Trumped: The Republic's Irish Problems

There's nothing like the drunk of the Irish.
Oh, wait. That's supposed to be "luck."
Well, never mind. A little drunken Irish bull will cover any mistake.
-- Linda Valdez, Editorial Writer, Arizona Republic, 3/17/2015

If you want an example of "progressive" hypocrisy, look no farther than the recent Clarence Page column published in the Arizona Republic/AZ Central (5/10/2015), denouncing "professional Muslim-baiter Pamela Geller."  Page condemns Geller and others who "unfortunately think that the best way to respond to the intolerance of Muslim fanatics is to insult all Muslims."  Unfortunately, Ms. Geller is just taking a page from the same playbook Mr. Page uses.   Back on St. Patrick's Day some years ago in an essay published by the Arizona Republic, Mr. Page condemned all the Irish for the alleged sins of Irish gangs who formed "across the country to chase black workers away from the jobs on the next rung up the American success ladder."  It's highly dubious that the America's small Irish minority was responsible for segregation and slavery in America, but Mr. Page playing the collective guilt card was especially egregious.   And in light of his thoughts on Geller, especially hypocritical.

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To date the Editorial and Opinion editors of the Arizona Republic,  Phil Boas and Robert Leger, in keeping with the newspaper's ongoing Irish problem, have refused to print any complaint about or an apology for Mr. Page's hypocrisy.

Mr. Page's has refused to apologize for his collective guilt remarks, responding abusively to those who raise the issue, in a noble American tradition:

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Mr. Page's Irish column was published in the Chicago Tribune, the Arizona Republic and other newspapers to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in 1998.

For a fair and balanced history of the American freedom in the US, see Pulitzer Prize-winning Eric Foner's:

The Story of American Freedom
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Also informative on who did what to whom:
The Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge
http://hidden-civil-war.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-society-for-diffusion-of-political.html
Ivy League Confederates
http://hidden-civil-war.blogspot.com/2014/05/ivy-league-confederates-harvard-and.html
New York's Passion Play
http://hidden-civil-war.blogspot.com/2013/08/new-york-citys-passion-play.html

The Assassination of Father Coyle
http://hidden-civil-war.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-assassination-of-father-james-coyle.html
New York's Soldiers' Monuments
http://hidden-civil-war.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-york-citys-soldiers-monuments.html
The Union's Irish Soldiers and Sailors
http://hidden-civil-war.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-unions-irish-soldiers-and-sailors.html