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France not a fan of Confederate flag
NASCAR.com ^
| October 8,2005
| unknown
Posted on 10/08/2005 9:05:29 PM PDT by shooter223
NEW YORK (AP) -- NASCAR CEO Brian France doesn't like fans flying Confederate flags at races as he tries to make auto racing more appealing to minorities and women.
"It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure,'' he said in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes to be aired Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nascar.com ...
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: brianfrance; confederateflag; dixie; nascar; rebelflag
can't even get away from PC at a NASCAR race anymore ......sad
To: shooter223
I thought they were talking about the country.
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posted on
10/08/2005 9:07:30 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: CzarNicky
I thought they were talking about the country LoL..Me too, I was thinking that they only flag the French seem to like is a solid white one.
To: CzarNicky
sorry if the headline was a bit confusing........Brian France ...grandson of Bill France,founder of NASCAR........not the country
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posted on
10/08/2005 9:39:22 PM PDT
by
shooter223
(the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
To: shooter223
Jesse has gotten back some of his power after Katrina. The shakedowns get new breath.
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posted on
10/08/2005 9:50:26 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: digger48
I heard rumors about that shake-down artist going after NASCAR a while back........a year or 2 ago ......heard NASCAR blew him off
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posted on
10/08/2005 9:57:02 PM PDT
by
shooter223
(the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
To: shooter223; NormsRevenge; All
Okay how about this I find this guy much more offensive as NASCAR FAN And as a woman
SHUT UP CEO France
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posted on
10/08/2005 9:59:37 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("Not everybody in, it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"= Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: shooter223
Strange that PC has overtaken such. I have been doing a bit of reading of the post conflict era. Found that 30 years after the civil war many union officers and soldiers were proponents of erecting monuments and grave markers for the confederate dead. Colonel Dodge whom wrote the order to hang Sam Davis at Pulaski, TN, wrote a memorial to the dedication of Davis's courage and honor when he was executed.
I think soldiers have more respect for their former enemies than those who come later to rewrite history.
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posted on
10/08/2005 10:02:46 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: SevenofNine
Lennie Briscoe.........one of my favorite tv cops .......sad to see him go .........also John Munch on the old "HOMICIDE" ........(approaches dead body shot and stabbed multiple times and says to his partner " I'll call it suicide if you will"
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posted on
10/08/2005 10:19:40 PM PDT
by
shooter223
(the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
To: shooter223
add this to my long list of French opinions I don't give a crap about.
To: shooter223
ROTFL!!! Brian, sweetheart....confederate flag waving fans are your "base". Here's a hint....don't *iss them off.
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posted on
10/08/2005 11:06:47 PM PDT
by
jess35
To: shooter223
France isn't even a fan of it's own flag. Oops, wrong France.
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posted on
10/09/2005 4:29:43 AM PDT
by
kdot
To: CzarNicky
Brian France is an embarrassment. He's trying to cover every single PC base. The drivers dislike him; he's making enemies with the owners, and the fans are getting fed up with all of the political agenda.
Maybe the long rumored sanctioning body to compete with NASCAR will finally materialize, and Brian France can have his quota-envisioned NASCAR all to himself.
What an empty suit this clown is. Oh well, at least CBS baited France into saying exactly what they wanted to hear.
To: shooter223
To: shooter223
Being french, they prefer a nice plain white flag without any distracting colors or decorations on it.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:22:56 AM PDT
by
VRWCmember
(hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative, and loaded with vitriol about everything liberal.)
To: shooter223
Oops, that's what I get for not reading the article and posting just based on the headline.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:24:53 AM PDT
by
VRWCmember
(hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative, and loaded with vitriol about everything liberal.)
To: VRWCmember
sorry about the confusion ........I should have added something to the headline to prevent it .....great frog pic though
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posted on
10/10/2005 1:13:04 PM PDT
by
shooter223
(the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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