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Red Eye’s Andy Levy: A Few ‘Classless Jerks’ Gave NASCAR A Bad Name By Booing The First Lady

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Last night on Red Eye, Andy Levy filled in host and it was a good thing too because he clearly had a story he wanted to talk about. Donning the red Office Depot team hat of racer Tony Stewart, Levy brought up the booing of First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden at this Sunday’s race. As a NASCAR fan, he was not happy that the race itself was being overshadowed by some “classless jerks.”

Unlike some others, no one on the Red Eye panel was defending the fans. However, after stand up Joe DeRosa let fly with some jokes at the expense of NASCAR and its fans, Levy used his “Final Word” to defend the sport.

“We get to hear all the time about how the people at Occupy Wall Street who are defecating on cop cars and who are doing stuff like that, ‘Oh, they aren’t representative of the movement and they’re infiltrators,’ but, the minute something like this happens, I see liberals saying nothing but, ‘This is all NASCAR fans. All NASCAR fans are racist. All NASCAR fans are this.’ And it pisses me off.”

Levy makes a good point. With every group from OWS to the Tea Party to racing fans, people need to get better at discerning individuals from the group. The jerks on Sunday are not representative of people who like NASCAR. No one thing could be representative of that large a group besides maybe “likes fast cars.”

That being said, if anything’s coloring people’s views of NASCAR as a sport, it shouldn’t be the fans but the leaders of the field.*

*Sorry, Andy, for some of the things I said in that post. No hard feelings! I fully endorse your right to call something where everyone sits the whole time a “sport.”

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  • one pissed off liberal

    Very true…good job calling em out…although her 12 million worth of vacations in the last year while categorizing her daughters as “senior advisors” on the itinerary, so the trip can be categorized as not a vacation…is grounds enough for me to boo at her.

  • burlap

    teabagger translation = she’s uppity

  • Cain

    What? You mean a sport created by White Southerners and watched by white right wingers booed the Democratic African American First Lady? um… shocked! 

    What’s funny is this sport is that Minorities have taken over all other major sports. Nascar is the only sport dominated by whites. 

  • Redleaf

    These are not “classless jerks.”
    They are “true Americans.”
    Get your facts straight and stop defending a Muslim, non-American, socialist.

  • one pissed off liberal

    Liberal Translation: ignore her abuse of the taxpayer’s money, because I like her husband.

  • Jason_in_Vegas

    racist

  • BR

    How welcome would Bush have been at a rap concert?  You racist pig!

  • one pissed off liberal

    Liberal Translation: ignore her abuse of the taxpayer’s money, because I like her husband.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    Could’ve been worse — they could have played “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” on the track PA when Michelle was introduced (basically, both sides of the political spectrum have something to be outrageously outraged about today).

  • Anonymous

    Somehow I find driving in a circle to be an apt representation of the current crop of anti-obama GOPtards. 

  • Anonymous

    Most reasonable people know that a few people don’t represent a large group of people.  Problem is reasonable people like Andy Levy are simply not typical in the field.   

  • one pissed off liberal

    hockey?

    Baseball?

    Golf?

    Whats it matter anyway?  Is race a big deal to you?

  • Jason_in_Vegas

    It’s also the sport who’s fans have the highest annual average salary. Seems whitey gotz a job, Yo.

    Enjoy the NBA…. Ohhhhh shit, that’s right.. they’re holding out FOR MORE MONEY!!!!!!!! 

    Time for you idiots to “occupy the nba”.

    w0rd

  • one pissed off liberal

    Somehow I find doing drugs, robbing, raping, and flinging feces, while asking for free college among other things, an apt representation of the current crop of pro-obama DEMtards.

  • one pissed off liberal

    Why the hell do we need to be reasonable when we can just take the narrative that mediaite spoon feeds us and run with it!?

  • Anonymous

    You noticed that too, eh?

  • ROTFLMAO

    What’s the big deal?
    Hell, I have even seen some of those folks boo the “KING”
    Richard didn’t care.

    They were just having some fun!
    LIGHTEN UP!!! 
     :>)

  • Anonymous

    I have heard more booing when libs are told the National Anthem was about to be sung.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    I’m not miffed at all about some fans booing the First and Second Ladies. We are not their servants; if we don’t like them we have all the right in the world to let them know it.

    And let’s be real, Andy Levy’s only pissed about this because he’s a huge Tony Stewart fan (who snubbed the White House earlier) and this story is overshadowing his win. Otherwise, this story is *maybe* in the Lightning Roooooooooooooooooooooooooound.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    What’s funny is how racist you are and that you assume everyone else is as racist as you.

  • John Kliber

    What you classify as “major sports” is perhaps what people in trailers like. Baseball is not taken over by minorities nor is soccer or hockey. Spain is the reigning Euro and World Champs in soccer. There is a different kind of diversity called liking jai alai, skiing, skateboarding, high jumping, gymnastics, mixed martial arts, javelin, lacrosse, rugby, etc. It is the opposite of cultures who fixate on a few interests to the near exclusion of all else.

  • Anonymous

    So the First Lady got booed.  Is she royalty or something….?
    Those people know what the Obama’s think about them.  At least nobody was camping out and taking a dump on her front lawn like a certain other group that needs a bath.

  • Anonymous

    Nascar is the only sport dominated by whites. ”

    Wow- another stupid comment from a stupid lib.

    BTW, she got booed because it was Robert Byrd day at NASCAR and there was a mass turnout of Dems

    And so she got booed. MG, what a crybaby you are. It isn’t the 1st time and it won’t be the last time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Randal/100000535186834 James Randal

    Levy is an unfunny jackass. That same argument can be used against teabaggers.
    “We get to hear all the time about how the people at Nascar who are chanting insults at the first lady and spitting on members of congress and doing stuff like that, ‘Oh, they aren’t representative of the movement and they’re infiltrators,’ but, the minute something like this happens, I see conservatives saying nothing but, ‘This is all OWS fans. All OWS fans are crazy. All OWS fans are this.’ And it pisses me off.”

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Republicons love NASCAR because the so-called sport had it’s origins in their favorite drink… moonshine!!

  • Moosenuts99

    You know you don’t have to use that apostrophe in “Obama’s”;unless you were MEANING for it to indicate a singular possessive, in that case your sentence makes no sense.

    It’s “those people know what the OBAMAS think of them”.

  • Moosenuts99

    Your racism is showing

  • Anonymous

    Actually you can’t use the same argument. You see, and I’ll keep it simple, most people go to Nascar to watch a sport. Understand? OK. Now on the other hand, the “people” of OWS go there for the specific reason to rape, murder, shit on cop cars and streets, to break public and private property, deal drugs and scream about how the Jews are taking over the world by controlling all the banks and other conspiracy nonsense.

    People go to Nascar to have a good time. “People” go to OWS to be insane and live like the filthy, dumb animals that they truly are.
    I hope you understand and you’re welcome.

  • Anonymous

    “Somehow I find doing drugs, robbing, raping, and flinging feces, while asking for free college among other things, an apt representation of the current crop of pro-obama DEMtards.” 

    That’s because you’re insane.

  • http://twitter.com/JPJABBER JUDI POWELL

    You are so full of it, yourself. Continue to spread these lies….were you at the Nascar race Sunday?Michelle and Jill did NOTHING out of the ordinary for wives of official leaders. YOU just resent that she IS one. Black people are supposed to know their place…….and that’s NOT in the WH.
    Granted it as only a few boos, but the disrespect show to THIS president and his wife is off the charts. Says a whole lot about the RWNJs in this country.

    By the way….good job Tony!!!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/JPJABBER JUDI POWELL

    You really should get the FACTS before you spread the FOX talking points (long proven untrue) on here.
    LIBTARD…I wear that name proudly if it makes you angry.
    Republicans can’t ay anything unless it’s name calling, racist, or just plain ignorant.

  • http://twitter.com/JPJABBER JUDI POWELL

    God, your parent’s must be SOOOOO proud.

  • Occupy Mediaite

    Mic check!

    30 percent of NASCAR adherents identify themselves as leaning to the GOP, according to a lengthy survey of the subject released this summer. But 29 percent say they’re Democrats.

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/1121/Michelle-Obama-booed-at-NASCAR-race.-Was-that-to-be-expected

  • Anonymous

    Redleaf is a “liberal” drone. Just like you. Can’t you identify members of your own collective? Are you malfunctioning?

  • Jason_in_Vegas

    Tony Stewart is a Republican, as are about 99% of caucasian athletes.

    Also, most of the people that you claim “want to keep black people in their place” would vote for Cain in a heartbeat, and he’s alot blacker than Obeezy or his wife Weezy.

  • Jason_in_Vegas

    Nice retort, Olbermann.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Do you have a link to where Mr. Stewart says he is republican or democrat?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    “Also, most of the people that you claim “want to keep black people in
    their place” would vote for Cain in a heartbeat, and he’s alot blacker
    than Obeezy or his wife Weezy.

      If you simply re-post, and hi-light what right winged haters actually say, they will indict themselves without any additional comments required.

    –Cobra

  • Ben Dover

    Meh…as a “liberal” (as classified by Rush-its) and a NASCAR semi-fan, I see no problem with them booing the First Lady.  They boo just about anything anyway.  They throw shit at cars going 180MPH.  I just hope they are sober enough by Tuesday after the race to remember to vote….if they haven’t already lost that right to a previous felony.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Eminem’s or Jay Z’s?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    Oh look. Itz Spell Cop.
    Can you understand this…?
    STFU

  • Dead_Air

    If the concern is NASCAR is being unfairly branded, maybe it would be in their best interest to repudiate Rush Limbaugh’s assertion that the First Lady is ‘uppity.’

  • Ralph

    I welcome a debate about class and Obama.  Michelle Obama represents the class of African Americans who the elites have chosen to represent black people within the ranks of the pampered, insulated 1%.  Those folks are always thanking the system for their success.

  • Jason_in_Vegas

    http://www.newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/Tony_Stewart.php

    He also declined an invitation to meet Obama.

    You’re welcome, sir.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Randal/100000535186834 James Randal

    Brilliant response. Truly, teabaggers/GOP pigs are the most misunderstood species on this planet. When they spit on members of congress, chant racial slurs, send death threats, and attempt to shoot members of the Tides foundation, they are merely having a good time. I failed to realize that every single member of OWS is hell bent on raping and killing. Damn. Perhaps teabaggers and Glenn Beck fans should join them?

  • clever

    Actually the few that didn’t boo the ugly libtard are idiots.Why does she not stay in her own element and stop pretending she is not someone she never was.She is to nascar what obama is to the hood.They have know clue about either.Obama still thinks the hood is the thing on the back of his $900.00 bathrobe.

  • Anonymous

    First, No Congressman got spit on, you simple drone. There is no proof of that.
    Second, There are more cases of “liberals” being racist right here on Mediaite than any Tea Party video. Not to mention the many,many video evidence cases of OWS antisemitism.
    Third, I think OWS drones ACTUALLY killing people is more serious than a few assholes sending death threats. A rational mind would know the difference and it’s clear you do not.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I never saw that he got political.  Thank you.  Though I do find it interesting that he, as a resident of NC and IN, was donating to a VA politician.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    though I do think his rebuff of Obama had more to do with testing than political beliefs.

  • Pit Boss

    NASCAR drivers are athletes? LOL!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Randal/100000535186834 James Randal

    Teabaggers never learn. How are you going to spin this video?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7wYt9jee2U&feature=player_embedded

    As far as rape and murder accusations go, don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house.

    http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/tea-party-leader-arrested-rape

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20011219-504083.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pdwTQ4xA8

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/12/fearing-tea-party-violence-arizona-republicans-resign/

    Most of the arrests at OWS have been related to civil disobedience. In regards to your racism accusation goes, the video released by Emergency Committee for Israel shows one man telling a Jewish person to go back to Israel and another man shouts “Jews control Wall Street”. Is that your evidence of racism? Is that the best you can do? As far as rational minds go, you are defending a group that believes that the Earth is 6000 years old and that homosexuality is a treatable disorder.

  • nascarfansinceseeingfirstrace

    go see a race, namely daytona and you will take back what you said!

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