NOT SO LUCK OF THE IRISH

While the owner of Urban Outfitters is busy giving your hard-earned money that you readily, quickly and willingly hand over for their crappy items to that scum Frothy Mix in the past (over $13,000 to that scum's campaign and political action committee--this news is really old), the store has managed to piss off another group, the Irish, by selling some racist merchandise depicting that group in negative stereotypes.

This isn't Urban Outfitters first offense. The retailer sold Navajo-themed items that pissed off Native Americans, last year. The retailer was forced to pull those items and rename some.

Urban Outfitters is taking a lot of flak from Irish organizations that say its St. Patrick’s Day merchandise defames and debases the entire Emerald Isle as a bunch of drunks. And like the Navajo-themed merchandise that came before it, the t-shirts and other products that inspired this anger may be headed off the shelves.

Irish people from all walks of life have responded to Urban’s Irish-themed product lineup pretty negatively, and some are prepared to wage a full fledged campaign to have the items removed from the store. And with products like a beer growler labeled Leprechaun Piss and shirts that say things like “Kiss Me, I’m Drunk. Or Irish, Or Whatever.” their anger isn’t really all that surprising. Congressman Tim Crowley, head of the Congressional Ad Hoc Committee on Irish Affairs, sent a letter to Urban Outfitters CEO Richard Hayne, asking him, and nicely, to stop selling the products.