He’s a booth-bobble head just as all the rest that reside in press boxes in every sport.

No, not even close. It’s Humpy’s job not the medias. The medias job is to report the news not make it or slant it in any way.

By writing, or allowing copy desk headline writers to use headlines such as “Busch is Public Enemy #1″ that’s exactly what they do, make news not report it.

Writing horseshit like that is exactly why the major newspapers in the country are all losing readership faster than Paris lost her virginity.

Marc, it’s the media’s job, Humpy Wheeler’s job, etc. to fan the flames and create controversy when there isn’t any. Remember DW and Tony Stewart’s “feud” a few years back? Bottom line, in NASCAR, the sponsors and the money rule so the days of Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough or most recent Geoff Bodine and Dale Earnhardt are long gone. Sure there have been skirmishes like Rudd-Harvick, Kurt Busch- Jimmy Spencer, DJ-Jeff Gordon, but the stakes are way too high now for long term feuds.

That was a much more blatant punt then we saw last Saturday night.

Secondly, I’ve read his articles for a number of years and would agree he’s generally one of the better ones around.

But he jumped the shark on this one and true or not it would appear as if some bias slipped into his writing. In fact before I hit publish I checked back on his history.

Funny thing, I couldn’t find a word written when Dale Jr. dumped Busch last Oct that effectively eliminated him from the Chase.

My own French Canadian heritage and Torontonian bias aside, Norris McDonald is an incredibly knowledgeable motorsports writer, with great respect drivers and all forms of racing. I have many times disagreed with him in years gone by for his harsh criticism of Champ Car (this was before my own eyes were opened) but I am also very aware that he uses the very limited space he is given to report on motorsports, wisely. (you would be shocked by the shrinking coverage up here mandated by the bosses)

As for the name thing, well, ya, that is something we frenchies let get under our skin. What can I say.
If it’s any consolation it pisses me off to no end when ANYbodies name is bastardized to the point of being unrecognizable. (and as a Champ Car fan, I heard some pretty horrifying versions of our drivers names! Ironically the WORST offender was the Nascar track announcer in Vegas when we doubled-down in the desert with the Trucks)

Regardless what he did say comes from experience neither of us or some far away scribe in Canada has.