FBI: NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace not
target of hate crime; ‘noose’
was garage door pull rope
Associated Press,
by
Jenna Fryer
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/23/2020 5:52:06 PM
NASCAR said Tuesday the “noose” found in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall of Bubba Wallace, was a garage door pull rope and had been there since the fall, according to an FBI report. Wallace was not the target of a hate crime, an FBI report indicated. The rope fashioned like a noose was there before the team’s arrival, the FBI report said. The investigation included photographic evidence from last fall. “We appreciate the FBI’s quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba,” NASCAR said in a statement. “We remain steadfast in our commitment
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ming 6/23/2020 5:55:58 PM (No. 454468)
In other news, the sun rises in the East.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/23/2020 5:57:12 PM (No. 454470)
I was waiting for my take-out order yesterday and the TV was on ESPN. They were going on and on and on and on about this. I was skeptical from the start since NASCAR garages have cameras everywhere. Looks like I was right. Will NASCAR and the media apologize for stirring the pot of grievance? Nah.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SALady 6/23/2020 5:57:14 PM (No. 454471)
It's like I said yesterday, the outrage and disgust everyone showed the last few days -- before any facts were known -- were ridiculous!!!!!
But, hey, the damage was done. But, honestly, NASCAR deserves this for all their "woke" stunts!!!
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Another social justice face plant.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/23/2020 5:57:49 PM (No. 454473)
As so many of us suspected, it was a hoax/overreaction. Just like the "nooses" in the California park that turned out to be someone's exercise bands.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/23/2020 5:59:00 PM (No. 454475)
Excuse the second post. I'd like to think that NASCAR might be ashamed (and a little angry) for being played by Bubba Wallace's team, but that's too much to hope for.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Obelisk 6/23/2020 6:03:47 PM (No. 454478)
OP, we are definitely stuck in the middle but there is a way out....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mushroom 6/23/2020 6:04:45 PM (No. 454479)
I'm thinking we will soon hear about how he is leaving the sport because of the blatant racism that keeps him from competing. Rather than the guy can't drive a bumper car and hasn't won a thing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
davew 6/23/2020 6:06:31 PM (No. 454481)
The leftist anarchists that cooked up this scam did accomplish their real goal however. They were able to humiliate and punish a venerable icon of the American South that had roots in the rural moonshiner's and their legendary races with law enforcement. The charm of NASCAR was always its "rebel" and "good ol' boy" attitude that was symbolized by their tongue in cheek display of the Confederate battle flag. By caving to the PC and SJW mob NASCAR has forever lost its rebel credentials that had more to do with the American distrust of government than anything racial.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rob_NC 6/23/2020 6:06:48 PM (No. 454482)
And his mother throws out there..he has been called the "N" word on many occasions
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 6/23/2020 6:11:40 PM (No. 454485)
#9
NASCAR's charm was wrung out of it years ago by the corporate weasels.
This didn't just happen.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
padiva 6/23/2020 6:19:47 PM (No. 454492)
Perceptions are not always reality
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 6/23/2020 6:21:47 PM (No. 454493)
I'm still baffled that lynching has become racist. In my youth, it was always something in a western movie that a sheriff was trying to prevent - and always a white guy was targetted. Only in the past couple of years has the meaning been bent as a racist act.
As an amusing aside and picture of a simpler time when humor was allowed, I viewed an early episode of the Beverly Hillbillies today. Granny and the Clampetts were up in arms against the Drysdales for a perceived slight against Ellie Mae, and marched to start a feud - with Granny unfurling and proudly waving a Confederate battle flag! I'm glad they weren't "Canceled", because they brought me many laughs as a youngster.
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Okay FBI, if it’s not above your pay grade, (what cute weasel words), now investigate who mistook a garage door opener pull rope for a frickin noose. This whole thing stinks to high heavens.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/23/2020 6:29:43 PM (No. 454499)
Bubba ''Smollett'' Wallace has some explaining to do. NASCAR and all the drivers who pushed him to the front and joined in the hoax have some apologizing to do!
I'm waiting to hear all the apologies and excuses for this racist hoax.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/23/2020 6:31:31 PM (No. 454500)
Unfreakin' believable. How in the world does anybody mistake a rope garage door handle for a noose? NASCAR is walking on eggshells and over reacted. So is all of corporate America. Removing black portraits from products? Name changes? Why? Are we missing something?
Its not clear who originally reported this. Got the impression it was found in the off hours, Was it found by Bubba Wallace, one of his crew, or a NASCAR official?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 6/23/2020 6:33:07 PM (No. 454502)
Much ado about nothing. I had suspected someone, not necessarily Bubba, had pulled a Jussie in this case. The media will either drop it entirely now or do another fake, but accurate spin to keep perceived racism alive.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/23/2020 6:33:18 PM (No. 454503)
HA! Sundance had this nailed a day or so ago! (Two articles posted at LCom)
As I said before, “Jussie Smollett on wheels”…
I’ll bet a lot of good ole boys, after having bowed down to Bubba, are feeling more than a little ridiculous. And then there is the head of NASCAR and Matt Weaver of Auto Week. Dee-licious!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/23/2020 6:33:31 PM (No. 454504)
All my life I heard conservatives accused of having "knee jerk reactions"
But it is a hallmark of the media and progressives. No critical thinking, don't wait for any investigation just jump to wrong conclusions and don't be concerned about unintended consequences.
NASCAR lost me a decade ago so this is just amusement.
Bill France, please report to the ER STAT!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/23/2020 6:35:43 PM (No. 454507)
Re #12, “manufactured perceptions” are the worst. Someone cut the “noose/handle” portion off the rope in his #4 garage and took the trouble to unravel the noose-like handle in #5. This was not just someone suddenly seeing a garage door handle as a noose.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
swarfer 6/23/2020 6:36:21 PM (No. 454508)
We all new it was fake or something similar. NASCAR could have resolved this is ten minutes. They should apologize to the America people and the FBI for allowing nothing to get out of hand. These people have no business managing racing. Disgusting and disgraceful. Another good reason to tune out NASCAR for good.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 6/23/2020 6:36:57 PM (No. 454509)
#s 9 and 11, i think you both have it right.
Dem/Lefties always, always corrupt everything they touch. They are totalitarians at heart; control-freaks. They cannot tolerate the hurly-burliness of liberty, which includes free markets which is opposed to command-and-control economies of leftist states. They can't leave anything alone, but move like locusts over the fruited plains (a little Rush lingo here) leaving devastation behind.
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I'm all for getting NASCAR back to it's original roots. Pack a hundred fifths of moonshine in all the trunks and see who survives.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/23/2020 6:38:01 PM (No. 454511)
Near as I can determine Bubba finished 16th. Yawn
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Quigley 6/23/2020 6:42:46 PM (No. 454518)
I’m sure he’s disappointed. How nice to enjoy self righteous indignation and a huge scale.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 6/23/2020 6:50:04 PM (No. 454522)
Formula 1 is as bad with $50mil/year Lewis Hamilton screaming about inequality everywhere, when he's not pushing veganism.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
happywarrior 6/23/2020 6:53:05 PM (No. 454525)
I wonder what race they are going to make sure he wins.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 6/23/2020 7:01:18 PM (No. 454530)
Woopsie. Just call him Jussie Smollett Wallace.
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it wasn't a "noose"! It wa a loop tied into a garage door pull to act as a hand hold. Bubba owes the entire country an apology.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 6/23/2020 7:04:45 PM (No. 454533)
this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba,” NASCAR said in a statement.
No! no, no, no, no, no, . . .
This was not a racist act at all. Bubba owes us all an apology and he owes the FBI an explanation for his hateful tweet.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/23/2020 7:21:12 PM (No. 454541)
He got punked!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Pook60 6/23/2020 7:21:26 PM (No. 454542)
Let’s have some transparency. Release a photo of the ‘’noose’’ and we can judge for ourselves if that was a reasonable interpretation or not.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/23/2020 7:22:57 PM (No. 454544)
So you don't do any kind of motorsports without a lot of bank. Even Go-Karts can run a couple thuo a month. Who's paying Bubba and better question , WHY, he loses.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/23/2020 7:25:11 PM (No. 454547)
I guess my granddaughter and I better not get caught playing an old game from my youth, called GASP, Hangman! Just saying the name gives me the vapors.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 6/23/2020 7:26:47 PM (No. 454549)
NASCAR has been coming to Talladega since 1969. They knew from the get-go what that cord was for, yet someone in the NASCAR hierarchy decided it would make a good opportunity to grandstand, virtue signal, and pander to the leftist mob. A lifetime fan, I've said for years that NASCAR's leadership has been an absolute mess ever since Bill France, Jr retired. This will go down as one of the more shameful chapters in that sorry story.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
hooter 6/23/2020 7:36:32 PM (No. 454557)
#32 checkout Conservative Treehouse for pictures. Pretty obvious it was to pull garage door....definitely a hoax
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
OhioNick 6/23/2020 7:37:38 PM (No. 454558)
Yet another hoax?
We can add this to the Kavanaugh hoax, the Ukraine hoax, the Russia hoax, the impeachment hoax, the General Flynn hoax and the Trump has Parkinson's hoax.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/23/2020 7:38:59 PM (No. 454559)
The media has already moved on to another story. They're now saying a noose was found hanging at a NASCAR site in Sonoma CA. Police are being called in from far and wide to investigate.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Winstonian 6/23/2020 7:44:43 PM (No. 454563)
NASCAR you’ve just been Kaepernicked.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
OhioNick 6/23/2020 7:44:57 PM (No. 454564)
Sorry for the second post.
Facts aren't racist. Here's the average IQ by nation.
https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/23/2020 7:52:14 PM (No. 454576)
I have 3 of those pull ropes in my shop...time to put a noose on each of them...How Totally PATHETIC!
If you get offended by made up problems, GET OVER IT!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/23/2020 8:13:19 PM (No. 454596)
Next, will rodeo calf roping be deemed racist? There are more than a few black cowboys that are no strangers to winning.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Boni 6/23/2020 8:18:05 PM (No. 454603)
This wasn't just a hoax, it was a PR stunt pulled by NASCAR so they could stage the big unity rally yesterday, pushing Bubba's car to the front of the starting line, blaming racist "Trump supporters" for this heinous, despicable hate crime ( or so they were still calling it this morning). Someone should be charged with a felony, since they had to call in the FBI, just like Jussie Smollett was. Just because the white perpetrators have a lot of money should not mean they are shielded from the same consequences under the law. Also, they should apologize to their fans who they characterized as racist haters.
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#40 Thanks for that link. Hard to believe the top IQ is 108. James Woods is 184.
You knew more was coming since NASCAR banned the Confederate Flag. Will the American flag be next everywhere?
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
MFM 6/23/2020 9:32:17 PM (No. 454670)
Chick Filet, Bubba and NASCAR, suck on your own disgusting woke BS..
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/23/2020 10:12:28 PM (No. 454695)
I used to occasionally watch a little NASCAR racing. Did the Richard Petty Racing Experience at the Atlanta Track. A lot of fun. Did a a lap at 149.95. Got a free pic for fastest lap. That said, I will never, ever watch another NASCAR race or buy any of their cheap merchandise made in China. It probably won’t make any difference but it would if two million fans left them. Let’s do it.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
red1066 6/23/2020 10:46:21 PM (No. 454720)
Apparently these pull ropes are used to pull down the garage doors, and are present in each garage bay in the building. I always knew leftists were brain dead, but the level of stupidity is just amazing, and the fact that they don't notice it or learn from it is stunning. Dr. Jordan Peterson, a professor of Psychology has a whole UTUBE video about why people with lower levels of intelligence think they're smarter then they really are. He also has videos about number of people who have IQ's below 85 who make up 10 to 12 percent of the population.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
A.I. 6/24/2020 12:48:50 AM (No. 454806)
By any chance, is he related to that French actor from Chicago?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/24/2020 3:14:29 AM (No. 454844)
How can a person be so stupid as to not recognize a garage door pull? Is this public education at its finest?
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
LaVallette 6/24/2020 5:38:43 AM (No. 454870)
Fake but accurate!!!
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/24/2020 1:20:25 PM (No. 455457)
Democrats will now be burning down rope factories.,
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/24/2020 10:54:39 PM (No. 456026)
Well, THAT one's played out.
Even the AP finally said it was a garage door pull rope loop.
Well, On to the Next Fake Outrage!
Let's see what Other bunch of Whities we can Bully into Grovelling at the Feet of Leftist Black Lives Matter!
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/25/2020 3:10:23 AM (No. 456153)
If they are going to let psychos like Bubba Wallace in,, I am out of NASCAR.
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