Get Your Shots

Longtime readers will understand that it’s fairly rare for me to dive into the realm of sports.  At least, within the confines of the blog.  That alone will hip you to the idea that when I do so here, there’s something special going on.

Check Jerry Bronkowski from Yahoo Sports, yesterday:

CONCORD, N.C. – NASCAR fans have been criticized for a number of things over the years, ranging from perpetuating a redneck stereotype to still showing pride in the Rebel Flag.

Now, as one Mississippi congressman would have you believe, NASCAR fans are also a threat to national security and the nation’s health.

Yes, you, Bubba. You, too, Bobbie Sue. Y’all got the cooties.

That’s what Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, would have you believe.

The seven-term Congressman recently instructed committee aides who visited Talladega Superspeedway last weekend and are also at this weekend’s Nextel Cup race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway to be immunized against a variety of diseases such as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and influenza.

Officially, the action was supposedly part of a broader review of federal response to massive emergencies at a large, crowded venue like Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

Unofficially, Thompson unquestionably must think of NASCAR fans as a bunch of sickos – and not in a good way.

The hue and outcry resulting from Thompson’s actions have become nothing short of a political embarrassment.

Yeah, I’d heard something about this. But what Bronkowski doesn’t say is the most likely scenario of what the good representative Mr. Thompson Democrat of Mississippi was thinking… the people there are overwhelmingly Republican. What we were hearing, is the good Mr. Thompson allowing his left wing bigotry to show through.
As a friend of mine said upon reading this article;

Imagine with me a white congressman saying something like “well if any of my staffers are going to the NAACP you rally you’d better be sure to get your shots before you go…”