CT-SEN: The video that Republican Linda McMahon doesn't want you to see.

[RandySF]

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[Tigress DEM]

1. I don't know anything about a lot of celebs, but if she's being abused....

isn't it wrong to rub her face in it?

Wow, folks. Where is the common decency on DU these days?

[RandySF]

3. McMahon wasn't abused.

It was wrestler Steve Austin's wife.

[Zalatix]

10. I stopped 8 minutes into this crap. They only needed 30 seconds of examples to make their point.

Violence against men and violence against women are both awful things, especially to the extent that the WWE takes it. Women aren't the only victims. "Crawl around like a dog" was not just something women go through on that show.

Linda McMahon is not the only person responsible for this shit. This is not something that should be limited to attacking her during her misguided run for the Conn Senate.

This is something that should become a millstone around both Linda AND Vince McMahon's necks. BOTH. BOTH OF THEM. BOTH OF THEM!!!

Of course these scumbags are protected by FREEDOM OF SPEECH but when does America turn this bullshit off and tank their ratings? Where is all that talk about RESPONSIBILITY when it comes to this shit?

TURN IT OFF, AMERICA. TURN IT OFF.

[Kelvin Mace]

18. True,

"This is something that should become a millstone around both Linda AND Vince McMahon's necks."

but Vince isn't running for senate.

[Zalatix]

31. This should be a controversy long before and after Linda ran for office.

I'm glad it's finally an issue among nationwide Dems but this is one of those "about damned time" things. We should chase Linda (and by extension Vince) off the candidacy and then camp on their doorsteps as long as we can until the police thugs show up. Every viewer should be ashamed of watching this.

People who howl about "Innocence of Muslims" should be howling even LOUDER about this.

This may be free speech but we owe it to ourselves to convince as many people as we can to turn it off.

[cleduc]

35. I stopped it before 3 minutes were up

[Zalatix]

2. WOAH. That's just not right. Please self-delete for decency's sake.

[RandySF]

4. Why?

This is the business that senatorial candidate Linda McMahon and her husband ran for years.

[WooWooWoo]

7. Vince runs the company

pretty much every aspect of it. Linda had very little to do with it. Laughably little. So much its amazing she's even trying to run for senate.

[Kelvin Mace]

13. Hmmm

Watching the video she appears on TV promoting the various wrestling shows. If she helped hawk them, she's involved.

[DonRedwood]

14. Um... making millions off of it means you have a lot to do with it.

A CEO in this country is responsible for what their paid underlings do. Well, supposed to be, at least.

[Zalatix]

21. What does it say for America when they refuse to TURN THAT SHIT OFF?

Could you even stomach more than 8 minutes of that crap? What kind of sicko just sits and watches that kind of debasement of men OR women without throwing something at the TV?

[WooWooWoo]

37. she was a CEO in title only

her husband makes the final decision on personnel.

[LynneSin]

20. Wrong. She was a major part of WWE up until 2009 when she left to run for US Senate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_McMahon#World_Wrestling_Entertainment

She was HUGE in WWE and her entire family played parts in the WWE acting bits you'd see.

And yes, the women were very much objectified by the WWE. If you didn't have a hardbody with extra-large fake tits they didn't want you on the WWE circuit.

[Zalatix]

27. Yes but this should be a major controversy whether Linda's running for office or not.

I'm in utter shock that they let this on TV.

This should be hung so heavily around both their necks that they can't even get outside their door without pushing through throngs of protesters. They should be boycotted. The networks who play this shit should be boycotted.

Linda McMahon should be discredited from running for office but her husband Vince deserves to be shunned from the networks.

People who attend these shows ought to be utterly ashamed.

[LynneSin]

30. Oh I agree 100%

Just that if someone says 'That's her husband's company' - no it is not.

It was their company together until 2009 when she resigned to run for US Senate the first time.

She's one of those crazies that thinks she can buy herself a senate seat.

[WooWooWoo]

34. believe me, I know. I've been watching wrestling for decades

but I also know how the WWE works. Vince is literally the end-all-be-all of that company. His wife played a small on-camera role and dealt mostly in the corporate end of the company, but she answered to her husband, as everyone does. Vince McMahon runs that company like a dictator and nothing gets done, nothing - down to the slightest detail - without his approval.

Like I said, his wife had a title on-paper, but in reality, she was no more influential than the janitor or mail room guy.

[Maine-ah]

38. I don't know if she was influential or not

to me it doesn't really matter, she still profited from that crap, and had no qualms doing so.

[Kelvin Mace]

16. What is indecent about showing the scummy way she made money?

[Zalatix]

41. True, the real indecency was her AND her husband making money off of that.

[PatrynXX]

19. self delete?

what the heck for. should be let out of the bag. They like to go after violent video games (which there is no evidence.) but this shit? good I hope it makes people puke. There's still hope in the world if it does.

[Honeycombe8]

5. Who's Linda McMahon? nt

[RandySF]

6. Republican nominee for senate in Connecticut.

And co-owner of the WWE.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. She is the GOP candidate for senate in CT

She and her husband Vince McMahon made their fortune pushing "wrestling" programs which were pretty racist, sexist, and very, very violent.

She is running neck and neck with the Dem candidate, which is a very sad commentary on Connecticut.

[LynneSin]

25. That poll was last done on Aug 26 when Romney and the GOP was enjoying a bit of a surge

wasn't much.

Massachusetts already has Warren pulling ahead and I suspect the next poll out of Connecticut will put Murphy in the lead.

If McMahon couldn't win in 2010 in a year when GOP and Tea Party was enjoying a massive political surge then she will have a tough time winning in a year with an extremely week GOP presidential nominee and running in a state that votes strong democrat for president.

[RandySF]

8. Ok, let me add some context.

I didn't realize a lot of DUers do not know who Linda McMahon is. She is the Republican nominee for US Senate is Connecticut and co-owner of World Wrestling Entertainment (once known as World Wrestling Federation). The WWE has a long history of demeaning women for profit.

[DonRedwood]

11. EVERY woman in Connecticut should see this movie. We have to help get this out

it is sickening and Linda McMahon has no place in the US Senate. She should be shunned, not elected.

[PatrynXX]

15. Thats why I stopped watching it

1. its fiction, 2. promotes rape. 3. for those who actually watch porn most know it's fake.. and I don't watch 99 % of the hardcore crap out there. (hello Bree .. hence probably why she retired) 4. seemingly from the crowd of zombies in the stadium. it's bullshit. Seriously Linda is a pimp. there are good and bad pimps. Male or female. She's one of the bad pimps.

Palin was brought on board supposedly to get the women vote. It had the opposite effect and women knew it. As their husbands glazed over at the site of this lady prostituting around. Like a 13 yr old stuck in a 45 yr old body. I might word things wrong (ADD) but hopefully it gets some message across. PUKE. 1. Watch solo porn 2. talk up an honest conversation with a verified porn celeb and lean what it's really like.

[RandySF]

22. I quit watching for much the same reasons.

Pro wrestling has of course always been violent. But when the promoters stopped pretending it's real, they no longer had any limits. I watched it in the early 80's (started not long before Hulk Hogan came along) and it was fun. Now, I could never imagine letting my kid watch.

[nc4bo]

17. Oh jeezus I had noooooooo idea this occurred. The stuff I've seen doesn't have men abusing women

like that, just cat fights between 2 women but this is something horribly different. This is freaking disgusting and horrifying!

We live in a civilized society?

This woman is responsible for this garbage being on tv?

[RandySF]

24. Her husband Vince runs the operation.

But Linda appeared on the show many times, even allowing her husband to call her "b**ch" on national television as "part of the act".

[LynneSin]

28. Her husband runs it now. Before 2009 they both ran it together

So most of that stuff you saw on the video she was just as responsible.

Linda resigned in 2009 so she could run for Christopher Dodd's old senate seat.

[nc4bo]

29. It's sickening and ridiculous.

My husband watches wrestling (he's not a nutjob though) and I've never ever seen anything like what I just saw. I wish I could unsee it. This is way over the line!

[Jennicut]

44. These were the "Attitude" years.

They got away with a lot of stuff back then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Attitude_Era

[Kelvin Mace]

23. It is a shame they can't run this documentary

the Sunday before the election.

[flamingdem]

26. I really urge whoever did this to release a 2 minute version

I'd give this a "D" because people have attention span for 2 minutes on the web and you must get across your points in the first bit or lose them.

Otherwise I'm very happy to see this and hope it gets a lot of attention.

[valerief]

32. People enjoy this shit? What the hell is wrong with them? nt

[Laurajr]

33. I am so sick of her

Since I live in ct I get to see her commercials constantly and her face in my mailbox...when will she go away!

[WooWooWoo]

36. (sigh)

wrestling has storylines and good guys and bad guys and the bad guys say and do things to get the crowd to not like them.

It's part of telling a story, which is what wrestling is and has always been.

You can find it trashy if you want. And I won't defend Linda McMahon (because her role in this is so limited its not even worth defending) but I will defend being a fan of wrestling. It's entertainment.

I've enjoyed it since I was 10, and it hasn't warped my brain or made me into a wife-beater or mentally unstable person.

[nc4bo]

39. Sorry - but when it makes play of men abusing women, it's pathetic. nt

[cynatnite]

40. The WWE has a history of using people until they are dead and then they still use them some more. n/

[Bombero1956]

42. A few years ago when I was still a fire marshal I had to work one of those WWE shows

I stood around before the show and every time anyone approached Vince with a question or a request he told them that his wife and daughter were the bosses.

[Jennicut]

43. A lot of us in Connecticut already know all this. I went to shows.

It is just something my husband and I did back in our twenties in the late 90's and early 2000's. I went to No Way Out in 2000 in Hartford when I was 24. I stopped watching it eventually.

Linda McMahon was a HUGE part of WWE. She was on tv promoting the product and part of the story lines. Her children Stephanie and Shane and her were all part of the company for years. But this is really nothing new to us here. Wrestling was pretty popular here back after I finished college, with Triple H and Stone Cold and the Undertaker. CT was the home base so it always got a lot of attention here.

I never really thought of the WWE as representing women so badly when I was younger but then it just got worse and worse so I stopped watching it. Lately the McMahons have tried to clean it up and be more family friendly, I guess because she ran for the senate twice.

[leftyohiolib]

45. video has been pulled