Daniels On Fox Sports, GLADD Goes After Jericho, WWE Rips TNA, 2010 Hall of Fame
- Foxsports.com just shot three short skits with Christopher Daniels for their web series, “Cubed”. The skits should be online next week or so.
- The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), who seem to have spies all over the internet are going after Chris Jericho for his “fag” remark that was covered by TMZ earlier today.
“Just three months ago Chris Jericho’s boss and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon acknowledged to GLAAD that words matter.
There is no time, context or occasion in which it is acceptable to utter racist and anti-gay slurs. Jericho’s hollow apology ‘if (he) offended anyone’ is a template used by many and is insincere and worn.”
[These guys are almost as militant as the Jewish Anti Defamation League - lighten up and stop trying to get yourselves over by jumping on Jericho's hammed up performance!].
- Although last week’s overall Impact rating was a 1.3, around their highest number, many fans tuned out because it took them so long to get to the Hogan segment. Therefore Hulk’s segment actually drew the lowest on the entire show!
TNA ratings were brought up for the first time in a while during a recent WWE creative meeting, and the main point was Hogan’s low number. According to the Wrestling Observer Vince’s response was simply, “Ouch.”
- Names being discussed for the 2010 WWE Hall of Fame include Ted DiBiase, the Road Warriors, Demolition, manager Slick, Ron Simmons, Ultimate Warrior, Lex Luger and The Honky Tonk Man.
More definitive news will leak out early next year.
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TNA need to utilize hogan comically by making him a sort of Kip James type Jobber or Kevin Nash’s whipping boy.
I don’t care, I just know Hulk humiliation will equal higher ratings and allow a vent for WWE insinuations.
TNA had about there best ratings ever the first week Hogan was on board. Trust me Vince wont be laughing long!! Hogan gonna save TNA and prowrestling!!!!
HOGAN AND TNA 4 LIFE!!
Maybe Hogan just needs more time to teach those kids the “theory” of wrestling. That’ll motivate them. Everyone likes being talked down to.
These Glaad Jack Off’s need to get a Life and Stop Worring about Wrestling.
you dont see them bitching about South Parks Show Last night titled Fag where they use the world Well over 100 times.
These Pathetic Souls need to Spend More time getting Laid then Bitching every time some one uses their right to free Speech.
Just as they have the right to bitch ive got the right to tell these Jack Offs to get a fucking life already
Michael Hayes is still an ignorant racist for saying “nigger”, right?
I just want to be clear on which hateful slurs are okay and require lightening up and the ones that get us labeled as hatemongers.
I think there’s a difference here – you don’t go up to a homosexual look down at them and call them a fag with disgust and you don’t go up to a black person and call them a nigger in the same tone. But when somebody is not gay and the word fag is thrown around I personally have no problem with it; to me its just like saying “prick” or “dickhead” – where I’m from at least, the word isn’t inherently a homosexual slur. And when its done by Chris Jericho and reported by TMZ I could care even less.
When I say lighten up I mean organizations like GLADD that spend their whole life in a militant who said what mode, as if they’re some kind of superior race stomping out dissidents. Yes AIDS coverage was appalling; a couple of fag jokes is part of society, just like calling somebody a short ass, or a geek. Why are gays untouchable?
They are making the divide and conquer worse not better.
Actually, the Michael Hayes and Chris Jericho situations are identical, but it’s all about who’s listening. Hayes’s use of “nigger” was as a non-hateful synonym for having soul (even Booker T said so). Jericho’s “fag” was a non-hateful synonym for “dickhead” or whatever. The big difference is that Jericho’s “slang” (for lack of a better word) is more current. But Hayes gets tarred and feathered all over wrestling press, but Jericho gets a “What’s the big deal?”
I don’t see any room for a gray area or double standard here. Terms like “nigger”, “fag”, “spic”, “chink”, etc. are either ALL acceptable or they’re ALL not, because context and semantics make no difference to the person who is made to feel inferior. If Jericho says, “fag” – FINE… but don’t hold Michael Hayes to a different standard for an ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL set of circumstances. If gays shouldn’t be untouchable, no one else should be either. I believe in a level playing field.
If it’s okay for Jericho to call a non-homosexual a “fag”, then Mark Henry should have no problem with me saying you’re “my nigger” since I usually tend to agree with you on most things – both wrestling and politcal.
This is a toughie, I need to find a tree to sit under. I’m FOR free speech to the highest degree, and I accept that in doing so complete assholes can get away with saying things. ALL of the above phrases are unacceptable, but I don’t think its anybody’s right to stop people from saying them, and people should have better things to do than spending their whole lives hating people that say these words. Why give them the time of day?
I look at it like a similar situation here in the UK. A racist party called the BNP is gaining popularity. There was a big uproar because they were allowed to speak on TV. I say fine let them, if they are as racist as people make them out to be then they’ll just expose themselves.
If lots of people use the word fag, then those that don’t can simply turn the other cheek at these losers.
To be honest I don’t know where I’m going with this. There’s too many shades of gray.
I just don’t think the endgame of political correctness is where we want to be.
free speech means the government can’t regulate it, not that you won’t get your butt roasted if you try to use certain words.
Political correctness is complete ludicrous nonsense. What do you call someone from England? A Brit. Scotland? A Scot. So what is wrong with calling someone a Paki if they’re from Pakistan? Then you got the other words nigger, chink, slope etc… What do we call Irish? Paddy’s, does anyone take offense to that? Of course not, they’re WHITE, same goes for Jocks and Yanks. French are Frogs, Germans are Krauts.. I don’t see anyone moaning about that? Hell you can walk up to a welsh man call him a sheep shagging c**t and he will shake your hand. What I’m getting at is, the problem isn’t the words, the problem is people. I know paki’s that tell some of the best paki jokes ever. Look at Chris Rock he tells some of the best nigger jokes, yet Jim Davidson tells a joke about Chalky who has a big penis he is classed as racist? It’s not the people who are offended, it’s the government making the people out to be offended, so they have more control. To create friction, ’cause after all if we all thought exactly the same it’d be a bit obvious when they fix elections, like Bush’s first win.
Yes some people are racist, yes some people are bigots and idiots, but at the end of the day take a joke. Life is shit enough as it is without lefty do gooders running round screaming every time someone says fag and means cigerette. I find gay people very friendly and nice people, I enjoy gay clubs, but I’m still kicking my wallet home before I bend down to pick it up.
Enjoy life, don’t worry about jokes.
Keelan’s obviously a libertarian
Marcsman I’m not an anything, I don’t believe in political parties or labels.
And Marcsman’s obviously a sarcastic twit trying to start up something just to be an ass.
I agree on the concept that words aren’t the issue, people are. I detest society as a whole due to people acting like they have sticks shoved up their asses over this or that. Organizations such as GLAAD, IMO, are made up of such people. I have a few gay friends and I’ve used the word fag around them (not to them or about them, just in general), and they seem to have no issue with it or else they’d give even the slightest indication. You don’t see people like that in GLAAD, you see the insecure civilians who happen to have power who like to bitch out anyone who doesn’t conform to their small ideal of what should and shouldn’t be allowed to be said. The double standard irks me too. Black people can say “nigger” all they want, but if a white person says it around them and they’re not fucking BFFs then WATCH OUT!
The only reason that words are made out to be taboo is because of people who bitch about the use of the words by people who may or may not be racist, homophobic, etc. If organizations like GLAAD weren’t around to constantly remind everyone about how “not right” it is for this word or that to be used, eventually these words, which when taken to the worst extreme are made out to be on a tier all of their own when it comes to how “bad” a word is to say, wouldn’t be so bad to say, or taken to the effect that easily offendable people would take them to be. Eventually they would all dwindle down to just being another batch of explicit words that people use.
Unfortunately, when we live in a world where there are many racists, homophobes, TROLLS living in the world of would-be good people, hiding amongst us and being jackasses whenever possible, those overly-sensitive people won’t let up. I’d like to say I can’t blame them, but if there was not a gay person alive who would get offended by one of those homophobes screaming “FAG!” then that homophobe’s hate become ineffective, and the target of the supposed slur and others around can just laugh at the asshole’s attempt to rile up that person and others. Thus, by reminding us all of how “bad” these words are, they’re acknowledging that the word still has power as a tool to use against someone rather than let that power be forgotten and eventually fade away into a word that, on its own, couldn’t offend anyone.