NASCAR Fans Don't Take Kindly to Immunization Alert

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NASCAR Fans Don't Take Kindly to Immunization Alert
fox news
Jeff Gordon's victory at the Bank of America 500 NASCAR race surely fired up fans in Concord, N.C., on Saturday night, just slightly more than the battle in Washington over inoculating congressional staffers attending the big event.

Still, race fans didn't appreciate an advisory by the Democratic head of the Homeland Security Committee telling aides to get a series of immunizations before heading down to investigate health care facilities at the Talladega Super Speedway in Talladega, Ala., and Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.

The recommendation was "probably Washington bureaucracy and prejudice to the South, somewhat," one fan told FOX News.

"Is this going on in other sporting events is my question. Is this happening with the Super Bowl every year?" asked Jonathan Drew of St. Louis, Mo.

"Good to see the people in D.C. are as smart as ever, focused on the right issues," said Tracy Tarbutton of Ashville, N.C.

The battle hit the public consciousness last week after The Washington Times was first to report that congressional aides were advised to get vaccinations against several communicable diseases — including hepatitis, diphtheria, tetanus and influenza — before traveling on a fact-finding mission to the tracks.

NASCAR Inoculations Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the whole story was blown out of proportion, but Republican Rep. Robin Hayes, who represents the district that is home to Saturday's race, called it an affront to NASCAR fans.

By race time Saturday night, fans who had been complaining about the warnings were more focused on pole position than staph infections, and commentators didn't mention the topic during their play-by-plays. NASCAR officials weren't available Sunday to say whether anyone with a communicable disease reported to Lowe's medical facilities on race day.

But with all the noise, the National Republican Congressional Committee is hoping to make a little more hay from the dispute, issuing a nearly three-minute video that used more than a dozen news reports about the congressional field trip to make fun of the public health scare.

"If anything, it's the NASCAR fans who should get immunized against Washington officials, not the other way around," Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., is quoted saying at the end of the video.

North Carolina Republican Party Chairwoman Linda Daves added that Democrats are not going to win over any of the prized NASCAR voters with reports like this latest one.

“Democrats should know that there is no preventive measure yet designed to ward off the blue-collar values and patriotism that NASCAR fans represent. If they aren’t careful, they just might catch some of it,” she said.

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“Democrats should know that there is no preventive measure yet designed to ward off the blue-collar values and patriotism that NASCAR fans represent. If they aren’t careful, they just might catch some of it,” she said.

Great line....

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Making a mountain out of a molehill . . . just an attempt to make Democrats look like they don't want to catch redneck cooties.

Truth is, lots of people who interact with the general public get shots (or they should). Politicians who shake hands a lot routinely use anti-septic hand gel. Doctors, barbers, hairdressers, salesmen, Wal-Mart checkers, sex-workers, they all should get their seasonal shots, whether the source of their cooties comes from rednecks or from the upper crust.

[Logan13]

Making a mountain out of a molehill . . . just an attempt to make Democrats look like they don't want to catch redneck cooties.

Truth is, lots of people who interact with the general public get shots (or they should). Politicians who shake hands a lot routinely use anti-septic hand gel. Doctors, barbers, hairdressers, salesmen, Wal-Mart checkers, sex-workers, they all should get their seasonal shots, whether the source of their cooties comes from rednecks or from the upper crust.

No one needs to try and make the dems look like anything. They are doing a great job themselves........

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No one needs to try and make the dems look like anything. They are doing a great job themselves........

Yep . . . the Dems look like they're gonna win the next Presidential election . . .

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NASCAR Fans Don't Take Kindly to Immunization Alert
fox news

Well, it's not surprising, but this is just another bit of BS-news from Fox News.

As it turns out, there was no such comment made. Following is another news report from The Charleston City Paper
http://haire.ccpblogs.com/2007/10/15...ck-rash-redux/
and more will likely be forthcoming over the next day or so.

Fox News is like a backed-up commode -- full of sheet . . .

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http://haire.ccpblogs.com/2007/10/15...ck-rash-redux/

Redneck Rash redux

We all know Al Gore said he invented the Internet.
Some of us may recall Gen. Wesley Clark claiming that he believed in time travel.
Well, here’s the thing: Neither Gore nor Clark made the statements that have been attributed to them.
Well now we can add an unnamed U.S. House Homeland Security Committee official and comments that he or she made regarding the need for staffers to visiting NASCAR races to get vaccinated for Hep A & B, the flu, diphtheria and tetanous. As you know, the comments provoked a bit of an uproar, but truth be told, nobody, at least according to any report or document that has been released so far, indicates that anything of the kind was said. In fact, it appears that all of this was either a failure in reading comprehension by N.C. Rep. Robin Hayes (R), the man who kick-started this controversy, or a blatant attempt by the Tarheel State legislator to turn voters against Democrats.
See, these staffers were conducting research at medical facilities near Charlotte, N.C., the site of the Bank of America 500, and Talladega, Fla., the site of the UAW-Ford 500. Yes, they visited the tracks in question, but they were also studying if medical facilities in the area could deal with a large scale emergency at either racetrack. Nobody suggested that staff get vaccinated simply because they were going to attend a NASCAR race. Here’s what House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) had to say:

Thompson said the immunizations are commonly recommended for people working in hospitals, holding centers and similar locations.
“Since committee staff members are visiting hospital and other health-care facilities available at or near these venues, including areas where groups of people are detained before being transferred to other off-site facilities, I believe that the recommendation (not requirement) that our congressional staff receive these same immunizations was sound,” Thompson said in a letter responding to Hayes issued Wednesday.
“I am sure you would agree that providing immunizations to personnel involved in public safety is good public health policy, and there is no need to exclude staff from taking the preventative measures that the public health community recommends — regardless of why and where mass gatherings are taking place.”

Of coure, very few — both the public and the media — actually make any sort of significant note of what Thompson said, instead choosing to focus on Hayes’ manufactured controversy. The politics of the two-minutes hate continues.


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Further evidence of Republican Congressman Robin Hayes' tradition of delerium can be found at

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/...911/index.html

where he is quoted by CNN as saying:

GOP lawmaker: Saddam linked to 9/11

N.C. representative says 'evidence is clear'


Wednesday, June 29, 2005

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A Republican congressman from North Carolina told CNN on Wednesday that the "evidence is clear" that Iraq was involved in the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.

"Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11," Rep. Robin Hayes said.

Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, "I'm sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places."

Hayes, the vice chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, said legislators have access to evidence others do not.

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said that Saddam was a dangerous man, but when asked about Hayes' statement, would not link the deposed Iraqi ruler to the terrorist attacks on New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania.
"I haven't seen compelling evidence of that," McCain, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNN.

On Tuesday night, President Bush mentioned the September 11 attacks five times during his address on the war in Iraq, prompting criticism from congressional Democrats.

The 9/11 commission, appointed by Bush, presented its final report a year ago, saying that Osama bin Laden had been "willing to explore possibilities for cooperation with Iraq" at one time in the 1990s but that the al Qaeda leader "had in fact been sponsoring anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan, and sought to attract them into his Islamic army."
The 520-page report said investigators found no evidence that any "contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship."
"Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States," it said.

President Bush said in September 2003 that "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11 [attacks]."

Nevertheless, Hayes insisted that the connection between al Qaeda and Saddam and "folks who work for him" has been seen "time and time again."
"Nobody disputes 9/11," Hayes said. "They would do it again if not prevented."

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NASCAR Inoculations Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the whole story was blown out of proportion, but Republican Rep. Robin Hayes, who represents the district that is home to Saturday's race, called it an affront to NASCAR fans.

Congressman Hayes is an idiot.
Reasons are given in the above post.

This thread should put to rest any doubts that Fox News doesn't twist news stories to benefit Republicans.

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Congressman Hayes is an idiot.
Reasons are given in the above post.

This thread should put to rest any doubts that Fox News doesn't twist news stories to benefit Republicans.

it's all over the news. The true idiots are those who were innoculated........