NASCAR has responded to NBC. They’re not happy. NBC has apparently already been trawling their ringers around racing fans without managing to produce any untoward events.

Thus, some advice for NBC: “if NBC wants to guarantee they get a negative reaction to their ‘plant’, all they need to do is put him in a Jeff Gordon t-shirt.”

UPDATE: Reader B.J. Bethel emails: “I’m more curious to see how two men in Hasidic dress would be treated at a mosque or ANSWER event. My guess is the NASCAR muslims would have an easier time.”

And Jim Treacher writes: “I just figured out why Couric is moving to CBS. She’s going undercover for Dateline!”