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bedsitter23As I have reported in some recent posts, the WWE character of Zeb Colter is angering the Right because he is a character that espouses tea Party style views.
Zeb is a Tea party heel and at no point does the WWE say that all Tea party members are like Zeb, no more than the WWE suggests that all dentists are like Isaac Yankem DDS.
Still, the WWE got Glen Beck to bite. Glen on his website wrote that he didn't get it. His partner compared Zeb to the Iron sheik, while Glenn was happy comparing the WWE to the Hollywood Elite and trying to guess why the WWE was popular with red states and not progressives, and confused that the WWE would do this to their Conservative fanbase.
All leading to this epic promo in which the WWE invited Glenn Beck to appear on Raw. A promo in which Swagger and Colter break character to call out Beck for thinking the WWE is any more real than NCIS or Glee.
Beck says he has 'anything else to do" and won't appear, though it would have been perfect.
Glenn needs the publicity, as he doesn't have the star power or influence he had two years ago (Beck likes to think his website is as influential and wide-reaching as Fox news, but that is surely ludicrous), and Glenn probably thinks Zeb is a washed up dumb hick wrestler, and not someone who has spent the last 40 years as a wrestler who has more extemperaneous speaking experience than most Americans in cutting promos, and one of the most successful and smartest names in the business side of the industry.
Zeb is a Tea party heel and at no point does the WWE say that all Tea party members are like Zeb, no more than the WWE suggests that all dentists are like Isaac Yankem DDS.
Still, the WWE got Glen Beck to bite. Glen on his website wrote that he didn't get it. His partner compared Zeb to the Iron sheik, while Glenn was happy comparing the WWE to the Hollywood Elite and trying to guess why the WWE was popular with red states and not progressives, and confused that the WWE would do this to their Conservative fanbase.
All leading to this epic promo in which the WWE invited Glenn Beck to appear on Raw. A promo in which Swagger and Colter break character to call out Beck for thinking the WWE is any more real than NCIS or Glee.
Beck says he has 'anything else to do" and won't appear, though it would have been perfect.
Glenn needs the publicity, as he doesn't have the star power or influence he had two years ago (Beck likes to think his website is as influential and wide-reaching as Fox news, but that is surely ludicrous), and Glenn probably thinks Zeb is a washed up dumb hick wrestler, and not someone who has spent the last 40 years as a wrestler who has more extemperaneous speaking experience than most Americans in cutting promos, and one of the most successful and smartest names in the business side of the industry.
