PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on August 25, 2018, 05:06:51 PM
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NASCAR Xfinity driver Conor Daly, 26, loses his sponsorship after his father admitted to using the N-word in a 1980s radio interview before his son was even born
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6098139/NASCAR-driver-Conor-Daly-loses-sponsorship-fathers-racial-slur.html
NASCAR Xfinity driver Conor Daly has lost one of his sponsors because of a racial slur made by his racing driver father in the 1980s before he was even born.
Lilly Diabetes said in a statement on Friday that it was pulling sponsorship of Conor's No.6 car in the NASCAR Xfinity race at Road America, citing the racially insensitive remark made by his father Derek Daly that surfaced this week.
The company said in a statement that its sponsorship was intended to raise awareness for treatment options and resources for people living with diabetes.
'Unfortunately, the comments that surfaced this week by Derek Daly distract from this focus, so we have made the decision that Lilly Diabetes will no longer run the No. 6 at Road America this weekend,' Lilly said.
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Virtue signalling claims another scalp - sorry, was that cultural appropriation, I'll see myself out.
I thought holding children responsible for the crimes or insensitivities of their parents was wrong, or something.
'Gimp
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I wonder if there are ANY people at Lily Diabetes who's parents never used that word? Or even the employees themselves, sometime in their life.
I doubt it.
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Idiocy.
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Corporations today are largely Democrat, and Progressive. The PC culture is very strong. I know because I have worked in it most of my career. It is disgusting. Virtue Signaling is also disgusting.
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Corporations today are largely Democrat, and Progressive. The PC culture is very strong. I know because I have worked in it most of my career. It is disgusting. Virtue Signaling is also disgusting.
Large corporations are often in bed with government. They are based in cities which have gone blue. You would expect they'd favor capitalism but these days most people could not give you coherent definitions of capitalism vs socialism.
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I wonder if there are ANY people at Lily Diabetes who's parents never used that word? Or even the employees themselves, sometime in their life.
I doubt it.
....or the patients of diabetes meds.
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Sounds like they were just looking for an out.
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NASCAR is not what it once was. Best evidence is the recent Bristol night race. Once was a time someone had to die for you to get a ticket for that race, now you can walk up on race day and get a great ticket.
My wife and I had tickets for the first seven Brickyard 400 races. We were picked in a lottery the first year and had to renew the week after the race for the next year. Several years ago that race was on the closing weekend of Air Venture. My wife and I headed out on Monday and flew to Quincy, IL to spend the night with my best man and his wife. Tuesday morning we flew on to West Bend, WI. to attend Air Venture until Thursday. Friday morning we flew into Eagle Creek, IN. Friday they had the IMDA series running the road course. Tickets were general admission. The Busch race was on Saturday and tickets were also general admission. We purchased the Brickyard tickets about a week before the trip and got seat behind the start/finish line.
It's sad to see a series like this go down hill. Not sure what can resurrect it. Maybe it's time has just passed, not sure. Could be the millennial's aren't into stuff like that.
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Let's be clear - NASCAR may not be what it once was, but this isn't about NASCAR, it's about one sponsor. The driver is still driving and the team is still racing. Lily Diabetes has made an ass of themselves.
NASCAR has changed. About 10 years ago they started a purposeful process to expand and become more mainstream and to make the races more "competitive". In the process, I think they lost what they were.
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Lots of sports have "changed". Look at NFL Football. In an effort to attract more women, and others, and be PC, they have alienated their base to the point where revenues are declining.
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I caught an article on Drudge the other talking about a group of unnamed NFL owners that are concerned that the salad days of their sport are over and are thinking about selling out while value is still good.
The morons destroyed their business sucking up to whiners, crybabies, racists and imbeciles, and now want to cry because revenues dropped? What losers.
I may have written this before, but the Sundays we have spent doing family things the last two football have taught me that I would never go back to watching their pathetic, spoiled, crybaby, millionaires, no matter what changed they make. We have flown, rambled around old castles, taken in museums, played with the grand kids at the beach, gone to concerts, plays, and
spent countless hours just being together as family, instead of sitting around watching losers play with themselves and claiming that they are social justice warriors.
The NFL will go under, or become such an also ran that it might as well go under.
Millennial snowflakes don't support sports leagues. They are too busy posing and virtue signalling to their phony friends.
They taught me a very important I will never forget.
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Lots of sports have "changed". Look at NFL Football. In an effort to attract more women, and others, and be PC, they have alienated their base to the point where revenues are declining.
I played college football, so football has been an important part of my life. I used to have season tickets for the Bears before moving out of Illinois.
Even before this kneeling fiasco, I lost interest in the NFL. Part of it was it was becoming more about player personalities than about the team. “Look at me, look at me” self-congratulating dancing and mugging for the crowd after making a tackle when you’re down by 21 points on the 4th quarter and getting your ass kicked. Winning for the team is less important than trying to get that ESPN Sports Center hit of the week. Also, players are starting to look at thuggish as the NBA. Not many good citizens out there any more. Lastly, the NFL has become so feminized it makes me sick. Rules have been so tightened that they are pushing manly aggression out of the sport. Pink shoes in October. Super Bowl halftime acts that don’t match the personality of the people that I used to sit with when it’s -5 degrees and snowing.
So the kneeling fiasco was a deal breaker, but the horse already left the barn. Trying to fix it won’t change my personal boycott of the NFL.
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The real damage happened over the kneeling, but many of us started to lose intense interest when the league began to go after any player who seriously excelled.
I think the deal was the league wanted people to love the league not the player.
It is typical Wall Street - investment banker bullshit and the game started to experience fan fatigue.
Think of the way the league tried to stamp out RGIII and how they let a bunch of assholes vilify Tim Tebow but bowed like like a faggot at a circle jerk to kaepernick.
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I have gotten to the point I don't even read the sports pages any more. I used to consume them.
But I do skim them because sometimes, there is something interesting, like when I saw the guy down the road caught a 300# Goliath grouper.
I have also found myself skimming the sports section looking for mention of NFL players kneeling or otherwise protesting the National Anthem. I have found none. No mention of players kneeling, no mention of players staying in the locker room. Nothing.
Should I glean from this that the practice has ceased.
Or should I glean from this that the paper has purposefully ceased reporting it. Isn't the failure to report news just about the same as reporting "fake news"?
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Grouper Lives Matter!
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Seriously, most of us probably have several things in our pasts, that we don’t even think about anymore, that could get us whack-a-moled by leftie muckrakers should we ever run for public office or become well known.
It would all come out.
So I just won’t run for office or become famous.
:)
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Seriously, most of us probably have several things in our pasts, that we don’t even think about anymore, that could get us whack-a-moled by leftie muckrakers should we ever run for public office or become well known.
It would all come out.
So I just won’t run for office or become famous.
:)
Oh, do tell Becky. :)
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Seriously, most of us probably have several things in our pasts, that we don’t even think about anymore, that could get us whack-a-moled by leftie muckrakers should we ever run for public office or become well known.
It would all come out.
So I just won’t run for office or become famous.
:)
Sure. My grandfather was best friends since 1st grade with the local mafia boss in his town in New Jersey. Only Irishman in an all Italian town, but his bar was never robbed. Sometimes it's who you know.
I think my neighbor's grandfather might have read the N word once in a book.
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Seriously, most of us probably have several things in our pasts, that we don’t even think about anymore, that could get us whack-a-moled by leftie muckrakers should we ever run for public office or become well known.
It would all come out.
So I just won’t run for office or become famous.
:)
I'm named after a old family friend of my great-grandfather. The friend was a bank robber who was hiding in the barn so he wouldn't get caught. Got talked into turning himself in, and after he got out of prison, became friends with the family. The other great-grandfather ran whiskey from Canada across Lake Erie to keep the family farm from going under during the Great Depression.
Then there is that week in Thailand.................
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I'm named after a old family friend of my great-grandfather. The friend was a bank robber who was hiding in the barn so he wouldn't get caught. Got talked into turning himself in, and after he got out of prison, became friends with the family. The other great-grandfather ran whiskey from Canada across Lake Erie to keep the family farm from going under during the Great Depression.
Then there is that week in Thailand.................
Between my husband and I we have three ancestors that we know of, who ran whiskey or distilled it during prohibition.
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‘Zactly! Cool stories! After much mental effort, I dragged up that my grandmother’s sister in Lake Charles, LA was pretty strongly anti-Black. She used to go into the kitchens of restaurants to see if anyone in there was black; if so, she wouldn’t eat there. Must have been a rather futile stand to take, I’d wager.
I never met her, but I’m sure that wouldn’t matter to a rabid leftie wishing to tar me with the racist brush.
Now I’m wondering if I should be more radical, take a more public stand, so I’ll have something I can call my own.
Been thinking about gathering supporters to fund a billboard on I-5 near Seattle that says, SAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY FROM THE UNHINGED LEFT: VOTE REPUBLICAN.
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‘Zactly! Cool stories! After much mental effort, I dragged up that my grandmother’s sister in Lake Charles, LA was pretty strongly anti-Black. She used to go into the kitchens of restaurants to see if anyone in there was black; if so, she wouldn’t eat there. Must have been a rather futile stand to take, I’d wager.
I never met her, but I’m sure that wouldn’t matter to a rabid leftie wishing to tar me with the racist brush.
Now I’m wondering if I should be more radical, take a more public stand, so I’ll have something I can call my own.
Been thinking about gathering supporters to fund a billboard on I-5 near Seattle that says, SAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY FROM THE UNHINGED LEFT: VOTE REPUBLICAN.
I have a grandfather who fought in The Great War on the German side, then he came to America during the rise of Hitler. He was interviewed for a local paper before the second war broke out, and they printed that he said Hitler is doing some good for the economy (true enough, at the time).
But he still had family in Europe, he wouldn't have said anything bad in print about a dictator when his mom was still living there and German intelligence was reading our news. When the second war broke out he hosted a Jewish refugee in his home. He also gave free food to anyone who needed it.
Imagine what the left would do with that, "Rush's grandfather supported Hitler!" There would be no mention of context - fearing for the safety of his family living under Hitler - and no mention of him helping escaped Jews, or feeding any immigrant fleeing the war who landed in his town.
The left has no interest in context or truth. Once you are targeted they will twist anything to destroy you.
Btw he tried to get his mom to come to America, the woman refused. Didn't want to leave home. :( But his dad did. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they had that conversation. His dad ended up remarrying here in America without bothering to divorce the first wife. My great grandfather was therefore a bigamist! That was a deep family secret on my mom's side for generations. Finally in her 80s, mom and I visited an even older aunt and they brought the subject up, upon which the ancient aunt turned to me with huge eyes through her coke bottle glasses, and grinning ear to ear said, "Skeletons!"
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I have also found myself skimming the sports section looking for mention of NFL players kneeling or otherwise protesting the National Anthem. I have found none. No mention of players kneeling, no mention of players staying in the locker room. Nothing.
Should I glean from this that the practice has ceased.
Or should I glean from this that the paper has purposefully ceased reporting it. Isn't the failure to report news just about the same as reporting "fake news"?
I heard a news report last week that the TV networks made a decision not to air the portion of the pregame that includes the national anthem - so whatever the players want to do (or not do) does not go out on the air anyway. Take away their stage, and they'll quit throwing their little bitch-fits for attention. The networks were just tired of listening to the fighting about it and being stuck in the middle while watching viewership drop and advertising revenue walk away.
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I have a grandfather who fought in The Great War on the German side, then he came to America d
Btw he tried to get his mom to come to America, the woman refused. Didn't want to leave home. :( But his dad did. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they had that conversation. His dad ended up remarrying here in America without bothering to divorce the first wife. My great grandfather was therefore a bigamist! That was a deep family secret on my mom's side for generations. Finally in her 80s, mom and I visited an even older aunt and they brought the subject up, upon which the ancient aunt turned to me with huge eyes through her coke bottle glasses, and grinning ear to ear said, "Skeletons!"
It just struck me that if adultery kept one from being president, we would not have Trump today. But if presidents had all been well behaved, maybe we wouldn’t have needed him. Assuming moral behavior would produce capable leadership ...
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... oh, Carter ... :(
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... oh, Carter ... :(
Yes, we he didn't commit adultery, he just sinned in his heart.
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Liberals have excluded themselves from any need to be truthful, honest, forthright, fair, lawful, or hemmed by any inconvenient laws.
It's not just felonious. It's the entire democratic party.
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Raaaaaacism!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/mainstream-media-to-desantis-omg-you-said-monkey-it-up.php
Can you say “jerry rigged” in California? “Blacklist” in Chicago?
Silly.
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Raaaaaacism!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/mainstream-media-to-desantis-omg-you-said-monkey-it-up.php
Can you say “jerry rigged” in California? “Blacklist” in Chicago?
Silly.
Just yet another chapter from
(https://wakethechurch.org/DesktopModules/DigArticle/MediaHandler.ashx?portalid=9&moduleid=4144&mediaid=39&width=1000&height=475&scale=5)
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Raaaaaacism!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/mainstream-media-to-desantis-omg-you-said-monkey-it-up.php
Can you say “jerry rigged” in California? “Blacklist” in Chicago?
Silly.
I've used the phrase "Don't monkey with that", or some derivative of it, all my life and have NEVER considered it racially motivated.
But when all you have is a hammer . . .
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I've used the phrase "Don't monkey with that", or some derivative of it, all my life and have NEVER considered it racially motivated.
Nobody considers it racist either for this topic. This is entirely about politics and power. One person is inventing an issue so they can bully another. It's a low level amateur thing to do, which is probably why fanatics on both the left and the right do it all the time.