When did that happen?
Ha.
This clip from Fox & Friends could not be any more funny and yet mind-bogglingly appalling. You know when a dude starts talking about the wonderful purity of the Swedes that it’s going to be a trainwreck, but listen closely for the contemp in the “If I only had a brain” whistle in the background. (Jeff Fecke is pretty hilarious about it here.)
The really sad part is that we’re at 10% unemployment in this country and yet this joker still has a job. Like there’s not some pretty person who can get on Fox and who is at least aware that the Irish are not a separate species from the rest of America.
Filed under: America how can I write a holy litany in your silly moo
God bless America than I live in Poland :)
Don’t be so hasty. As an Irish-American, I would not feel diminished to learn that I was not of the same species as that idiot.
My mother is half Cherokee. Her parent’s marriage, in 1908, was illegal and remained so in their native North Carolina until the 1950s. Grandad even played into the craziness by swearing often, on a drunk, that “Anglo Saxon blood was the purest in the world.”
Funny thing is that this “rasenkunde” bull shit was debunked long ago. There is no such thing as racial purity or ethnic purity. In World War II Russia, the Germans even had trouble determining exactly what characteristics made someone Jewish. In the Crimea, they decided not to kill a group of Tatars who had adopted the Jewish faith because they weren’t “blood” Jews.
We have become a nation of maroons.
The video didn’t work for me, but I still say, Don’t be so quick to say that the Irish are not a seperate species.
Being a mix of Black Irish and (I guess White?) Irish, I think I can trace my pure blood to a combination of Spanish/Portugese and Nordic (or whomever else was pillaging at the time).
Pure as the driven snow.
Good Lord, these people are stupid and ignorant.
I was shocked one time to hear a boyfriend’s grandparent’s and family strongly object to me being involved with him because of my Irish background. It was pretty much the usual racist stuff that I’d heard said about other people but not about me. Everytime you think we’ve grown past those ideas they crop right back up again.
He’s awfully darn close to spouting Klan doctrine about mud people on nation television.