41 Comments

• IrishAndProud | Apr 28, 2010, 01:54 PM EDT

  Thank you, Joe...America agrees with you...first Arizona, and now TEXAS is considering the same kind of law, as well! We've got 'em on the run! And what's Obama going to do...block your laws? Forbid other sovreign states from following suit? Ha! Like doing that would just make it all 'go away'...the majority wouldn't accept it. We cannot be walked on, forever.

• RealIrish2010 | Apr 25, 2010, 01:20 AM EDT

  Has "Joe The Plumber" got his plumbing licence and paid his back taxes yet??? Is this how REAL Citizens act in this country? Oh ya, wasn't it the Republican Party brought this guy to the table? Way to go on the homework you dummies... Quite an opposition we have on our hands here people... Immigration Reform 2010 - We Will Pay Our Taxes and be true Citizens when our day comes...

• GuinnessGrrl | Apr 23, 2010, 04:24 PM EDT

  Why is (Not his name)Joe the (not an actual) Plumber even in the news?

• GuinnessGrrl | Apr 23, 2010, 04:23 PM EDT

  Hey pacmanisback & 2BorNot2B, you complain that your posts are censored, but all the posts that you put your complaints in are posted! That cracks me up!!!

• 2BorNot2B | Apr 23, 2010, 11:52 AM EDT

  Notice: It may take several minutes for your comment to appear.... or in frank IC parlance, maybe NEVER if we decide you're not toeing the left-wing-maggot line. We got word filters.. ya know!

• McNamara31 | Apr 23, 2010, 10:42 AM EDT

  Would love to see a piece on the connection of the "Freedom Works" organization and the Tea Party movement.

• plasticpaddy | Apr 22, 2010, 07:20 PM EDT

  sad that the misguided posters below can't handle an opinion piece!

• jmacroibin | Apr 20, 2010, 03:58 PM EDT

  It's offical, pacman and irish and proud are my new heros.

• MalcomAC | Apr 19, 2010, 10:09 PM EDT

  The state of discourse is, truly sad. The 'Tea Baggers' are a misinformed, sad lot.

• pacmanisback | Apr 19, 2010, 05:52 PM EDT

  CENSORSHIP ALIVE AND WELL AT IRISH CENTRAL

• pacmanisback | Apr 19, 2010, 05:35 PM EDT

  coming up with a new site to counter all of the censorship coming from this one,I need help finding a name, open to suggestions, here are some...Please vote: 1. The True Irish Voice.com-Type #1 if you like. 2. The Provisional Irish Central-vote #2 3.ThestoriesofIrishCentralandwhythepeoplethatrunitdontwantyoutocoment.com-vote#3 4.Ourselves alone the true story of the lonely slightly right leaning Irish Central posters-vote #4

• pacmanisback | Apr 19, 2010, 05:30 PM EDT

  I need help on coming up with a name for the site Here are some...Please vote: 1. The True Irish Voice.com-Type #1 if you like. 2. The Provisional Irish Central-vote #2 3.ThestoriesofIrishCentralandwhythepeoplethatrunitdontwantyoutocoment.com-vote#3 4.Ourselves alone the true story of the lonely slightly right leaning Irish Central posters-vote #4

• pacmanisback | Apr 19, 2010, 05:20 PM EDT

  To ALL IC AND THE IRISH VOICE (SHOULD BE CALLED IRISH VOICE-ONLY IF WE AGREE) READER-DONT POST HERE. Never have I come across such blatant censorship under the heading "opinion" I will be starting my own blog based on the stories printed here but without the Natzi like censorship.

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 12:09 PM EDT

  What are the qualifications to be an editorial writer for Irish Central? A stint as Putins PR guy? Working on Pravdas editorial page? Writing timely pieces in granma? Just curious.

• Southernpride | Apr 19, 2010, 07:22 AM EDT

  Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher is an honest hard working American citizen, who believes that people should be law abiding, and obey the laws of our great land

• pacmanisback | Apr 19, 2010, 01:22 AM EDT

  Kelly-Serious question-do you consider yourself an unbiased reporter?

• pacmanisback | Apr 19, 2010, 01:06 AM EDT

  richie-IrishandProud is eating your lunch,limp away and move on. That was a true beat down in everyway.

• IrishAndProud | Apr 19, 2010, 12:24 AM EDT

  (continued) Then what's worse, you proceed to badmouth the REAL, LEGAL Americans for protesting what you've done, and attempt to deny their genetics if they don't coddle to YOU. Now suppose some American went to Ireland and did all of this; how would that be any less wrong?

• IrishAndProud | Apr 19, 2010, 12:20 AM EDT

  btw richie, if you're illegal yourself, I'll turn your own approach right back on YOU: You're not really an American, you're just an Irish illegal who didn't even bother to come here the way MY Irish ancestors LEGALLY did; they had to suffer weeks on a creaky boat on the ocean to get here, and actually came here WANTING to be AMERICANS. You got on a nice, cushy, comfy air-conditioned PLANE, flew over here in just a few hours, and are now living ILLEGALLY and not even trying to assimilate.

• IrishAndProud | Apr 18, 2010, 11:02 PM EDT

  Oh, so now all-of-a-sudden a person's POLITICS make them genetically Irish, eh? Interesting science...and I was already thinking you might try this approach, as the next step (not to mention the predictable equating of illegals with legit immigrants)...HA HA HA HA HA HA! richie, you're growing more convoluted and off-the-wall with each passing post.

• richiem2282 | Apr 18, 2010, 10:30 PM EDT

  If all the immigrants left this great country, the only souls left would be the native americans... You can travel with me on the plane back home if you like... I'm proud to call Ted Kennedy Irish because he stood up for us "illegals", Má tá tú chomh Gaeilge, is féidir leat tuiscint a fháil ar an abairt seo

• IrishAndProud | Apr 18, 2010, 10:22 PM EDT

  You see, richie, you are flatly incapable of arguing the actual issue, so you make a fool of yourself by calling into question someone's ethnicity because you don't know how else to come back at them, (I've had similar, predictable people try this exact approach and over again, to no avail). But unless and until you're willing to argue the actual points of the issue instead of making false and off-subject irrelevancies, you'll never be taken seriously. Slan leat.

• IrishAndProud | Apr 18, 2010, 10:11 PM EDT

  That must mean that Teddy Kennedy was American, and not Irish, too...or Conan O'Brien...or Rosie O'Donnell....or....Eamon De Valera, because he was American-born...or...I trust you get the message. This is YOUR viewpoint I'm echoing, richie, not mine...see what an irrelevant cheap shot you're taking? And as I said several posts back, it has nothing to do with this issue. Exactly how teary-eyed are people supposed to get toward illegals, anyway, before they suddenly start becoming legal?

• richiem2282 | Apr 18, 2010, 08:50 PM EDT

  So your American, Not Irish.. Ok, now it makes sense, Its been a pleasure chatting with you "Irish & Proud". I wish you the best of luck in your life and hope you never have to deal with the hardship that Illegal immigrants deal with every day

• IrishAndProud | Apr 18, 2010, 08:39 PM EDT

  Yes, richie...IRISH AND PROUD, YA!!! You not only evaded the original issue by bringing up irrelevant stuff, now you've evaded the response to your evasion. I'm Irish and proud...and I want every single last illegal alien OUT of the USA...and Ireland, too. You support their lawbreaking, richie...I and the vast majority of REAL citizens do not.

• jennyVT | Apr 18, 2010, 07:54 PM EDT

  First lets get this straight Angelina Jolie is NO LONGER ESTRANGED from her father Jon Voight. When Joe the Plumber said "Put a fence up and start shooting" I can't imagine that he meant to shoot all illegals in America. You changed what he said to fit your article. I think the WORD ILLEGAL speaks for it's self.

• richiem2282 | Apr 18, 2010, 07:51 PM EDT

  Irish & Proud??? ya....

• IrishAndProud | Apr 18, 2010, 06:17 PM EDT

  richie, what does my place of birth have to do with millions of illegal aliens invading other nations? Talk about diversionary and IRRELEVANT...can't you do better than that, boy (or girl)? Get some GUTS, kiddo, and stick with the subject, for a change!

• Southernpride | Apr 18, 2010, 02:32 AM EDT

  Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher is an honest hard working American citizen, who believes that people should be law abiding, and obey the laws of our great land

• richiem2282 | Apr 17, 2010, 03:28 PM EDT

  Here we go!! "You People"... Enough said... Thanks you McNamara31 Irish and Proud, what Irish county were you born in?

• McNamara31 | Apr 17, 2010, 03:25 PM EDT

  richiem2282 Well Said & Agreed.

• Monsoonman | Apr 17, 2010, 01:20 PM EDT

  No one is squawking about legal immigration into America. This is about flooding our country with undocumented/illegal aliens. Stop clouding the issue by tagging them with the benign sounding "immigrants", they're not. I am starting to feel like a broken record repeating this info., but "you people" keep trying to make anyone who advocates legal entry into the USA a racist or xenophobe...not true!

• IrishAndProud | Apr 16, 2010, 11:47 PM EDT

  richiem, you're equating illegal aliens with legitimate immigrants. Two different categories. Surely you didn't need that pointed out, to you? That approach doesn't work, anymore. But the fact that the shrinking left wing keeps (futiley) trying it shows they have nothing else.

• richiem2282 | Apr 16, 2010, 11:25 PM EDT

  Tell me if I'm wrong, But "Joe Wurzelbacher" doesn't look and sound very Native American. Has he forgotten the fact that HE may have immigrant roots too???? How easy these Americans forget where they came from... America was and is built by immigrants and we make this country what it is today, apart from some "Joe's" who seem to forget that simple little fact. Think its time We reminds them, Oh Joe, what a Puppet you are, or should I say Muppet!!!

• IrishAndProud | Apr 16, 2010, 11:21 PM EDT

  Hate to burst your gas-filled bubble, here (I'm referring to the shrinking, Obamanik left wing), but there's some news out there in the REAL world (which you do not mentally inhabit) that I thought I'd pass along. Here's what two DEMOCRATIC pollsters say, about the Tea Party movement (and the political world, in general), in the Democrat-leaning Washington Post. Warning: it's not fun, for liberals. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041504131.html

• IrishAndProud | Apr 16, 2010, 11:14 PM EDT

  And further...my goodness...bashing the Tea Party movement has really, REAAAALLLY become a juicy get-into-it pasttime, at Irish Central. A hit piece here, a hit piece there...and then today I open up the website and there's TWO top stories about those 'mean, evil racist' Tea Partiers, again. They are really getting obsessed, on the left. Which means...they must really feel increasingly threatened.

• IrishAndProud | Apr 16, 2010, 11:10 PM EDT

  I had to actually read into this article to see (as I expected) how Joe's remark was predictably taken out of context. BTW where was the left wing all those years, when award-winning books and movies were being made about murdering George W. Bush -- not to mention all the vile talk HE got? Last time I checked not a single Tea Party rally has ever turned violent...something that can NOT be said about their opponents.

• Monsoonman | Apr 16, 2010, 06:41 PM EDT

  "Put a fence up and start shooting." Want to help me out here? What other country in the world lets anyone slip through their borders, lets them stay and supports them with social services?...Ireland? North Korea? Japan? Germany? Russia? Mexico? Put up fences and guard our borders with armed troops if necessary.

• plasticpaddy | Apr 16, 2010, 06:26 PM EDT

  what an idiot, and those who cheer him on!

• rorschach | Apr 16, 2010, 05:20 PM EDT

  Reminds me of the good old days in Nuremberg, 1938...

• dermot.r | Apr 16, 2010, 05:05 PM EDT

  I am. One of these nutcases is going to cross the line at some point, and their cheerleaders like Palin et al share the burden of responsibility for inciting them to hateful acts.