Posted on 07/05/2017 11:43:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
As a teenager in Minneapolis in the early 1960s, back when local television stations broadcast live pro-wrestling matches, my pals and I would bicycle down to a local station that offered free tickets for a studio audience on its Saturday Night Wrestling show. Quite often, since it was free and something to do on a Saturday night. We were a bunch of cheeky smart alecks there to laugh at them. But we quickly got it that the rest of the audience and the wrestlers themselves got it, too. Everything was taking place with a giant wink.
And that gave us permission to act out our parts in the drama with enthusiasm, screaming at the designated villain, jumping up and threatening to run at the ring to attack. All play, mimicking terrible tantrums, but permitted because it was a wink and a nod. It was kind of therapeutic, this permission to act out primitive urges in public, I guess. But it was also making fun of the people that made fun of wrestling fans.
And CNN – despite being in the entertainment business -- understands none of this. They have just, in fact, stepped even deeper into the trap Trump baited with the video. Piecing together accounts from CNN, HuffPost, Vox, the New York Daily News, and Sundance of Conservative Treehouse, once the White House tweeted the video, a person who posts under the pseudonym “HanA**holeSolo” on Reddit identified the account as the source of the photshopping of the CNN image. It was actually a gif moving image, posted last Wednesday, that superimposed the CNN logo on Vince McMahon’s body. (The White House has issued a denial that Reddit was source.) But once HanA**Hole identified himself, his post on Redddit was noticed and publicized on Twitter by journalist Jared Yates Sexton:
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LOL!..Oh man that’s a full on Three Stooges bit
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They must have published Kaczynski’s Astoria, Queens address and phone number three times there too, separately. They are definitely at battle stations.
They used to do that in Sacramento too. I went to one with my neighbors. I don't know if I got it that it was all fake since I was real young, but it was fun. The "heel" was challenging the "pencil-necks" in the audience to come up in the ring, and 49er lineman and wrestler Leo Nomellini came out of audience and chased him out of the ring, then challenged to wrestle him anytime. The audience went nuts.
Ironic that Time-Warner once owned WWE’s chief competitor and eventually had to sell out for peanuts to WWE’s Vince McMahon. They never did understand wrestling.
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