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02/19/2004 Archived Entry: "NASCAR ain't no stronghold."
NASCAR ain't no stronghold.
Don't believe the hype.
A few feet away, I could see police officers and orange-vested security agents holding the crowd back. It wasn't long before everyone realized we were being delayed until Bush had completed his entrance into the stadium.After only a minute's pause, people started grumbling. Soon, they started yelling at the security detail. A few minutes more and they'd turned their ire on the president himself.
"We want to see the race, not Bush!" shouted someone in the crowd.
"Why didn't that SOB stay in Washington?" screamed Doug Shelby, the loudest of the voices.
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Overhead, Lee Greenwood sang "God Bless the USA." The crowd started chanting obscenities.
After LeAnn Rimes sang the national anthem, the crowd above the grandstands started cheering; those below booed.
Then Bush's motorcade drove by. One middle finger went up in the crowd, then another, and soon they were everywhere.
As the crowd scattered to their seats, one of the few black fans I spotted at the racetrack ran by and saw me scribbling in my notepad. "Writing for a newspaper?" she asked. Before I could respond, she shouted, "Tell them Bush sucks!" Then she disappeared back into the fray.
Replies: 4 people speak up
Let's all stand for the pledge and give bush boy the one fingered salute that he truely deserves.
Posted by Aristophanes @ 02/19/2004 09:03 AM NY
Hmmm, I might, just might, have to rethink my utter contempt for the NASCAR crowd. I've already been flamed for my strident anti-NASCAR/Rodeo comments on Counterspin Central. When liberals start defending these tatooed, reactionary, inbred, uneducated hicks, then the Culture War is already lost.
Why is it that those on the Left feel compelled to use a gentlemanly approach to Rightist culture, but we stoically accept Rightist attacks against our cultural values?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 02/19/2004 10:59 AM NY
well, its one of our main weaknesses, we are better than them, and we act like it most of the time... but i agree, this is war, and its time to start busting heads and stop saying "please, dont take away all my rights, and destroy my country, pretty please?" these people are not rational human beings, and its time we realized that they cannot be reasoned with. the indoctrination is too strong. maybe individually we could drag them into a dark room, and deprogram them over a few months time, but that would take too long. we simply have to use our greater intelect (and might i say, greater number, once you count the people who hold our beliefs but are too cowardly to express them) to defeat them. its time we stop asking and start telling. that is the first rule of sales, and politics is just sales on a lot of methamphetamines.
Posted by justin @ 02/19/2004 01:00 PM NY
While I believe this is truly what happened, this article is the lone one saying this among the "crowd cheers Air Force One" yada yada-type out on the 'net at this time. Anyone got video or pic links, just to confirm it? Would truly love to see that mass of NASCAR fans giving the bird as the chimp drove by! Priceless!
Posted by EoE @ 02/19/2004 09:36 PM NY
