EXCLUSIVE: Yanks Bench Tenor After Jewish "Joke"

NBC New York ^ | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | TOM LLAMAS and MICHAEL CLANCY

[FReepaholic]

...She accepted the guy's apology. That seems to count as 'letting it drop' to me. ...

"Letting it drop", to me, would mean never going to the media about it in the first place. It's easy to be magnanimous and accept an apology after you've scored hit points.

[SJackson]

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[SJackson]

Private conversation. The “offendee” could have let it drop but nooooo...she’s now empowered. She’s a VICTIM. She can now use this as a weapon to punish her oppressor.

I see no indication at all that the "offendee", Dr. von Simson, did anything out of line. Ronan Tynan, a jerk, apologized, the Doctor appears to have accepted, and that's about it.

BTW, it was not a private conversation, it was in fact a potential commercial transaction between Tynan's agent and a potential buyer, in which Tynann came very close to breaking the law.

In my view Tynan's actions were inexcusable, post apology the issue is pretty much over other than to the media, it is a story, and Tynan's "defenders".

[FReepaholic]

...Tynann came very close to breaking the law...

What law would that be?

[SJackson]

I don’t care about that, as long as they are not Jewish

from the owner of a property to his listing agent is at best a breath away from telling the agent he won't sell his property to a Jew. Like refusing to sell to a black, or Catholic or Muslim. That's not lawful. In private the agent could pass it off, even follow his directions with a wink and a nod, but by saying it in front of a potential buyer he put his agent in a very difficult position as well.

He acted like a jerk, he apoligized, that should be the end of it, attacking the unknown butt of his joke aka the victim is inappropriate.

[onedoug]

In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.

'Kind'a makes one wonder when Shakespeare had time to write....

Let the, uh...guy sing!

[NYC GOP Chick]

I wonder how many of the people calling her a whiner and other names are among the loudly offended when Christianity is insulted.

[flaglady47]

“from the owner of a property to his listing agent is at best a breath away from telling the agent he won’t sell his property to a Jew. Like refusing to sell to a black, or Catholic or Muslim. That’s not lawful. In private the agent could pass it off, even follow his directions with a wink and a nod, but by saying it in front of a potential buyer he put his agent in a very difficult position as well.”

Tynan wasn’t the owner of the property being sold. It was someone else in the building selling an apartment. The agent was someone else’s. Read the article again.

[SJackson]

Tynan wasn’t the owner of the property being sold. It was someone else in the building selling an apartment. The agent was someone else’s. Read the article again.

You're right. In making his stupid, bigoted comment he wasn't implying he wouldn't he wouldn't sell his property to a Jew.

He was a jerk, his apology is appropriate, he did put his neighbors agent in a difficult position, may well have killed a sale for his neighbor, and may well have made it more difficult for his neighbor to sell his property, there being buyers out there that avoid these situations.

Thank you for correcting me, how does that saying go, with friends like these ...... Works for neighbors too.