Kyle Busch walks out of the Winner's Media Interview

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Courtesy of Reuters News Service via Windtunnel on Speed apparantly Kyle Busch repeated what he had said in Winners Circle blaming the media for his brothers misfortune saying that "the media got it all wrong" a USA Today reporter asked Kyle just what did the media get wrong which at that moment Kyle walked out of room. He later returned after some PR people had to calm him down.
 
Sounds as if he's as hot-headed as his big brother.
Hope he's not as foolish.
 
He should have never even bought it up. The kid is turning into a jerk just like his brother.
 
The kid has more sense and class than his bother, but blood has to stick with blood.
I don't blame or judge him. He's a better driver than his brother, too, but he'd be a punk if he let his brother hang out there to be slayed all alone. I commend him for his stance and his character.
 
I agree, Bobby. You can't begrudge the young man for standing up for his brother. I'm sure that he doesn't agree with his brother's actions, but it doesn't change the fact that it's still his brother. He made his statement, and then the media should have discussed the reason he was in the room to begin with. HE won today's race, and I thought that that was the purpose of the Winner's Media Interview to begin with.
 
I will be the first to say I don't like Kurt Busch, but put me in Kyle's shoes and I would have done the exact same thing. Yes, they are competitors, yes, they drive for different teams and yes, Kurt may have finally learned a lesson that Jimmy Spencer tried to teach him, but at the end of the day, at the end of the career, a brother is a brother. I agree with Kyle, the media has turned this into an extravaganza...Scott Wimmer didn't get slaughtered in the media like this, he didn't even miss a race. It's easy for Roush and sponsors to drop him like a hot potato when his contract is almost up. You have to admit, pulling over the Cup champion near the race track is like "Sheriff's Big Day!"
Kyle should have side stepped it, but no one at the race track (save Roger Penske) even took a stand for his blood relative. This isn't a cool calm collected veteran out there, this is a young guy. I would hate to think how I would have reacted in that situation. Leaving the press area was probably a good idea...its shows more maturity on Kyle's part than it shows him being a jerk. Instead of saying something he'd regret (read: Robby Gordon on Michael Waltrip very recently) he walked away from the situation.
Doesn't anyone think the media would have liked Kyle to get outraged and act like a jerk? Wouldn't it make a great headline to show that both of these brothers are crazy? Smart move on Kyle's part...however, since Nascar wouldn't let him to burnouts, I would have skipped the media center altogether.
 
Once again . I don't blame him for walking out. I still think as a proffesional he should have avoided the whole situation altogether.
He is just a kid put up against the powerful media. I feel sorry for Kyle having to live in the shadow of what Kurt has done, his brother on the other hand is getting what he has been deserving.
 
majestyx said:
I agree, Bobby. You can't begrudge the young man for standing up for his brother. I'm sure that he doesn't agree with his brother's actions, but it doesn't change the fact that it's still his brother. He made his statement, and then the media should have discussed the reason he was in the room to begin with. HE won today's race, and I thought that that was the purpose of the Winner's Media Interview to begin with.
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took the words from the mouth...

Nascar wouldn't let him to burnouts
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Anybody know what that was about? They thought he might make his tire marks spell "Kurt"?
 
esorlxaw said:
he thought it was time constraints
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Well the race finished in the alotted time. Many races go over and they still do burnouts. That sounds fishy to me why he couldn't do burnouts.
 
I respectfully have a different viewpoint..... If Kyle would have never blamed the media, it would not have been an issue and they would have discussed the race. Kyle brought it up on the post-race interview. I would have asked the same question the reporter did. Very simple question.... If there was something else to the story, can you tell us what it is so we can report the entire thing?

Very simple.....
 
You have a point:

“The only thing I’m going to say is I’m behind my brother 100 percent and usually things in the media are false and that’s what it comes down to sometimes,” Kyle said. Soon after, USA Today reporter Chris Jenkins asked, “Kyle, what specifically has the media written this weekend that’s been false about your brother?”
“I’m not going there, bud,” Kyle replied. “That was a really, really inappropriate question.” He then got up and stormed out of the media center, only to return some 15 minutes later.
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Huh? Inappropriate? I can picture just about every reporter in that room looking at each other and asking "What was that all about?"
 
Aggiewes said:
I respectfully have a different viewpoint..... If Kyle would have never blamed the media, it would not have been an issue and they would have discussed the race. Kyle brought it up on the post-race interview. I would have asked the same question the reporter did. Very simple question.... If there was something else to the story, can you tell us what it is so we can report the entire thing?

Very simple.....
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Exactly!

He stated that "Usually things in the media are false", he opened himself up to be challenged by the reporters. Bad move on his part if he was not prepared to defend that statement.

It would have been better for him to just make a brief statement that he supported his brother and leave it that.

Chalk it up to youth and inexperience but hopefully he will learn his lesson and be more prepared to defend his statements. Otherwise, he is just playing the fool, the part that his older brother seems to relish.
 
It should have been one of the biggest moments of his life and what did he say? He attempts to blame the media for his brothers indescretions.. The poor young guy should never have opened his mouth. He did good all day up to that time. I am sure there would have been no questions in that interview to take away from his win.. He caused problems all by himself.
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A Nextel cup media representative asked that no further questions be asked about Kyle's brother.......the media should have respected that request...
since they were irked about the media comment Kyle made..they asked anyway....so I see the media as being disrespectful.....Kyle didn't reply to the the question that was asked except by saying "I'm not going there bud, that's
a very inappropriate question."

So I suspect at that point Kyle had already been told not to answer any questions regarding anything but the race.
 
dsdjtlts said:
A Nextel cup media representative asked that no further questions be asked about Kyle's brother.......the media should have respected that request...
since they were irked about the media comment Kyle made..they asked anyway....so I see the media as being disrespectful.....Kyle didn't reply to the the question that was asked except by saying "I'm not going there bud, that's
a very inappropriate question."
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No more inappropriate than Kyle's mouthful (with no prompting) to the NBC reporter right after the race was over. Again.... any good reporter would ask the question. These guys get paid too much money to not be asked the tough questions. In my opinion, Kyle would have had an issue if he had NOT brought the subject up. He brought the subject up... therefore Can of worms = OPEN!
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IMO I think NASCAR is getting tired of the celebrations on the start/finish line.
 
Either way on this one as far as the media goes. They were doing their job, Kyle was doing his by winning the race, and he should of never broached the subject in the winners circle. He is young, inexperienced, and probably ticked off about his brother being "mistreated by the media". I'm getting to the point on this entire subject where i feel the truth will never be known. There are too many inconsistencies here, way too much time went by between the incident and the release of it to the media. Time for many things to get changed to suit both sides involved.
 
Aggiewes said:
dsdjtlts said:
A Nextel cup media representative asked that no further questions be asked about Kyle's brother.......the media should have respected that request...
since they were irked about the media comment Kyle made..they asked anyway....so I see the media as being disrespectful.....Kyle didn't reply to the the question that was asked except by saying "I'm not going there bud, that's
a very inappropriate question."
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No more inappropriate than Kyle's mouthful (with no prompting) to the NBC reporter right after the race was over. Again.... any good reporter would ask the question. These guys get paid too much money to not be asked the tough questions. In my opinion, Kyle would have had an issue if he had NOT brought the subject up. He brought the subject up... therefore Can of worms = OPEN!
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Agreed Kyle opened the can...but as we are learning the media reported a bunch of bull fed to them by that police department...any good reporter would have doubled checked their "facts" before reporting the incident regarding Kurt.
I chalk up Kyle's response/behavior to youth and inexperience and I feel he handled himself quite well given the circumstances....he may not have been at liberty to repeat what he knew.....
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