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Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart mocks Bill O’Reilly’s view on “Traditional America” - VIDEO

Stewart reminds O'Reilly traditional Americans once discriminated against Irish

ANTOINETTE KELLY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Saturday, November 17, 2012, 8:40 AM

Updated Saturday, November 17, 2012, 8:40 AM

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Bill O'Reilly has been blaming Mitt Romeny's sound defeat in the November 6 election to the fall of what he has been calling 'traditional America.'

But according to Towleroad ,The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has news for O'Reilly. It wasn't so long ago that traditional Americans had no respect for people with surnames names like O'Reilly.

Then Stewart offered O’Reilly some perspective, telling him not to worry about the results because 'America’s greatest tradition' is a 'frightened ruling class lamenting the rise of a new ethnically and religiously diverse new class.'

In fact, Stewart said, every generation rises in the United States in order to give themselves and their children the opportunity to 'sh*t on the next group' to show up.

It remains to be seen if O'Reilly will take heart.

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RedBranch | Nov 18, 2012, 10:37 AM EST

Its a Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart soon to be taught by academia as racist, propaganda fiction along with Refinsthal's 'Trimph of the Will'.

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stanchaz | Nov 18, 2012, 05:05 AM EST

O'Reillly taking heart? Come now, you should know by now that good ole Bill O'Reilly has no heart -he's all arse!

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Magdaleno | Nov 17, 2012, 11:41 PM EST

O'Reilly have you forgotten that we live in a very large country ... the United States and it's people just don't habitat the eastern seaboard. American values are for all those who live in America and defend our American way of life. O'Reilly, "Everyone may be entitled to his opinion, but everyone is not entitled to his own truth."- Doug Groothuis.

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Murph46 | Nov 17, 2012, 05:22 PM EST

Very astute PiperMac52,or is it just that I AM over 50?

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PiperMac52 | Nov 17, 2012, 05:04 PM EST

You can jest and obscure the real message that O'Reilly was relaying in typical liberal fashion but I think every American over the age of 50 who experienced the America of traditional founding values, pre- secular humanism/moral relativism....knows exactly what O'Reilly Is referring to.

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cillowen | Nov 17, 2012, 02:57 PM EST

leibowitz spelled it out as anly a jew can - why he picks on a dump paddy is an awesome thing. mozzel toff - what'll he say about his bros so expert with the best that amers provide.

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Sandyone | Nov 17, 2012, 02:06 PM EST

I remember well the time when Italians were called "Wops or Dagos"., when Jews were called "Kikes", when Irish were call "Dirty Micks", when Italians were called "Wops or Dagos" and when blacks were always called ":N----ers". O'Reilly would you like to go back to that traditional America where WASPs spit on your kind if immigrant and black balled you from the country club? You should be ashamed and apologize to all the citizens of this diverse and wonderful country.

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rose528 | Nov 17, 2012, 12:07 PM EST

Phlutiep the barbarians have been inside the city since the Irish came if you're going to act as if you're so above every one else like Bill does he is such a douchbag and he is so lrrelevant here,just because he is on a entertainment station doesns't mean people listen to him only the right wing nuts.

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PhlutiePhan | Nov 17, 2012, 11:03 AM EST

"Ethnically and religiously diverse" is in the mind of Jon Stewart. In Druid Ireland, St. Patrick led toOscar Wilde, James Joyce, and George Bernard Shaw. These individuals can stand up very well thank you to the likes of Snoop Dogg (as opposed to Nat King Cole) as the rush back to Druid status continues. The barbarians are no longer at the gates, they are inside the city. on Stewart is just one of the Germania that the Romans forgot to domesticate.

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