Posted on 03/06/2010 10:44:16 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK (AP) -- Irish tenor Ronan Tynan says he's leaving New York for Boston because he hasn't been able to find work in the months since a woman accused him of making an anti-Semitic remark.
The New York Yankees dropped their long-standing tradition of having the 49-year-old singer perform "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch after the incident in October.
Tynan says other work has also dried up, and he's gotten angry e-mails and death threats.
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Damn. You’d think this man didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.
Just referring to someone as Jewish is now an anti-Semitic slur? If he'd said "two Catholic ladies" would he still have his job?
“The trouble started when Tynan, 49, bumped into a real estate agent showing an apartment in his East Side apartment building to a doctor from NYU Medical Center.
The agent told Tynan, “Don’t worry, they are not Red Sox fans,” according to apartment-hunter Gabrielle Gold-von Simson. “I don’t care about that, as long as they are not Jewish,” was Tynan’s reply.”
I am a physician's assistant. I am no longer in an active practice and spend my time now as a full time freelance photographer. Recently I had a gig at homeless shelter and encountered a man with the disease that the guy in the movie “Elephant Man” had. He was a very nice guy, but very obviously disfigured by the tumors all over his exposed skin. Face, head, arms, hands, everywhere. Most of them were about the size of an olive, but a lot of them were as big or bigger than a golf ball. I was at the shelter to take pictures of a local beauty pageant winner as she visited with the children of the homeless. As we were were on the elevator, just me and the beauty pageant lady and one of the shelter employees I asked if they had seen the movie, and they said not. I explained in a very medical and non-judgmental way that the man we just saw had the disease the man in Elephant Man had suffered from, nerurofibromatosis. I pointed out in a very compassionate way that it could not be cured, and would progress until it caused his death. Seemed pretty informative and compassionate to me. I felt good that I could explain his problem to the people in the elevator since they were visibly shaken by his appearance. The next day I got a scathing email from the beauty pageant saying I had been insensitive in mentioning his disfigurement, and that they would no longer be able to use me to photograph appearances of pageant ladies since I could not be trusted not to offend those at a shoot!
My going rate is about $800 dollars a day and I have given these people a lot of hours and days of free shooting, plus handing out true photographic prints at an event and publishing the pictures on my website, to support them and the charities they work with. Imagine my surprise.
So, I guess if he had had no legs and I had mentioned how sad for a homeless person to have no legs that it would have offended them too.
I told my wife, I give up. I'm too old and set in my ways to be dealing with liberals and that's all I seem to encounter when I do one of these charity events.
That's not what I read in the AP article.
Yeah. I'll bet they'll be surprised when you send them the bill they really owe you. I would. Call me insensitive. LOL
“My going rate is about $800 dollars a day and I have given these people a lot of hours and days of free shooting, plus handing out true photographic prints at an event and publishing the pictures on my website, to support them and the charities they work with. Imagine my surprise.
Yeah. I’ll bet they’ll be surprised when you send them the bill they really owe you. I would. Call me insensitive. LOL”
I love it - great idea!
The AP is hardly a reliable source!
http://gothamist.com/2010/03/06/ex-yankees_tenor_moves_to_boston_af.php
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/item_NmiZdYsI7VFwNBCZA8QxwI
I’m sure that Mr. Tynan was just having a bad day, but no one can force anyone to buy a ticket to hear him sing. He just proved once again the saying that “it takes a lifetime to build a reputation and only a minute to destroy it”.
No good deed goes unpunished when it comes to dealing with such ungrateful people.
True, but did he have to get death threats over that?
“True, but did he have to get death threats over that?”
Death threats are a criminal matter that should be dealt with by the police.
What Mr. Tynan did is equivalent to insulting the Irish in Boston or the Italians in New Jersey. It’s just dumb to insult the people responsible for your livelihood, and he is wise to relocate. Perhaps his new reputation can help him get him some lucrative concert bookings in the Muslim world.
Nice work! When you know what makes them tick, you can almost predict the future.
Perhaps I am coming from a different view. I am of a minority population. I have been called many names related to my race. I have experienced racism, the real thing. So what. In my view too many people are walking around with a chip on their shoulder. People like Mr. Tynan should just be ignored.
Just an observation from this traveler-—most NYC area jewish liberals seem very annoying and irritating to do business with as a generality. Real PITA’s to the core in matters of business and I’m from there originally with lots of jewish friends growing up.
Unfortunate to see someone crucified for an off-hand remark, possibly out of context... but it’s hard to imagine why he would say such a thing unless he really does have some problem with Jews. Considering the Jewish population in the NYC area, it’s understandable that the Yankees choose not to be associated with him.
(Incidentally, I never was fond of his “God Bless America.” Too melodramatic and too much about him - the equivalent of the R&B singers who mangle the national anthem.)
The guy has a great voice - but needed to pick up the pace a bit. The seventh inning stretch was a bit too stretched when Ronan was singing.
I lived in New York for a few years, and there was a little old orthodox Jewish man who vendored coffee at the foot of the WTC towers. I just loved him to pieces. No one made coffee like he did. He called me his "little Chinese doll" which I took as a compliment. The ACLU would probably sue him for that!
This world is getting curiouser and curiouser. Sometimes I feel like we're not in a melting pot, but a washing machine going around and around, drowning in everybody's dirty laundry.
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