Yankees’ Irish Tenor Was Stupid With His Mouth In a Very Anti-Semitic Way

Irish tenor Ronan Tynan is a late scratch for his usual rendition of “God Bless America” during the 7th inning stretch at Yankee Stadium for tonight’s ALCS Game One because, according to him, “I was too stupid with my mouth” in making an offensive statement about Jews to a real estate agent.↵↵Tynan, who performed at the wedding of Rudy Giuliani and Ronald Reagan’s funeral, has apologized, saying what he said was meant as a joke and that he did not intend to hurt anyone, but the Yankees have already pulled him from his obligation this evening. No statement has yet been made whether this would be an indefinite ban from performing at Yankee Stadium.(UPDATE, 9:55 p.m., via AP: Yankees spokeswoman Ann McGillion issues this cryptic statement about Tynan: “There are no plans for him to sing.”)↵

↵↵Via NBC New York:↵

↵↵⇥The trouble began on Thursday when the 49-year-old Tynan bumped into a Halstead Property real estate agent showing an apartment on his floor to a potential buyer, a pediatrician from NYU Medical Center.↵⇥↵⇥The real estate agent said to the tenor, famous for his association with Yankees, “Don’t worry they are not Red Sox fans,” according to the apartment-hunter, Dr. Gabrielle Gold-von Simson.↵⇥

↵⇥↵⇥To which Tynan replied, “I don’t care about that, as long as they are not Jewish,” Gabrielle Gold-von Simson told NBC New York.
“Why is that?” asked a flabbergasted Gold-von Simson of the singer.↵⇥

↵⇥↵⇥And Tynan responded that Jewish ladies had been looking at the apartment before and they were “scary,” according to Gold-von Simson.↵⇥

↵↵↵Yeah, sorry, Tynan, I’m not really buying Jewish women being scary as an uproarious joke. Perhaps noting that the women who had been in the apartment before had been scary-looking might be blandly tasteless, but ultimately inoffensive. However, connecting that perceived scariness to their religion puts it well beyond the pale.↵

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