Today was an interesting day. I did my usual teaching and went to work. I was aware of it being April 1, April Fools day, but no one had tried to pull an obvious joke on me so I was not thinking about it.
Driving to my real job I was listening to a talk show on local station KRMG, the Neal Boortz show. I usually listen to him as I do not agree with everything he says but it is interesting. He started to describe during his Government outrage segment how Obama had told GM and Chrysler that if they wanted any more money they would have to withdraw their participation in NASCAR. Boortz was upset! He cannot tell them how to advertise.
Needless to say I got to work and started to tell a co-worker about it. We both agreed it was the wrong thing to do. I figured I would blog about it so I started to search about it. Seems that the Internet was abuzz about it. One article said Obama and NASCAR was the biggest Google News search for the day, and it all started with an article at the Car and Driver magazine web site. Well Car and Driver meant it as an April Fools joke but it seems that it took on a mind of its own. Some places have not retracted the statements yet either.
So while I did not get hit directly, I guess I got it indirectly.
Of course my stepdaughter got it. She got a Facebook message that said Obama and her were second cousins and clicked the link.
Obama was the subject of a lot of the jokes today. Hope he does not mind.
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