There is a staggering irony to Bill O’Reilly inflaming the anger and suspicion that people have for Muslims.
Because it wasn’t all that long ago–just the middle of last century, in fact–that plenty of people opposed the notion of electing a Catholic to the office of President of the United States, on the assertion that he would simply take all his marching orders from the Vatican. Very Loud Men declared that a Catholic President would be nothing more than a puppet of the Pope, promoting the secret Catholic agenda (whatever that was.)
And a hundred years before that, when desperate Irish people were flooding our shores to escape the Potato Famine, Very Loud Men decried it, stating that the Irish would ruin our country. And the Very Loud Men got people very upset, and signs when up at places of employment declaring “Irish Need Not Apply.” And there isn’t any polling data available that I know of, but I’ll wager far more than seventy percent of Americans didn’t want those dámņëd Irish, not to mention their dámņëd Irish places of worship, anywhere on our fair shores.
And I’ll bet that a lot of those Very Loud Men looked and sounded a lot like an Irish Catholic man named Bill O’Reilly.
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