Objective or not, Busch's talent not up for a debate

A long time ago, so long ago that newspapers were thriving even though their demise already was being predicted in a pre-Internet world, a journalism professor once insisted that if you were going to get into the writing business and gear your subject matter toward the masses, you should strive to write on a sixth-grade level.

Shelby 427

Results

Pos.	Driver	Make
1.	Kyle Busch	Toyota
2.	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet
3.	Jeff Burton	Chevrolet
4.	David Reutimann	Toyota
5.	Bobby Labonte	Ford
6.	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet
7.	Greg Biffle	Ford
8.	Brian Vickers	Toyota
9.	Jamie McMurray	Ford
10.	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Chevrolet

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I never believed it. I always aimed higher -- like to write on a seventh- or eighth-grade level.

That seemed to work pretty well until I took this job and started writing about the likes of Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Now I know there are plenty of those out there who do get it, but they usually aren't the ones who write in with absurd complaints -- so for those folks, I now have only one question.

Are you smarter than a fifth-grader?

Because some of you just aren't getting it. Any story about Busch, who again drove magnificently in winning the Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, is sure to generate lots of excitement. Not as much as Earnhardt, of course, but that is another story -- one that has been and will continue to be told over and over and over again no matter how many races Junior does or doesn't win.

This is more about Busch, younger brother of the once-better-known and still more accomplished (but possibly not for much longer) Kurt.

Getting it straight

Just because some of us write that Busch appears to be the next great driver on the horizon -- a misnomer in itself, because he's already driven over the horizon and is leaving much of the rest of the field in his wake -- doesn't mean we're Toyota lovers or M&M's lovers (although I do so enjoy the peanut ones). It doesn't mean we pull for Kyle Busch to win every week over Junior or anyone else, because, as writers, we strive to be objective and don't really root for anything other than no rain, a quick race with good storylines and decent food in the media center. (Continued)