October 13, 201212 yr comment_5517282 Speaking of debates, I wonder how Vince feels about the VP debate supplanting his match with Punk as the week's most entertaining beatdown by an old man. To further tie it into wrestling, conservatives are now trying to say that Biden should be disqualified for kicking too much ass in the same manner that a wrestler who refuses to break a hold after the bell has his win overturned by the ref.
October 13, 201212 yr comment_5517290 I feel like I'm one the only person on this site who doesn't have a website/blog or podcast. If it makes you feel better I haven't updated either of mine in 8 billion years
October 15, 201212 yr comment_5517414 Leading wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer on why former WWE CEO Linda McMahon is running for senate on his radio show earlier today: It's always good to have a Senator who's married to the boss, to the person who owns the company, for so many reasons. I mean if there is another situation like Benoit, you know, I mean it's like your get out of jail free card. There ain't gonna be any big Senate investigations if Linda McMahon's there. And just the prestige. I mean the whole thing with the McMahons, they go from being, you know, rich sleazy wrestling promoters to, you know, a family in the Senate and from a reputation standpoint that's a giant jump, it's a big jump.
October 15, 201212 yr comment_5517417 I feel like I'm on the only person on this site who doesn't have a website/blog or podcast. I was about to tell you I don't, then I remembered this is my board. Genuinely funny moment. Yes, you are a bad example. I think I am the least knowledgeable wrestling fan on this site. I have tunnel vision and no blog.
October 15, 201212 yr comment_5517436 i don't think I've reached any sort of quota there. I may be an asterix at best.
October 16, 201212 yr comment_5517448 I may be an asterix at best. ..then this needs to be your avatar asap:
October 16, 201212 yr comment_5517496 These get to be diminishing returns after a while barring a major screw up. One wonders how many are still turning in, and how many are truly swing voters at this point. John
October 17, 201212 yr comment_5517499 http://www.theday.com/article/20121016/NWS...10169924/-1/nws I think Linda McMahon might have done better at Monday night's Senate debate with Chris Murphy if she had simply taken out a cigarette lighter and set hundred-dollar bills on fire. At least that's how I have seen McMahon's performance in the last three debates of the race; there goes a lot more of the McMahon fortune down the drain.
October 17, 201212 yr comment_5517504 Well, the good news for the McMahons is that barring a sudden unexpected death, at least they won't have to worry about another failed Senate campaign for another four years.
October 17, 201212 yr comment_5517509 The last debate is tomorrow afternoon, though not sure whether it will be stream online.
October 18, 201212 yr comment_5517538 Latest possible scandal for Linda McMahon - Was WWE caught dodging millions of dollars in taxes by the state of Connecticut recently?
October 19, 201212 yr comment_5517602 The tax issues got a lot of play in the Connecticut media yesterday. Meanwhile, Linda's loaned over $27 million of her own money by the end of September on this election cycle alone. Given that the last month will have the most spending, I guess total cost of her two runs will be between $90-100 million. So much for the second campaign being cheaper than the first.
October 19, 201212 yr comment_5517621 Her Social Security position isn't going to help either: McMahon Blames Press For Silence On Social Security Granted, the GOP/rightwing marks will happily blame the media. But it's a seed well sown with people who care about SS. John
October 19, 201212 yr comment_5517632 It seems that this race has caused the monocle to pop out of the eye of someone at The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/108687/why-d...ons-senate-race Stuff like this just smacks of cultural elitism (note the reader comment about "coarsening of popular culture"). Wrestling fandom has become almost exclusively the province of the poor and uneducated, and I'm inclined to believe that Democrats harping on the issue has caused a backlash among working-class voters.
October 19, 201212 yr comment_5517633 Every time I read something like that I'm reminded of Max von Sydow's intellectual elitist character in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters and his "What kind of human being watches professional wrestling?" (or something like that) quote.
October 19, 201212 yr comment_5517634 That's not really borne out by the latest polls. McMahon's ahead 38-31% with working class men, but has a similar lead in college educated men 48-40%. Murphy is slightly ahead with working class women 42-40%, but the big difference is college educated women where Murphy is ahead 55-28%. Really if there's a pro wrestling backlash it's with women who find the product offensive and sleazy.
October 20, 201212 yr comment_5517635 It seems that this race has caused the monocle to pop out of the eye of someone at The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/108687/why-d...ons-senate-race Stuff like this just smacks of cultural elitism (note the reader comment about "coarsening of popular culture"). Wrestling fandom has become almost exclusively the province of the poor and uneducated, and I'm inclined to believe that Democrats harping on the issue has caused a backlash among working-class voters. People were shitting on wrestling in newspapers in the 1920s. We're fans of a garbage form of entertainment that has long been one of the cesspools of the entertainment business. It's not just "cultural elites" who think it's a fucking joke: most of the nation does, and has for our entire lives. It's a waste of time to (i) worry about it, and (ii) get all worked up about it being elitism when people think it sucks. I mean... frankly it does suck, but we love it anyway. We need to get over it. John
October 20, 201212 yr comment_5517636 Nate Silver of the 538 in his Senate race projection has a Projected vote share of 51.2-46.7 for Murphy, with him hving a 78%-22% Chance of winning. John
October 20, 201212 yr comment_5517651 I mean... frankly it does suck, but we love it anyway. We need to get over it. That is a complete pile of horseshit. Maybe you want to waste your life watching things you don't like/respect, but don't expect anyone else not to see what a huge waste that is.
October 20, 201212 yr comment_5517662 That's not really borne out by the latest polls. McMahon's ahead 38-31% with working class men, but has a similar lead in college educated men 48-40%. Murphy is slightly ahead with working class women 42-40%, but the big difference is college educated women where Murphy is ahead 55-28%. Really if there's a pro wrestling backlash it's with women who find the product offensive and sleazy. That's the thing, though. Linda shouldn't be leading among working-class voters at all. In 2010, she only won 39% of the votes of those with a family income of less than $50,000 and 43% of the votes of those with a high school education or less. It's not a general anti-Democrat sentiment, since polls show Obama with a comfortable lead. There has to be something else at play. People were shitting on wrestling in newspapers in the 1920s. We're fans of a garbage form of entertainment that has long been one of the cesspools of the entertainment business. It's not just "cultural elites" who think it's a fucking joke: most of the nation does, and has for our entire lives. It's a waste of time to (i) worry about it, and (ii) get all worked up about it being elitism when people think it sucks. I mean... frankly it does suck, but we love it anyway. We need to get over it. John I don't have a problem with people viewing wrestling as lowbrow or trashy. It's the notion that involvement in wrestling is so disreputable as to be a disqualifying offense for someone seeking high office. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made of the impact the McMahons have had on the wrestling industry, but most of the actual criticisms tend to be of the moral panic variety. There's been far more discussion of the propriety of Vince making Trish bark like a dog than of the propriety of the death clause. That is a complete pile of horseshit. Maybe you want to waste your life watching things you don't like/respect, but don't expect anyone else not to see what a huge waste that is. Sturgeon's Law, dude. 90% of everything is crap. It's not specific to wrestling.
October 21, 201212 yr comment_5517673 That's the thing, though. Linda shouldn't be leading among working-class voters at all. In 2010, she only won 39% of the votes of those with a family income of less than $50,000 and 43% of the votes of those with a high school education or less. It's not a general anti-Democrat sentiment, since polls show Obama with a comfortable lead. There has to be something else at play. The Democrats went after pro wrestling hard too in 2010. I think it has more to do with Linda doing a great job of casting her relatively unknown opponent (compared to Dick Blumenthal who was the State's Attorney General for two decades) as a lazy slacker in Congress who used his political office to get a sweetheart loan from a bank he helped bail out when he was in financial difficulty, than any perceived cultural elitism from their WWE bashing.
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