Here's Jimmy!

St. Patrick's Day arrived and, predictably, the liberal bigot Jimmy Breslin popped up on CUNY NYC TV's "City Talk," on Sunday morning, doing his shtick as a slightly meshuga blue-collar character while flogging his new book, "The Good Rat: A True Story." The title might have referred to himself.

It was a safely predictable softball interview -- the kind that the liberal press and broadcast industry reserves for its anointed ones -- until the retired Piel's Beer pitchman lost the run of himself, discomfiting his host while comparing Mafia wise guys favorably to all those greedy amoral hedge fund operators, whom he described as "smooth-faced Protestants" worthy of a firing squad.

What a disgrace! Would anyone but a local lefty get away with disparaging an entire faith? The senile but vicious scribbler is married to a politically like-minded Democrat, the former City Councilwoman Ronnie Eldridge, who has a progressive program on CUNY TV.

Would bleeding heart Brezhnev want someone to trash her religion?

Ironically, the CUNY web site says that Ms. Eldridge -- a nice lady, without her husband's venom, but someone whom we would classify as a useful idiot -- "was born on Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday."

Now, the last time we looked, FDR was an Episcopalian, which made him a Protestant.

And the colors of the Irish flag are green, white, and orange, symbolizing Catholicism, peace, and Protestantism.

And the Irish peace process -- whose guiding light was the great John Hume, not Gerry Adams -- is all about Catholics and Protestants getting along and moving forward together.

Our publisher, Patrick McCarthy, recently was an honored speaker at Molloy College on Long Island when former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern spoke about the Good Friday Agreement.

Peter King, a Republican Congressman from Long Island, and members of our esteemed opposition, the Irish Echo, were also in attendance. C-Span broadcast the forum.

Imagine the silence had the addlepated Breslin uttered those words at that venue!