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Yankees Fans Call for Boycott After Ban of Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’
Breitbart ^ | May 12,2019 | WARNER TODD HUSTON

Posted on 05/12/2019 11:43:28 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Yankees fans are calling for a boycott in response to the team’s banning of Kate Smith’s version of God Bless America. The team ditched the late singer’s rendition after a they learned Smith had also sung some controversial songs about blacks back in the 1930s.

According to the New York Post Yankees fans have been bombarding social media with a multitude of criticism for the team’s decision to ban the singer from Yankee Stadium.

For instance, one fan wrote, “boycotting the Yankees until Kate Smith is back, otherwise I am kissing a half century of loyalty goodbye.”

Die-hard Yankees fan James Foley even sent a scolding letter to Yankee owner Hal Steinbrenner saying, “Your father [George Steinbrenner] is turning in his grave.”

Foley added that if the same standards used to ban Smith were turned against many of the most famous past Yankees players, many would be similarly banned, including such famed players as Babe Ruth.

“Why not purge the lot of them and be honest about your political correctness. Remove the plaques from Monument Park,” Foley scoffed.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: flyers; godblessamerica; godblessmaerica; katesmith; mlb; newjersey; newyork; pennsylvania; philadelphia; philadelphiaflyers; richardcohen; ronaldreagan; skankees; warnertoddhuston; wildwood; wth; yankees
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To: Hojczyk

The Yankees were dead to me the instant the wrecking ball made contact with the House that Ruth Built.


21 posted on 05/12/2019 12:51:15 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: rfp1234

Yeah, do so and watch the Democrats and the media smear Republicans nonstop.

Then watch the GOP lose the Hispanic and black vote.


22 posted on 05/12/2019 12:52:42 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: Hojczyk

Kate Smith: God Bless America 1974 Flyers’ Stanley Cup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMtXUgVp0c


24 posted on 05/12/2019 12:54:44 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: yoe

They should also stand their ground.


25 posted on 05/12/2019 1:31:33 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: AAABEST

We are lifelong Yankee fans. We are fans since Mickey mantle and Roger Maris played. We are not Puerto Rican ir apt city dwellers. Yes we are very upset with what they did to Kate Smith. I live the Yankees cause they have strict stesz rules for their uniform and no facial hair.


26 posted on 05/12/2019 1:51:58 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Peter W. Kessler

Agree. Husband went once to the new stadium as he got free tickets. 35 bucks to park your car????? Outrageous.


27 posted on 05/12/2019 1:53:43 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gibsonguy

Ah, but did Kaepernick ever get back to a team?


28 posted on 05/12/2019 2:02:59 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Hojczyk

This country will never be free until liberals turn off their “offended switch” and Grow up!


29 posted on 05/12/2019 2:08:37 PM PDT by caww
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To: OddLane

Exactly. YES, their TV network, is a gold mine.

So the boycott should be directed at advertisers on the Yankees network then.


30 posted on 05/12/2019 2:10:55 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: AAABEST

Told my SIL who lives in Boston “we don’t much care for the damn Yankees down here in Dixie.” He says “yeah, we don’t like em either.”


31 posted on 05/12/2019 2:22:46 PM PDT by pajama pundit (SJW = NPC)
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To: Hojczyk

NY Yankees? Who dat?

Oh yeah, they play plastic whiffle ball with their Moms cheering them on.


32 posted on 05/12/2019 2:52:08 PM PDT by TheNext (Democrats Gun Control Kills)
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To: Hojczyk

So I guess playing “Song of the South” on the scoreboard during rain delays is completely out of the question?


33 posted on 05/12/2019 2:52:38 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: VideoPaul

Zip a dee do dah, zip a dee ay :)


34 posted on 05/12/2019 3:24:36 PM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: GailA

I think the three problems with Kate Smith’s singing God Bless America according to anti-Americans are these:

God implies the existence of the Creator to be worshipped.

Bless implies God cares and intervenes when prayers are within His Plan.

America puts the unimportant and unexceptional country founded on racist exploitation ahead of its small role in the large United Nations that should oversee all its people and rule them.


35 posted on 05/12/2019 3:42:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: frank ballenger

Hiya, Frank.

I’d agree with you completely if God Bless America were the cause of this brouhaha. Sadly, you have tilted the wrong wind mill. The controversy is over songs many years ago that had ‘darkies’ in the lyrics. Not GBA. Sorry.


36 posted on 05/12/2019 3:49:47 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Peter W. Kessler

Never liked them but Billy Martin was funny on the beer commercials.


37 posted on 05/12/2019 3:51:57 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Peter W. Kessler

The Yankees were dead to me the instant the wrecking ball made contact with the House that Ruth Built.

The house that Ruth built was in effect destroyed in the mid 1970s when they refurbished it. Ugly new cantilever grandstands and fake fiberglass facade. The new new stadium is much more like the spirit of the house that Rupert and Ruth built. (I’ve been to all three)


38 posted on 05/12/2019 4:08:38 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: sparklite2

I think I see how I’m wrong, but does this mean if you disagree with one Rolling Stones song (maybe Brown Sugar implying racial differences to the disadvantage of African American women, or Under My Thumb implying lower status for feminists....) then we can’t play “Satisfaction” or the other songs on the compilations Grrrrr or Honk?

I’m just being difficult.I know you’re right and the other Kate Smith songs were the trigger. I admit it.


39 posted on 05/12/2019 4:18:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: frank ballenger

Hey, I’m with you. I posted a Dr Seuss cartoon about blacks and got suspended for it. Mark Twain would have been banned for Huckleberry Finn. History is full of pegs for grievance-mongers to hang their hats on. Luckily, as a lad raised with “free, white, and 21,” I laugh at their tears.


40 posted on 05/12/2019 4:25:39 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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