[ConservativeMan55]

This is why...

Nascar drivers told to avoid NRA

[umgud]

There were actually a few NRA mentions, but they were sparse.

[WesternPacific]

The great Karl Malon announced Start Your Engines and he was wearing NRA shirt and hat. He also called said NRA 500.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It gets even worse if you go to the NASCAR FOX Sports website. No usual picture of the winner with the trophy. Just a "Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!" graphic. If you go to "Photos", there about three loaded so far from tonight's race. The fags refer to the race as "the Texas 500". Somebody needs to tell the retards down at FOX Sports that the Texas 500 won't be run until November 3rd. This NAZI censorship bull**** is a real load. This isn't my America anymore. This is Barry's Amerika ObamaNation.

FUFOX

[mnehring]

Weird because an earlier thread on the topic was wondering how the left would deal with the in your face NRA logos. Folks must be watching different races. I’m going to go back to a streaming live concert instead of a bunch of people turning left.

[Monterrosa-24]

If NASCAR censors the Confederate Battle Flag then of course FOC can keep the NRA mentions to a minimum. I wore a Battle Flag shirt today just because I’m sick of PC kowtowing everywhere even here in Alabama.

[GeronL]

I noticed all week on the local FOX station (not an affiliate but owned by them) that the promo’s did not mention the sponsor.

[Liberty Valance]

Junior Brown & the Beach Boys - 409

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I heard the announcers mention the “NRA 500” twice.

At the end of the race, after Kyle Busch exited his car, I saw the red letters “NRA” on a white background, inside an oval, behind him. I noticed the camera quickly went off that logo.

The NRA should sue NASCAR, because they, the NRA, didn’t get what they paid for.

Near the end of the race, FOX aired a promo for next week’s race, the STP 400 from Kansas. All week, FOX promoted today’s race at the Texas Motor Speedway, but they didn’t call it the “NRA 500.”

[SeminoleCounty]

Fox and NewsCorp (parent company) are not conservative... neither is Rupert Murdoch. No surprised NRA ignored

In fact, Murdoch made his initial big money in the early 70’s supporting Australian Labour party leader Gough Whitlam...the “Father of Socialized Medicine” in Australia

[aomagrat]

The NRA wasted their money on this sponsorship because they got ZERO exposure. I hope they sue NASCAR’s ass off.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

I heard Mike Joy call it the NRA 500 one time toward the end, last 20 laps or so.

But, it is more complicated than you might think. You can pay to be the race sponsor, but if you don’t pay the network as separate fee, they will not mention you.

For example, remember when Bud had the pole sponsorship and it was Bud Pole this and Bud Pole that. Then Coors bought the sponsorship and they almost never mention the Coors Pole. That is because Bud paid the networks to call it the Bud Pole and Coors did not.

I suspect the NRA either chose not to pay FOX to mention them or FOX refused to accept a payment for politically correct reasons.

[Excellence]

As is custom for all race sponsors, the NRA was offered the chance to buy the premium ad package from Fox Sports that would include commercial time, sponsor mentions and graphics with the race name. The NRA declined, and thus the race was presented without a sponsor on in-race graphics and the Fox broadcast mentioned the title sponsor once an hour.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/man-shoots-self-infield-nra-500-214951761--nascar.html

From a mostly unrelated story about a man who shot himself dead while located in the infield.

I don't know why they would not buy the premium package; could they not afford it?