World Wresting Entertainment invited Glenn Beck onto the program Raw after the conservative radio host criticized the organization for creating characters that appear to be caricatures of anti-immigrant tea party conservatives.
In response to the WWE’s invitation, Beck tweeted on Friday evening, “Unfortunately I am currently booked doing anything else.”
In their YouTube video directed at Beck, characters Zebediah Colter and Jack Swagger begin with a promo in character — calling themselves “real Americans,” saying people in this country should only speak English, and claiming that Swagger’s defeat of character Alberto Del Rio, another wrestler, will “begin to set things right.”
Then, breaking out of his Colter character, Wayne Keown said, “We are in the entertainment business. Everything we do as our characters is designed to tell stories. Right now the story we’re telling is that Zeb Colter and Jack Swagger are using the current, relevant, and topical story of immigration to target the WWE world champion Alberto Del Rio. Also a character played my my friend Jose Rodriguez. In our story, we are the antagonists, and Alberto is the protagonist.”
“Glenn Beck, you recently referred to WWE as ‘stupid wresting people,’” he continued, going on to say that Beck was therefore calling 14 million viewers stupid.
He also noted that 20 percent of WWE’s audience was Hispanic.
Jesus bloody christ no one is at war with anyone.
War has to be the most idiotically used word in American politics.
My god, its professional wrestling. Its not real.
They have to have the bad guy and the good guy. Doesn't Beck know this is all made up.
This keeps getting better.
I wonder if Glenn Beck realizes that professional wrestling fans are statistically more likely to identify as conservative? Think they'll be happy at his crusade forpolitical correctnessConservative Truth directed against the industry?
Glenn Beck turns down WWE invitation after anger over tea party characters | The Raw Story
This keeps getting better.
I wonder if Glenn Beck realizes that professional wrestling fans are statistically more likely to identify as conservative? Think they'll be happy at his crusade forpolitical correctnessConservative Truth directed against the industry?
Glenn Beck turns down WWE invitation after anger over tea party characters | The Raw Story
He couldn't win the war with reality. I'm glad he has set is sights on a more suitable opponent.
And if Beck had appeared the same Demos above this would be raging how he endorsed anti-Latino declarations.
No they wouldn't. They'd be mocking Beck for taking the bait.
WWE loves this ****. It's got people talking about wrestling who aren't already wrestling fans for the first time in the while. Vince McMahon is (a mainstream) conservative, but he doesn't have any truck with the likes of Beck. And Beck is inadvertently helping McMahon get the Jack Swagger character over forty-five days before Wrestlemania.
It's like Beck literally doesn't understand how the wrestling business works.
Vince McMahon probably was only mildly at most involved in the characters, and the goal was not to get mainstream coverage. Politics has nothing to do with it, demographics does.
And where did you get the stat about the politics of wrestling fans?
Vince McMahon probably was only mildly at most involved in the characters, and the goal was not to get mainstream coverage. Politics has nothing to do with it, demographics does.
And where did you get the stat about the politics of wrestling fans?
The goal probably wasn't to get mainstream coverage at first, but now it definitely is. Swagger broke kayfabe in the response video to Beck and used his real name. You don't break kayfabe in the WWE without authorization from the top.
It's anecdotal. I don't have a link to the poll, but in 2008 I recall seeing one that broke down the political affiliations of wrestling fans by demographic. The largest were white conservatives at something like 40%, and the second largest were Hispanics in the 20s. Take it with a grain of salt if you want, as I don't have it on hand.
Maybe not, but I hope he can be goaded into calling for some regulatory measure against the industry.
Vince McMahon probably was only mildly at most involved in the characters, and the goal was not to get mainstream coverage. Politics has nothing to do with it, demographics does.
Mohammed Hassan mean anything to you?
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That was terrific. The scan of the audience shows mature adults shaking their fists and screaming at the top of their lungs.
I just searched the price of one ticket for a WWE Smackdown tonight in Waco, Texas. The price was $103.58 !!
I had no idea it was that pricey . A family of four could so stand and yell at the "bad guys" for $414.32. Add parking fees and food and drinks and you go that family spending $500. My god.
Jesus bloody christ no one is at war with anyone.
War has to be the most idiotically used word in American politics.
There was a time when I thought Glen Beck made sense.
There was a time when I thought Glen Beck made sense.
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