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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Last Week's Top Stories - NASCAR'S Noose Investigation, COVID-19 Cases Spike & Trump's Tulsa Rally

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The FBI investigates a noose in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace's garage, U.S. COVID-19 cases surge, Trump sees low turnout at his rally in Tulsa, OK, and Rhode Island updates its name. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:10.4

The big story that's had everybody talking from social media to the morning news has been

0:15.9

Baba Wallace, NASCAR, and the news.

0:20.4

Now if you missed the story, here's how it all went down.

0:23.6

Baba Wallace, the only black NASCAR driver, has been promoting the Black Lives Matter

0:29.3

movement and pushing NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag from its races.

0:34.6

NASCAR agreed, and Baba Wallace immediately faced a huge firestorm from people who felt

0:39.5

like he was blocking their southern heritage and racism.

0:43.8

Then a week after the flag was banned from the races, one of Wallace's crew members

0:48.2

found a noose hanging in the garage where Wallace's car was parked.

0:52.2

And so immediately everybody was on edge, especially black people.

0:57.1

I mean, it's a noose.

0:59.2

A noose is like the end word of ropes.

1:02.4

In fact, I don't even like saying the word noose because it's too close to noose.

1:06.2

I just called it a Canadian cow.

1:08.0

So anyway, after the noose was found, NASCAR called in the FBI to investigate if this was

1:13.9

indeed a hate crime.

1:15.7

And last night, the FBI announced their findings.

1:19.4

The FBI has determined that NASCAR driver Baba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime.

1:26.0

They were saying the noose found in his garage had been there since last October, months

1:30.8

before Wallace was assigned that stall.

1:33.4

According to NASCAR, the rope was used to pull the garage door closed.

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