Post by DrayvensCrow on Oct 3, 2005 16:57:40 GMT -5
Hopefully by now, everyone has read The Bottom Line and/or saw the last RAW on Spike. Well, here's a few thoughts on that:
'Seed talks about how childish Spike was by censoring references to when RAW would air on USA and we all saw the "Technical Difficulties" screens during the broadcast. True, Spike could have taken the high road and not censored certain words and images(signs from the move to USA) but they didn't consistently do it the entire telecast or else there REALLY would have been low ratings because people would have thought their TV's were on the fritz.
Sunday night on The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch(sp.), he had Hogan, Stone Cold and Vince and Linda. The Spike censoring was brought up and Vince had the 'grapefruits' to say that he "loathes censoring" and that he believes in the First Amendment! Yet when it comes to the fans, he believes in censoring them! Case in point, we all know that WWE confiscates signs from the fans at all of the events when the signs don't say what WWE wants them to say. During the house show here Sunday night, I watched WWE employees censor the fans 15 times by taking various signs. Another point, During the early days of the Hardy/Edge angle, WWE made a point to cover up the audio of the fans voicing their displeasure with Edge and Lita. But not surprisingly, none of this was brought up during their interview! Funny how Mr. McHypocrite stands behind the constitution when it suits him and won't give the people who keep his family in expensive clothes the same courtesy!
And here's a little something for those fans of the Mohammad Hassan character: during the same interview, Vince said the reason Hassan was removed from WWE was because "basically, we had a problem with the person playing the character." Now there's some spin that would make CNN proud! It wasn't the fact that the UPN sponsors raised holy hell! It wasn't the fact that WWECreative came up with spots that, due to events in the world, were deemed more than questionable! No, they had a problem with the wrestler playing the character! Hmmm, seems to me if that really was the reason, JBL would have been fired long ago after the debacle in Europe!
'Seed talks about how childish Spike was by censoring references to when RAW would air on USA and we all saw the "Technical Difficulties" screens during the broadcast. True, Spike could have taken the high road and not censored certain words and images(signs from the move to USA) but they didn't consistently do it the entire telecast or else there REALLY would have been low ratings because people would have thought their TV's were on the fritz.
Sunday night on The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch(sp.), he had Hogan, Stone Cold and Vince and Linda. The Spike censoring was brought up and Vince had the 'grapefruits' to say that he "loathes censoring" and that he believes in the First Amendment! Yet when it comes to the fans, he believes in censoring them! Case in point, we all know that WWE confiscates signs from the fans at all of the events when the signs don't say what WWE wants them to say. During the house show here Sunday night, I watched WWE employees censor the fans 15 times by taking various signs. Another point, During the early days of the Hardy/Edge angle, WWE made a point to cover up the audio of the fans voicing their displeasure with Edge and Lita. But not surprisingly, none of this was brought up during their interview! Funny how Mr. McHypocrite stands behind the constitution when it suits him and won't give the people who keep his family in expensive clothes the same courtesy!
And here's a little something for those fans of the Mohammad Hassan character: during the same interview, Vince said the reason Hassan was removed from WWE was because "basically, we had a problem with the person playing the character." Now there's some spin that would make CNN proud! It wasn't the fact that the UPN sponsors raised holy hell! It wasn't the fact that WWECreative came up with spots that, due to events in the world, were deemed more than questionable! No, they had a problem with the wrestler playing the character! Hmmm, seems to me if that really was the reason, JBL would have been fired long ago after the debacle in Europe!