Why are the biggest media whores Irish?

[Touchdown]

Hannity, O'Really?, and now O'Keefe?

This just isn't fair! I want a beer! :cry:

EDIT: I was riding high with the Kennedys, but now look at us!

[Skittles]

1. I WILL KICK SOME IRISH MEDIA WHORE ASS

YES INDEED

[maddezmom]

2. Not all. Limbaugh is German!

:D

[depakid]

3. Rupert Murdoch is of Scottish descent

[Touchdown]

4. Eh' doesn't help. I got some of them in me too.

and I forgot Pat Buchanan.:cry:

[H2O Man]

5. At extended "family reunions"

there is always one loud-mouthed, ultra-obnoxious jerk. Hannity is the cousin we avoided as children; O'Reilly the relative we argued with as teens. As adults, we choose to never be seated near them.

[JohnnyLib2]

6. LOL! So true, so true.

And they keep on talking and don't even seem to notice! :banghead:

[blondeatlast]

14. LOL! nt

[DefenseLawyer]

7. No Irish!

[ShortnFiery]

8. As a person who is a quarter "Black Irish" ...

I'd say that we are good scrappers and take a compassionate interest in all we do ... ALL WE DO!

It's stereotypic, but in some ways, we're over-achievers. ;)

[berni_mccoy]

13. Yes, we are good scrappers.

[invictus]

9. Many hardcore Catholics are hardcore Republicans. It could be the reason.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Like Dorothy Day, Robert Kennedy, And Michael Harrington

~

[invictus]

11. Michael Harrington was an atheist. As for the Kennedys, do you really consider them hardcore Catholi

cs?

[berni_mccoy]

12. Yes. I do.

[blondeatlast]

15. If fiath can be "hardcore," well, yes. Much like my own father. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. My Bad On Harrington

I was confused because he came out of the same tradition as Dorothy Day; Catholic Socialism.

Yes, I would consider RFK a devout Catholic. His abundant progeny is kind of a testament to the fact

[Berry Cool]

17. Don't forget Tweety and Pat Buchanan.

They're always making sure to tell us how the world is viewed through the lens of Irish Catholic ex-choirboys. That's all very well and good, but my lens would be a lot more original (half-German, half-Italian Protestant, can't sing). Why not hire me?

[UTUSN]

18. Because of the Cath school nuns teaching communication skills, rhetoric, debate

This has been a topic phenomenon for years: Why are the yakkers dominated by Irish Catholics---with hair trigger synapses, mouth hot-wired, and the undeniable skills at the service of mostly unfortunate ideology?

While the rest of the schools have drifted into oblivion with touchy feely and other junk methods, the nuns have continued with the tried and true techniques of repetition, rote, practice, retribution, punishment---all the reliable techniques.

A compilation of all the Irish Catholics in the yak media would be more than the tip of the iceberg in this thread.