Is Ed Hinton Serious?
I’m not sure what to make of Ed Hinton’s Saturday Orlando Sentinel column. The headline implies Kyle Busch blurted out a stream of vulgarities and NASCAR had a deaf ear.
Busch’s vulgarity will go unpunished by NASCAR is how the headline reads and I’m thinkin’ What!?
In referring to Baby Busch’s “it sucks” description of NASCAR’s CORN Hinton says, “Busch’s colloquialism connoting oral creation of a semi-vacuum - an act he implied is committed by the entire Car of Tomorrow design.”
Again, I say What!?
Hinton goes onto explain NASCAR didn’t lay a penalty on Busch because the Federal Communications Commission doesn’t list the word among its forbidden.
Ahem… and why should “sucks” be on the list?
But here’s the kicker that had me checking the articles date to ensure April Fool’s Day hadn’t arrived sooner than expected.
Hinton claims “TV gets to use Busch’s word all the time, but I can’t print it in this newspaper, so I’m sort of handcuffed here. The verb is so commonplace in NASCAR, all the way up to team owners, that I have to work around it in quotes almost weekly.”
That SUCKS. There I said it.
I damn sure hope the Orlando Sentinel’s vulgarity police don’t come a knockin’!
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