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Monday, March 17, 2014

The left's attempt to co-opt Irishness (and St. Patrick's Day) | The Daily Caller

The left's attempt to co-opt Irishness (and St. Patrick's Day) | The Daily Caller



They say you should never let a crisis go to waste, and I suppose this applies even if that crisis was a potato famine that occurred more than a century and a half ago.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day has provided yet another opportunity to bash conservatives.
For example, The New York Times’ Timothy Egan seized the festive occasion to bash Irish-American Paul Ryan — and by extension, conservatives — for “using the same language that English Tories used to justify indifference to an epic tragedy.” (Listen to Paul Ryan’s “controversial” interview with Bill Bennett here, and tell me where he sounds like the Tories.)


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