Ghouliani's Introduction to the Nation of Nascar - a hilarious piece in today's NYT

What a freaking :+. I'm sure this escapade will endear him to all them NICE-CAR dads... :sarcasm:



Reporter’s Notebook
An Introduction to the Nation of Nascar
By MARC SANTORA

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., July 8 — Standing before about 200,000 die-hard racing fans who had spent hours sweating, drinking and revving up for the Pepsi 400, Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is much more Brooklyn than bayou, acknowledged on Saturday what many could have guessed.

“This is my first live Nascar event,” he told the crowd.

When he was mayor, Mr. Giuliani was not shy about indulging in such New York treats as the opera or expensive Italian restaurants. But he now finds himself on different terrain as he runs for president, and so he has started educating himself on the sport that claims some 75 million fans who skew distinctly Republican.

To that end, he told reporters that he had just finished reading “The Female Fan Guide to Motorsports.”

“This is embarrassing,” Mr. Giuliani said.

The book was given to him by the author, Betsy Berns, a Giuliani fund-raiser, perhaps with the hope that the man who had once playfully dressed in women’s clothes for a campy skit might be comfortable with a Nascar tutorial for the ladies.

Mr. Giuliani also had his wife, Judith, there to give him pointers. Mrs. Giuliani grew up near a track in Pennsylvania, and she said she had been to her fair share of races.

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Notice the downplaying of Rudy's penchant for dressing in draq? He apparently only did it once, in a campy skit. Nothing to see here. Move along.

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bookstore behind a large book. When Frasier asks him what he's reading, he looks at the title and says something like, "I'm perusing through this Heroes of Na-SCAR," giving the Nascar a distinctly new pronunciation. My husband, a real fan of NASCAR, still laughs his ass off over this.

Rudy is no Niles. At least the character Niles wasn't typically a pretender like Rudy.

down here, ain't he?

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What a folksy guy. I'd love to pour a beer on him.