NASCAR stunt could backfire on NBC News

Athens Banner-Herald ^ | 4/9/06

[LdSentinal]

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[oldenuff2no]

NBC is a POS outfit and should be flushed at the earliest oppertunity.
Hey IDIOTS, you are supposed to be reporting the news not out there trying to script and create the news you socialists idiots want to see!!!!!

[leadpenny]

http://www.onlineathens.com/abh/index.shtml

[Tzimisce]

We're not supposed to believe the "Muslim Terrorist" stereotype...but we are supposed to believe the "Bigoted American" stereotype.

NBC should dress a bunch of guys in Confederate tee shirts and follow them to Yale/Hollywood/San Francisco and record the open minded, tolerant reactions of the lefties living there.

[Kirkwood]

NBC = race-baiting.

[Jim_Curtis]

I wonder if they thought to have their Muslims stroll through NBC News headquarters.

A 500 pound woman ( or I guess a man could do it ) in a burka walking around at liberal gatherings ( peace protests, NBC company picnic ) with a video camera inside the burka recording the reactions.

Burka-cam.

[Milhous]

Dateline was expecting to see a bunch of overmuscled, jaw-dragging, Bush-spouting, Muslim-hating redneck hicks who fell off the back of a turnip truck. Aren't those the kind of folks who go to NASCAR? If so, NBC was disappointed.

Did NBC put out a casting call for "redneck looking" men to act like bigots?

[Northern Alliance]

One wonders how the security guards at "Dateline" studios would react if "muslim-looking" men arrived wearing overcoats and acting in suspiciously. It would be interesting if someone would stage such a news event and videotape it and place the resulting footage on the Internet.

We need someone with the balls, equipment, and time to do exactly that, a la Michael Moore. It would not be difficult. That could just be the start. How about send a bunch of minority homeless types into George Soros' or Barbara Striesand's neighborhood. Really, the possibilities are endless.

[connectthedots]

I don't care who you are, that there's funny.

[Tall_Texan]

What's really stupid about this, of course, is that NBC has a CONTRACT with NASCAR to televise races. Those races bring in a hefty amount of advertising revenue for NBC. So, in their effort to belittle their OWN VIEWING AUDIENCE as racists, the liberal race-baiters at NBC try to invent a story that doesn't exist.

Thank you, NASCAR fans, from someone who cares little for the sport, for not taking the bait.

[groanup]

Thanks. Who runs these newspapers? Geographically challenged idiots? I assumed it was Athens, GA but I had to finally go to the "contact us" icon to find out what state it was in. Great website, but they should tell you where they are for pete's sake.

[Dad yer funny]

yup to #28 , however ,... I wuz hopin' NBC would deploy their FAKE MUZZIES...

... to P Diddy's big ol' Hamptons party [!!?!!]

... or just stoll around some of those Hamptons lanes when Bubba is visiting [HEHEHE]

[onyx]

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[truemiester]

Being Souther bred, born and raised, I could have told them that Southern folk (real Southern folk) are tolerant. You leave them alone and they will leave you alone.

"a bunch of tire-iron-wielding, gap-toothed, trailer-dwelling, drunken mouth-breathers in wife-beater T-shirts."
...not that theres anything wrong with that! (Leave my family out of this!!)(I guess it could be my 30th high school reunion....and most went to college..HAHAHAH)

[Toby06]

WTF? I don't wear wife beater t-shirts!

[IYellAtMyTV]

"What's really stupid about this, of course, is that NBC has a CONTRACT with NASCAR to televise races. Those races bring in a hefty amount of advertising revenue for NBC. So, in their effort to belittle their OWN VIEWING AUDIENCE as racists, the liberal race-baiters at NBC try to invent a story that doesn't exist. "

Maybe it has something to do with NBC losing the TV contract for NASCAR?!

[Tall_Texan]

Is that so?? Hmmm. The plot gets thicker.

Hey, NASCAR. I hope the words "Food Lion" ring a bell with you.

[txroadkill]

Me neither! Now if they would have said a Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt, then....

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Even better.

Have a woman dressed in a very conservative manner wearing a somewhat large crucifix come into NBC's headquarters to apply for a job -- with a hidden camera to record what happens.

[martin_fierro]

Dateline/NBC/Brian Williams are journalistic JOKES.

On 18 February 1993 Dateline NBC aired an investigative report about General Motors pickup trucks allegedly exploding upon impact during accidents, because fuel tanks were badly designed. Although there were fuel tanks design problems with GM cars before, Dateline's film showed a sample of a staged low speed accident with the fuel tank exploding. Dateline NBC did not disclose the fact that this accident was staged, or the fact that the only reason there was an explosion was that the vehicle contained planted explosives. The viewers were never told about it. It appeared to be a major discovery of investigative reporters. GM investigators discovered a mistake by a study of the Dateline film. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation lawsuit against NBC.The lawsuit in question was quickly settled by NBC and as a result several producers were fired.

Even though the new incident was staged it inspired many highly publicized lawsuits, and GM greatly reduced the fuel capacity of their trucks as a result. The publicity also drove other automotive companies to make similar changes and even destroyed the high capacity third party fuel tank market that thrived up to then. Today its almost impossible to improve a trucks fuel range by adding a tank that is designed to be mounted under the vehicle.