New York Daily News writer Gersh Kuntzman is being blasted on social media after calling on Major League Baseball “to stop blessing America during the seventh-inning stretch.”
Following 9/11, MLB had teams play “God Bless America” and many teams continue the practice to this very day, but Kuntzman wants the patriotic song banned, saying it “offends everyone” and embodies the “worst things” about America.
.@GershKuntzman: Why Major League Baseball must permanently retire "God Bless America" https://t.co/mVSNDsIuGZ pic.twitter.com/ykxrrmtV4w
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 30, 2016
If Kuntzman’s name sounds familiar, it should… he’s the liberal girly-man who complained about being “terrified” when he fired an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. He whined that the recoil hurt his shoulder and that “the explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary form of PTSD.”
He would later be showed up by a 7-year-old girl.
“It’s time for God to stop blessing America during the seventh-inning stretch,” Kuntzman said in an op-ed published Thursday, taking exception that “fans are asked to rise, remove their caps and place them over their hearts.”
He said the song is “as divisive as American politics,” before noting that “research found that 83.8 percent of people who described themselves as ‘very liberal’ dislike the song” — Kuntzman doesn’t seem to grasp that these same 83.8 percent are WHY American politics are so divisive.
Kuntzman, like any good liberal activist would, concluded his liberal diatribe with a call to action.
“So this July 4, join me at the Church of Baseball by not rising and not doffing your cap for a song that is not the national anthem of a nation that is not uniquely blessed by some deity that doesn’t exist anyway,” he declared.
As for the blow back, it is pretty intense… here’s a sampling from Twitter:
@NYDailyNews How about you just don’t sing it. Millions of us are moved by it. Maybe even one or two Democrats, too. @GershKuntzman
— Anita Miller (@FoxNewsMom) June 30, 2016
@NYDailyNews @GershKuntzman delete this and your account.
— Josh Costigan (@CostiganJD) June 30, 2016
@NYDailyNews @GershKuntzman It may be played too much, but you just convinced me it should be played everywhere since liberals hate it.
— Willie Stroker (@DickInman) June 30, 2016
@NYDailyNews @NYDNSports @GershKuntzman stay your ass home.
— Mike Coppney (@Mike_Coppney) June 30, 2016
@NYDailyNews @GershKuntzman You don’t like use ear plugs & maybe leave America
— Franco (@Franco85886695) June 30, 2016
@NYDailyNews @GershKuntzman No singing because it bruises you physically and emotionally?
— The Biddle (@The_Biddle) June 30, 2016
@NYDailyNews @GershKuntzman Gotta make sure we don’t offend the atheists. We might go to hell if we do.
— Jason Zimmermann (@JKZimmermann) July 1, 2016
@NYDailyNews @GershKuntzman Unamerican piece of shit
— Shah Mat (@ana_Alqat) July 1, 2016
@NYDailyNews @GershKuntzman something tells me if we made it about Cuba or Venezuela, you’d be all in.
— 90cc’s of fury (@honda_trail_90) July 1, 2016
Sorry, I am not offended by it. This is the same moron from the terrible NYDN that got PTSD from going to gun range. https://t.co/WnthZAO949
— Matthew Densmore (@MattyDensmore) July 1, 2016
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