Ronan Tynan To Sing For Anti-Defamation League As Penance

Ronan Tynan

Earlier this month, celebrated Irish tenor Ronan Tynan lost his regular gig singing "God Bless America" at Yankee Stadium during the formerly forced seventh inning patriotism stretch. The Yankees cut him loose because he got caught making an anti-Semitic remark to a prospective apartment buyer in his building; when the broker told him not to worry because the buyers weren't Red Sox fans, Tynan replied, "I don’t care about that, as long as they are not Jewish." For good measure, he added that some Jewish women who'd seen the apartment were "scary."

Now Tynan is trying to get over his fear of scary Jews, through song; tonight he'll be contritely performing "God Bless America" for the Anti-Defamation League. ADL director Abraham Foxman tells the Daily News Tynan's a "good man" who's made a "sincere apology" and shouldn't have his career ruined because he "slips up on one occasion." Which is pretty magnanimous of Foxman, considering the guy actually posited that Jews are worse neighbors than Red Sox fans. Some things you can't take back.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 29, 2009 12:22 PM

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Mr. Shankly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boO4RowROiw

Clarice City

Ruth Madoff is scarry. But he's definately wrong about Estelle Harris.

whitecastlerock

What did he do wrong again?

farleft

He said the word, "Jews", which is antisemitic whenever a gentile utters it.

Tricksta

LOL sounds just like something Mike Savage would say, if what FAIR says is true.

Mike? Is that really you?

potsmoker

penance is a catholic concept where a preist gives absolution for a sin,

Soon to be a SOUTH PARK episode:

"With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" is episode 1101 (#154)

Randy Marsh appears on Wheel of Fortune and is presented with a bonus round puzzle whose category is "People Who Annoy You." Randy is given the letters: R, T, S, L, and E. He adds the letters: B, N, G, and O leaving the puzzle to spell: N_GGERS. With five seconds to go he reluctantly answers "niggers" on live national television, shocking his family, friends and millions of viewers worldwide. The correct answer is actually "naggers," and everything stops in shock until the buzzer sounds and Randy loses.

The next day, Cartman warns a thoroughly humiliated Stan that Token will be mad at him, so Stan attempts to defend his father. Token tells Stan he doesn't understand how black people feel about that word. Despite Cartman's attempts to escalate the incident into a "race war," Token refuses to fight.

Randy attempts to rectify his mistake by officially apologizing to Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jackson only accepts after getting a picture of Randy kissing his buttocks, which is published in several newspapers. Stan thinks everything is okay now, but Token states that "Jesse Jackson is not the emperor of black people!" (despite Jackson apparently telling Randy that he was).

Son of Spam

I think the military chick who sung last night in his place did a pretty good job, aside from it being 42 minutes long.

wow 14th street

He is the son of Shrek.

JacqueMehoff

what kind of magic 8 ball jacket is he wearing?

GBA is really a bad 7th inning song.

Manitoba2

He's actually wearing a Bruce Lee/Kill Bill tracksuit.

JacqueMehoff

hopefully not a one piece.

tom9d

I had to pee during the 7th inning stretch in game 2 of this year's ALDS, and it was one of the more interesting experiences I've had in a bathroom. The entire 100+ crowd of guys at and on line for the urinals was enthusiastically singing God Bless America...and it actually sounded pretty good. It was the most moving thing I've ever witnessed in a men's room.

hotstepper

apparently you've never been in a bathroom frequented by Senator Larry Craig.

jpeditor

"apparently you've never been in a bathroom frequented by Senator Larry Craig."

Craig is a piker compared to Dem Congressman Barney ("there is no Fannie Mae crises!") Frank who HIRED and let his convicted child porn possessing BF, Stephen Gobie (nicknamed "hot bottom" u can look it up) use Frank's DC apartment for a WHORE HOUSE (as opposed to the whore house in congress..)