Fox, NASCAR Blasted For S-Bomb During Race (Family advocates rev into attack mode)

WorldNetDaily ^ | March 29, 2006

[Wurlitzer]

"In any case, I hope it's FOX, not DEI that gets any fines levied, but I hope there are none."

I don't understand your position on this Tony! Most NASCAR teams take responsibility for their actions and NASCAR certainly fines them immediately with no lawyers involved. FOX did not use the "S" word the crew chief did. He and he alone should be the one to answer for his words.

What AFA did not say in their little temper tantrum was that FOX immediately apologized for the word spoken in the heat of the moment by the crew chief who is NOT a FOX employee.

I wrote back to AFA on this but like the little minds in the communist left MSM they did not respond. If their stand is so strong why did they not include the fact that the commentators immediately apologized and did not wait for the stinking government to do something.

[bk1000]

Too bad some of these too-sensitive people don't speak spanish. The spanish radio stations use profanity all the time and laugh about it because we don't understand them. Note to those offended: No one ever got hurt as a result of hearing 'the S-word' (for cryin' out loud!)

[sinkspur]

"What a joke. The American Family Association says that millions of viewers including children were offended by the crude profanity. That's horse squeeze," Boortz said.

I'm not a Boortz fan, but he's right on target.

Thanks to the Janet Jackson fiasco, these family groups now think they've got the big stick, and they swing it whenever they get the chance.

[Ticonderoga34]

I was watching the Bristol race when this incident occurred. Fox is to blame for broadcasting the radio transmission live instead of taping the conversation and then editing out the swear words.

From a production point of view, Fox's broadcasts of NASCAR races are the worst. For example, Fox is famous for missing restarts when the race goes from yellow to green. Looks like this time, Fox's incompetent production of NASCAR races is gong to get them in trouble with the FCC.

[Toby06]

It was at Bristol, the week before.

They never play those live, though. Always a coupel minutes after the fact. This is purely Fox's deal, imo.

[MineralMan]

"In addition to Glover's group, the American Family Association is urging people to file a complaint with the FCC against the Fox network.

"Fox had been warned about allowing the S-word on the air," president Donald Wildmon says on the AFA's website. "The network could have used a delay and bleeped the profanity. But they chose not to. The network chose to air the segment live. Millions of viewers, including children, were offended by the crude profanity."

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Wildmon strikes again. So a driver uses an s-bomb and it makes it on the air. So what? To get all exercized about this is just plain silly.

Still, I guess it'll be enough for Wildmon to initiate a new fund-raising drive...

[Toby06]

NBC is far worse, especially on the restart issue.

[OldFriend]

Sometimes it's more about Fox than the content. There are those who would bring down Fox if they could. Any pretext would do.

Something fishy about this one.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Lord help us.

[IN Farm Girl]

I was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for time trials one year when AJ Foyt was interviewed over the track's public address system about his qualifying run, and he said something to the effect that his car was a tub of s**t. And that was live and in front of tens of thousands of people, and no one's knickers got in a knot. As a matter of fact, most everyone laughed uproariously about it.

[Oztrich Boy]

Could the AFA be any gayer?

[DCPatriot]

Everybody knows NASCAR fans are Republicans...so this harrassment is expected.

[wallcrawlr]

I say this as a Christian:

Joe Glover, president of the Family Policy Network and the American Family Association need to take the plank out of their asses and head out of the clouds and shutup.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

I can certainly understand using an expletive for bad mechanics. I grew up on a farm and everyone knows that the way you fix machinery is to cuss at it for 15 minutes and then break out the baling wire aand duct tape!
These people's lives are waaaaaaaay too sheltered.

[Wolfie]

The AFA is Anti-Republican?

[MineralMan]

I think there should be retraining sessions for all NASCAR drivers and crew chiefs. In the first of those sessions, they will all repeat, "This car is a fragment of poop" 1000 times. That will most assuredly fix it in their minds, so they'll never use the s-bomb again on the air.


In later sessions, they will repeat each of the following phrases 1000 times, to eliminate more expletives from the airways"

"Forget you!"
"That guy can kiss my grandmother!"
"You son of a battalion commander!"
"Please hurry and get those tires changed, you hardworking crew member!"
"If you bump me again out there, you fellow driver, I'll call my insurance company!"

All sessions will be led by Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association.

[SaveTheChief]

Let's go down the list, shall we?

• Rampant homosexuality permeating every facet of society
• Public schools being turned into recruitment centers for new homosexuals
• Public schools being turned into socialist training centers
• Walk in abortion clinics
• A government buckling under the whim of the ACLU socialists who want all mention of God out of society, unless it is Allah
• A media consumed with making America and Americans look like the most vile scum on the planet

Nah, let's go after the accidental dirty word thing on Fox.

I would wager that most children have heard worse at school.

[Quilla]

They never play those live, though. Always a coupel minutes after the fact. This is purely Fox's deal, imo.

Thanks for pointing out it was at the Bristol race. Now that you mention it, it seems they do play driver's comments after the fact, usually when replaying was caused the comments. With twenty or so cautions at Bristol, I'm surprised anything the drivers say could be played on air. That track is brutal.

This revelation would indeed put the ball in Fox's court.

[AppyPappy]

I heard the mf bomb during one race a few years back. NASCAR is rapidly trying to alienate the base.

[rattrap]

'Don't give me any more of your C-word, you little B-word, or I'll kick your little A-word so hard, you'll have to unbutton your shirt to take an S-word.'

LMAO!