Quote of the day

Lou Dobbs, with his xenophobic fears of the oppression of St. Patrick's day on people without any cultural background.

Yesterday on his radio show, anti-immigrant crusader Lou Dobbs attacked St. Patrick’s day as a needless “ethnic holiday.” “How about an American day,” he proposed. He also wondered whether other groups, like Jews or Asians, had “ethnic holidays,” but he couldn’t think of any:

Is there a Jewish ethnic holiday? Is there one? No. Okay. … How about an Asian ethnic holiday? Is there one? You know, St. Jing-Tao-Wow?

Nice. Did you have St. Ching-Chong-Chang all ready to go, but decided it was a little too racist? Still though, as Think Progress points out, other than Independence Day, Presidents’ Day, Martin Luther King Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Veterans Day and Memorial Day, there is no day to celebrate America. That's before you even remove MLK day as too black, Columbus day as too Italian, and Thanksgiving as too respectful of British immigrants and Indians. It's as if America has been forgotten.

On behalf of Sean and I, both born of shiftless potato farming stock, we would just like to apologize for our cultural heritage giving this country an excuse to get blackout drunk over the weekend and possibly again in the middle of the week. We're sorry we turned a guy eradicating snakes from Ireland into one long booze parade and created the greatest holiday ever. We won't do it again. Lou can replace it with St. America day next year. I thought Lou would have liked St. Patty's, it's religious and involves drunkenly telling Protestants to stick it. I guess too many laypeople confuse the green with 'Irish colors' instead of 'Catholic colors' for Lou to take much enjoyment.