Beware the ire of the Irish: This is an e-mail being circulated among a group of like-minded friends that was just too good to not post. Kudos to MH.

Here’s something that’ll make you feel a little better. As many of you know, Bill O’Reilly last week said this in response to a San Francisco ballot measure that barred military recruiters in city schools:

“And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. We’re going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.”

Then, when everybody got mad at him for this, he popped his cork and said he was going to post an enemies list on his website. How wonderful!

Why is it so many loony, list-making demagogues seem to have Irish names? Father Coughlan? Joe McCarthy? Bill O’Reilly? I’m sick of it! Gives my people a bad name.

Anyway, now you too can ask Bill to add you to his enemies list by writing to him at oreilly@foxnews.com. I just did. This is what I said:

Dear Bill O’Reilly –

Please add me to the enemies list you’re compiling for your website. I feel I deserve to be on the list for the following reasons:

• I think you’re an ugly stain on the fabric of this nation.
• I think you play to the lowest, most hateful of human instincts.
• I think you drag the level of political discourse in this country straight into the gutter.
• I think you’re willing to twist the facts any way at all in order to advance your views, and truth be damned.
• I think you purposely drive wedges deeper between groups that might otherwise find common ground and work to address our nation’s problems.
• I think you’re unbearably rude. Didn’t your mother teach you any manners?
• Finally, I’m embarrassed that your ancestors came from the same country as mine. Please tell me your name is really Cromwell. I’d believe that.

Thank you for your time –

Matt H.
Brooklyn, New York