9842: Insults In Fashion At Urban Outfitters.

From The New York Post…

Seeing red over insulting green

By Gerry Shields

WASHINGTON — Four New York congressional delegation members got their Irish up yesterday over tasteless St. Patrick’s Day merchandise being sold by Urban Outfitters.

The store is selling hats that include the image of a stick figure vomiting shamrocks. Another item is a beer jug labeled “Leprechaun Piss.” A third display is an Irish T-shirt celebrating drunkenness (pictured above).

Signing onto the protest were New York Democratic Reps. Joseph Crowley, Carolyn Maloney and Eliot Engel and Republican Rep. Peter King (R-LI).

A call placed to Urban Outfitters yesterday afternoon was not returned.

6565: Irish Stock Market.

Get your Irish stock photography here, lads and lassies.

6560: Recruiting Your Own…?

Ireland seeks Irish entrepreneurs? Why not recruit Lucky?

6558: Flower Pot O’ Gold.

It pays to be Irish—15 percent, to be exact.

6554: Crystal Clear.

Comparing Ireland to heaven sounds like blarney.

6550: O’Bama.

Everyone wants to claim Barack Obama.

6546: When Irish Minds Are Smiling.

Are the Irish legends in their own minds?

6540: The Irish Side Of Life.

Coca-Cola salutes St. Patrick’s Day. Um, few revelers will be drinking Coke.

Essay 4865

Back in the day, this minority group was stereotyped as uncivilized and impoverished, often depicted with exaggerated simian features. Blacks? Latinos? Asians? Nope, we’re talking Irish Americans. And now Arby’s is offending the audience with a TV commercial that shows chimpanzees performing a traditional Irish step dance. Check out the letter war between a consumer and the fast food joint (from the latest issue of Irish America magazine). Plus, click on the essay title above to learn more about the obscene insensitivity.


(To view the Arby’s spot, click here)