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Yer out! for 'YMCA' gag (minor league announcer fired for dedicating song to Gov McGreevey)
Associated Press ^
| Aug 26, 2004
Posted on 08/26/2004 5:39:15 AM PDT by presidio9
ATLANTIC CITY - Sometimes kicking a guy when he's down isn't a good thing. Especially when he's the state's newly gay governor. The announcer for minor league baseball's Atlantic City Surf was fired and the scoreboard operator resigned after dedicating the song "YMCA" to Gov. Jim McGreevey.
The 1970s "Village People" hit song is widely considered a gay anthem.
Team co-owner Frank Boulton called it "disrespectful."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: fired; humorlessdems; hypersensitivity; mcgreevey; ymca
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:39:15 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:43:55 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(_____oooo_( ° ¿ ° )_oooo_____)
To: martin_fierro
What Exit?
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:46:10 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Be a Dollar a Day FReeper, and SMILE when you get your Mastercard bill!)
To: presidio9
Village People" hit song is widely considered a gay anthem
NO WAY!!!!
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:49:11 AM PDT
by
escapefromboston
(the real Green Lantern Returns!)
To: presidio9
Geez. It's not like he did anything scurrilous--ALL HE DID WAS REFER TO McGREEVY BEING GAY, and McGREEVY DID THAT!
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:51:33 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
To: presidio9
No sense of Humor, McGreevey!!!
At least he did not call you a "girlie man".
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:52:54 AM PDT
by
AmericanMade1776
(John Kerrry, the Rice A Phony, the Cambodian treat.)
To: escapefromboston
Village People" hit song is widely considered a gay anthem I'm confused. I thought gayness was supposed to be something to be PROUD of. How could playing a gay anthem be anything but a tribute to McGreevey's glorious man love?
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:53:42 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(KHAAAAAAAANNNN!!! KHAAAAAAAANNNN!!!)
To: presidio9
YYYYYYYYYYMMMMMMMMMMCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAAA!yYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYMMMMMMMMMMMMMCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAA!
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posted on
08/26/2004 5:55:05 AM PDT
by
AmericanMade1776
(John Kerrry, the Rice A Phony, the Cambodian treat.)
To: presidio9
Team co-owner Frank Boulton called it "disrespectful."I could see his point if McGreevey was someone deserving of respect.
He's not.
To: PBRSTREETGANG
it would be disrepectful if he WASN'T a gay American. He is gay, so whats the problem?
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posted on
08/26/2004 6:07:36 AM PDT
by
escapefromboston
(the real Green Lantern Returns!)
To: presidio9
So now it's disrespectful to acknowledge someone's "gayness"? I though they wanted OUT of the closet. I'd be happy to shove 'em back in...
To: presidio9
The announcer for minor league baseball's Atlantic City Surf was fired and the scoreboard operator resigned after dedicating the song "YMCA" to Gov. Jim McGreevey.
They should've been given raises...
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posted on
08/26/2004 6:12:04 AM PDT
by
firewalk
To: presidio9
"kicking a guy when he's down"??? Since when is the guy "down"? McGreevey is a Democratic hero, an out and proud member of one of their favority "victim" groups, who showed great "courage" by publicly announcing his sex drive proclivities. Who cares if he is an adulterer, an unfaithful spouse and a totally corrupt politician who put his lover boy on the public payroll in an important security position that the lover was not qualified for?
To: BeforeISleep
They should've been given raises...I'd hire them for my local minor league team if I could.
To: Unam Sanctam
You right-wingers are all alike! I see through your phony sarcasm. Next you are going to tell me that the whole Lewinski affair was about something other than sex.
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posted on
08/26/2004 6:30:03 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(KHAAAAAAAANNNN!!! KHAAAAAAAANNNN!!!)
To: Unam Sanctam
You said:
"Since when is the guy "down"?"
Why don't you ask his boyfriend?
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posted on
08/26/2004 7:04:38 AM PDT
by
NotQuiteCricket
(XP SP2 a.k.a. "Hi-Tech Scythe of Death")
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
08/26/2004 7:29:54 AM PDT
by
L.N. Smithee
(Hey, KERRY! We said it to Saddam, and now to you -- If you have nothing to hide, QUIT HIDING IT!)
To: Tijeras_Slim
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
That is an absolute scream!!!
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posted on
08/26/2004 7:44:02 AM PDT
by
MarylandPines
(Pro deo et Patria)
To: presidio9
YMCA is a queer anthem, McGreevey is queer. What's the problem?
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posted on
08/26/2004 7:45:08 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Sometimes I'm just too damned cranky.)
To: Petronski
YMCA is a queer anthem, McGreevey is queer. What's the problem?
exactly! the guy was just helping McGreevey out with his whole 'pride' thing, or whatever you wanna callit.
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posted on
08/26/2004 7:58:58 AM PDT
by
KOZ.
(i'm so bad i should be in detention)
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