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Of NASCAR Note

Watching Trackside and I'm fast forwarding through most of it (because Kyle Busch is the guest). I hit play twice because I wanted to see if they were talking about anything of note at that moment (based on B roll footage). The first time, just talking inane racing stuff (with a side note of funny when they said Joey Logano made Kyle look like an old man - Kyle laughed). Second time, they're talking about Kyle's race shop for late models and how big it is, which has caused lots of rumors that he's starting a Truck or Nationwide team. Kyle explained that in every racing series he's been in, you always run out of room. No matter how much room you have, you always need more. So he figured he'd "go bigger and stupider than anyone else" and he'd not run out of room for a very long time. I'm chuckling over this, because you know, he's young. This is actually logical. And funny. Kyle's being non-douchey! And then Ellyut asked something about Kyle racing F1 at some point and Kyle said "Hey, if I win the championship this year, I might go do that for a couple of years, give the fans some time with Dale Jr., and then come back."

Kyle - why are you obsessed with Junior? The media has quieted down about him finally, letting him do his thing, and I swear, he's gotten more mentions from you this year than from anyone else! What is with this obsession? Get over the weird jealousy and learn that mouthing off about Junior merely makes you look petty! And not Richard style of Petty! You're leading the freaking points and you still have to talk about Junior?

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Media Talking Heads

I expect the mouthy news anchors to have a modicum of common sense when talking about major news stories. I expect them to use their brains. I understand the reality that they often have to ask stupid as hell questions because the viewing audience could be ignorant of even the most basic facts.

But I also expect the talking heads to phrase the questions in an intelligent manner. I also expect them to NOT sensationalize or try to make something horribly exciting that isn't. For that reason, I don't know who this idiot is on CNN (regular CNN, not Headlines News) right now, but she is quite possibly the stupidest person I've seen on a major network in a long time. In fact, I've been looking for her name just to post a name attached to the stupidity.

1. She asked another reporter/meteorologist why Ike was still a hurricane since it was over land now. The way it was said? She was challenging the other person on her terminology, as if it really couldn't be a hurricane when over land.

2. She was trying to get retired Lt. Gen. Honore, who coordinated Katrina relief when FEMA fucked up, to say that not sending out helicopters right now to aid search and rescue boats was a huge fuck up by the government. The hurricane is still going on! There are major wind gusts and it's still a cat 1. Honore had to flat out say (he tried to steer her to pertinent information, no going as she was on the hunt for sensational) that for safety's sake, the helicopters couldn't go out until the winds had died down and this is normal search and rescue procedure.