Posted on 03/17/2023 4:01:02 PM PDT by thegagline
President Biden told a series of cringe-worthy jokes about his Irish ancestry to mark St. Patrick’s Day, cracking that he’s surprised his distant Irish relatives aren’t “in jail” and that he’s “really not Irish” because he doesn’t drink alcohol.
The 80-year-old president, who is roughly five-eighths Irish, made the seemingly stereotype-laden attempts at humor***
“I’ve been to Ireland many times, but not to actually look up, to find my actual family members. And there are so many — and they actually weren’t in jail,” Biden said to scattered laughs as he recalled a six-day visit in which he met his relatives.
“There’s still a place called Finnegan’s pub… that’s related to my family,” the president went on.
“I’m the only Irishman you ever met though that’s never had a drink, so I’m OK. I’m really not Irish.” ***
At one point in his remarks Friday, Biden recounted meeting a corrupt Scranton political leader named “Paddy” as a child — noting humorously that the crooked pol always did what he said he would do.
Paddy was like “a late [Chicago] Mayor Daley, you know, brother-in-law on the payroll kind of thing,” Biden recalled — just a day after House Republicans released bank-record information on Biden family income from China to Hunter and James Biden, presidential daughter-in-lawn Hallie Biden and also an unnamed Biden. *** You’re wondering why I like Paddy?” Biden’s grandfather supposedly said.
“He said…. let me tell you something, ‘He’d looked at you say, ‘Ambrose. I’m going to cut your heart out.’ And you know he’d mean it,” the president recalled.
“Or, ‘Ambrose, I’m going to jump off the bridge for you.’ Whatever he said, he’d do — just remember, do what you say. Do what you say.” ***
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A born gombeen man! A true grifter and gaping arse!
I only found one Irish ancestor about 1650 Mary Murphy Deny.
Biden isn’t really anything.
What an embarrassment. What is he even talking about?
They appear to have an anti Irish PM!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qtfTWqXHQFc
I was born about ten thousand years ago
In Bellmullet in the County of Mayo
It was me that chased the vermin, while St. Patrick preached the sermon
And I’ll whoop the man that says it isn’t so
Singing rightful too-ra-laddie too-ra-lee
There is no one who can tell a lie like me
You can search until you tire, you won’t find a bigger liar
I’ve been lying since the dawn of history
…It was during World War II I met them all
There was Roosevelt and Churchill and De Gaulle
Then one day I nearly fainted, I was having my house painted
There was Hitler hanging paper in the hall…
FBI is too busy with investigating and arresting abortion protesters praying in front of Planned Parenthood “clinics.”
I’m part Irish and never heard the term. Looked it up. Accurate.
Bembeen: a usurer who lends money to small farmers and others of like means, at ruinous interest. .
He's told a lot of howlingly ludicrous lies, but that one's got to top them all.
I guarantee you there are plenty of videos of dinners he's attended where he's knockin' em back pretty good.
And the Italians.
Imagine if he said that about blacks.
What a friggin’ lunatic.
“ People are far too serious nowadays and can’t take a joke..”
Well he’s the President and it’s 2023.
You don’t say stuff like that
Oh where to start with this fellow......
People are far too serious nowadays and can’t take a joke..
so you’re OK with put-down jokes about Serbs and Russians?
I’m not really ukrainian because.....
No. Just the Irish...
Oh I think the Italians continue to get derogatory jokes.
Agreed.
It was pretty funny.
Don’t need to make jokes. The world’s biggest joke is just north of Montana, Idaho, Washington....
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