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BOD Daily Round-Up (2/20/13)

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WWE gets a bashing for Colter character (HollywoodReporter.com)
'Conservative site Breitbart.com also noted several other videos online of the pair “talking about freeloading immigrants and welfare recipients in front of the Gadsden flag, which has become symbolic of the Tea Party.”'
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Austin gives update on Jake Roberts, praises DDP (Wrestlezone.com)
'Jake is in there, doing the DDP Yoga, cleaned up, and he's been sober for I don't know how long. His mind is back.'
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Santino undergoes procedure for neck injury (Wrestlezone.com)
'WWE Superstar Santino Marella, who has been sidelined recently with a minor neck injury, Tweeted this morning that he had undergone a successful procedure.'


Tweets
@WWECreative_ish - Any town we arrive in where Zeb Colter is a babyface is a town that we don't leave the hotel


@AngryWrestleVet - "A heel should want people mad at him." - Terry Taylor

Comment of the Day 
The delightfully named Wanker gives the low down on what he feels a World Title belt should look like:
The Attitude belt was great, man. It was a similar design to the Winged Belt, except it didn't have the wings that didn't adhere to the leather and would look like they'd snap off.
Both belts were intricately designed, mostly gold with a regal blue, and they stood out as the crowning jewel of the promotion. The Undisputed Belt would have been accepted if it had been given a decade.
The new one is "cool", but very plain and doesn't look like a prize. As I said earlier, it looks more like an enlarged belt buckle.
The best one is the WHC. Its lineage technically began in 2002, but it's the same physical one as WCW's and it looks fucking grand. Plus, you can spray paint 'nWo' on it and play it like a guitar.
Here's what they need to pay attention to: whatever the belt looks like, it should be so big and heavy enough that even a guy like The Rock should have *a little* bit of trouble grabbing it with one hand. It looked like a frisbee with straps, I thought a labrador was going to come in and snatch it from him.

On This Day...
Bob Backlund defeated Billy Graham to begin his incredible six year title run. (1978)



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Comments

  1. Nick SaikleyFebruary 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM

    If DDP can get Jake Roberts AND Scott Hall sober at the same time for even 1 month, put that man in the Hall of Fame.

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  2. Dan SelbyFebruary 20, 2013 at 8:21 AM

    Couldn't agree more. That'd be awesome seeing those 3 get a standing ovation together.

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  3. Philippe TcaFebruary 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM

    Scott will go in with the N.W.O. DDP could conceivably go into the hall. He's a three time WCW champ and a triple crown WCW champ. It's a hell of a lot more than KoKo B. Ware did. (No offense to Mr. Ware of course)

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  4. ezuvguFebruary 20, 2013 at 10:03 AM

    Zeb Colter is a great gimmick, but I don't think it accurately reflects the Tea Partiers since even prominent Tea Party senators now want to pass what the anti-immigrant bigots call "amnesty." The right-wing has done a complete 180 on immigration since the election. Some of their "base" apparently haven't gotten that memo yet. Anyway, Swagger VS Del Rio is the perfect feud for face Del Rio and the "Real American" (why doesn't he use Hulk Hogan's old song?) will be booed out of the building at Wrestlemania.

    Also, Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist radio host, used his program yesterday to bash WWE over this storyline, comparing the treatment of Tea Partiers to that of Jews in Nazi Germany. I believe Alex Jones was actually mentioned on Raw this week. Alex Jones would say that people who don't believe his bizarre theories are dupes of the New World Order (if they aren't nWo members) and he isn't talking about Hogan, Nash or Hall.

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  5. Eric GriffithFebruary 20, 2013 at 10:27 AM

    Why doesn't he use Angle/Patriot's theme??? It'd be perfect for the character. Maybe WWE is afraid people still associate it with Angle. Also, I'd love to see Swagger do an anti-Slaughter pledge of Allegiance. It'd be like bizzaro-world.

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  6. Eric GriffithFebruary 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM

    1000x yes. DDP has my utmost respect.

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  7. Eric GriffithFebruary 20, 2013 at 10:30 AM

    Vince's response to the criticism: Mission accomplished.


    My gf (who generally dislikes wrestling) strolled through in the middle of a Colter (intentional dig at Ann Coulter?) promo last night and immediately said "Isn't that a bit much? Why would he say stuff like that? I don't like this!" Which is exactly the reaction they want, I'd imagine, so it's working.

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  8. EddieChicagoFebruary 20, 2013 at 10:45 AM

    It looks like DDP is doing a better job rehabbing people than Dr. Drew.

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  9. Philippe TcaFebruary 20, 2013 at 10:49 AM

    Yeah. Actually...I don't know. I might be starting to be on the cusp of being entertained by this whole thing.

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  10. Paul ZummoFebruary 20, 2013 at 11:04 AM

    Look, I'm a conservative and I could give a rat's ass about the Culter character. It probably helps that it's a dig at one of the media personalities that I personally despise - and probably for different reasons than the non-conservatives here. But I'm not going to get hung up about a stupid wrestling angle that will be forgotten inside of six months. And the fact that it pisses of the likes of Alex Jones - who is more a conspiracy nut libertarian than any kind of conservative - actually kinda makes me want more of it.

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  11. Philippe TcaFebruary 20, 2013 at 11:27 AM

    I think that's sort of the point.


    Vince may be conservative, but he's also smart enough to realize that the people he is poking fun of here are part of the reason that the GOP did not reclaim the Senate.

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  12. tzunsetFebruary 20, 2013 at 11:28 AM

    If I was Swagger, I wouldn't want people thinking of Kurt Angle every time I was about to wrestle.

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  13. tzunsetFebruary 20, 2013 at 11:31 AM

    I'd be curious to know how conservative the "WWE Universe" really is... and also whether those attending house shows are more conservative than fans in general. To use one example: WWE was really popular among male university students when I was in university, and that demographic skews liberal.

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  14. TPrincessFebruary 20, 2013 at 11:47 AM

    DDP is on my Winter season holiday card list. Sometimes people just do things because it's the right thing to do.

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  15. justicegrayFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:14 PM

    Actually I'll bet a million dollars that if DDP is successful in his rehab efforts with Jake and Scott that the WWE will approach him about being their rehab guy. If he can help the two of them he can pretty much help anyone.

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  16. Geoff DeSouzaFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:15 PM

    WWE's popularity amongst hispanics is enough in and of itself to make the audience skew liberal. And, of course, if you take it on a worldwide basis you add in, well, pretty much everyone else who looks at the US and wonders why there's so many crazy people there, politically-speaking.

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  17. John KreeseFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:15 PM

    I think the WWE's dig at Alex Jones is a also a dig at Jesse Ventura. Yet Jesse and Alex have different views on subjects.

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  18. tzunsetFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:19 PM

    That's a good point. I wonder if fans outside of the U.S. and Canada distinguish between the Colter caricature and U.S conservatives in general. Is the Tea Party internationally known?

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  19. Paul ZummoFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:20 PM

    Vince may be conservative

    He may be a Republican, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's a conservative.

    he's also smart enough to realize that the people he is poking fun of here are part of the reason that the GOP did not reclaim the Senate.

    Then he should be poking fun at his wife, because there were certainly more candidates like her (moderates) that lost than tea party type candidates.

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  20. Robert WilliamsFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM

    There wouldn't be a dry eye in the building once everybody sees Jake and Scott sober and doing well.

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  21. TraitorAlexFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:33 PM

    The funniest thing to me about the backlash on the Zeb Colter character is that WWE hasn't even done anything yet. The Tea Party blogs are complaining that he's showing off the negatives of the Tea Party and people are calling the angle racist...and WWE hasn't even gotten started on how offensive they can go. So far Zeb has just cut the same promo 3 different ways about givers and takers and giving "people" a 1 way ticket home (which is just a rewording of one of Jones's most famous speeches).


    I just think the Teabaggers should save their venom and vitriol for when this angle really gets offensive to them in 2 or 3 weeks. Because as all of us know from the HHH/Booker T, Muhammad Hassan, Sgt. Slaughter and Eugene characters/angles, this is going to get considerably worse.

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  22. TraitorAlexFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:36 PM

    I can speak for Canada, the UK and France. Generally the reaction to the Tea Party overseas is "they don't have any real power do they?" When you explain to them that they're currently a driving force behind one of the 2 major political parties and that freshman legislators actually take a pledge to uphold Tea Party policies and beliefs, people are aghast. People overseas see the Tea Party as our version of Austria's Freedom Party or our version of Greece's Golden Dawn (although not quite that bad).


    I want to disagree with them but when I have these conversations, I usually end up conceding their points.

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  23. dynamic_daveFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:36 PM

    No, this isn't really true. The Republican party gambled with Tea Party loons like Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin and lost. They ran with Sharron Angle in Nevada in 2010 and lost. They had a chance to unseat Murkowski in Alaska and lost.

    The only place the Tea Party runs strong is in safely gerrymandered house districts.

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  24. Philippe TcaFebruary 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM

    But she was just a conservative who lost in a Blue state. it's slightly different. Besides, if there's one thing Vince knows how to do, it's spend 50 Million dollars on something that has no real chance of working.

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  25. VintageGamerFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:06 PM

    You know, the more negative attention the Swagger character gets, the greater the chance that Vince is just going to put the title on him.

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  26. flair4dagoldFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:07 PM

    You can speak for 3 countries? Lol...

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  27. WrestlingHeroFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:09 PM

    This might sound dumb as fuck but what makes this different for Scott
    Hall than all the other rehab facilities that the WWE has payed for?
    Does DDP babysit them 24-7 or something? What is DDP doing that is
    working for Jake and might or might not work for Scott?

    I hope both Jake and Scott are able to stay sober from here on out.

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  28. Paul ZummoFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:10 PM

    Yes, it really is true. First of all, Todd Akin wasn't really a tea party candidate. He won a crowded primary in which most of the tea party support went to the other two candidates, but Akin was able to sneak by because they have a plurality system in Missouri. I'm not going to get into Murdock here. But if you look at every other state where the GOP lost a competitive Senate seat, the Republican candidate was either a moderate or an Establishment-pick: Rehberg, McMahon, Mack, Thompson, Allen, etc.

    They ran with Sharron Angle in Nevada in 2010 and lost. They had a chance to unseat Murkowski in Alaska and lost.

    They had a chance to unseat Bob Bennett in Utah and won. They ran Marco Rubio against Charlie Crist and won. For every tea party loser there was a winner somewhere else.

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  29. parallax1978February 20, 2013 at 1:12 PM

    But they are both conspiracy nuts, so I am all for mocking either or both of them whenever possible.

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  30. aboynamedartFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:13 PM

    Just at a glance, there's a few factors that probably help Page here:


    * Jake and Hall volunteered to go
    * They've each known Page for years
    * As somebody mentioned in another thread a few days ago, they're dealing with a very individualized setting, as opposed to a clinic with a format geared toward "normal" people. Page, for obvious reasons, is probably best equipped to adapt to these guys' behavior not just as people seeking help, but as workers.

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  31. TraitorAlexFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:35 PM

    I travel extensively for work and in a lot of setting as "the American" people tend to ask me questions about American politics and why our country is doing the things we're doing. For better or for worse people have been intensely curious in the Tea Party movement since 2010 or so.

    Like I said, I generally want to disagree with the things people say because I feel "it's not that bad" but they make salient points about how our right wing nutjobs compare to the right wing nutjobs in other countries once they get a little power.


    One of the bloody noses for America that comes up in conversation often was the downgrading of our credit status. People in other countries are confused at how we let the Tea Party led Republicans do something like that simply in the name of politics. It's a hard question to answer.

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  32. Ham BonerFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:45 PM

    DDP doesn't have any issues with Vince, so there's no reason why he wouldn't get in. But if he can get Jake and Hall both sober, he deserves the HoF

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  33. Ham BonerFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:48 PM

    Well if you make people think of Kurt Angle when you wrestle, that certainly isn't a bad thing...

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  34. Aric JohnsonFebruary 20, 2013 at 1:57 PM

    "I've wrestled a lotta countries!" - Scott Steiner

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  35. The FujFebruary 20, 2013 at 2:11 PM

    awesome!

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  36. The FujFebruary 20, 2013 at 2:13 PM

    he sank 90 million dollars for two failed senate runs... he aint fiscally conservative at least.

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  37. The FujFebruary 20, 2013 at 2:14 PM

    its better than people thinking of jack swagger

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  38. Christopher HirschFebruary 20, 2013 at 2:14 PM

    This won't help.

    http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/20/wwe-star-jack-swagger-arrested-wwe-tv-taping-traffic-violations/#ixzz2LTT2UCFy

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  39. ComdukakisFebruary 20, 2013 at 2:52 PM

    absolutely incorrect or need I remind you of the self destruction of Akin in Missouri and Murdock, in Indiana to name a couple?

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  40. ComdukakisFebruary 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM

    it is good to see how delusional you are. People like you are what helps the Democrats. Keep up the good work and the insanity

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  41. ComdukakisFebruary 20, 2013 at 2:56 PM

    you know you are one of my favorite posters, but the truth is that most of the rest of the world finds conservatives in America to be downright frightening and our "liberals" to be pretty darn conservative.

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  42. dynamic_daveFebruary 20, 2013 at 3:07 PM

    Not good examples. Rubio won a 3-way in a Republican wave. Lee won in a deep red state.

    And I live in Missouri; Akin was the Tea Party candidate of choice. McCaskill ran ads supporting him during the primary.

    Further, these Tea bozos can't win Senate seats in blue or purple states.

    Also, really dude? You think Denny "Insensitive About AIDS" Rehberg is a part of the establishment? Puh-leez.

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  43. cultstatusFebruary 20, 2013 at 3:35 PM

    I bet if they positioned Swagger as a face(and I have no idea how they would have pulled that off) you wouldn't be hearing a peep from the extreme right. They just don't like that their shit is getting boo'd by thousands of people every night.

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  44. flair4dagoldFebruary 20, 2013 at 5:55 PM

    My point is this, I was born in Spain and came to this country when I was really young (6 years old). I go back at least every other year, so I have a pretty good feel about the political climate and what my circle of friends in Spain think of the US. My uncle, who also is an american citizen, but moved here at a young age as well (it's weird, he's only 5 years older than me) was just in Spain over Christmas. As you know, I tend to be conservative on financial issues and liberal on most moral issues. He's a full on liberal and proud. We josh each other quite often, nothing serious or argumentative. Neither of us would venture to speak for Spain and we have a very extensive knowldege of that country. We have family and friends there. There are waaaaay too many parties in most European countries and political beliefs that range from the extreme conservative to communists and everything in between. I was poking fun at TraitorAlex because apparently taking some business trips makes you able to speak as a representative of the population of foreign countries and what they think about us. I've encountered all kinds of thoughts from very positive, to what you described. Just like in the US, there are independently thinking people everywhere. Kinda how we hate the term "IWC". Whew...I went way long to get to a simple point :-)

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