YOUR DAILY TR**CH*R: We Must Ban K*te Sm*th Entirely. “You have your instructions, America. You will carry them out immediately, before people start to wonder if you’re racist too. Ain’t totalitarianism grand?”

R**d th* wh*le th*ng.

Related: In addition to the New York Yankees, the Philadelphia Flyers have not only stopped playing Kate Smith’s “God Bless America,” they’ve put a black tarp over her statue outside their arena, despite Smith being a legendary good luck charm for the team during their mid-1970s “Broad Street Bullies” Stanley Cup-winning days.