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Ronan Tynan
On Thursday Tynan bumped into a real estate agent showing an apartment on his floor to a potential buyer, a pediatrician from NYU Medical Center named Gabrielle Gold-von Simson. The real estate agent quipped to Tynan, "Don’t worry, they are not Red Sox fans," to which Tynan replied, "I don’t care about that, as long as they are not Jewish." Tynan insists it was a joke—hilarious, right? A flabbergasted Gold-von Simson says she asked the singer, "Why is that?" and he explained that some Jewish women had looked at the apartment, and they were "scary." That Tynan, what a panic.
Tynan has since apologized to Gold-von Simson and promised to make a donation to the NYU pediatric center. He also tried to clear things up by talking to NBC New York, insisting, "I’m not anti-Semitic and I have never been in my life. There are three members of my band that are Jewish. And I love them like brothers. I call them my brothers from another mother." Ah, the old, "I have ____ friends" defense. But will it be enough? Next time Tynan sings at Yankee Stadium again, he better belt out "Hashem Bless America" for good measure.
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Thank Yaweh. He fucking sucks, and I'm sick of hearing him belt out the national anthem at every game of importance. With all the entertainment stars in this city, why is it he is the one and ONLY "artist" they choose year after year? Fuck him. I want Jon Bon Jovi. Or Prince. Anything would be better than that fat irish fuck, he sings off key anyway.
Well said. I could never stand this guy. That being said this ridiculous political correctness is totally out of hand. Fact: most people don't like certain types of other people. This will never change. It's called being human.
(Or god bless america or whatever the fuck it is he sings.)
Everyone should know by now that in the new America, you better be PC and only make jokes about your own ethnicity, or you're gonna pay by having to explain yourself to everyone and their mother.
It was obivously a joke. relax folks.
he'll never work in this town again.
Who cares.
That's what you get for hiring a tenor who looks -- and sings -- like Mussolini.
some powerful forces at work here
Yes. The forces of not-alienating-a-large-portion-of-your-fanbase. Conspiracy!
I always thought he looked like Sloth from "Goonies", that or a weirder looking Giuliani.
I was just thinking, if Life Goes On tv show ever revives itself, he should def try out for Corky's role.
you don't say? can't say I'm surprised, whatever that means. still not surprised.
he has a band?
he could have made a joke about any other ethnicity and gotten away with it, but the jews run the news, so dont fuck with them
in his defense, he's irish, so he was probably blind drunk when he made that joke.
Ha, that's the topper. We can all go home now.
I actually laughed at the comment. He probably meant it in such a way as to be so preposterous as to not be serious.
Unless he didn't, in which case it isn't funny.
But I'll choose for now to read it as the former.
Agree w/the former, i laughed when i read it, like yeah that's a NY'ers dark dry humor.
I miss Robert Merrill
A flabbergasted Gold-von Simson says she asked the singer, "Why is that?" and he explained that some Jewish women had looked at the apartment, and they were "scary."
Bad answer. He should have just said, "Just a bad joke, sorry... it's very good to meet you and I'm sure we would be happy as neighbors."
See when you tell a joke and it obviously flops, the worst thing you can to is to go on trying to funny. That approach is best left to the professionals.
I think he fears all women.
I hope this is permanent, I never want to hear this man's horrible voice again. I also hope they take back that World Series ring that he flaunts on his big, fat finger.
What a Schlumpeh.
I could give a rat's ass about what he thinks about jews - but who the f*ck is this guy?
Have you heard the joke about the Irish tenor? No?
Well, he bumps into this real estate agent and....
Kate Smith, Kate Smith!!
A joke MAY be an "anti-semitic remark", but not this one, in context, by any honest use of language.
Much less was there any "slur", as hysterically claimed by that prominent flack.
I'm no fan of Ronan, but this is ludicrous. (#18 is likely right.)
On a side note...why do we still have that stupid 7th inning stretch with the song?
Patriotism != nationalism
Nationalism ~ stupidity
Certainly not b/c there is a place and role for Stupidity in Yankeedom. Couldn't be.
Where was the outrage when Chris Rock hosted Saturday Night Live on St. Patrick's Day a couple of years ago and said all the Irish were too drunk to realize we had had a major storm that day? He was subsequently honored by Time Magazine, and got favorable comments in the Times and appeared on Channel 13. But I guess mrguy in 13 would approve of that.
I don't approve of Ronan's comment, but it looks like some people think bigotry is acceptable if it's directed at the right people.
Oh, and by the way, I'm sober.
My last comment was just a general posting and wasn't intended as a reply to Vida Loco.
its a silly power trip if you ask me.
if some joe schmoe on the street made an _______ joke that offended a ________ and the ________ had no power or connections to out the joke teller who didnt have a high profile occupation then it would be a non issue.
I mean what are you gonna do track down the guy, his job and once you find out that the guy does nothing more than pack bags at the supermarket. what are you going to do, start a blog, tweet and start a facebook group and hold picket signs boycotting some grocery store because some schmuck made a joke. i mean really ive heard black jokes, mexican jokes, white jokes, gay jokes, retard jokes etc etc, and ive never heard any outrage that the person is anti black, anti mexican, anti white, anti gay and so on and so forth...
it wouldnt be news if gothamist and CNN interrupted your regularly scheduled programming to say some guy walking his dog in the park made an anti semetic joke and some lady was sitting on a park bench was offended, the catch is that the "victim" has to have a good TV presence and feign outrage and the "perpetrator" has to be someone who holds a position that is held in some sort of twisted high regard.
go back and tell the manager of the grocery store that his star bag packer made a joke in his hallway and hell tell you so freakin what, hes a good grocery helper and i only pay him $6 an hour plus tips.
When did Sloth from "The Goonies" become a singer?
(I knew that guy looked familiar)
I think he was just making a non anti-Semetic sarcastic
joke,in any event I bet his entire building is owned by
Jews,so there!!!!
By the way he ain't no Pavarotti or Domingo he needs
the Yankee stadium gig.
She's a rat. I wouldn't want her in my building.
I've had enough of that guy anyway though.
Dr. Tynan says to the client named Dr. Gold he would rent to her as long as she wasn't Jewish. This moron didn't get the obvious joke and didn't have to courage to say so or that she didn't appreciate it, and instead called his boss? I know this humorless, sensitive woman was trying to help, but this will set us all back. The next time we talk about legitimate anti-Semitism someone will say, "Ronan Tynan" and remind us how this idiot got someone fired because she doesn't understand Irish humor. He was, as they say in England, "taking the piss" and/or “taking the mickey”, the pretend not to like you thing, and I am so embarrassed by this woman's act. She should apologize quickly. Sans her making an apology, I hope a joke she makes one day goes over like a lead balloon and someone calls her hospital and gets her fired.