Journal Inquirer writer Chris Powell has fired back at WWE after they threatened legal action for referring to Linda McMahon having made her fortune off violence & porn.
In his latest editorial, Powell says WWE wants to “discourage complaints” made about their product prior to 2008 before Linda McMahon cleaned up her act. He also noted that complaints destroyed McMahon’s first Senate run, and said depositions for the potential libel case would be entertaining in themselves. He wrote some potential questions he would pose:
“Mrs. McMahon, in the video playing now, who is the man in the wrestling ring with the microphone instructing that shapely young woman to undress and get down on her hands and knees and bark like a dog? Your husband? What do you think of that?”
“In this video who are the young women undressing, kissing, and touching each other sexually in the ring? What is conveyed by the big man jumping on top of them as they lie naked on the mat?”
“Mrs. McMahon, this video shows your husband and son pouring paint over the head of a wrestler who seems meant to appear mentally retarded. They beat him up and push his head into a toilet. Did you approve this scene?”
“In this video a bed has been placed in the ring. A man undresses a woman down to her bra and panties, simulates sex with her as they stand next to the bed, places her under the covers, follows her there, and emerges to toss her bra and panties on the mat. Your daughter is now WWE’s creative director. Was this scene her idea?”
“The scene in the next video appears to take place in a funeral parlor, where a male wrestler undresses himself and then undresses the corpse of a woman in a casket before climbing on top of her. Is this meant to depict necrophilia?”
“This video shows your husband and daughter in the ring with the shapely young woman who barked like a dog in the first video. Your husband and daughter force her face into a slop bucket and your husband taunts her for having been ‘daddy’s little toy.’ Then your husband pours the slop bucket on her head. In your campaign’s television and radio commercials you describe yourself as a ‘job creator.’ What are the job descriptions of the women who undress in the ring, behave lasciviously, and are pushed into a slop bucket? If this stuff is not pornography, what is it exactly?”
