Texas Motor Speedway, owned by Bruton Smith's Speedway Motorsports and run by notoriously controversial race promoter Eddie Gossage, is holding the NRA 500, a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race tonight that is sponsored by the National Rifle Association, the largest of the gun lobby groups in the United States, and FOX is televising the race despite calls from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) for them to not televise the race.
I consider myself to be a "NASCAR Progressive." I am a big fan of the sport of auto racing, but, at the same time, I am a progressive political blogger. While many NASCAR fans are politically conservative, I'm not.
Let's face reality here: If Planned Parenthood sponsored a NASCAR race or team, FOX News, Redstate, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and all of the other right-wing bozos out there would throw a big fit over that, and we'd never hear the end of it from them.
Neither the NRA nor any other political organization speaks for all NASCAR fans, and that's why I'm asking you to sign my petition to tell NASCAR to ban all political advertising of NASCAR races and teams.