Updating a post from the other day, kudos to Jeff Elder of the Uptown paper of record for clawing a comment out of NASCAR on the new Scientology race team:
NASCAR is decidedly reluctant to comment on scientology’s sponsorship. “This has generated a lot of interest the past few days,” NASCAR PR man Scott Warfield tells me. Not surprisingly, he didn’t want to say much more. “It’s not really something we want to comment on. It’s a minor league, small-team sponsorship deal.”
Hmmm, is that the sound of NASCAR sounding ashamed of something? Wouldn’t know, it has never happened before. Billionaire Brian France certainly had no qualms about begging $150 million from the taxpayers of Charlotte.
But this story merits watching. NASCAR enjoys selling itself on all things Red State. Body thetans and such seem a poor fit.
Bonus prediction: Jeff Elder will get nasty-grams from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
