RAW is WAR... No, Literally

I am trying to figure out if I just watched an episode of Monday Night RAW, or a two-hour infomercial for the U. S. Department of Defense. Not that Vince McMahon is a pillar of integrity, but still, you'd think he'd realize that every teenager that the Bush administration exposes to bodily harm and death in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one potential wrestler he can't sign and expose to bodily harm and death himself in the near future.

At the Torch website, Wade Keller says:

-Vince McMahon walked to the ring and told the troops that the "negative media types" back in the U.S. "have basically forgotten them." That's lame. That's Vince trying to babyface himself by portraying that the "media-types" or the "anti-war" people are forgetting about the troops.

Trying, yes. The question is why? Sixty percent of the US population now thinks it was a complete, balls-up, batshit-crazy mistake to go to war. Making pro-war statements in order to get over with a crowd in December 2005 would be like booking a show in Israel and having your top babyface start making "Sieg Heil" gestures. Most likely it is an instance of Vince displaying his not-so-occasional "tin ear" for pop culture. Not that wrestling fans are a particularly sophisticated audience in general, but to find someone who still thinks the war is a good idea you have to look so deep into the bowels of the human gene pool that the people you find would be unlikely to even be able to turn on the TV.

I think it's nice that the WWE does shows for the troops. They deserve a little entertainment in between dodging bullets and landmines for no good reason. What I don't need is Jerry Lawler and Joey Styles reading snippets to me off of a card about how wonderful life is in Afghanistan now thanks to King Bush. They must have mentioned the Taliban being removed from power about 37 times. I guess no one gave them the memo that the Taliban is still there.

I also wonder who Vince thinks are the "negative media types" who have "basically forgotten them"? Let's have some names. Every time I turn on the TV, I see some preening, manicured fuckwad bending over backwards to tell me why Bush isn't a criminal for spying on Americans, or a liar for taking us to war without justification, or a disastrous fuckup for losing an entire American city. Bush and his asslickers in the media don't ignore the troops; in fact they never miss an opportunity to stand on the troops as a prop, just like Vince.