NASCAR: The Controversy that Isn’t
As related earlier a shouting match, at the least, occurred between Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick in the LMS garage. Funny stuff, truth be told, but now a mini-controversy has erupted in the aftermath.
Tania Ganguli is a beat reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and along with co-blogger Matt Humphrey write the NASCAR Nuts & Bolts blog.
Matt relates images of the fight, for lack of a better term, were snapped by photogs from both the CIA Stock Photography agency and Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
Both Harvick and Edwards have refused to sign releases, “citing relationships with NASCAR teams,” so those images can be published.
Humphrey asks, “what do they have to hide? What is gained? Who is protected here?”
I have a better question, who cares?
As LMS spokesman Scott Cooper told Ganguli the story is out there and been carried by every wire service known to man and then published by every paper with the slightest interest in carrying NASCAR related stories. (and probably a few having zero interest and did so because of the particular subject matter. “See, it really is a redneck sport!”)
Images will add nothing to the story unless someone came out of the tussle with a fat lip and bloody beak, and none of the witnesses have claimed that as a possibility.
Tania and Matt, leave it, there’s no “there” there. Despite the media’s obsessive behavior at times over the smallest minutia of a story, when it serves their purpose, images in this case offer nothing but an exercise in self aggrandizement.
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The pics have been released & it showed Cuz Carl getting his butt kicked after trying to strangle Kevin, imo.
Obviously they have been released, many sources have commented on them, but I have yet to see one publish them.
That said, who gives a rats ass in a Ferris wheel? The entire thing is media driven in an effort to drive traffic and ad revenue.
the pics are at the thatsracing website.
No help, first I could care less, and secondly for various reasons I spend as much time as possible away from that corporate amalgamation of blogs and loonbats.
Yet you go over & leave a remark on Poole’s blog..interesting, Marc.
What about the remark, “as much time as possible away” don’t you understand?
That doesn’t say I never go there. Right? Or do you have as little understanding of the English language as many there lack?
For the record, not that I suspect you care, I spend far, FAR more time commenting on other blogs, blogs that actually possess a group of people that not only ID themselves as something other than “anonymous,” but can hold a conversation about the topic at hand vice veering off into lalaland.