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The rightwing has their shorts & panties in a knot over these two for what they say denigrates the Tea Party and what it stands for. The guys playing these characters beg to differ, even if they have to break character to do it.

via Mediaite

Pulling back to reveal the green-screen artifice of what they do, Wayne Keown (Colter) and Jake Hager (Swagger) explained to Beck that they are merely entertainers, with no larger political agenda.

“We aren’t in the political business, or the immigration business. We are in the entertainment business,” Keown said. He went on to attack Beck directly for failing to give his audience credit when it comes to the general understanding that pro-wrestling is fake. “Many of your followers are WWE fans and they understand the difference between reality and entertainment,” he added. “Are you out of touch with your audience Glenn? Or are you just a ‘stupid political commentator?’”

All of which is presumably done to hype a match between current WWE champion Alberto Del Rio and this guy, 'Jack Swagger'. Linda and Vince McMahon may have blown $100 mil on some quixotic dream of becoming a U.S. Senator but no one has ever accused them of not being savvy business people. If they're casting teabaggers as villains then even they can tell which way the wind is blowin'.

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Say what?

The Hartford Courant provided this summation of Sunday morning's debate between Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Chris Murphy who are vying for the U.S. Senate seat from Connecticut being vacated by retiring Joe Lieberman.

As noted in the piece, the World Wrestling Entertainment mogul has based her entire campaign on personal attacks, resorting to the typical Republican boilerplate devoid of specifics when asked about policy. On Sunday morning that strategy met with a resounding thud.

[N]othing really explains her astonishing moment of blankness when asked about same-sex marriage. She stumbled through an answer in which she affirmed her support for “America’s same sex marriage law.” There is, of course, no such thing, unless she means DOMA, which is sort of the opposite. And then she just stopped, with probably more than a minute left on her clock. Nobody does that. If you’ve got a short answer, you pivot and talk about something loosely related with your remaining time. She seemed inexplicably rattled by this benign, predictable and routine question. (This is what happens when you spend your whole campaign dodging the press. You turn into the kind of candidate who can’t improvise.)

As the issue-based battles started slipping away from her, McMahon upped the ante on the personal attacks. If you’re a little tired of the way this campaign has been almost exclusively about attacks on character and very little about the issues, let the word go forth that McMahon was far more reliant on this strategy than was Murphy on Sunday. Paradoxically, late in the debate she unsheathed a new kind of negative rhetoric, claiming that Murphy had expected a coronation and instead found himself in a tough campaign with a serious woman. The paradox: never before in this campaign had she seemed less like a serious woman. She seemed like a silly woman who had attempted to substitute recent study sessions for the years of immersion one might expect an aspiring senator to have had.

Jon Stewart should never have called pro wrestling fake to Mick Foley. You knew bad things were about to happen.

Linda McMahon has begun airing tv ads in Connecticut in her quest to secure the Republican nomination and take on Chris Dodd for the U.S. Senate next November. When she recently stepped down as the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) it was known her approach would be a little different. And from not bothering to vote, to publicly supporting Democrats from time to time, not to mention her own wrestling antics, her entering an already crowded Republican field guarantees Connecticut politics won't be boring.