Conn. Senator Wants Fox to Pull Plug on NRA Race

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A U.S. senator from Connecticut has sent a letter to media mogul Rupert Murdoch asking that Fox network not broadcast Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup race sponsored by the National Rifle Association.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy wrote to the News Corp. chief that the race is taking place during Senate consideration of legislation to reduce gun violence in the wake of the elementary school shootings last December in Newtown, Conn. Murphy said the race will give national attention "to an organization that has been the face of one side of this heated debate."

Fox officials declined comment Thursday. The NRA 500 from Texas Motor Speedway will be broadcast as scheduled.

Murphy also questioned the Victory Lane tradition at Texas, where the winner gets a cowboy hat and can fire six-shooters loaded with blanks into the air.

"I think the fact that they're not loaded is a fairly safe thing," said Eddie Gossage, the president of Texas Motor Speedway.

Gossage has repeatedly said that the NRA's sponsorship is "not about politics. It's about sports marketing." He said he has received fewer than a dozen cards, letters or emails about the deal since it was announced last month.

This is not the NRA's first title sponsorship in NASCAR. The group sponsored a second-tier Nationwide race last September at Atlanta, which like Texas is owned by Speedway Motorsports Inc.

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(But the "Newtown 26" car (Waltrip) soliciting $10 donations in the Daytona 500 (which got PLENTY of on-air coverage from Fox) was just fine and dandy!)

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I can't find in the article where this politician sent a letter to the Regime complaining that their pimping of the dead kids parents are being "one sided" in this debate. I must have missed it.

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I can't find in the article where this politician sent a letter to the Regime complaining that their pimping of the dead kids parents are being "one sided" in this debate. I must have missed it.

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I can't find in the article where this politician sent a letter to the Regime complaining that their pimping of the dead kids parents are being "one sided" in this debate. I must have missed it.

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Oh, wow! I'm happy for you as well, Frank. You must be so proud.

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Congratulations Frank! I see from your title that you are the Area Rug Winner!!!!! Awesome!!!!

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Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy does not like the NRA, and he’s making that quite clear. In a letter to News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, he’s asking that Fox cancel plans to air Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race — because the NRA is sponsoring it.
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Fox officials declined comment Thursday. The NRA 500 from Texas Motor Speedway will be broadcast as scheduled.

Murphy also questioned the Victory Lane tradition at Texas, where the winner gets a cowboy hat and can fire six-shooters loaded with blanks into the air.

“This celebration of guns is inappropriate in the immediate wake of the Newtown massacre,” Murphy added. “But most importantly, broadcasting this race, which will highlight the NRA and its radical agenda during this time, sends a harmful signal to the families affected by gun violence, as well as the millions of Americans who support sensible gun control measures and enjoy your sports programming.”
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/...-sponsoring-it/

Some of these liberal nuts have gone Stone Cold crazy trying to silence anything & everything they don't agree with.
I'm also curious...what kind of signal will it send?