If you are a NASCAR fan then you should take offense to this:

It started last month, when an official with the House Committee on Homeland Security suggested that staff aides get immunizations before visiting health facilities at Alabama's Talladega Superspeedway and North Carolina's Lowe's Motor Speedway, where the Bank of America 500 was run Saturday.

In an e-mail, a Democratic staffer who works for committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson noted an "unusual need for whomever attending to be vaccinated against hepatitis A and B," as well as "the more normal things — tetanus, diphtheria, and of course, seasonal influenza."

The note didn't explain why the committee saw such concern. It didn't mention NASCAR or the races at the tracks at all. But the implication was enough to draw a snarky complaint from Republican Rep. Robin Hayes, whose district includes Lowe's Motor Speedway.

"I have never heard of immunizations for domestic travel, and ... I feel compelled to ask why the heck the committee feels that immunizations are needed to travel to my hometown," wrote Hayes.

Talk about paranoia. You'd think that NASCAR fans are the living dead. The only knock I have on race fans is from my experience as a waiter and that is that they are unusually bad tippers. Oh...God...I have been in contact with the unclean!!! I am infected!!!

This one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

The NRCC is having some fun with it though...as is Rep. Jack Kingston: