World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) controversial CEO Vince McMahon has wasted no time in inviting an even bigger contentious public figure, Glen Beck to appear on his show to explain the politic pundit's comments about one of their storylines.
The wrestling production company has cast wrestler Jack Swagger as a conservative, tea-party-ish villain with a xenophobic fictional manager, Zeb Coulter, in a Wrestlemania matchup against Latino star Alberto Del Rio. In the ring, Coulter went on an rant against immigrants, standing in front of yellow flags commonly flown at tea-party rallies. That sparked Beck's ire, reported Yahoo.
Beck feels that the WWE took things too far:
"I can take it from a lot of people. I can't take it from the stupid wrestling people," Beck said on his show, according to Inquisitr. Beck suggested that WWE risks alienating a vast majority of its fan base, supposing WWE fans lean conservative.
Wayne Keown plays the Zebediah Colter. In a YouTube video, the character from WWE challenged Beck on his statements that an essentially Republican and conservative audience would be turned off by the Tea Party WWE storyline. He claims that Glenn Beck is essentially calling the 14 million WWE audience stupid, as well, stated by Inquisitr.
WWE, in turn, essentially invited Beck to come tell a WWE audience why he called them stupid.
"WWE has extended an invitation to talk show host and political commentator, Glenn Beck to appear live this Monday on Raw, in response to a segment that aired on TheBlaze TV yesterday," WWE announced, reported Yahoo.
"We are in the entertainment business. Everything we do as our characters is designed to tell stories. Right now the story we're telling is that Zeb Colter and Jack Swagger are using the current, relevant, and topical story of immigration to target the WWE world champion Alberto Del Rio. Also a character played my my friend Jose Rodriguez. In our story, we are the antagonists, and Alberto is the protagonist," said Keown, according to Inquisitr.
He then presented the WWE challenge to Beck via Twitter:
"You know, Glenn, many of your followers are WWE fans and they understand the difference between reality and entertainment. Are you so out of touch with your own audience, Glenn, or are you just a stupid political commentator."
So far, in response to the WWE's challenge, Beck has had only this to say via Twitter:
"Unfortunately I am currently booked doing anything else."
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