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Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Over at the Fox News website, they have a column(?) called Tongue Tied, which highlights stories that tend to make people speechless. Today is no exception. In Yonkers, the president of a New York branch of the NAACP called a member of the city council a "leprechaun". Naturally, the Irish councilman, Liam McGloughlin, was a tad upset. After much contention, an apology was demanded.

The offender, Karen Edmondson, doesn't feel she owes anyone an apology. And in her defense, she stated, "It was nothing. It's a Halloween term."

Now, I'm not always the brightest bulb in the room, but I am aware that leprechauns are not usually associated with Halloween, but with St. Patrick's Day. Perhaps Ms. Edmondson celebrates Halloween differently from the rest of us. Maybe she bobs for apples in green beer, pins shamrocks on pumpkins, and goes door-to-door exclaiming, "Kiss me -- I'm Irish!"

However, in my humble opinion, she does owe Mr. McGloughlin an apology. If she had made a derogatory remark to a black man, the NAACP would have had her head on a platter. As it is, she probably won't even be censured.

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