The WWE meets the WSJ
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For those high-cultured political observers out there, you may be sitting there scratching your head wondering why the three major candidates for President would stoop to cutting promos on the WWE’s Monday Night RAW program last evening. The idea of mixing politics and “sports entertainment” may seem so very gauche and offensive to your cultural sensibilities.
However, the reasons for this latest outreach effort are easily identified by merely perusing today’s Wall Street Journal. In a column titled “Four Groups of Voters May Be Key to Election” the WSJ singles out the following demographics as holding the keys to the White House in 2008: working-class males, young people, rural and small-town Americans and Hispanics.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that these four groups are heavily represented among the WWE’s viewership. So whether you cheer for Hill-Rod, you smell what Barack is cooking, or you fancy yourself a McCainiac, you’d be well served not to ignore the smackdown that the fans of professional wrestling could well deliver at the ballot box this fall.
I like the WWE promos better than late night saxophone playing. The only thing McCain could have done to improve his act was to come out in one of Ric’s old robes (holding up four fingers for his four-year term) complete with Also sprach Zarathustra playing in the background. Now that would have been too cool!
Of course, I am probably in the minority, and maybe others would have preferred him in the red, white and blue with him tearing his shirt off. That would have been good as long as he was wearing a T-shirt underneath the ripped shirt. I don’t think America is ready for a shirtless John McCain.
How about Hillary?
Don’t laugh.
A few of us in the Norfolk GOP were out with the ODU College Repubs were out there at Scope when WWWF was in town in 2004 working the line to get voter registrations.
The polling says if these people vote–it’s Republican.
Don’t get me wrong, i usually think its pretty cool to see pols loosen up a little, but that was painful. Clinton was trying wayyyy to hard, and you could just watch Obama reading the teleprompter, ugh. As for McCain, while he seemed to enjoy it more than the others, it was just weird, like watching Barbara Billingsley speak jive, but without the humor.
I guess self-depricating is more my style - something more like when Jerry Springer did a radio ad promoting a local bank’s credit card after getting busted for writing a check for a prostitute/massage parlor.
Brian,
I know we are not ready for that sight!!!!