I know that. I feel sorry for him, but in no way do I support him, or anybody else, appearing on a serious political debate pi**ed as a f*rt.
He should stay away until he gets better.
The remote is probably superfluous for most modern TV sets. My TV (LG) remote operates my pi using something called CEC that is built into the RaspBMC OS.
Be careful with OS choice. RaspBMC is now pretty much discontinued, but it's replacement OSMC is still only in alpha and still lacks some important functionality.
Also I still run XBMC not kodi. Kodi wasn't stable for my installed sources. But you will need to disable automatic updates or it will upgrade itself to kodi.
You didn't smell a rat at the lashings of false praise suddenly being heaped on the Corvette, and then on the two Yankee pickups?
Jezza's off to 'ollywood.