BigWill
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Post by BigWill on Dec 17, 2013 9:38:40 GMT -5
It'll be a good day when Vince McMahon finally steps down as CEO.
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Post by Brother Nero....Wolfe on Dec 17, 2013 9:41:28 GMT -5
I like to imagine Vince thinks he can punish everyone in the entire world with wrestling events. Like he gets mad one day and is like, "WHO THE f*** PUSHED OBAMA"
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 17, 2013 9:43:31 GMT -5
I like to imagine Vince thinks he can punish everyone in the entire world with wrestling events. Like he gets mad one day and is like, "WHO THE f*** PUSHED OBAMA" "Damn Nelson Mandela dying, taking attention away from our historic unification match... What did HE ever do that was so great?"
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Sparkybob
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Post by Sparkybob on Dec 17, 2013 9:53:02 GMT -5
I like to imagine Vince thinks he can punish everyone in the entire world with wrestling events. Like he gets mad one day and is like, "WHO THE f*** PUSHED OBAMA" "Damn Nelson Mandela dying, taking attention away from our historic unification match... What did HE ever do that was so great?" He unified a nation? I UNIFIED THE WORLD TITLES GOD DAMMIT.
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Dec 17, 2013 9:57:18 GMT -5
Vince is not a fan of the black people.
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Welfare Willis
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Post by Welfare Willis on Dec 17, 2013 10:06:44 GMT -5
Wow... (That's all I can add) Where's wrestletaint.gov to give us the real scoop?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 17, 2013 10:08:20 GMT -5
I'll give him credit, that's more creative than the usual tripe Ryan Clark makes up.
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Post by Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks on Dec 17, 2013 10:22:00 GMT -5
I probably wouldn't have been bothered by it if it happened during a comedy match, but in a match with the tag team champions ... why? They've gone out of their way to hype the resurgence of the division lately.
I get that it's meant to be a spoof of the Obama selfie in a serious situation, but that doesn't mean they have to crap on one of their own serious matches for the sake of the joke. Cody and Goldust have been getting great crowd reactions and it just seemed weird and misplaced during their match.
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Post by Andy Martin on Dec 17, 2013 10:57:04 GMT -5
I thought it was hilarious. As were the overreactions on here.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Dec 17, 2013 11:13:41 GMT -5
I thought it was hilarious. As were the overreactions on here. I get what they were parodying, but to me it's like just another example with what's wrong with the WWE. Too much focus on other things and not enough focus on the match. WWE trying to be funny when humor in wrestling should happen more organically.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Dec 17, 2013 11:27:07 GMT -5
![](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/Bwebbh/tumblr_mjdl2lJgR21rjhbn2o1_400_zps1429c83a.gif) Now it makes perfect sense!
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shaker
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Post by shaker on Dec 17, 2013 11:34:42 GMT -5
"A rib on Obama" like he's under contract with the WWE or something. And Vince isn't a fan? According to polls, most people aren't right now anyway...
It was just a goofy bit making fum of a current pop culture event. Not the end of the world but it was annoying.
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Post by Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal on Dec 17, 2013 12:04:25 GMT -5
I'm a US politics junkie and had followed the selfie stuff in the news. Even I didn't connect it to that. First, it's a 24 hr news cycle and it happened a full week ago. It had already been covered to death on the Daily Show and SNL and virtually everywhere else.
So when you get a commentary team notorious for being obsessed with social media to take a selfie, how am I going to connect that to world leaders? Furthermore, they didn't even communicate in any way that it was lampooning Obama.
As Randy says: "STUPID. STUPID!!"
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Post by Andy Martin on Dec 17, 2013 12:15:45 GMT -5
It'll be a good day when Vince McMahon finally steps down as CEO. Until it comes out that Trips hates the Seven Dwarves as only HE may use a shovel.
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mizerable
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Post by mizerable on Dec 17, 2013 13:01:04 GMT -5
I'm just glad I didn't watch.
It's nice that some people liked it, but it annoys me when others tell those people who didn't to relax. Why? Why should they relax? I don't care how harmless something is taken. But if someone didn't like it...they didn't like it. And honestly, I can see why they didn't! This behavior from the announce team day in and day out is absurd. As someone already accurately described, it's like 3 guys laughing it up at a bar, instead of 3 people engaged in what they're supposed to sell to me. So when you're busy doing other things, you're telling the audience that what is going on isn't important...and the more you do that, the more you lose their attention.
I can't wait for the day when the crowd starts chanting random shit during every match because they've started to get programmed to not care unless it's 2 or 3 people. And WWE only has themselves to blame.
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StuntGranny®
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Post by StuntGranny® on Dec 17, 2013 13:15:56 GMT -5
If this is actually true, I hate Vince McMahon even more. Not because of the political aspect, but because he felt the need to do this at all shows what an out of touch, dumb piece of shit he is. But one of his best friends is Donald Trump, so I guess I shouldn't expect anything more. Sometimes I resent Steve Austin for basically saving this moron's company.
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BigWill
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Post by BigWill on Dec 17, 2013 13:17:33 GMT -5
I thought it was hilarious. As were the overreactions on here. Not having the same opinions = overreactions? Got it.
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Post by Andy Martin on Dec 17, 2013 13:30:23 GMT -5
I thought it was hilarious. As were the overreactions on here. Not having the same opinions = overreactions? Got it. Not what I said at all.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Dec 17, 2013 13:30:23 GMT -5
Wrestling should be taken seriously, and could be. Like, what about acting. Like, on a stage, the actors are in a middle of a performance, and let's have one of them stop and take a selfie for no reason, like Lady MacBeth decides to take a selfie. I'm not a fan of that, and maybe I'm just wanting too much. It's like, no one is taking pride in their work and effort, and the idea that wrestling shouldn't be taken seriously is why wrestling will probably die off in the future because, who cares, we can do whatever we want, it's just wrestling. If that's the case, why have matches? Why does any of what's happening in the ring matter? Cody's in there selling, but who cares, *click*. It's like back in the day in WCW when guys would kill themselves in the crusierweight matches, and the announcers would laugh at them. Why have wrestling then? Well yea, a selfie during a MacBeth perofrmance would be stupid and painfully out of place during something so highbrow and actually worth taking seriously. Heck, it would bother me if it happened in something on the level of a comic book film. But wrestling, which has always been a few notches below Family Guy in terms of overall class? In all of its idiocy when it actually tries to be "serious"? Here, I think it's ok. I'd go as far to say it's healthy for the show to have a little fun with itself here and there. It is a product presented on the basis of drama with the expectation of purchasing the result and culmination of serious grudges. It should not be a Muppet Show. That would kill the business. Every angle that has ever drawn money has been bought and sold on the presentation of return, retribution or justice. The announcers are the straight-man storytellers that frame the story. That's their job. They should call the match, albeit with personality, as if it were sport, because, at its crux, despite Vince, Dunn etc. wanting otherwise, that is what the popular consensus of it is. It's not a clown show. Its an organized fighting spectacle with larger than life characters. And it's those characters that need to be absurd and over the top, while everyone else plays it straight. The overall mindset of the show is athletic contest and winning titles. It's basically MMA with living super heroes in costumes who do stupid things to each other to get ahead.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 17, 2013 14:18:32 GMT -5
Hey, we're WWE, we're all about having fun, now don't forget to order the next expensive PPV where we'll be having more fun marginalising the importance of the performers, storylines and titles that our industry is based on!
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