April Fool’s
Time To Move On From Car and Driver's Hoax
AutoWeek’s editor and associate publisher Dutch Mandel wrote an article calling for people to lighten up about Car and Driver’s April Fool’s day hoax that Obama told carmakers Chevy and Dodge that they had to leave NASCAR to receive bailout money. Mandel wrote: As you can imagine, far too many people failed to look at the [...]
Car and Driver NASCAR Hoax, Why So Many Were Duped
Continuing the fallout surrounding Car and Driver’s April Fool’s hoax, Ann Coutler, apparently fell for it. In her column dated yesterday, she wrote: If Obama can tell GM and Chrysler that their participation in NASCAR is an “unnecessary expenditure,” isn’t having public schools force students to follow Muslim rituals, recite Islamic prayers and plan “jihads” [...]
Story That Obama Ordered Dodge, Chevy Out Of NASCAR Still Making News
One day after Car and Driver ran its April Fool’s day hoax article claiming that President Obama ordered Chevrolet and Dodge out of NASCAR as a condition of receiving bailout funds, the story is still making news. Sandra Rose of Rightfielders.com wrote: Just when we thought we could take a breather from Barack Obama’s wacky [...]
Obama Ordering Dodge, Chevy Out Of NASCAR?
Despite Car and Driver’s attention-grabbing headline, Obama Orders Chevrolet and Dodge Out Of NASCAR,” there is no truth to the article. It is an April Fools Day joke. The article states that Obama said that in order to receive additional government bailout funds, the two automakers would have to cease their NASCAR operations by the [...]
