New rules on bad language

NASCAR apparently issued a new policy in regard to conduct and language used by drivers during interviews, especially nationally televised interviews.
Some drivers, including Dale Earnhardt Jr., have been fined and penalized, some would say rather severely, by NASCAR for using inappropriate words after winning races and during live TV interviews.
In Earnhardt Jr.'s case, someone asked him how his success at Talladega Superspeedway compares to his dad's accomplishments. Earnhardt Jr. said "It don't mean shit." To be honest, Earnhardt Jr. was just telling the truth, but it cost him points in the standings and a hefty fine.
Earnhardt Jr. was asked during media day at Daytona International Speedway earlier this week if he thought the new rules would take some of the anxiety off interviews.
"No, because I don't believe them," said Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. "I don't think anybody does. What does that mean? Tell me? Are we supposed to walk the line and see where we step over it? Are we going to get fines when we go too far? What is it that they are saying?"
Earnhardt Jr. said the new rules were made more for the media than for the drivers and teams.
"I think honestly they are playing to you guys, they are not talking to the drivers, they are playing y'all," Earnhardt Jr. said. "I think it is basically they are trying to appear to be looser, when the message has not been relayed to the drivers as to what has been changed, it is just a press release went out to the press that said 'Hey, we are going to do this, how about that? You guys like that, right?' Really, what have they told us? I don't know what that means? What does that mean?"
With or without the rules, Earnhardt Jr. said he learned his lesson from the incident at Talladega a couple years ago.
"That was just a little card game between you two; it has really nothing to do with the drivers," Earnhardt Jr. said. "I don't feel like I have been holding back. There are words that I don't use, that I shouldn't use on national television. For me, I get to be the same because I don't feel like I have had to reserve myself too much."