it like and -more importantly-can you get away with it?

  14. Hangar Queen Says:

    Grassy knoll….check!
    .50 cal Sniper rifle….check!
    Anti-Woo ammo…5,000 rounds…check!
    Flight to Knock International scareport….check!

    Grandfather shirts! Ah,here. That’s a bit much like. Even for a Hallowe’en costume.

  15. Maria Says:

    Give us a break in the name of God. Have some respect for Our Lady. There is no need for all this cursing and swearing. And if you were ill yourself you’d be the first one lighting candles in the Church.

    • fatmammycat Says:

      Can you even read? How exactly is my disbelieving in old snake oil salesman Joe Coleman an attack on a dead woman? Do you have ANY idea how annoying it is to be accused of one thing while doing another? I’m sure ‘our lady’ does not want to represented by a charlatan. And I’m sure as shit she won’t be appearing in ballygonowhere at 3am on Saturday. Let’s hang around and see which of us is correct, hey come back Saturday evening, I invite you. Tell you what if she does I’ll stick a twenty spot in the local poor box in your name.
      And trust me Maria, the very LAST place I’d be if I was sick was standing in a bloody cold building lighting candles. And if it’s all the same to you I’ll curse and swear all I like on my own blog- I don’t tell you to stop writing god awful poetry do I?- and if it gives you an attack of the vapours go lie down somewhere else.

    • Fat Sparrow Says:

      :::singing::: “I’d like to say a word in her behalf, Maria makes me laugh!… How do you solve a problem like Maria?… How do you find a word that means Maria?… A clown!… Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her, Many a thing she ought to understand, But how do you make her stay, And listen to all you say… Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?”

      • fatmammycat Says:

        In the name of God Birdie, show some respect for weirdos who blunder onto blogs, queef out holy strawmen and then attack them with gusto, and there’s no NEED for all that singing. Everyone knows if my auntie had balls she’d be my uncle!

      • Fat Sparrow Says:

        Sorry, I’ll try to restrain myself next time. Could you hear the off-key-ness all the way over there? Ooops.

      • fatmammycat Says:

        Darling, various dogs on the street started howling and Puddy had a bowel movement. ‘Miracle’ I thought, before I realised.

    • angea Says:

      Thank you Maria, all that cursing and swearing, no need of it. I went to Knock on the 31st. I did not see Our Lady, I did see the sun spin, change colours,I have never seen anything like it . so what was it I dont know, but I am going back on the 5th Dec..

      • fatmammycat Says:

        My blog I’ll say what I want and as bluntly as I want, you don’t like it angea you can go elsewhere. No one is forcing people like you or that dingbat Maria to be here. You saw the sun? In the sky? Wow. Congratulations.

      • househusband Says:

        angea – no need to go to Knock – just go outside your own house and look at the sun for long enough i(when it comes out) and you will probably see things like that again (if your eyes aren’t damaged from last Saturday).

      • Maria Says:

        Thanks Angea for the support. You are perfectly right about the amount of venom and spitefulness on this site.

        I’m glad you saw the sun dancing in the sky. I envy you actually.

        It’s wonderful that people are coming to Knock to pray, especially in a time of recession.

        Prayer keeps my hopes up on a personal level as I’ve been through hell these past long years. Good to hear from you Angea, take care, Maria xxx

      • fatmammycat Says:

        * guffaws* She no more saw the sun ‘dancing in the sky’ than I saw Joe Coleman dancing down the bottom of my garden, but keep avoiding the real issue which is not that praying keeps some people happy, but that Joe Coleman is a very obvious fraud.

  16. Drawfirst Says:

    Tut tut FMC, you have been struck down from on high by a dose of the sniffles. Dont you know a shot over your bow when you see one?

    ON another note, did you hear Tom Dunne interviewing his psychic medium this morning? Priceless.

  17. Drawfirst Says:

    He had folks calling in about seances that they did in secondary schools that frightened them, skeptics that had changed their minds, and then for a finish, after all the build up…. Michael Mc Spuggela channelling timmy the spoon merchant. (or something like that) Epic comedy.

  18. Colm Says:

    Well said. This horrendous display of superstition has revealed a new side to Irish culture that I thought was well and truly buried. It scares me how many people believe that this huckster.

    My contribution to the debate..

    http://woodpigeon01.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/thousands-of-pilgrims-witness-nothing-at-knock/

  19. Maria Says:

    I never said Our Lady would appear next Saturday. But I do think its great that people are being nice to each other, praying for each other and helping each other.

    Whether she appears or not is not the question. People are feeling good about themselves – apart from yourself – you, my dears, are filled with anger and hate.

    Get over it.

    • fatmammycat Says:

      You mean ‘apart’ from me and everyone else on this blog, right?
      I never said you said she would appear, once again reading comprehension is not your strong point. I said Humble Joe said Mary was a-coming.
      Praying does not = helping. I ws nice to a blind woman today, is that AOK with you?? Even though I’m not a Mary/Jesus bot?
      And whether ‘Our Lady’ appears or not is EXACTLY the question. Humble Joe says she will, I- the filthy atheist that I am- says she won’t. Which of us do you think will be correct.
      So until you prove me wrong, YOU get over it, Miss no proofipants

  20. Maria Says:

    First of all you’re not a “filthy” anything. Your precious just like everybody else. Secondly, I don’t expect everyone to like my poetry. And thirdly, you are entitled to your opinion and I’m entitled to mine, and so is everyone else on this planet.

    I’m not bothered about whether Mary appears or not – it shouldn’t bother you either. I’d say if she appeared at your front door with a bunch of roses, you’d find that hard to believe…!!

    But ya never know, do you? We’ll see what the day brings…

    • fatmammycat Says:

      “I’m not bothered about whether Mary appears or not – it shouldn’t bother you either. I’d say if she appeared at your front door with a bunch of roses, you’d find that hard to believe…!!”
      If a dead woman turned up at my door carrying roses I wouldn’t have to ‘believe’ anything, she’d be right in front of me, I’d even take a number of photos. And secondly, sure you’re bothered, you came rolling in here demanding ‘respect for our lady’ not two comments ago, now you’re backtracking.
      And this bollocks, that it shouldn’t bother me if she appears or not, why’s that now? Do you know me that well that you can tell me what should and shouldn’t bother me? That’s a great gift you have. Let me turn it around for you, it shouldn’t BOTHER you whether it bothers me or not. As for what the day brings? My money’s on the table for a no show, how ’bout you?

  21. two stars 13 Says:

    It astounds me how much venom and hate are in these negtiave comments…i am not saying i believe it either but surly everyman to his own and Mr Coleman is doing no harm to anyone…do you all feel the same strength of venom and hate towards the politicians who have this counrty in such a mess?? Probably not…. your anger is directed at the wrong person and says more about you than it does Mr Coleman.

    • fatmammycat Says:

      Mr Coleman is lying and deceiving people, he takes money off people and tells them he has ‘cured them’ of cancer, do YOU REALLY think that does no harm?
      And if you took the time to read a post of two before running your mouth off, Two Stars, you will see I am VERY happy to fire my ire at stupid politicions ( Mattie McGrath being a prime example). So where does that leave the rest of your inane comment? What? People are entitled to their opinion? Fair enough, but only it if agrees with yours though, right?
      My anger is directed and guided with precision. At frauds, hucksters and currently at people who like to say everyone has their own opinion, except oh no, they don’t if it’s ‘negative’ .
      Balls to that.

  22. Medbh Says:

    Wow. Coming out of the woodwork.

    I think you’re full of Truth and Beauty and all those poetic ideals, FMC.
    Don’t mind the Soma eaters.

  23. fatmammycat Says:

    I think I’m full of eggs, right this second. I’m highly entertained and jealous of people going to Rome.

  24. two stars 13 Says:

    Fa bnhy76-mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  25. two stars 13 Says:

    Fatmammycat your so angry…..maybe you should go and see Joe sounds like you need it…

    • Fatmammycat Says:

      You’re a bit like old Joe, you say stuff you’ve no evidence for and when stumped try a deflection. Oh I must be angry, but of course, that must be it. Get your wallet out Two Stars, tomorrow’s going to cost you twenty bucks-assuming you’re happy to put your money where your mouth is, like me.

  26. Medbh Says:

    I had a fried egg, melty cheese and spinach sandwich for lunch.
    Nom.

    • Fatmammycat Says:

      I bloody love spinach. I love it fried with button mushrooms and red and yellow peppers, then you grate white chedder all over it, sound utterly disgusting, look utterly disgusting, but it is nom.
      I am currently eating small person sick food, ie spaghetti hoops in between two buttered slices of Brennan’s bread. It is gooey and disgusting and quite delicious. I am sharing it though, with a certain cheese fancier who shall remain nameless. I have a glass of French red to my right and apart from a distinct lack of KB, torrential rain and a cold, this has been an okay day really.

  27. Maria Says:

    Fatmammycat, I think you need to go to an anger management course. Are you educated? Sounds like you haven’t a clue about what your talking about. Take a chill pill or you’re in for a heart-attack.

    • fatmammycat Says:

      Accusation of anger- check
      No argument of substance put forward- check
      Faux concern about well being- check
      Attempt to patronize- check.

      Zounds, woo troll bingo is just no fun these days. I wish just once one of you would come up with something original.

  28. fatmammycat Says:

    And don’t forget Maria, get your wallet out!

  29. househusband Says:

    Here is what really happened last time
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGJC1pM54EQ

    Nothing !

    • fatmammycat Says:

      I know, it’s actually cringe inducing listening to people saying they can see something therefore it’s a miracle. Sun in sky, on cloudy day. Oh dear. Thanks for the non hysterical clip HH.

  30. fatmammycat Says:

    Ho ho! The goalposts are already moving. NOW ‘Our Lady’ will only be seen by those who come ‘with an open heart’-according to Humble Joe in the Times, another reluctant interview he was forced to give no doubt. Fancy that. 1hr, 20mins to go.

  31. fatmammycat Says:

    Ahem! Can I go out on a limb here and suggest that Mary was a bit of a no show, again? I mean I had a look at the news and the online papers and figure if the Virgin Mary had popped up in Knock it might have been reported thusly.

  32. Maria Says:

    She appeared to me last night. She told me you badly need a sense of humour. Lighten up.

  33. Fatmammycat Says:

    The way your head works you probably did think you saw her. Hope you offered her the ‘respect’ she deserved.

  34. Louisa Says:

    Do you not find it incredibly sad that people are so desperate for guidance that they would follow the words of someone like Coleman? The fact is, government, religion, and all other social/religious/political/financial institutions have proven to to be little more than self-serving opportunists.
    People feel that there is nothing to guide them or to believe in.
    Of course, one might hope that this realization would cause people to turn to self-reliance, but we have been trained from birth to rely on outside institutions to guide us.
    For me, the only thing that gave this situation any credibility was the church’s denunciation of it.
    The statement by Archbishop, Dr. Neary that Coleman’s claims “risk misleading God’s people and undermining faith” was particularly amusing.
    Apparently, that is the church’s job.

  35. fatmammycat Says:

    I agree Louisa, I think Neary knew it would be a shambles and that there would be no sudden vision to the thousands, which naturally undermines Knock and by extension the CC.
    The interesting thing for me is how much of manipulator Coleman is, his terminology, his ‘poor humble me’ act-despite earing a fortune, his continued unchecked talk that there were ‘cures’ at the earlier visitation, his press savvy. He is a shrewd con man, but a conman just the same and I feel bad for the people sucked in by him and his ilk.

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  37. Roisin Says:

    A shrewd conman being given a free run in the media?

    Isn’t that what the Irish media is for?

    Now that it’s fast running out of bankers, builders and politicians to fit the bill, it’s no wonder the media is welcoming the arrival of Coleman.

    On another level, with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people living in real fear of the coming budget, hope and distraction will be conjured up from thin air. It has to be to ensure survival. And if some sheister makes money out of it, sure isn’t that reassuringly familiar?

  38. fatmammycat Says:

    It certainly is. Fear makes the ground ripe for this kind of thing to grow like a weed.

  39. Colm Says:

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/1103/1224257963765.html

    “ . . . I ask for conversion many times. I ask for peace. I ask for prayers every day for my son’s apostles . . . I will visit one day soon on the fifth day of the holy month. Peace be with you, my children.”

    That’s it? That’s IT? She takes a break from her busy schedule, minding the universe and all that jazz, to give the assembled multitudes (well, one person anyway) a couple of platitudes? I mean, she could have bowled us over with an easily verifiable prediction that we couldn’t possibly have known. Maybe an explanation of the placebo effect, or the date of the next major meteor strike. Even next Saturday’s lotto numbers would have done the trick. Bugger it anyway. She’s playing hard to get, Joe.

    And what about this comment by Mr. Lavelle..

    “There was food and drink spilled inside, chairs turned upside-down, the carpets were soiled and even worse than that.”

    Even worse than that. EWWWWW. I. don’t. want. to. know…

  40. Roisin Says:

    The children shown in those Irish Times stream of photos were not enjoying the event. It must be frightening for them.

  41. Kick Out The Jams Says:

    Its great to see the church tie itself up in knots trying to dissuade people from believing in superstitious nonsense.
    My take on the whole affair – http://kickoutthejams.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/knock-knock/

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