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NASCAR stunt could backfire on NBC News
Athens Banner-Herald ^ | 4/9/06

Posted on 04/08/2006 10:02:16 PM PDT by LdSentinal

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To: oldenuff2no

>>NBC is a POS outfit and should be flushed at the earliest oppertunity.<<

I think people need to recognize the company that's BEHIND the management of NBC, namely General Electric, who owns NBC. GE's management tolerates this kind of irresponsible behavior, failing to provide meaningful punishment of those who engage in it.

What cynical commercial or political purpose does GE's tolerance of such misbehavior serve? Answer that, and you will understand why it continues unabated.


41 posted on 04/09/2006 12:13:09 AM PDT by ferdburful
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To: LdSentinal
What I find interesting is that the overwhelming majority of the reporters and commentators on ESPN strongly condemn what NBC tried to do, mostly because they fear this is essentially an news organization trying to create its own news!
42 posted on 04/09/2006 12:26:19 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: txroadkill

They forgot to add Confederate Flag waving.


43 posted on 04/09/2006 12:39:36 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: IYellAtMyTV

They lost their contract with NASCAR? When? If so, is Fox gonna do the whole season?

Heck, if NBC hasn't lost the contract, they ought to for a stunt like this!


44 posted on 04/09/2006 12:44:49 AM PDT by hoagy62 (A life lived poorly is no life at all.)
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To: Darkwolf377

The "Muslims" will, in all likelihood, be fine---but that damn news crew had better watch out. Of course, it might really improve their perspective if they were to have a tire-iron wrapped around their heads!


45 posted on 04/09/2006 12:57:01 AM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
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To: LdSentinal

You really have to wonder what goes through these wingnuts minds when they dream up stunts like this. It's like a scientist with a faulty hypothesis who tries the same experiment again and again, always hoping for the right outcome, despite demonstrable failure in every previous attempt. If NBC wants to see bigotry and hatred, they should look no further than the Upper East Side of Manhattan.


46 posted on 04/09/2006 1:06:17 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) (If Liberals had as much passion for our troops as they did for Tookie, the war would be over...)
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To: Northern Alliance

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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.
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I'll volunteer. I'd love to see Hillary's face, surrounded by really "bulky" muslims.


47 posted on 04/09/2006 1:07:33 AM PDT by noblejones (Ben Stein for President, 2008.)
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To: RayChuang88

That idiot Wilbon on PTI was acting like their was a story not NBC trying to create one. He should stick to sports. Of course his handlers in the NAACP would love for him to go on an anti-Bush rant on t.v.


48 posted on 04/09/2006 1:18:05 AM PDT by Stayingawayfromthedarkside (2008: Daddy what are Democrats)
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To: noblejones
I'll volunteer.

I hope you are serious and not just making noise.

49 posted on 04/09/2006 2:04:19 AM PDT by Northern Alliance
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To: noblejones

LOL! That would be fun!


50 posted on 04/09/2006 2:08:37 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: LdSentinal

This is a terrible tragedy.

190,000 people in one place is a tempting terrorist target.

NASCAR fans just became less likely to defend themselves in, and be alerted to, a legitimate attack.


51 posted on 04/09/2006 2:08:56 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Senator Allen on Democrats: "...let's enjoy knocking their soft teeth down their whiny throats.")
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To: Northern Alliance; noblejones
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.

Considering Babs is too cheap to leave a tip at a restaurant, the likely outcome here is that their private bodyguards would beat the homeless/minorities to within an inch of their lives and dump them outside the city limits. It's a common tactic in Brasil for undesirables, I'd fully expect Babs to live up to the highest standards of the third world. It's everything she wants us to be after all...

52 posted on 04/09/2006 2:14:24 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: LdSentinal

Gotta love it. NBC tries to manufacture news and fails. Maybe they should stick to making car-bombs.


53 posted on 04/09/2006 2:21:26 AM PDT by Spruce (Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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To: Enduring Freedom

I can't take credit for this, but when Michelle Malkin revealed this story a few days ago, someone on FR said the following about the Muslim men:

Didn't NBC stick bombs in their butts like they did with the GM pickup trucks?


54 posted on 04/09/2006 2:21:27 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Liberalism and Fundamental Islam have a lot in common....is it a coincidence?)
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To: LdSentinal
NBC won't rest until it finds bigotry somewhere in America. Let's just hope they don't repeat the sort of thing they did with side impacts and GM pickup trucks...
55 posted on 04/09/2006 2:44:47 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: LdSentinal; WestCoastGal; Fierce Allegiance; aynrandfreak; housewife101; mnehrling; rrrod; ...
Oh boy!

I watched Busch yesterday just to see if the NASCAR announcers would say anything about this, and they did not.

But then I got to thinking: why give NBC and/or Muslim's any more air time then they deserve? This is what they were probably looking for. A big story for the media. I think by not talking about it on air would make them madder then ever. Good! The less said the better.

But I do want to hear something in print about what if anything, happened. NBC sucks!

56 posted on 04/09/2006 3:17:20 AM PDT by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: LdSentinal
We can huff and puff all we want.

If it weren't for FreeRepublic and Malkin, I wouldn't know anything about this despicable attempt to produce news.

The only way it will get into the mainstream is if NASCAR pushes it or cancels their contract with NBC as a result of this incident and publicly states so.
57 posted on 04/09/2006 3:34:04 AM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: LdSentinal

So much for our “esteemed” news media’s prejudice against anything Southern.


58 posted on 04/09/2006 3:44:22 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: LdSentinal

Take them to the upper West Side of Manhattan and see the reaction. Or how about the Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard? Go for it, NBC!


59 posted on 04/09/2006 3:45:29 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: Darkwolf377

"You can find a chisel, I can find a stone, folks'll be readin' these words long after we're gone" lol


60 posted on 04/09/2006 3:49:20 AM PDT by rudy45
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