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I was watching The Spin Room on CNN last night and caught this interesting and amusing snippet of conversation between hosts Bill Press, Tucker Carlson and guest author/actor Malachy McCourt:

Bill Press: Now, my first question to you is I was shocked today, I've always -- I've known all my life about St. Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, I learned today that he was actually born in England and captured as a slave when he was 16 and taken to Ireland. You mean to tell me that you Irish all this time have been singing the praises to some Brit?

Malachy McCourt: Yeah. We're suckers for matinee idols. No, he was captured by Niall of the Nine Hostages and brought to Ireland and put to work on the hills, and there he fell in love with sheep, but then he escaped and went back to wherever the hell he went to.

But then he decided to come back and convert the Irish, and they thought, oh well, he talks -- he speaks a good line, so let him in, and off he went, and the next thing they're all Catholic and a perfectly good pagan civilization was totally ruined by this man.

Tucker Carlson: So, that is the genesis of the anger at the British then?

Malachy McCourt: Well, we're not really angry at them. How can you get angry at your inferiors?

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