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It appears that the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has ruffled a few feathers with its new character Zeb Colter. Zeb Colter is a Tea Party inspired Vietnam veteran, terrified of the changing demographics of America, who manages wrestler Jack Swagger. The xenophobic manager often charges “real Americans” to get rid of “whoever wants to cross our borders” illegally and cites Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Alex Jones as fans. The caricature of Tea Partiers did not sit well with Glenn Beck, who had this to offer in response,
The WWE now has put a new character out that is demonizing the TEA Party,” says Beck. I’m sick and tired of being miscast. I am sick and tired of it. It is lazy at best. And I certainly am not going to give any more time or my money to any organization that is miscasting, is making it harder for me and my family to stand up for what I believe in. You’re mocking me for standing up for the Constitution of the United States of America? You’re mocking me for standing up for law and order? Equal justice under the law? Equal justice. I’ve been that my whole life.
Of course, the WWE’s never one to miss out on a golden opportunity, challenged the radio show host to appear on its taping of “Monday Night Raw.” Watch at mark 1:40 as Wayne breaks character to explain the concept of satire.
Nevertheless, Glenn Beck refused the offer by stating, “Unfortunately I am currently booked doing anything else.” On April 7th the WWE will host Wrestlemania 29 at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. where Jack Swagger will square off against Alberto del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship.
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In my opinion, it’s not enough for Glenn Beck to appear on WWE: he’s go to go into the steel cage with Hulk Hogan. To the death. Beck’s a real American(TM), so he’ll win for sure.
Hmmm… “Alberto del Rio” is what kind of name, again?
I will never watch WWE. I hate violence.
http://fcnp.com/2009/08/13/glen-becks-blatant-racism/
Glen Beck lost his Fox News job because advertisers thought he was racist.
Glen Beck is a Tea Bagger.
Tea Bagger’s are racist
http://foxnewsboycott.com/fox-news/glenn-beck-loses-11-more-sponsors/
WWE reaches the poor White voter who either watches Fox News or is not informed about the issues at all.
Finally we have a way of reaching the hard core 30% GOP voter in an emotional non thinking way.
Tea Bagger’s as wrestling villains this is Inspired! Glen knows better than us who his audience is and has every reason to fear.
Spocko’s take on this would be interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Del_Rio
I am not into wrestling but it seems he is quite good. I am afraid that the Tea Bagger wrestler’s will cheat to win though that seems to be the wrestling villain’s modus operandi.
Still the Tea Bagger’s are wrestling Villain’s this changes the popular portrayal of Tea Bagger’s on tv if not the media.
Despite the Tea Bagger’s polling lower than Muslim’s and Atheists among American’s the Media and Congress still worship them.
Saying Obama can’t be President because he was born in Kenya and or is a Muslim is not standing up for the Constitution. Proof would be required Glen.
Standing up for law and order when Tea Baggers bring guns to Congressional Town Hall meetings?
According to accounts from the Steve Cohen health care event in Memphis Tennessee, the teabaggers are showing up armed:
Steve Steffens at Left Wing Cracker: “Randy Wade is to be complimented as well; he arranged for security. There were actually idiots who brought guns (legally, it seems they had carry permits, but why did they feel they needed them?). Yes, you read that right, and Randy made them all check in with the Sheriff’s Deputies on hand.
Gordon G via FDL Event Tracker: “Beginning early in the proceedings many attendees who were clearly against health insurance reform began trying to speak (and shout) out of turn, at times chanting in unison. These bullying attempts were contained by the rest of the crowd, who variously applauded speakers supporting reform, demanded that hecklers behave, and engaged thugs one-on-one to keep the peace.”
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/
Law and Order means everyone gets to be heard at congressional town hall meetings without being heckled or intimidated by Glen’s flying monkey’s with guns.
Equal Justice under the law sure if your White, Christian and Republican.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-beck-jokes-about-putting-poiso
Liberals apparently have no rights serial killer’s joke about killing people until they get the courage to actually kill people.
Trying to divine Vincent Kennedy McMahon’s motivations can make Kremlinology look like Chutes and Ladders.
Having said that, I suspect that Vince, whose wife Linda has tried to run for higher office as a Republican twice so far in Connecticut, has either decided that he has to take on the teabaggers before they take the GOP down with them, or has done market research sufficient to determine that having somebody play a teabagger heel would make his ratings pop.
He also, no doubt, has studied the career of Jim “Jesse Ventura” Janos, another guy whose ego competes with his brain and all too often wins, and who often clashed with Vince during his wrestling career. Jesse managed to take advantage of a split electorate. a populace in a pretty good mood that was willing to take a chance on a familiar face in a new role so long as he didn’t sound like a total moron to their ears (and Jesse managed to keep himself on a relatively tight leash during his campaign), and Bill Hillsman’s perfect TV ads (like this one), and won the governorship of Minnesota in 1998.
won the governorship of Minnesota in 1998.
Leaving us forever alerted not to permit in politics anyone who addresses his interlocutors as “brother” (cf, “brothers and sisters”, with which are are, all, of course, ok)
Is it also accurate to call him a “no brainer?” I thought so….
The staging of the Del Rio v Jack Swaggert event actually says quite a bit about U.S. culture and growing tolerance for Latinos. The “Alberto Del Rio” character is a “rich Mexican” … which may be a good or bad foreigner (and normally in these kinds of spectacles the “foreigner” is the bad guy) facing off against the TEA Party “patriot” … who is getting roundly boo-ed on the circuit, leaving the Mexican guy (even if he’s a rich guy) as the good guy.
Even more interesting, WWF is modeled on Mexican Luche Libre, which took old-fashioned fake wrestling and gave it a mythic and political tinge with the masked wrestlers. There has always been a political undertone to the WWF characters, but this a much more nuanced and more in the Mexican tradition.
I always thought that WWE and Glenn Beck were doing the same thing. Is Glenn Beck the rodeo clown trying to convince his stupid audience (that, unlike WWE fans, cannot tell the difference between reality and entertainment) that he is sincere? Sorry, but I’m not buying it.
Ah, the sweet irony of it all. The Tea Party may now be officially caricatured by an organization that calls it’s activities “Sports-entertainment”, wink, wink. The whole thing is fake, from top to bottom. This is the arena where Beck has always belonged….one where bombast is far more important than fact. Where exaggeration and hyperbole is the rule, rather than the exception. It fits him like a glove, and it was only a matter of time before he felt it’s call.
Remember Sputnik Monroe?
….
The way the business people would limit the black audience was by counting the number of black people allowed entrance into the auditorium, knowing exactly the seating capacity of the “blacks only” section. Sputnik would bribe the employee, who counted black people, to lie to his boss, giving the boss a much lower number of attendees than there actually were. So, when the overseer would demand numbers, the door guy would say something like “thirty” when there were really five-hundred or more black folks in the building. Jim Dickinson, a well known fixture of the Memphis music scene, remembers, “Finally, the audience got so big and heavily black that they had to integrate the seating. There’s no other single event that integrated the audience other than the wrassling matches and Sputnik paying the guy to lie.”
Sputnik’s one-man campaign had ripple effects all across Memphis, not only in the black community, but also amongst young white kids. Elvis, Jerry Lee, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Sam Phillips had already opened the valve, releasing emotions in young white people that caused grave concern for the enforcers of the status quo. And here was this upstart wrestler, not just playing with young kids minds, but messing with the gas that fueled how things ran in Memphis, namely racism. Another fan of that era, Jim Black says “I went through my whole twelve years at school having never been able to share an experience with a black, and I was starting to resent this, because I was also listening to radio and Dewey Phillips, and hearing all these great black records and realizing that these were some talented artists, this was another culture. Where, at first, we’d gone to the matches hoping to see Sputnik get beat, we started to realize that he was pretty fucking cool. He had his audience, and he never played down to ‘em, never talked down to ‘em. He became a role model.”
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http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/sputnik-monroe-rip
Glen Beck’s reaction to the WWE is a distraction from the fact that both major political parties are transferring wealth to the 1%, at least what very little “wealth” remains in the hands of the 99%.
We’ve come to the point where the transfers proposed by a Democratic President will result in deaths of Americans: cuts to fuel subsidies, cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
Oh, and he’s pretty much done away with, not only various Constitutional provisions, but the very rule of law.
Glenn Beck’s reaction to the WWE? Pffft.
Thank you. Sanity still rules.
Jesse Ventura on “The View”
I’m actually getting a kick out of the “Zeb Coulter” character. The moment I saw him come down to the ring with Jack Swagger, I said to myself, “What in the hell is Dutch Mantel doing looking like a Tea Bagger militia nut?!?” Then he opened his mouth. I immediately started laughing. I highly doubt Vince McMahon has the balls to keep him around long enough to feud with John “Pander To The Twoops” Cena. It might offend the defense contractors embedded within NBC/USA Network’s Standards & Practices, and the White House, too, considering the WWE Creative Team also writes Obama’s script …