| O’Reilly’s Irish Factor
 By Debbie
McGoldrick
FOX News kingpin Bill O’Reilly was in Dublin last week to speak to
students at Trinity College’s Philosophical Society, which has played
host in the past to the likes of porn purveyor Ron Jeremy and Oscar winning
actor Al Pacino.
O’Reilly, according to a report in the Irish Times, received a mixed
reaction from members of The Phil, as the society is known. “This
was followed by sporadic heckling during his speech,” the paper added.
His message contained a varied bag of goodies, in keeping with the style
he and his audience are so accustomed to on his top rated cable TV show
The O’Reilly Factor.
“My people came from Cavan when they were starving to death. They
came over to America and made it. And all that goes into my philosophy,”
he said of his battle against the “secular progressives” who
he rails against on his show.
He also stuck up for President Bush despite acknowledging all the mistakes
made in Iraq, verbally slapped two of his favorite whipping targets, the
UN and France, and lauded the Irish adherence to Republican Party principles
in the era of the Celtic Tiger.
“Everyone here in Ireland is a Republican . . . That’s working
pretty well for you,” he said. (Hmmm . . . we doubt most Irish would
appreciate being thrown into the same political tent that President Bush
inhabits!)
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