Commentary: Moral clarity? Kate Smith's 'God Bless America' vs. Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land'

The New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Flyers both recently announced they would stop using their traditional recorded versions of Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" during games.

In a particularly totalitarian touch, the Flyers removed a statue of Smith from the Philadelphia sports complex and destroyed the statue's base thereby assuring the specter of Kate Smith will no more haunt the City of Brotherly Love. The ostensible reason for all of this is to assure moral clarity - that being the coin of the realm