Irish America's best journalists

"All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why."

On having Stephen Colbert on his show:

"I'm really looking forward to speaking to a man who owes his entire career to me!"

 

6. Sean Hannity

Sean Hannity’s show is the second highest rated show in cable news, after Bill O’Reilly’s. His grandparents on his father’s side came from Co. Down, while his maternal grandparents came from Co. Cork. Like O’Reilly, Hannity is a devout Catholic – although Hannity has publicly dissented from the Catholic Church’s view on contraception, and unlike O’Reilly, is pro-death penalty.

Best quotes

On the Democrats:

"I'll tell you who should be tortured and killed at Guantanamo: every filthy Democrat in the U.S. Congress."

"Liberals want to paint conservatives as angry white men on the radio. No, we're not. We're happy, normal, law-abiding, taxpaying, wonderful people. They love to play tennis with us on the weekend."

"Iraqis are not going to be bombed by the United States. The United States will use pinpoint accuracy, like we always do."

"They can have the Gay Scouts if they want, if they don’t like the values of the Boy Scouts."

 

7. Kate O’Beirne 

Kate O’Beirne is rather like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, except that she’s a woman, not quite as blustering, and is more nuanced in her views. (I guess that just means that O’Beirne, like Hannity and O’Reilly is right-wing and Irish.) Born Kate Walsh, into an Irish Catholic family in New York, O’Beirne is the Washington editor of the famous right-wing magazine, National Review, she was also a regular feature on CNN’s political program, Capital Gang.

Best quotes

"I have long thought that if high-school boys had invited homely girls to the prom we might have been spared the feminist movement."

"Wanting to see feminists fail came naturally to me."

"The so-called wage gap is the gift that keeps on giving to the modern woman’s movement."

 

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