An Uisce Mor

Ah. We wondered when this would happen. There are only so many ways to run a War on Refugees without resorting to past tropes, and so it is that the New Orleans refugees have now achieved the status of the Famine Irish. A disengenuous post from Jonah Goldberg (having previously mocked the Superdome refugees) -- an e-mail from a reader, printed without comment, and therefore as far as we are concerned, endorsed:

FROM THE SCENE [Jonah Goldberg]

A reader:

I just got back from helping out at the [Houston] Astrodome. Most of the refugees look fine (energetic even) except for the ones in sick bay. A lot of those are old people who were probably sick before the hurricane. There is good order with lots of cops (some on horses). Everybody is lining up in an orderly fashion. A lot of the refugees look pretty hardened. My 25 year old daughter went with me and she said she felt a little afraid of the refugees.

Victims, but big and burly, even scary ones. Check out this list of Irish Famine cartoons. And check each one off as the Right works through them again.